Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-06-21
Senate Admits Lee to Hall Of
Fame.

Senate Admits Lee to Hall Of
Fame.
Washington, June 18.-Since Vir-
ginia refused to permit the senate to
put the statue of George Washing.
ton in the Hall of Fame unless it.
would also accept the statue of Rob-
ert Lee, the senate now accepts the
statue of any individual, up to two,
which the state might designate.
Southern states as rule have not
taken advantage of the opportunity.
North Carolina has Senator Vance
and South Carolina John c. Calhoun.
Florida has DR.. Corrie who invented
the refrigerator (and incidentally he
was born in South Carolina) and
Gen. Kirby Smith, Confederate SOL
dier. Texas has Austin, the Indian
fighter. Tennessee has neglected both
Andrew Jackson and David Crockett.
Some time, Mississippi will send the
statue of Jefferson Davis. Georgia,
if it's constitution will ever permit,
will send the statues of Alexander
Stephens, vice president of the Con-
federacy, and DR.. Crawford Jones,
who first applied ether as an anaes-
thetic in operation. Something is the
matter with the constitution of Geor-
gia. That which hinders it in appro-
priating for it's sons is also response
BILE, it is said, for the fact that the
jeweler who engraved and furnished
the silver service for the battleship
Georgia has never been remunerated.
There is delight in Washington
that Alabama has undertaken a
movement to put statue to Gen.
William C. Gorgas in statuary hall.
He was born in Mobile and educated
in Tuscaloosa, where his father, who
had served as chief ordnance officer
of the Confederate army, was presi-
dent of the University Of Alabama.
General Gorgas was internationally
famous as sanitation expert. His
work made the Panama canal zone
habitable.
Alabama is now represented by j.
Ii. M. Curry, who was born in Vir-
ginia, and was more closely identified
with Tennessee. The legislature OF
Alabama suffered relatives of Curry
to put his statue in the capitol with
the understanding that they would
defray all expenses. To that extent
Alabama sold it's birthright.
It is the hope of Alabamans in
Washington that Alabama will re-
move the Curry statue and put in it's
place one in honor of Admiral
Semmes, who commanded the famous
Alabama during the Confederate
war, and was the South's greatest
naval hero; or William Rufus King,
once vice president of the United
States; or Senator John Tyler Nor
gan, the real father of the Panama,
canal legislation.
There was sensation, of course,
when Virginia sent the Lee statue to
Washington. The senate bickered.
But Virginia said tnat Lee must be
accepted or Washington would be
withdrawn. A Hall of Fame without
Washington would be joke, the sem
ate recognized, and, without formal
action, permitted the statue to be
placed. While the senate struggled
over the Lee controversy, echoes
reached the house. Carter Glass, then
a representative, declared in speech
that Virginia did not care very much
as the government had already erect
ed in Washington a statue to Lee
most descriptive of his military
genius.
One of the cred shirt" wavers was
amazed. He made inquiries of the
Virginia member.
"It is nothing more or less than
the pension Office" returned Glass
without the semblance of smile.
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