The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
macon TELEGRAPH
EDITOR IS DEAD
C.. r. Pendleton Dies of At
tack of Acute Bright's
Disease

Macon. Ga. January 17.--Charles r. PEN
dleton, for 10 years editor and part owner
CT the Macon Telegraph, who died here
yesterday after an illness of i've weeks.
was one of the south's best known news
raper men.
Mr.. Pendleton was born in Effingham
county, Georfia. June 26. 1850, the eeth
child of Philip c. Pendleton. His moth
ers maiden name was Catherine Tebeau
of the family which gave Tebeauville its
name. Philip c. Pendleton was one of
the best known and most prominent men
in the southern and eastern portions of
Georgia, both before and after the war
He established the Southern Post in
Macon when still young man and after
wards established another publication in
this city known as the Southern Lady's
Book. This latter publication he trans
ferred to Savannah under the name of
The Magnolia. The publication was later
taken to Charleston by Mr.. Pendleton
and w. Gilmore Sims, where it was pub
lished with great success for several of
years.
Mr. Pendleton, being lawyer. finally
apdhuontd tiic pdpi1snillS bhSiiitSS Aoi u
time and set up a law office in Savannah
and later at Sandersville. In 1850 he pub
lished the Central Georgian at Sanders
vile, paper which has been in continu-
Gus existence eevr since, and now pub
lished under the named of the Sandersvlle
Georgian.
Selling out this enterprise in 1858, PHI
lip c. Pendleton moved to southwest Geor-
gia to take up farming. He first settled
In Ware CnlpfV- and the of Pom
dleton was named after him by James
Screven, who was building railroad
from Savannah to Thomasville. Mr.. Pen
dleton Immediately went to Savannah and
had the name changed to Tebeauville,
after his father-in-law. Capt. f. e. Te-
beau. of Savannah. However, through
trouble with the engineering department
of the road. it was so surveyed as to
so around Tebeauville. THUS Waycross
was born and Tebeauville died" as one
Georgia historian has put 1t.
Mr. Pendleton founded the Naldosta
Times and ran ii until his death in 1863
in the meantime having given his services
to the Confederate army, as well as those
of his sons older than the late editor of
the Macon Telegraph. Young Charles r.
Pendleton was but lad when the war
broke out
Immediately upon his father death Mr..
Pendleton took charge of the Naldosta
Times for the family, heavy respon-
sibility for so young a man for there
were several to support with the income
from this source. He made the Valdosta
Times the most influential paper in south
and southwest Georgia, and at one time
enjoyed the county printing of several
counties. Tn 1879 he married Sallie Pat
terson Peoples, of Valdosta, who survives
him. To this union was born a compara-
lively large family.
Mr.. Pendleton's virile writing, his alb
horrence of sham and demagoguery, soon
finally Major Hanson, then owner of The
Macon Telegraph, and one of the most
commanding figures in Georgia In many
lines induced him to leave the Naldosta
Times and come to the editorial desk OF
The Telegraph, where he would have
wider field for the expression of his edi-
torial convictions. This was in 1896.
Only once in his life did he consent to
run for public office and that was when
a very young man. In 1923 he was
member of the Georgia Legislature claim
ing the distinction of being one of the
youngest men who ever sat there. In
fact, the claim is made by his friends
that he was, up to the time he took his
seat the youngest man who ever had
been elected to that office This was
from Lowndes county.
However, he has always figured largely
in his states politics, both In regard to
the state itself at home and its part in
the national movements. In 1896 he was
delegate to the national democratic con-
vention and in 1904 he was a delegate at
large to the national convention, men,
ber of the notification committee. and
in 1912 he headed the Georgia delegation
to the democratic national convention in
Baltimore. a delegation pledged to the
support of Oscar w. Underwood, who car
ried the state in the presidential pri-
maries by 1900 plurality.
During the last presidential primary
campaign Mr.. Pendleton supported Mr..
Underwood for the Georgia delegates
with enthusiasm, although at no time
was he particularly hostile to Woodrow
Wilson. After the convention, when Will
son was nominated, no paper in Georgia
was more whole-heartedly supporting him
or was more active in raising campaign
funds.
In 1910 he was chairman of the state
democratic executive committee, an office
which he held until the Hoke Smith dele
gates for governor named a new COM
mittee at the consolidation OF the vote
following the last Hoke Smith-Joe Brown
race.
His last illness seemed to be no worse
than at least one other in the last year
from which he recovered in due course,
until the acute Brlght's disease set in