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Prejudice Triumphs. ALONG HOT DAY IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL CON VENTION. Ben. Till man and George Til Iman Pitted Against Each Other? Irby Takes a Hand and Gives Ben. Tiliman a Basting. Ben Tiliman Hate the Batter Name and the New County Will be Named Saluda. The convention yesterday was more like a campaign meeting of '90 or 92 tbao an assemblage of law-makers. Senator . R Tiliman was at bis best as a baraogaer of tbe bitterest, most sarcastic character. George D. Till man also took a hand, and that he has lost none of the fire and energy for which he was famed twsoty years ago, his speech was abaodaot proof. Senator Irby shoved himself io a new light and his speech created a great sensation among the Reformers The State7s report of the most sensational part of the proceedings was as follows : There were scene- enacted thr e that those who witoessed them will never forget; words were ottered by impas sioned men that nothing can ever wipe from the pages of South Carolina's his tory. The T?rm an brothers were par ticularly severe upon one another. "Uncle" George blue eyes, as true as tbe man himself, Sashed forth the fire he felt, and his massive bosom rose and fell with the regularity of a heavy sea, indicating clearly the tumult rag- j ing within his breast Ben's single ?r wo eye seemed to become black and it gleamed with a fire greater than ever noted in any of the beated wars of | words in which he has been engaged from time ta time. Talbert got very angry several times, bat kept his head better than uios? men. Irby's face was first red and then became pale as a sheet as he warmed to his work. Ooe single word?**Batler"?was the cause of the whole explosion and the flow of dynamite-charged verbal darts that were fired thick and fast. ? All onlookers and listeners were labor ing ander a tmbdued excitement all tbe time, not knowing what tbe next mo ment would bring forth. The whole thing came from George D. Tollman's speech in regard to the establishment of Bailer county and the action of the convention in so estab lishing and naming tbe county in the absence of Senator Tilimao. The Sen ator was never more bitter, perhaps, in his whole career. Things that he said of Gen Butler were rojgh in the ex treme and be did not mince words in speaking of his elder brother. His whole frame as he spoke seemed to quiver with passion. Irby, too, spoke with more energy and passion than he ! has ever yet been known to display. Right in the midst of George Tili man 's most forcible speech a little gol j deo-haired page rao up to him with an immense and particularly beautiful : bouquet of flowers and laid it on his ' desk. Io a short time aoother page laid one very mach like it ou Sanator Till man's desk. It was a battle of per sonalities iodulged in by four members i of tbe EJgeSeld "delegation of giants" ? and Senator Irby as the leading fig ures Several rimes other delegates tried ! their best to puta stop to the sensational proceedings;bat all such attempts failed. : Tbe first week's record of the absence i of political matters from the convention was knocked into a cocked hat inside of three minutes. As a final result the ?ame of "Butler" has been taken from the new county and the name of Saluda j has been substituted therefor. During the sever*! hours that all this continued tbe galleries were filled with spectators whose n.rves were strained to rbe very highest pitch. The door keeper of tbe lower floor had the great , est difficulty in keeping back tbe mass of people who straggled for positions in I the lobby, where they could get a ?limpse of the speakers aod hear what: was being said. Inside the hall were many military officers, all clad in full | dress uniforms. Bat the story of tbe day is fully told below and from it may be gathered a very complete under standing of what took place. When tbe special order establishing Butler county was called up for its j third reading Senator Tiliman, looking more or tees excited, rose and said be desired to ask the consent of the con vention. under the rules allowing j amendvientt? by consent of the major ity, to make an ameudmeut to the or- : dinance, so as to change the name, leaving it as it was He had done this : after consultation with the members of several committees, who had come here in regard to the matter It baa become known, though it was : not expected because of the peculiar po- ; aition Senator Tiliman occupied in the ' matter, that be wouid make an effort to have the name of Butler couuty left, out and that of Saluda substituted, and every one realized that there was an j exciting time ahead. No sooner had Senator Tiliman made his request than "Uncle George" Tili man, who had been the cause of the name of Butler being applied, rose in bis seat and in rather a husky voice, naid : "f would like to hear the gentle man give some reasons for this