Great S.carolinians; Tribute:spot Mozingo

9:30 NEWSROOM will not be presented live tonight in order to bring you the following special program. For 10:00 this morning. Senator James spotless Ingo died at Richland a Memorial Hospital. He was 59 years old. The following program as a tribute to the senator and to the man. I'm John Billington. Throughout this day there have been other tributes to the senator from across the state senator meringue recit said today and his Ingo was an influential and powerful senator. The Senate on the state has lost a very capable senator. And in addition the state has lost one of the best trial lawyers in its history. Personally I have lost a very dear friend. In his 34 years in the South Carolina senate Vespers Ingo made many friends in that body and one of them as a former senator now

Governor Johnson of West South Carolina suffered a great loss today with the passing of Senator James FEMA's Ingo. I'm known spot and worked with him closely over the last 20 years. We often tried cases together occasionally on all the sides and I worked very closely with him. In our years together in state government he was a most unusual and tremendously talented person. I first came to know him as a practicing attorney and I learned a great deal about the practice of law from Spock. He was most careful for a pair of cases that I've ever seen. And he had the quickest wit and the quickest ability to respond in the courtroom of any practicing lawyer that I've ever seen these tremendous talent won him recognition not just in South Carolina but throughout the United

States and even the world as one of the outstanding lawyers of all time. These same talents this same ability was utilized very effectively in his more than 30 years of service to the state of South Carolina in the General Assembly served 33 years in the Senate three years in the House of Representatives. During this time he made major contributions to our state and to the progress that Al Speight has enjoyed for the last decade no major piece of legislation dealing with education was planted without spots imprint on it. I particularly remember with gratitude he has helped just in the last station of the journalist simply in passing the conference comprehensive community college bill which I think is one of the most farsighted pieces of legislation about

Spot must go will be missed. Those of us who appreciate it is ready with his jovial that attitude will always have a sense of appreciation. But what he meant to us personally and what he meant to South Carolina and I'm sure that his many friends and admirers throughout the state. Join me tonight in tending to Mrs. muzzling go and members of his family. Our deepest sympathy. Many South Carolinians knew Senator MS Ingo was a part of the inner circle of senators that were the moving force in the Senate. The group has been called the state's most exclusive club. Despite a heart ailment sedum is Ingo has continued to serve in the Senate as one of its most powerful members as well as being one of its most colorful orators for the second time in his career. He suffered a major defeat at the polls as he sought re-election to the Senate and this year's Democratic primary against Edwards.

Had Senator MS Ingo won re-election. He would have been second on the state's seniority list. His political career began at the age of 22 when he was elected to the State House of Representatives. Those early years were the topic of many stories that Ms Ingo would tell his friends for many years to come. I came home one. Really two things but. $400 also attract the gold I was going to. Try to work your way through. It was an attraction too so I came home and ran for the legislature. Twenty years old course I was 21. Then I went to when I was 24 years old.

And was of course like everybody fascinated. I guess. You get out of public service if you created that way and I think most people really do feel that way. I remember when I first went to the legislature amusing thing happen to me I was there but first. We call him Joe. And I was a candidate.

For the world. When spotless Ingo came to the state house he would stay there for almost four decades. During those years he took a hand in shaping the policies of the state that would result in a stronger financial foundation and substantial increases in the quality of education in his home county of Darlington he helped bring in Endace trees and establish technical education facilities. He also helped the private citizen in a very personal way. No problem was too small for him. And even though a popular country music group that

their start from some of them is Ingo when they were unable to find work elsewhere. This was the kind of man that people in Darlington County came to respect and love. It was in August of 1071 that they officially showed their respect during spot in a single day at the Darlington County Courthouse. We want you to hear. Good faith. To get you gone. And I.

Think most people think think think think it's funny. There is that inherent danger about speaking about sort of spot missing. If you attempt to be witty he will out with you if you attempt to be eloquent you will end up like the proverbial jackass at a horse show. If you try to polish an apple for me going to wind up with the seeds. And if you should try out a barbecue in your wound up doing a slow turn over a hot charcoal. In a word it's good to have him for him. It is good to Darlington County has

its good South Carolina has. Some on its out of him but he's more effective asleep than the vast majority of men are at the height of their wide awake greatest moment. It is never watched bottom Azango is doing is what he may and can do that keeps everyone in his right place. This I think has been his effectiveness. The very thought of crossing swords with the Master is enough to make a man begin to say spots feelings on any matter. The ability to get done what you want without shouting or even speaking sometimes is spot missing goes personal triumph. No one has a goal that you have tried. Without a veil I can try but undoubtedly will fail to communicate to those in his native home. The respect and the AU in which he is held. The Senate and the house know the president and I think that you know. On the rare occasions that he rises in the Senate

because he doesn't have to make his points that way. There is the height of anticipation. Everyone knows that many are going to enjoy it and some one is going to lose. And rarely has it been sparked. There are not many people with whom it is an anticipated pleasure to meet. Him and we can say simply good morning and be quoted on it and make news. He is the only man we can achieve the ends of good government not by doing anything but by merely standing firm in the position to do it. Something like the Aller gentle brother who will let you live as you see it until you start doing something wrong. He did more with the smile and the wisdom of humor than all the shouters have ever done with a thousand threats prothesis and screams. We all recall an occasion when a man holds a prominent position in the nation's capital.

