Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Oharles A. Oulberson. About four years before the pro mulgation of the Declaration of In dependence of Congress, William H. Crawford was born in Amherst coun ty, Va. Before he had advanced be yond childhood his father took him to Georgia, and there the boy grew to manhood, and became one of the first citizens of the republic. He was elected to the legislature, and soon after was chosen a Senator in Con gress, of which body lie became presi dent pro tempore during his first term. He was Minister to France dur ing the war of 1812, and upon his return was appointed Secre,ary of War by President Madison, and soon after was transferred to the Treasuiry Department, of which he continued the head throughout the succeeding two administrations of President Monroe. He was a prominent candi date for President. in 1825, and, his was one of the names that went before the House of Representatives upon the failure of the electoral col lege to elet. Though lie was a Jer fersoniii. Daiil Webs er, a New England Federalist, strove for the election of' Crawfiord. even over John Q. Adams. from Welister's own state. House lie inviled Crawford to remain at the head of t1he Treasury, but lie declimol, re-trned lionie. aecepted a .juld.!vship. :1111 a1 Cow you'sr.- hoer UI'-l. Crowfor11d was nlot sli rea aIman - as ChII I. or p'alluo ti, or eh .er, b)t he was het ter fitted for the Presidency than any one of them. Ie was em phatieally :I sagacious man, Ie was ot a statesman by intuition, his statesmatishiip result(el from reflee tion. Though no genius, he Jud w dom of the hilfhest practical order. Webster and Calhoun were warm friends in IS25, and both hoped to see Crawford chosen President over Adams or Jaekson. and it is no small tribute to a man's capacity and char acter when Calhoun and Webster in dorsed him for the first place in the republic. Charles A. Culberson, of Texas, is a direct lineal descendant from Wil liam 11. Crawford. of Georgia, and a chip of that same block in abilities, in character, in temperament. Cau tions in deliberation, he is adamant when once lie has reached a conclu S'In. There is nothin- dazzlinE about him. It is a clI head always. He re fleets carefully and wei-hs every ar 1 'lument- serupulously before he -le eudes: hil his 1e sil-n is final . He i today ti 0le )(-.Zt pr'ared ml n:1 in tihe Senate. lie has ill ,ll lrunks. boxes. drawers. :i 4'hest: nore palpers and scraps of papers than any other of. our publie mven. and he knows pre-i cisely where to search for any one of them. lie would rIeqiiest of wish to be burned. Like Raillie Nicol Jar vie's father, the deacon. lie never puts,out his hand so far that he can not 'lraw it back again. le is the most Capable and the ilost skillful pl.iticiaii ini the Demnocratic partiy todlay. Daiividl 1. Cual hersoni was a mlembher of Congress for t wenity-two vear's whena he v'oluntiiarily retired from that body. As a lawyer h le hadl no siuper Legislaturei, anad for mian yi'~ ears lhe .presided over' thle 'Judiciary Commnit lee. One of the finest public speak er's inl public life, lie rarely address ed the 11ouse', but when he'did rise to speak lhe commiianidedi the attent.ion of all wit hini t-he sound of his v'oice. lie was powerful in the logie of comn mon senlse. Hie loved simple and home hly speech. lie was a simple man in Itillperameii and11( as dlemoiicraitic as a 'haunt ing shiirt or a coonlekina cap. The lat.e Tomi Reed had evt.raZvaganit ad1 mi rat ion for hiis ext raor'di,nary abilI it ies, and wh'len t hey were bot.h mnem bers of the ,Judiciary' Committee, Rieed was fonid of taking unitenlable positions just to see ''old( Cyclops (demolish them.'' It' was the ambi tionit of the elder Culherson to repr'es ent Texas in the Senate, not for van ity, but hieeause lie was conscious of his capacities for t hat t.heatre. A time camie wvhen the Senatorship was his for the asking, but lie was now growing old and tired of p)arliamen tary life, lie dlecledl it, and Texas gave to his faivorite soil, the aplIe of is 'eye, t.he core of' his heart--the' hoy of whom lie was so hproud and who so well (deserved his approbation. The younger Culberson wvas born in Alabama in 1855, and the follow-I ing year his father became a citizen of Texas. Old Dave said that lie in.. t.endled