desired change, ?surely this convention will not do ooe thing to-day and undo it to morrow without some just reasons for euch a course.'' There was more or less excitement about the hall and the president rapped for order He pur the request ro the house whil- ihis hubbut? wa?. going on and announced that the request way granted. A division and the ayes and noes were called for simultaneously. Mr. Jones then got tbe floor end made the poiot of order that the paper should be read first and then be sub mitted to rhe house for its considera tion. This was dooe and all sat down while the clerk read the ordinance j through. When tbis was over Senator Tillman j again rose and walked up the aisle a short way. He looked considerably ex- j cited and bis eye was flashing fire. He j said : "As my colleague on the left has ; asked for my reasons for desiring this j change of name, I will give them to him and to the members of this conven tion." Just here Mr. W. D. Evans asked to be allowed to interrupt for a moment, and he thereupon obtained the privi leges of the floor for the military officers present. Senator Tillman proceeded then : "Now I will cheerfully give my expia nation as to my reasons for desiring this change to you and to this conven? ? tion." It so happened, he said, that this matter was brought up and rushed ! through, no doubt owing in large meas- : ore to the eloqueoce of bis colleague on Saturday while he was absent. He had a daughter who some five weeks ago ; went to Georgia on a visit While there she bad been violently ill. She bad sufficiently recovered to be able to i return home and was expected to ar rive there oa Saturday. Like any other father he wanted to be at bometo meet her upon her arrival, "and (with deliberation) it is perhaps fortunate that I was not here, for from what I read in ' the papers as to the speech made on.] this floor, and what I have heard from gentlemen since my arrival as to it, I might have be<-u unable to discuss the matter in cold blood.'; Now, however, he could discuss the matter deliber- ! ately, from the standpoint of reason. There are reasons of a twofold char- ; acter why I would pray God to be de livered from the task, but whenever duty calls me I have answered to the call. It cannot be said that I bave yet ; shirked any duty or remained quite under such circumstances. I have therefore risen, to do justice to the living and to the dead." Three-fourths of the people of me sectioo composing the new county wanted the name of Saluda; they had always wanted that county and spoken of it as Saluda | county. And they wanted the right to j name it as they wished to name it. He i hoped that in the discussion of such a matter he was able to rise above preju- ; dice. He had desired that al! preju- i dice be eliminated from this convention. His disinclination to accept the name of Butler was bocause be wanted the peo ple to have their right, in the matter, Some had said that it was because he j was opposed to giving the county the name of that man Butler. Well, that was true, but that was not the greatest j reason. Already the news had been flashed far and wide that the Reform Convention of South Carolioa had sat ; down upon tbe Reform Legislature of | South Carolina, which repudiated But- ; 1er and elected him to the Senate. They tell you to leave out M C. Butler in naming the county; you cannot divorce the name from M. C. Butler, and it will be heralded from one end of Souih Carolina and this country to the other : that you have repudiated your Legisla- | ture. M. C. Butler is the only liv ing representative of that name, j Why can't we afford to cbaoge it back to what it was when ; the ordinance appeared. Talk about ? names of families. Why have you no 1 counties named for your illustrious Hayne, McDuSe, Ramlin aud others? I say that this last representative of the oame of Butler has disgraced it. You will ask bow, why and when ? I j wiil tell you. We are told that preju dice rose against him because be could not give office to the horde that followed ; him begging for patronage like bounds ! after a rabbit. You know whether that I is true or not. You have been told, too, : that it will be a long time ere this State ! will bs represented by his superior, and ' that there was fear that it would be a ! long time before this State would have even his equal there I cao take that ! stab coming from whence it does with out a word I don't blow my horn. I ! only know this, thzz I have met all my 1 opponents who have fought me as bit- : terly as mau ever was fought on the 1 stump aud everywhere that I have been called upon to face them, aud the peo-! pie have expressed their verdict. I can afford to pass by in contempt any com- ! parisons. As to my friend ou tbe rigbt, by his vote on Saturday, I can only say that he seems to have pleaded guilty of the 1 charge of inferiority to tbis person. I here assert that to-day M.C.Butler, canoot get one