The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-17

so Long" His Last Words-Sketch
Of His Life and Professional Career.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, D. c., Oct. 14.-"Good-
bye, $ am sorry I kept you all waiting
SO long
With these words Associate Justice
John M. Harlan, of the Supreme Court
Of the United States, often acclaimed
the greatest constitutional authority
Of the day, once a conspicuous inquire
in national and Kentucky Republican
politics and long a leade In PreSDy-
terian councils, passed away early to-
day. He had been i'll less than a
week.
week. The famous jurist will be
buried in the National Cemetery at
Arlington or at Rock Creek Cemetery
here, following a service newt Tues
day at the New York Avenue Presby-
terrain Church. of which he was an
active member.
The Supreme Court will take formal
action on his death Monday, and adj
journ Immediately as a mark Of re-
spect.
cause Of death was bronchitis.
and he was IS years Of age.
Justice Harlan was the oldest mem
Der of the Supreme Court and the
foremost constitutional authority. He
d. prominent IN 1IeSDt tcTldH ClufCil
He sat on the bench Mon
day when the court heard arguments
in the coal trust cases. Tuesday Chief
Justice White hat Justice
Harland was slightly ILL.," His con-
clifton was more serious than his col
leagues realized. Wednesday he vas
worse, but his alarming condition was
unknown at the Supreme Court. Last
night he grew worse, and death came
this morning. His service on the
bench was thirty-three years, ten
months and twenty-five days, longer
than any other justice except Mar
shall and Field.
Justice Harlan's great ambition was
to serve until next June when he
would nav exceeded the service OF
any other man who sat on h a bench.
AS it was, his service was longer than
that Of any other justice except Chief
Justice Marshall and Associate Justice
Stephen J. Field. Fields was the
longest, serving "a years, six months
and ten days; Marshall 81 years. five
months and five days; Harlan's So
years, 10 months and % days.
Justice Story was on the bench 5:
years, nine months and % days
These are the only justices who who
served their country on the bench fol
more than a generation.
Justice Harlan left a widow and five
children. Four Of the children were
az HIS = IlC l1CIuuCu LII
terstate Commissioner James S. Har
Ian, John Maynard Harlan, of Chica
go, and the Misses Laura and Rutf
Harlan, who live at the Harlan resi-
dence here. The third son, Rev. r. D
Harlan, formerly president of LAX
Forest University, is touring Europe.
The career Of Justice Harlan wa;
unique in the development of an ordi
nary country politician into one of tn,
greatest legal intellects of the day.
Harlan wa often acclaimed tn,
greatest Constitutional authority of hi
day. 1t was the late Justice Brewer
+. who said of him: Il believe he retire
at night with one hand on the Con
stitution and the other on the Bible
safe and happy in a perfect faith il
justice and righteousness
Justice Harlan has the signal dis
tinction of going down to posterity a
a justice whose dissenting opinion
were more widely known han thos
in which he joined with the majorit
of the court.
Judge Harlan was one of the grea
men of the country Big of body, bi
OF brain. big in character he stoo
first among the foremost. Judg
Harlan was a Republican in politics
but he was an American before h
was a partisan. His decisions show
ed him to be a man of learning an
convictions. His latest great opinio
was bic diSSont;no opipicn in tho n