that the boy should have an education that would enable him ''to find his hat." One might write vol umes and not express it so well. What the father meant was that, his boy should be disciplined for the bat tle of life; that he should be taught detail; that he should be grounded in selg-reliancee, that lie should know~ how to make his wvay ini the worl4. Many a boy bright, healthy, vigorous, cannot fit.l his hat in the mornitling, and the pity of it is they go through what they cannot find, and simply be cause they were not properly taughl in childhood how to seek. And as soon as he was old enough young Culberson was packed off tc the Virginia Military Institute, v school little inferior to West Point, There he graduated with high hon ors, and was anxious for a military career; but that did not suit the fath er, who insisted that the son should study for the bar. He entered biE father's office and studied under th< instructions of the old man for three years aid then became % student at the law department of the University of Virginia, where he greatly distin gluishel himself. Hore lie attracted the attention of Senator Daniel, him self a great lawyer, who wrote a pap er on one of Culberson's legal pro dictions at school, and predicted the (listiigitis-he( career the young man was t.o carve out. Returning to Texas after his gradiu ation, young Culberson opened an of fice at Jefferson, and engaged active lV inl tile practice. Ie was very soon thereafter electedt prosecuti ing attor ney of Marioi Counity hit Iis private praetice made such demands on him that, inl juslice to li,; clients. lie was forecil to rein tle oflive. While yet a very V0o1ing 1nan be appeared in S rjiiUm' Hri .t0 i' 'litel .11es wNid aru i te celebrated ease of 1e Grandie vs. The United States, involving the constitutional ity of the ku klux act. His speech otn that occasion was a. legal triuimph, a1nI tihe cout d. decided the case in his Plient 's favor. Ii H90. at the age of thirty-five. lie was elected attorney general of Texas, suceeding the redoubtable James Iogg, and two years later lie was reelected. It was while lie was attorney general that lie again ap "eared before the Supreme bench at Washington and argued the case of Heagan vs. The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company. tivolving the con st-itutioiality of the act creating the T'exas ailtiroad conmission. 1When lie had conchided his argument and was prepariig to leave the room the clerk of court beckoned him, and upon go ing to the desk he there found Mr. Justice Gray. who wvarmly congratii lated him upon his able presentation of ti. case. This was praise t'rom i Huert, and a Sir ubert not. ]a vish of praise. Some years subse Ilenty. whenl he Itade anlother ex 1e : n1 l l,y * v t plea bfore that ivlh .listice Oray again sent for hin adtl said: "Young man. I have wvatId yuirl career. a::( am not i nifIlI of the fact. that. the people of Texas have taken care t hat you shotld iot go unrewarded.'' Chief Justice liller also heartily commend ed him. In 1894 Culberson was electe( Gov ernor. defeating t.he veteran John H-. Reagan for the nomination. Two years later lie was re-elected. His admoiniiist rat ion was emi nentfly sat is tfactory". andt( his fame wecnt to the uit termoiist paits of thle Un!iion, when, with hulldog determination. he bani ishedu the prize ring fromti the State. I ticst a deal of mon'iev. andc nii end( lif vieihmtie.' buit Christian eiviliza tiont cheigfully footed thte bill and poieied the border-. In 1899 Cuilber soni becamne a Senator in Congress, and is ttow serving his second termn. Hie is a capital public speaker, but iot ia whirlhwind declaimer. What he says will set men a-thinking, rather bait a-shouting, lie speaks the Eng lish tongue, and never wanders from the text. His style is that of the thin ker anid the latwyer. He never talks for thle galleries, but his A1 :Iresses are to the Senators. Culherson is a party man th rough and throtigh ; so was Lincoln ; so is Roosevelt. Bitt Cutlber'son, like all reat lawyers, is a conservative, lie does tnot believe in pyrotechnies. He suspects novelty, lie will sooner eros's the river' ott a safe br'idge than an a tightrope, lie examines every thing, anid no labor daunts him. Well grounttded in the funidementals of party politics, lie tests everything by