Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-03-04
r. Y.HAYNE FIRST DREAMED OF
RAILROAD THROUGH THIS CITY
Had Controversy Over Road Through
HendersOnYille as Early as 1889:
Memory Tablet Proposed.

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Concerted efforts on the part of
leading citizens of upper South Caro-
lima, officials of the Southern Railway
company, and perhaps a number of
public spirited Citizens of Western
North Carolina, are being made inst
o TO raise a fund for the purpose of
TIectlng a suitable monument or tab
let TO the memory-o f Robert Y. Hayne.
VINO nrst conceived the idea of ira
Ferslng the Blue Ridge mountains by
rail as early as in the "30's."
John b. Cleveland of Spartenburg
issued a pamphlet about a year q
containing the interesting informa-
ton OF a controversy between Robert
4. Hayne and John c.. Calhoun about
1881 over the location of a proposed
line of-railway to connect Tennessee
and the West with South Carolina
Ih1s pamphlet brought out ethessfact
tnat Haynes proposed route passed
through Spartanburg, Hendersonville,
and Asheville, while it is understood
that Calhoun's route proposed@a line
through Walhalla, S. c., not far FROM
the old Calhoun home at Clemson
college.
1t has been suggested that this
be placed in the Southern
depot now planned for Spartanburg
as Mr.. Hayne vas the first TO dream
OF a road through Spartanburg cross
ing the Blue Ridge mountains, which
is now a reality, though not so until
many after Mr.. Haynes death,
and a part of the great Southern Rail-
way system.
The Spartanburg Herald contained
the following in a recent issue and is
of particular interest to many South
Carolinians residing in this section:
Railroad Dreamer.
Robert Y. Hayne is one of the
feature" characters of South Caroli-
ma history, as well as of national pol
ttics. He was probably the greatest
dreamer of railroad dreams of his
time, and saw things in the future
which his contemporaries would not
believe. During the three years i'm
mediately preceding his death he was
president of the louisville, Cincin-
natl & Charleston railroad" a line
which was not nearly so p~retentious
it's name indicates. but which was,
nevertheless, the first really practical
railroad ever built in the United
States. This road was commenced out
1889, in Asheville, while attending q
railroad meeting at which plans for
building a railroad through the Blue
Ridge mountains were being dis
Studied Under Cheyes.
Robert Y. Hayne was born in St.
PauTs parish, Colleton district, OH
10, 1871. He was educated
at a private school at Charleston;
law in the Office of Langdon
Cheves, and was admitted to the bar
in November, 1912. During the wal
of 1912 he was a captain in the Third
South Carolina regiment. Later he
was a member of the state house OF
representatives, serving as speaker
of the house in 1918, and from 1918 to
1922 he was attorney general of the
state.
In 1923, Hayne was elected as a
state-rights democrat to the United
States senate, and quickly became
conspicuous as a pronounced strict
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free trade and for states rights.
Hayne is best known, from a stand
point of national politics, Tor mis-
great debate with Daniel Webster in
January, 1880. covering the important
question of the relation of the states
to the federal government.
Hayne was a member of the NULL
6cation convention, held in Charles
in 1882, and was chairman OF the
committee of 81" which reported tho
ordinance of notification.
adopted by the convention. Soon az
ter he resigned as senator in order,
no doubt, that Calhoun might take his
seat in that body. In December he,
elected governor of South Carroll
IA. Afterwards he was mayor OF
From 1886 until his
death, in September, 1889, he was
president of the Louisville, Cincinnati