hundred votes in his : county for anything that he might de- ; sire. Who would dare dispute it? So much for that; be now wished to do justice to the dead. The assertion had been made that Mart Gary died resting under a cloud as great as that under which Butler now rests, ile wished to deny that and say that it was not true. He wished to say that it was a cloud of slander and abuse by his enemies that, caused Mart Gary to die a broken-hearted man. lie was, perhaps, the only iiviug man who could bear witness to the fact that Mart Gary never was tainted with indepen dentism iu auy form. Mart Gary had been hounded down and persecuted by his enemies, Hampton and the rest ol them, as be himself had been bouoded I by enemies of every type. j When Gen. Gary was running for j i Governor be happened to be in tbe ! J county. He beard the charges that j ; Gary's enemies were sprending that he would become an independent candi date if he could not control the conven tion. He sat down and wrote to Gary and told him that he ought to stamp it at once. He went as a delegate to the county convention. He and Gary were warm personal friends. He asked Gary bow he was going to act about those statements. Gary told him there lay his speech. He read it and saw where there was what some might transform into a loophole for a scheming politician to slip through He called it to Gary's attentiou, and Gary told bim to change it. Gary said : I intend to make that speech and [ mean to have it say that I don't ioteod to play traitor to the Democratic party." Then he charged that Gary came on to the convention and went before and ?bey took soap judgment upon him and nominated Hagood and we all bad to eubmit. No ooe could say that Gary was accused of iodepetideotism by any save bis ene mies. Geeorge Tiliman (in a trembling voice)?Did you ever hear of the letter be wrote to Gen. Cash. Senator Tiliman, in a very much ex cited manner, stated that he had heard of tbe letter, but added that it had had no reference to Gen. Gary's alleged in dependeotism and was not published till after Gary's death. Now, said Senator Tiliman, just a few more words. After Butler was de feated did be submit. No. He had been told that Butler went out and or ganized a movement, of which Pope was the leader?an independent move ment. He applied all kinds of epithets to us m interviews and did macy other things of like character it appeared, too, that Butler had iuspired Goff in his decision, that he was at the bottom of that effort to turn loose the horde of negro voters. There were no other But lers to be known in this matter. Mart Gary was the real hero of '76. I'll give you an illustration of his worth in com parison with this man Butler. He then i toid an incident of the election in < EJge?eld in '76 The red shirts had massed their men. It had been agreed with the government officials that there should be separate boxes for the negroes and tbe whites to vote in to keep dowu friction and lessen tbe pro bability of clashes. They wanted 6rst a division of time. Gary, who had charge of the organization, would give no such division. When the long pro cession came along Butler went ahead, and the traitor who led the other side went to Butler and asked him to lead the procession around the place where they all were. Gen. Butler agreed to it. Gary soon came along and the same man stopped him and told bim that he and Butler had agreed to hare the procession pass arouod the place. What did Gary say ? He said: "Get: out. of the way, you damn scoundrel, ! this is public property and we will go ? where we please." (Just here the con- j vention broke forth in applause?the first of the session.) Later on the red i shirts were packed in the courthouse so ; tight a flea could not get between them. The carpetbag side went to the officer j and told him and the officer came to ; Gary and said he would have to make his men sive way. The old Bald Kagie said : "I won't do it." That was the ! turning point of the battle, for which Hampton got all the credit and Butler j all tire reward. Will you further re- j ward this traitor, because of his an- : cestors? If Benedict Arnold had an ? illustrious grandfather or greatgrand- j father, is that any reason why his ? name should be honored ? You are told j that tbe clouds now resting over But- j 1er will roll by ; that they are the re- ? suit of a wave of prejudice. They say to you that reason will resume its sway \ Ah, I fear this mau's record will not be so cleared. If I have spoken with too [ much fervor I could not help i?. I have ? tried faithfully and honestly to bring about peace and harmony and have ' this convention's proceedings tainted with nothing partisan in character, but the Conservatives have drawn the line here. Look at the vote on this Butler county matter. They voted solidly. It; is they that have drawn it Let's blot out the line now. Give these people of' Saluda what they want. If you give