The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-31
4 GENERAL GAMING.
Deserved Tributes to Distinguished Re-
representatives..

oeoeT}eu AFlDuteS TO DISTINGUISHED ne
presentatires.
COLUMBIA S. c., Dec. 23.-rhe mem
bers Of the General Assembly rendered
a banquet to Senator-elect Irhy this
evening. Previously he was present
ed with handsome ebony gold head.
ed cane in the parlor of the Grand Cen.
tral Hotel.
Among those present were: MessrS.
Earnest Gary and J. L. McLarin, Sen.
aror Evans. Lieutenant Governor Gary,
Attorney General Pope, Mr.. J. Gary
Evans and Speaker Ira B. Jones.
by the way, the General Assembly
buys its gold-headed canes in Charles
ton, the Senator's cane being from Mes
srs. Darlington, Thomas & Co. Mr..
McLaurin, making the presentation
speech, said:
Sir: 1t is with feelings of pride and
pleasure that your friends in the Gen
eral Assembly, through me, propose to
PRESENT you lnemento of your serVi-
c:s as Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives. Your rapid elevation to
the highest cfice in the gift of the peo-
pie Of South Carolina is not only COM
pliment to your ability, but is charac-
terlstlc CT the tlme-an age of steam
and electricity.
BY single stride you have attained
the position that heretofore was only
reached after the energies Of youth
were tanned and devitaliZed by age
You have not yet reached he. meridian
of life. You have the grandest oppor-
tunity that has ever befallen a citizen
of South Carolina-the opportunity Of
bringing to bear a manhood and brain
untouched by the withering blight of
age to the service of your people in the
most august legislative body in the
world. Our hopes and our prayers go
with you, and we feel that South Caro-
lima will never need to apologize for
her young representative in the United
States Senate, it the same nerve, the
same brain, the same tenacity of pur-
pose and devotion to duty which have
heretofore characterized you will still
enable you to expand and meet the re-
quirementS of every occasion.
You are fit type Of the new era
which is dawning all oyer this broad
land, and in every way worthy to catch
the mantle as it falls from the states
man and soldier now wearing it, and
who is grand type of the past genera
tion.
Let the dead past bury its dead:
Act! Act in the living present, Faith
within and God overhead.
Go to that Senate adorned by the
statues OF the noblest men this country
or the world ever produced and the
scene of the splendid triumphs of Clay,
Webster and Calhoun, and We fear not
that you will sustain the honor and
glory of the whole country.
Mr.. Irby replied:
Gentlemen and friends: Permit me
brief, to thank you for this testimo-
NAL of your high esteem and confidence.
Were l not profoundly grateful to you
and to the General Assembly of
South CARDINAL would be unworthy
of the high esteem and confidence you
have reposed in me.
at the beginning of the present ses-
sion of the Legislature, which willi
eZer cradle in the history of
our State, the members Of the House OF
Representatives, who are the represen7
tatives of the people, unanimously
elected me to preside over the dellbera-.;
tions of that body. Subsequently the,
General Assembly, by most fatter-,
ing vote, electei me to the highest Off
fee within the gift of the people of this3
State. {
While presiding as Speaker my sole|
efforts have been to insure to eachI
member a fair and impartial preseota-l
ton of any views he might desire to}
bring to the consideration of the House,
As your representative in Congress Il
promise unqualiGedly that the peoplel
Of South Carolina shall never have just}
cause to say that have been untrue toj
the interests of the people of State
which | am proud to sly is not only thef
place of my nativity, but that OF myS
ancestors for over one hundred years. !;
As the chairman Of the Democraticy
party of South Carolina permitme to$
indulge the hope that all political differ
enceS will be buried at once. Under
our existing forms of government the,
r.ajority must control and the minors
ty must submit. The hope of thel
South and nation is in the success Of
the Democratic party.
In spite of division the Democracy
OF South Carolina has triumphed, and
must and will continue to be trium-
phant so long as intelligence, truth
and virture are held in higher esteem
than ignorance, vice and corruption: 9
Again thanking you for this token4
of esteem and friendship, and wishing
each and every one of you safe return
home and merry Christmas, bid
you adieu.
The inscription on the cane is:"1ss0.
The General Assembly of South Caro-
lima to the Hon. J. L. NJ. Irby.'
Mr.. Gary Evans was also present.
ed with a handsome cane by his friends
through Representative Youmans.
Representatives Bri .eale and Bow
den, of Anderson, also anne in for two
elegant gold-mounted native canes
from admiring friends.-News and
Courier.