The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-01-20

Representative of the Mississippi Leg
isIature held memorial exercises last night
for the late A J. McLaurin, United
States Senator
The speakers and clerks stands
and first few rows of members desks,
also gallery and ratings, had been
Spus1J 40 alEqM pur 4orIq u! psdrIp
of the family.
and relatives present. were: MIR. and
Mrs. r L. McLaurin, Mr.. and Mrs S.
L McLaurin, Judge W. K McLaurin,
DIR. and Mrs. John Berry, Mrs. Daisy
McLaurin Stevens, Mrs. w. C. Pate and
Mrs. r. c. Watts.
Speaker Street presided and at 8
O'Clock the exercises were opened
with prayer by DIR. w. B. Murrah-
Captain Frank Burkitt of Chickasaw.
read the following resolutions which had
been prepared by joint committee and
(which were adopted by a rising vote:
ITO the Presiding Officers and the
Members of the Senate and House of
Representatives:
'fYour joint committee, TO whom was
assigned the duty ot preparing tribute
of respect 10 the memory of the ate lam
xnted Senator McLaurin, beg leave to sub
INIT the following:
On the evening of December ~, 1909,
rs the sombre shadows were gathering
over the gray form of earth, the Death
Angel passed by and dropped his sable
mantle about the manly shoulders of anoth-
CT of Mississippi's most distinguished and
most beloved sons, and Anselm Joseph
McLanrin passed from the busy scenes
of this world to the Great Beyond, there
no receive the reward of the devoted
husband and father, the obliging neighbor,
&he generous friend, the model citizen
and the faithful servant of the people
~Senator McLaurin was the eldest of
N family of eight brothers. He was born
mt Brandon, March rs, 1913, and was.
therefore, in his sixty-second year when
death cut too short his brilliant career.
while yet child of few years.
his father moved to Smith county, Miss,
and there upon a farm, amid its varied
and rugged duties, peculiar to the early
days of this country, he grew up gath
ering with the years that vigorous strength
of body and mind, which served him so
well in the broad arena to which he was
called in after life. He received the
ncager advantages of schools of those
days and after the close of the Civil
War graduated from Summerville, Insti-
1ute, high school, under the presidency
of that renowned educator, Thomas S.
Cartwright. Immediately after leaving
school he read law and was admitted to
practice before he was twenty-one years
of age
Though a boy of sixteen he enlisted
IN the army of the Confederacy in the
fall of 1864, and faithfully and cour-
for which the chivalric southern soldiers
SO gallandy contended, went down before
largely superior force He was elected
district attorney at twcnty-three and served
four years In that Office, having returned
70 Brandon, the place of his birth, during
those years of political graft and crime
succeeding in defending the people
against the infamies of carpetbag and ne
gro rule, and in 1879, the people of Rankin
county desiring the services of strong
and courageous man, nominated him for
the legislature without his consent after
the nomination.
"He was made a presidential cleo
for for the state at large in 1884 during
she memorial campaign IN which ME
Cleveland defeated James G. Blaine, the
idol 20 the Republican party. When the
Constitutions Convention of 1890 was
called Anselm J. McLaurin answered
70 the roll call as one of the delegates
from Rankin county and served with great
distinction In that body. When the Chew
aIier Bayard of Mississippi politics, Ed
ward c. WaIthalI resigned his seat In
the United States Senate In 1894, the
people of Mississippi turned to Anselm ].
McLaurin as the man pre-eminently fitted
TO succeed so worthy predecessor.
tIn 1895, called to lead the Demo-
EratiG forces against the new political
movement, caused by unusual mcnitary
depression, which had created popular I'M
rest throughout that entire country, Anse-
I'm McLaurin was elected Governor of
Mississippi by decided majority over a
member of this committee, who n0thwith-
standing their political differences were al
ways the warmest personal friends, and
his administration of the functions of that
high office is source of pride to his
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