us the point of the sword we will give you the point of tbe sword Butler was, j he was told, pursuing him still to keep j htm from getting his seat in the Senate, i No other Butler but this one was ! knowc outside of South Carolina. To j name tbe county Butler is to slap the j Legislature in the face. There was no ! prejudice against Butler ; it was a righteous indignation against Butler's course that was bringing down the wrath of tbe people upon bis bead. If you now offer us the olive branch in this matter we stand ready to accept ' it Now, sir, I move that the word BiUler be stricken cut and that of Sa luda inserted wherever it occurs in the ordioance. As Tiliman ceased speaking every one seemed to be holding his breath I wondering what would happen next, j But, although any kind of a surprise ' was expected, no one wa? prepared for the real shock that came. Senator Irby, the mfin who has perhaps done more for Tiliman than any man in the State, rose with gre;it deliberation. His face was very much flushed at first, but soon he become very pale as he warmed to his work of handling Sena or Tiliman. He then sp-.ke as follows ; Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen -"?f the convention : I regret that, it is necessary tOFtjpW extent to hsveJ.-o:>..y hing t >;?y io fms most unfortunate debate ? lis I tened with great- attention to tbe able j speech from my able friend from Edge field, and if he had nor. seen fit in mak ing hi1* argument to criticise my silence on Saturday I. sir. would not stoop to 1 engage io tnis debate It is too small I a matter, too petty a matter, Mr Presi-' dent, for members of the great Con stitutional Cooveotioo of South Carotica ; at its very threshhold to inject partisan j feeling. It was all very nice Mr. Pres ident, for him, after arraying tbe Re- ! formers against ' the Conservatives, in: order to split us to pieces in one of the j most bitter speeches he ever made, to j appeal for peace. I have never joined i with politicians of this Sta^e in crying I peace. All that was mere pretence to | gain office. But the election is over. We are here as the representatives of the people. We, above all people in tbe world, should have peace and harmony. The gentleman dares to criti-1 eise me because I dared to exercise the j the right of a member to vote as I pleas ed. I did not intend it ae a special compliment to M. C. Butler, but I throw it back in his teeth that nothiog M. C. Butler may do will ever disgrace tbe name of Butler in South Carolina. It will live (facing Senator Tillman and shaking his finger at him) when you are dead and forgotten. (Loud ap- | placse ) I am not the champion of Mr. Butler. I have fought him as earnestly as aoy man and no man in this State had more to do wiith his defeat than I \ did. Gen. Butler went dowD. l?e was guilty of an indiscretioo. He was ignominiously defeated by you sir, (turn ing to Senator TiHman) and you should have had magnanimity enough to let this man pass andl not follow him into this convention We are not here as tbe adherents of aoy man. So help me God, I will not vote for aoy law that wi'l not fit both factions in this State. (Applause ) I dare to remind him (facing Senator Tillman), and say to you, sir, and hope you will never forget it, for the people never will, that M. C. Butler is as good a man as Joseph W. Barn well. You say Butler disgraced himself. Where does Barnwell stand 1 lie was the first man in this State to oppose the will of the people and he had courage enough to run on the Haskell ticket. Has he disgraced his name ? No sir, he may li3ve disgraced himself, but never tbe name of Bamwell. But he is not such an objectionable character. l?e was good enough to enter into a written contract that would have defeated the will of a great ma jority of the people. My friend signed this contract with Mr Barn well and had it been carried out would have meant ruin to South Carolina. It comes with ill grace from a man who makes a contract with an independent to say that any n?an who voted for Butler county disgraced himself?to tell me I <??s?. graced myself Will you allow me modestly to 'say that I have had something to do with the organization of the Reform movement in South Caroli na ? I thank God thai I have al ways voted and acted for what I thought was the best interests of the people of South Carolina. I will challenge him to say if there is a man iti this State that has done more for him personally and politically than I, atid yet he dares, after going home to meet his daughter, to reprimand me. I thought he went to see a sick daughter. Why didn't he stay here, Mr. President, and answer that speech on Saturday ? As for myself, I took no offense at the re mark of the distinguished gentle man from Edgei?eld ( G. D. Tillman) that it would be a long time before Butler's equal would be in the Sen ate. Mr G. D. Tillman : Allow me to say what I said on Saturday. I said : "I pray God