Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-06
EDITOR.
Dan Henderson for the United
States Senate.
What the People OF His Adopted
Home Say.

What the People OF His Adopted
Home Say.
Among the distinguished gentle
mon whe aspire t. the Senate 10
succe,d John l.. McLaurln,. the
Hnoorable ID S Henderson, Ut AL
ken, is easily one of the most prom.
ineut An orator Of rare ability
,Tun of broad and generous views
.nd impuises-a profound student
of human affairs possesses IN
an unusual degree Those qualities
that upon tue worlds stage go 10
make up man of marx:
And in addition ~ his wei ar
INQUIRED intellect, "Dan" Henderson
- y youd friend and good citizen,
to b1ot. Beyond the natural limits
ri his own State he is known as
nne nf the acknowledged leaders III
m,blic affairs, and at the bar, VI
sonth Carolina. AS one of our con-
lemporari.s has putt, he is indeea'
"a christian gentleman, an accom-,
nlisheu scholar, an able jurlst, anu
an eloquent speaker,-one alI9gtels,
.r worthy of seat in the Onlteo
States Senate"
BEGINNING A CAREER.
Dan s. Henderson was born IN
Walterborough, in the county OF
CnIIetnn. SOUTH Carolina, in lS49
Roth his father and mother were
natives of this State. The father,
daniel Henderson, was descended
from q Scotch Irish origin, OF which
,vnp are found some of the most
sminently successful men of this
and other times. The elder Hell.
uerson. in his day was lawyer OF
note. and served with distinction IN
tue Legislature Of his state. lie
died in 1864.
Dan Henderson, the son, at an ear.
ly aye began his education in the
Charleston College with scholarship
won in a competitive examination.
In 1910 he left the quiet college
walls with the first honors OF his
class. With the close of college
DAYS the young student devoted
himself to lhe mysteries of the law
Like many lawyers who nave at
tained eminence Henderson gath
cred his first knowledge of the
practical machinery of jurispru
dence as a student in law Office
For q wear and half after leaving
Charleston College, he studied law
in the tffice of Messrs Sim0ns anC
Seigling, then among the leading
practitioners in the historic city o
Charleston.
atsthe expiration of this period
Henderson began the struggle o
s lifeas g school teacher in Chester
s g. His manly bea with all VIII,
LII tatt With the youns
teacher. In spare moments he pur
sued the study of the law with un
tagging zeal. -.
AS A LEGISLATIVE LEADER.
In 1876 the successful practition
er declined the noInina ton for the
State Senate. He was too youne
to be eligible for the offie he was
offered. However, in 1880, D. S,
Henderson, then fully recognized
as leader in public affairs in his
part of the State, was elected to the
Senate of the General Assembly of
South Carolina, in the first primary
ever held in Aiken county.
During his first term he was one
of the foremost debaters in the Sen.
ate, and was active in securing the
passage Of several laws relating in.
timately to the welfare of the State.
Duelling was then rife in South
Carolina. Men fought at the drop
of a hat, upon fancied insults, with
seconds, and all the formalities of
the code duello. Henderson was
the author of the famous duelling
oath, incorporated into the oath of
public Office in South Carolina, in.
tended to extirpate this evil. The
first act ever passed in this State
providing for the creation of Rail.
road Commission was championed
and advocated by d. S. Henderson.
This act was the origin of the pres.
ent Railroad Commission, possess.
ing as it does powers of a far reach.
ing character relating to the regula.
tion of railroads and freights. The
concealed weapon law, the eight
box election law, by which a white
mans governmentw was perpetuated
in South Carolina-with all this
important legislation State Sena-
tor Henderson was actively identi-
fed.
his business affairs multiplied
with such rapidity thatin 1854 Hen.
derson voluntarily retired from the
State Senate. The same year he
was a member of the South Caroli-
ma delegation 10 the Nationol Dem.
ocratic Convention at Chicago. For
ten years following his withdrawal
from the General Assembly ne de-
voted himselfto the practice of law
During this time he was only once
Il candidate for offir. This was i'm
the famous congressional conyen.
tion in which George D. Tillman
was nominated after hundred of
ballots had been cast. !
The convention lasted for more
than three weeks. From the be. |
ginning to the end of this memora.
BILE contest Aiken county solidly
supported her favorite son.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
In 1895 the Reform and Conserva |
tive factions divided the Democrat.
ic Party in South Carolina. The
party leaders determined to make
an effort to heal the breach exist.
ing in the party ranks. Henderson
WAS sent to the Constitutional Con.
vention. He was supported 10y both
divisions of the party as leader
having at heart the interests of the
whole State. In this memora biz
D0dy Henderson took front rank as
a legislator and statesman. AS
chairman of the Committee on Mn