those principles. In short, Charles A. Cutlberson Is his great-great grand-fathetr returned to life and William U1. Crawfo-rd1 and D)avid B. Cutlhersom live again in him. T undi(erstand( thte Democratic side of te United States Senate is in searchl of a leader. Culiberson htas no superior in that body. No man is more aleirt-swifter to see a mistake of the enemy or prompter to take ad vantage of it. It may be objected that lie is Fabius rathier than Marcellus; bitt Fabius gave Hanni-bal more con etrn than did Marcellus. Fabius sav ed Rome; Marcellus fell in action. Culberson is perhaps the only sena, tor the Democrats would cheerfull follow, lie does not create antagon isms, lie has an admirable temper. He commands confidence and wins re spect. LeaderCtshiip is as necessary to a party as to an army. No man who saw the wotrk of Thomas B. Reed ini the Fifty-second Congress wil dial lnethat pr6position. jf.,4eDem crats of the Senate of .08 a, led with half the skill t "epub) cans of the House werQ 1a" 891-9 it will have a- tremondoum effect c the political situation. When the Southern Senators reti ed in 1861 and Douglas di1ed, the D4 mocrats of the Senate wot In a gref deal worse fix than their successoi are in the present Senate. They wei few in number and withol leade: ship. The two ablest men auoll them were powerless in tihe grasp the demon of drink. Garret Day was not yet a Democrat. Lazarus V Powel was discredited for his.Soutl orn sympathies. 14itham was mo0 than half a Republican. Turpie was Senator but a few weeks. Doolitt) was yet a full Republican. Hendriel was not yet a Senator. Thurman di not come in until 1869. There was n leadership, and v,ery nearly no part: Hendricks and Thurman put a diffel ent face on things, and it was th wise counsel of Thurman, supporte by Bayard, lianar. Hill, and Cassei ley, that. gave the Democrats thi Senate in the Forty-sixth Congre: It took twelve years for the "01 Roman'' to aecoiplish it, but le ha but a handful of supporters to bw-i with, yet he hewed his way to ilh majority b y N Ile sheer force of i aund the invinvibiIl ruths iof ol io-ed Dlimcracy, a principle tha: ha never for oMe no m101lent been in a minl ority in this republic since the ord ARE Yq IF NOT, F Now is the time! The I are the people that assure Souvenir goods in the ci Gift Books for Commenc< Mayes' B 50c IlN FOR 100 COX THE CIGARET 2 Coupons in Coupons also Redeemal Premium AMERICAN' JERSEY CITY, N. J. Wood Maqu HARTS V Manufacturers of Doc Sash, Doors, Blinds, 1I Ornamental Wood W< Flooring, Ceiling, Sic the Building Material We want your inql grading and workma prices are right. Harteville Wood| HARTS9 >- nation of the Constitution of the -e Uni'ed' States. Tilden saw with per i- feet vision when, as,early as 1870, he. 1 Made: the declaration: "The Demo n cratie -party was never beaten when it was Democratic." But leadership implies discipline, t Will the Democracy be led? That is -s the question, and there's the rub. Senators are human. Culberson is, yet young for a 'Senatorial leader. Will g the others follew? It is said that Mr. lRoosevelt has chosen the Democratic s leader of the Sen4te, and Mr. Culber son is not the man. Mr. Roosevelt i- has accomplished more impossible e, things than any other man since Na a polean Bonaparte. He is absolute mas e ter of one party and claims an option s on the other. If the Dem6cratie party is going to take orders from a o Republican President, it is useless '. to even think of Culberson for the titular leader of such a layout. If e lie is made leader in name he will be J leader in fact, and the party in the - Senate would as well, or better, go e ont of the poliitical busilne"ss as to . name a leader and then take orders I from the enemy. 1 With srong Deiocratie lealer ship in lhe two honses of Conigress e Culberson and WAilliais--the next e Session of the Amlieric:w Con, (g-ress - wolildi he the msot interestil., wthlin fa geation, anld it would benlericial - l aCfect American politics for an - othier generation. 3U ON? ?EAD THIS. look Store is the place! We you the best assortment of ty. I have a nice stock of %ment. ook Store. I CASH JPONS FROM TEE OF QUA LITY Each Package! le for Valuable Presents Department TOBACCO CO. ST. LOUIS, MO. lacturitig Co., ILLE, S. 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