that South Caro lina may always have in the United States Senate Butler's equal iu abil ity, eloquence, honesty and influ ence, but I was afraid it would be a long time before she would have one who was his superior or his equal." I repeat it now. This last was with a wav^ of his hand. Mr. Irby: That is the way I U:;.L. stood it. I have too much modesty to join issue on a question of that sort I am sorry my friend from Edgefield did not have sufficient modesty to accept the speech in the right spirit We stand upon our merits and we have no right o sav we are smarter than this or that man, for that is for the people of South Carol ina to say and not for us I saw nothing that I could have any right to reply to in the gentleman's speech. I sincerely regret that the great leader of the people of South Carolina should so far forget himself at the very threshold of this convention's session, when it is pre-eminently necessary that we should meet as brother Carolinians, that he should undertake to pop his whip ., my j head. I proudly acknowledge that 1 voted for Butler county and take great ? pleasure in standing to my original ' vote. "Uncle George" Tillman use. He looked a little palo a and somewhat ex cited, nat, to say a little angry. At first lie spoke with great calmness aud deliberation. When he warmed to his work, however, his manner became ironical, his face beeomc pale and some of bis utterances wen- delivered in his most sarcastic and impressive manner. He said the people wanted this county. They had been petitioning for if as far j back as he could remember. The first j communication he had ever written in ; his life was a petition asking for the j formation of Butler county. In all the petitions that had been presented the name of Butler had always appeared He never koew of petitions for Saluda county until now. He had always been the pet of that section because he bad always championed tbe Butler county scheme since he was 21 years of age. It. ill become his colleague from Edge field (has brother) after havmg defeated Gen. Butler and baviog dispossessed , bim of bis office, to assail a man who was down. It was not manly, mag nanimous or brave. Doubly was tbia so for him to etrike here where be could mot defend himself. Siappiog hie own breast with great j force and displaying great earnestness, ? he proceeded : "This breast never would have done either of those things." j Mr. Tiliman then referred to '76 and went on to speak of Gen. Mart Gary, i saying : "My God, tbe man is not liv- 1 ing nor is he dead that has ever had a better or more exalted opinion of ! Mart Gary than myself. We had a ! large mass meeting in Edgefield the day after his death to pass suitable i resolutions in regard to it. I drew | them up and made a speech in which I said that Gary had done more to re- i deem tbe State io '76 than any single man in it. Hampton not exceDted. I I said so then and I say so yet. ^The in- ! gratitude of the politicians and tbe i manner in which he was treated broke ! his heart. I don't mean to cast any reflections upon his family, but he left a large estate, yet his grave. I am told, I is there now without a stone of any ; sort to mark it, all covered with grass. , (Mr. Tillman's manner was extremely touching here.) On Saturday I said? for he wu.s my friend?that 1 tried hard to have a marble mooument erected to him on the public square at Edge ; field, with a bald eagle on top, io di - : eating the type of man be was. Other schemes for perpetuating his memory were also tried, as were also ! many schemes to raise the money oeces- i , sary, but we found we bad to abandon i them all till tbe prejudice on account of the Cash letter and some other things : he had done had subsided.. He was ; born sick, lived sick and died sick, yet performed all the duties of the highest type of citizen. The same prejudice that now exists against Butler, pre-! vailed against him I for ODe am will- ' ing to erect monuments to both him and Botler by calling counties for them. But there were other Butlers besides M. C. Butler. I repeat he is a splendid ? I man, a man of great ability, a born 1 I orator. He bas acquired a national in- i I fluence which it took years of arduous | and distinguished service to acquire; it j ; was work to make friends and divide j ! our enemies. He is a diplomatist of | ! the first rank. I fear that the Con- : gres-men from South Ca. jlina will find out that it wont pay to spit against the 1 wind, for that is spitting in their own faces. We are in a hopeless minority in Washington, and it wo'i't do to go j there and talk about using pitchforks on people. We are not a free people. ! It won't surprise me in the leas: if the doors of Congress are closed on the South Carolina Congressman and its ; junior Senator. Hon Jaspe: Talhert also made a j speech that, was a? strong as he knew how to make it, and the oassage of! words between him and George D. Tili man became