Again to feel his muscle and decided to take on spot must go in Darlington County in the Prince amiable Tiger from Darlington purred up the Senate chamber. Well that he had happened to run across some material that put his opponent's argument in some doubt. When he was finished. His opponent was definitely through and one newsman wrote about this particular incident. It's only in horseshoes they ever count the leaners and this was the first time we ever saw a spot take a man to the cleaners. Thought of them Azango possesses certain deeply personal characteristics that any senator needs and needs to have in order to cope with the pressures and the buffeting of the doing. One of a working balance between humility and pride. Every human being needs a certain amount of personal pride. The son of particularly proud but not so that he cannot change his mind

or admit his mistakes. Not good Santa Domingo achieve his objective. If he were not firm on those occasions when his convictions tell him that he is right as a part of his working ballot Senator losing go depends a great deal on the sense of you know joking about joking about his own copula but taking nothing from his inherent dignity. History will honor this man while the human quality. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership of getting along with people and getting things done. Getting Things Done some time requires all the weapons from the Sunnah Torah Larssen persuasion and even a little head thumping some time here or there. All of these characteristics on a gift. I didn't John and I would like to say that I believe that every occupant of the Senate or responsibility as well as other public servants whether he be conservative or liberal or middle of the road had one profound duty to his county and

to his state to exert moral leadership. Let me in my remarks out of them as I go by quoting a philosophical statement that you shared with me some time ago and that is this. You thought a politician is one that concerns himself with the next election but a statesman is one that concerns himself about the next generation. As tributes come this dataset of them is Ingo many of them will come from those who have worked with the senator in the field of education in South Carolina. Through the years. Some of them a single kept the interest of state educators and students close to what. He worked on hundreds of bills that would improve the educational standards of the state. Now we are part of the new south in education and while I don't want to forget all the little things about the movie light in the Lavender Room in the attic of your soul about

those things and it furnishes a sort of gentility. But from the cool hard things in education we have made great strides we have set up these schools and they're going to provide people with jobs. We've got a fine educational system we were kept I guess in most United States really with the people of South Carolina been good about it. Knowing you would be surprised the people who didn't get the education of the very people that are demanding that their children get the best and I think they're wise to do it through a program to leave everything else and there's a basis of it. I just think it is a great step forward. I think what you people are doing on educational television. I'm proud to say that

about most every way I do it. We always without exception complimented the TV program South Carolina. I know it's been a pattern to look at and to come through with technical education. There's not many weeks and it gives you a real feeling of accomplishment to see all the youngsters growing up and you feel like they're going to get the best of life. You can phone. Is outlook toward the future you. Just S. of South Carolina South Carolina as a whole. I believe that one of the challenges that we have to continue in the field of education is we're going I want to see a place where everyone has a job. I want to see a place where people are not marching in the streets. I want to see a wound of the need for some of the time where

some of the conservative ideas of every man working for a living and earning his keep at the same time. I believe this is so well suited to that. We get so many god given things you know we're having these two highways meet here that are going to bring in a great many people from other places with the crossroads of the nation and with the crossroads of the time. And I have a lot of faith in America especially in this particular. Part of our community. Now I see a bright future that we all have together with education actually sought a place to play in the problems that are plaguing the people. We live in the greatest. Future far. In recent weeks. Senator amazing go talk about his hopes for education in South Carolina during and out of your letters home and Arlington.

I believe that in the field of education one of the things economic plate it's going to be important. I believe we're going to eventually go to the zoo. Now we may run it in corridors where certain people will get a vacation you know or different quarters. But I believe with the buildings we're going to have to utilize and with and. I believe we're going to have to go to that as an economic situation. We of course as you know we have put on a kindergarten program. And another thing that the public doesn't realize that of the schoolchildren in South Carolina. Or handicapped. That's a large figure. We have it having to do something about that provided for because they were not being educated in the public school and a great many of them will be in a special hole. But we've done a great job and ecology training teaches in that.

So I would say that in a field of elementary education we're going to try to provide age occasion for every girl and boy whether they're handicapped or whether they're a sound all what the situation is. So it can be the goal in South Carolina. They reach out to you to get an education. In a high school. I think that we can of course furnish that we've got to take schools to bridge that between the woods that don't want to go to college go ahead and get a job. Now what we need to do is with the private colleges maybe help them some way so that those people can continue their education and provide a college education and make it within the reach of every boy and girl in South Carolina. And one step further after you get all that education we need to provide them with a job in South Carolina where they can live and make a home game be happy in South Carolina grew up among us.

