The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
HIGH DEATH RATE
Among the Junior Senatars
From South Carolina
THE SENIOR SENATOR
Calls Attention to the Matter in
Eulogizing Senator Latimer Re
Gently in the Senate Chamber.
Senator Tillman has Had Five
Colleagues in Fourteen Years.

Senator Tillman has Had Five
Colleagues in Fourteen Years.
Charleston, March s. The
Charleston Post says in the senate
the other day eulogies were pro-
nounced on the late Senator A. C.
Latimer, who died year ago, after
five years in service as member Of
that body, having previously for ten
years been member Of the house of
representatives. AS the senior sena-
tor from the State represented by the
departed senator, Mr.. Tillman pro-
nounced the first expression Of sor-
row at the death of his late colleague.
He remarked an interesting record
as follows:
ut is a little more than fourteen
years since I was sent by the people
Of South Carolina to be one Of their
representative in this chamber. AS
things now are that is about one
third of the average lifetime of a
man, and while during the time there
have transpired many events of nat
ional Importance, it seems but brief
period after all. Yet during this
comparatively short span I have
served here with five United States
senators from South Carolina, and
after the fourth Of March my sixth
colleague will have taken the oath
at the desk. 1t is strange coinci-
dence that all of these men who have
come and gone save one we're young.
er in years than I. Three of them
have answered the roll call on the
other side Of the river. First il
service, John Lowndes Manning
Irby, bright, brave, witty and genial;
!, next the knightly and courtly 10
, seph Haynesworth Earle, forceful
logical, chivalrous and in every wa!
, well equipped for work in the forum
. or on the bench; last, Asbur.
: Churchwell Latimer, who, while de
: MED in youth those advantages O
education possessed by the other two
was in some respects the superior o
, either of them"
( By designating none but those O
: his colleagues who have passed from
: life, Senator Tillman avoided tn
5 necessity of naming and Of charac
5 terizing the one with whom his as
: sociation was most strenuous, Johl
: Lowndes McLaurin. It would hav
: been interesting to have had his es
l innate Of McLaurin pronounced il
this calm mood and upon this solemn
: occasion.
: When Tillman took his seat in tn
senate in 1895, succeeding NJ.
Butler, who had had three term
in the chamber, he found J. l.. NJ
1rby as his colleague in the represen
taticn Of South Carolina in that body
5 A little more than year afterward
Joseph H. Earle was elected to sue
ceed Irby, who did not offer for re
: election in the primary which nomi
2 mated Judge Earle. In December
f 1907, Senator Earle was sworn il
$ as member Of the chamber, an
8 within three months he was dead.
Governor Ellerbe, who also die,
l in Office before completing his sec
. ond term as chief executive Of tn
l State, appointed John L. McLauril
S to fill the vacancy, and the Demo
, Gratis Of South Carolina confrme
r the appointment by nominating Nc
: Laurin at the primary held in tn
summer Of 1898. At the completio,
: of this term, service of five years
McLaurin retired from the senate
: not offering for reelection, and ha
: since been a negligible and almost
: forgotten figure in the political lif
: of South Carolina.
l He was succeeded by the late Sen
/ ator Latimer, who, as we have not
/ ed, lived to serve but five years o
the full term to which he was elect
ed. A year ago the general assembl
elected Frank G. Gary to fill the un
expired term, and he is now com
pleting that brief service, and vii
retire to private life at noon on th
day after tomorrow. The genera
assembly which has just adjournet
elected E. D. Smith to succeed him
ratifying the nomination made in tn
Democratic primary last summer.
AS Senator Tillman says, Mr.. Smitl
will be his sixth colleague in the sen
, ate during period of fourteen years
Not one of these has served full
: term in company with Tillman, ant
the average length of their service
, as his associates is but a little more
than two years. 1t is striking rec
ord of mortality-physical and po
litical-and is well calculated to give
rise to melancholy reflection in the
mind of the survivor Of so many ant
suci brief associations in the consti
, tutional representation of his State
in the United States senate.
NEGRO MURDERER CAUGHT.