so excited that President Evans called to the Sergeant-at-Arms t_ call them to order. Mr. R. I> Watson. Senator from j Edge?eld, ?f.r-ed up a hornet's nest in his remarks concerning George D. Til 1 i man. who responded with hot shot. The matter was finally concluded by a vote on the ? substitution of tbe name Saluda for that of Butler. The name Saluda was adopted by a vote of 80 to ; 54. : The Convention Tuesday. ? Special to The Daily item ; Columbia, S. C, Sept. 17, 2.25 P. M.? The debate on yesterday so excited the Cori- j vention that it was forgotten to provide ft journal for to-day, so that there was nothing to do to-day but receive new resolutions and ordinances, und the Convention was in ses sion less than an hour. The ordinances of- i fered were *s follows : By Clayton : To preven: the hiring ont or convicts. By Henderson : To enable the State to borrow money, so us to put all county affairs on a c>??h brisis. By Whartoa : To pension Confederate sol diers and widows of same. By Buist : To prevent the State, counties or municipalities loaning credit for tbe sup-j port ot institutions. By W. B. Wilson: Saffrage plan embrac ing the S-box law. By Clayton : Remodelling the judicial system. F. H. McMasteb. -Mj- ?.*..?-?. M ? Free Fills. Send your a<l<lre$s ri It. E. l?ucklcn ? Co., Chicago, and get a tree sample box of Dr. I King's Xew Life Pills. A trial will convinco ? yon m? r??eir merit.*. These puis are easy in ; notion rind are particularly effective in tbe cure j ol Constipation and Sick Headache. For .Va- : , aria and Liver troubles they have been proved ! invaluabie. They are guaranteed to be per? tectly tree frota every deleterious substance an<i t-i be purely vegetable. They do n??t weaken by their action, but by giving tone to the st'.'tuaeb and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Regular size 25c. ? er box. Solp l>v J. F. W. DeLorme, Druggist I Mrs. R was very sorry that the clergyman j of !u*r parish had been compelled to leave. "You see/'she said, ''the poor man fell ol? his nicycle, a::.l :us doctor has told him that for #0:11*? 'ime he must try an incumbent po sition. So he his gone away tor another 1 cure "?Punch. 30 per box. Fine paper at 35 cts, 40 eta 1 45ct<*. 5 lets, 55cts, ?Octs, 65c*s, 70cts, "Sets , r?r box it 9. G. Osteen Co. THE COTTON PICKERS WIN. The Strike Ended and Forty Cents is the Price?Other News Items. Wedgefield, September 13. The strikers reached their goal to-day, the two or three farmers holding out for 30c having cone to 40. We would be more thao jrUd to know that this serious matter has ended for all time to come. However, cotton picking ie pursuing the even tenor of its way now and everything and everywhere seems full of peace and harmony. Our worthy Railroad Agent and Operator, Mr. J. W. Lane has been given the agency at bis home in North Carolina, which ?9 quite a promotion and Mr. T. M. Gilcbriet, of Mar ion, succeeds him. Mr. Gilchrist has already gained completely the confidence and best wishes of our people by his courteous man ners and accommodating disposition. LAMAR LOCALS. The Tobacco Warehouse Hearing Completion?Personal Items, Lamab, S, C, Sept. 16, 1895.?The con tractors are working away on the Tobacco Warehouse. Tbey think they will have it ready for use io a short while. Mr. A. J. A. Perritt will leave here this morning for Columbia to atteud the Cocstitu tiooal Convention. He came home Fridav. Mrs. Amanda Carter, of Cheraw is visiting her brother, Mr. T. F. Wileon. Rev. J. L. Tillman returned to Sumter this morning. Privateer Personals pRiYATEEa Township, S. C, Sept. 17, '95. Mr. Carl McKinley, a gentleman of scholar ly attainments and the author of a well known work entitled "An Appeal to Pharaoh," is kIso the author of another work entitled "A Descriptive Narrative of the Earthquake of August 31, 1886," which was published in i:he Charleston year Book for that year. This "narrative" coders upwards of a hundred pages, is handsomely illustrated and is a work of great value, both as a contribution to history and geology, it gives a brief account of the earthquake in our township, which account was condensed from the Netcs and Courier and written by .Mr. S. W. Dabbs. Our reason for mentioning Mr. McKinley'? invaluable work is to show our Privateer friends that an account of one of the most important events in the history of Privateer Township, has been well preserved in a permanent form. Mr. Hiott assisted the Rev. Mr. Morali in a meeting last week at Foreston. Mr. Edgar Hiott went with his fatber. It is probably not often that we tied one of the masculine gender named in honor of une of the opposite sex. Privateer, however, bas an ics'.?nce of the kind. Mr. Edgar Hiott's middle name is Whilden, given in honor of the well known female missionary to China, Miss Lula Whilden?a lady that any one could well feel proud to be named in honor of. 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