Republican farmer., 1918-07-05
:T|LLMAN'S END REMOVES NOTED
 SENATE FIGURE
Fiery South Carolinian Had Served Continually in
 Body Since 1894.
Gained Sobriquet of "Pitch, fork Ben" Within Month
 After Taking Seat.

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 Washington, July 3-United States Senator Benjamin R. TilIman a vet eran of A years service in congress and chairman of the senate naval com mittee, died at his home here early today as a result of cerebral hemorr- haze suffered last Thursday.
 To honor the passing of one of the most picturesque figures in congress and southern public life both branches of congress planned to adjourn today and appoint committees to accompany the body to the Tillman home in Tren- ton, S. c.
 As governor of South Carolina, as leader in the southern wing of the Democratic party and as an active participant in the last generation growth of the American navy, Seha- tor Tillman had been prominently before the public for many years.
 Senator Swanson of Virginia, prob ably will be his successor as head of the naval committee.
 Senator Tillman's wife and all members of his family except a son suffering from a minor operation in southern army camp were at the bedside when he died.
 Senator Tillan's death promises an upheava1 in South Carolina politics in which he had been a leader for more than a generation. He died Tn the heat of the senatorial primary campaign in which his long time po- litical opponent, former Gov. Cole M. Blease, was contesting for nomina- ! ton to the senate.
 Senator Tillman was the eighth member of the senate to die since the United States entered the war. Benjamin Ryan Ti1lman was one of l the most extraordinary members of the United States Senate in which body he served continuously for A years. During the latter part of his service he was chairman of the Naval Affairs committee of the Senate and his work in that position, after the | United States entered the great war was considered by his colleagues to be of great value.
 As a Senator, Mir Tillman quickly won Q wide reputation through the country for plainness and bluntness 1 of speech which, combined with his | apparent rough exterior and some- | what careless manner of dress made | him a unique figure in Congress. No one attracted more attention when he rose to speak in the Senate. His Ian guage was always dramatic and. he 1 oa Had fhirerc hI-+ hoi ei
 Within month after he took his seat in the Senate, following his first election to that body in 1884, Senator Tillman won his picturesque nickname of "Pitchfork Ben," a characterize. ton which he did not resent.
 MT. Tillman's career in the Senate was full of interesting episodes prominent among which was his ex. change of blows with his colleague, ] Senator McLaurin, over an incident which occurred in the executive ses- sion, which cost him an invitation by President Roosevelt to meet Prince Henry of Battenberfg at a White House dinner. Other incidents were a sharp conflict with Colonel Roose- welt partly growing out of a dispute over the disposition of Southern Pa- | ciflc Railroad lands in Oregon; and l Senator Tillman's persistent and ultf- mately successful fight against Presi- | dent Roosevelt's appointment of Dr. l Crum, a negro, as collector of the port | of Charleston.
 The Senator had previously an nounced his intention to retire from politics, but he reconsidered that de- termination the belief that his inti- mate knowledge of naval affairs would be of service to the country in time of war.
 1 Born in Edgefeld county, South I Carolina, August II, 1S47, MT. Till man received anacademic education, enlisted in the Confederate army in 1864, but saw no military service l owing to fact that he lost the sight i of his left eye from a severe illness soon after he enlisted. In 1868 he married Sallie Starke.
 1 He was elected governor of South Carolina in 1890 and again in 1892 His services to that state included the founding of the Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical College at Fort Hill, 1 for boys, and the Winthrop Normal i and Industrial College at Rock Hill for girls. He was author of the dis. pensary system for selling liquor un- l der the control of the state
 A life-iOng Democrat, he partici- pated in the soGtI. Carolina Consti- | tutional convention which, in 1895. 1 made education a qualification of l suffrage. He was a central figure in the Democratic national conventions, l particularly in those of 1900 and 1904
 He served for years as member of the Democratic National committee