In late July of this year Senator Edgar Browne retired from the South Carolina senate and chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee. Today was one of the Senator Brown. And one of the men to come forward to praise the retiring senator was James Pimas Ingo. We have asked two associates of Senator missing go to join us here in the studio tonight in this tribute

with me are Senator Walter Bristow a 14 year veteran and a South Carolina senator served alongside Senator missing go and attorney Jack nettles of Florence with some of the missing girl work center Bristow let me ask you first of all for some idea of what it was like to work in the Senate of the state with a man like spotless. But of course when you think of sort of musing go on in spite of the fact that he did a tremendous amount of work in education and a tremendous amount of work on the Finance Committee. The most immediate impression and the most immediate recollection you have a man like that was his tremendous sense of Huma and his enormous wit of course. Governor West already referred to this but some of the things that I can remember for example and some of the stores that he used to tell about himself one time he had an opponent of the South Carolina Senate running against

him and his opponent was making some remarks about his lack of cinema's Ingles lack of attendance in the Senate. So an amazing go of course was on the stump answering him and his opponent had shown a picture of a seat at Darlington County to have incentives Ingo was to occupy and said Now what you have down there this time is being you're being represented by an empty seat. And it goes out of his Ingo's wit was was ready and it was also cutting and he came back with the reply that. But it's better than Darlington Canada be represented at times down in the South Carolina Senate with an empty seat then always with an empty head. Which would be the case if my opponent won the election because this type of wit was so cutting and so and yet so

spontaneous that. You always knew when you were in a debate with cinemas Ingo that you had to watch what you were doing. Not to give him an opportunity to come back at you with something like that because he was really he was had one of those ready wits. I mean a person that I've ever known to give you another example that I recall when they announced the construction of the barn oil plant we could keep calling it the bomb plant. Then when they had the atomic energy plant to be constructed in Bonn will send a brown you're brown as you know and from Barnwell and some of them is Ingo made their Manuel says. I knew when they split the atom that it would get his share. His remarks like that constantly made in the life in the Senate with him my great joy and a time of pleasure and his. His ideas in that regard always owned only a point to the point.

And helpful and minute ago Mr. Nettleton had the opportunity and said it was more as a lawyer I guess than you did. As a senator he was nationally acclaimed nationally known as a trial lawyer. Can you tell us a bit about the man as a lawyer. Well of course spot was a tremendous lawyer. Everybody in the legal profession knows that they may not know particularly some of the younger lawyers but spot was about the seventh president of what was then MCA which was a national association of claimants and compensation attorneys. Now the American Trial Lawyers he was a forerunner in their legal profession when I was fortunate enough to work with Senator Murray go and I appreciate the remarks you said when you introduced me but I've worked with Senators Ingo. He had the foresight and we were trying cases and we were using innovations for instance we were one of the first firms that really got into using the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

and we sort of cut our teeth on it and we were one of the first firms that really made extensive use of it but wasn't afraid to try something new in the legal field and in anyway and he always believed in his clients cases. And it was a long and hard work. When you see Spot make a speech it sounds Walter commented about his humor and that sort of thing but we saw him when he was working. I often thought that if Spot had not been a politician he really and truly would have been what he was a great lawyer but he would have been a tremendously great lawyer because his idea of service to his fellow man actually in a fed with his abilities and his devote his not his abilities so much but his actual devotion of time to his law practice and he would have been made a lot more money I'll guarantee you that someone said today that

sodomizing go. Was not so much a lawyer as it was a law school. Well. Consider that a few short years that I was with but I figured I got at least 20 years worth of experience by practicing with it. And as I said he believed in his case one case that we were in. He spent his own money over $5000 not counting the time involved trying to get this boy a verdict in a case weight loss but with paint. And this is the kind of father he was he was just a tremendous person treasure. Very much my association with Bob and I'll always remember spot fine senator best. What kind of an influence was was a senator on other senators who worked with him. Oh he was a tremendous influence. Just like Jack is said about his preparation of the law cases. Usually one senator was involved in something particularly in matters involving

education. He knew what he was talking about and since he based his opinions and his remarks on the facts you had to have a respect for his opinion. He also could wield a heavy hand in the Education Committee having been wielded. I think I can tell you that that's a fact he was a tremendous influence in the Senate. Did you ever have the opportunity or the misfortune is as some senators did to go up against him in a debate. Oh yes we were. We own opposite sides quite often the last time was in the connection with went to college not on the co-education I went to college which he proposed and I hope the majority of the senators gathered the day on that particular action. Gentlemen thank you for being with us. You have been watching a tribute to Senator James Pimas Ingo of Darlington. Who died this morning. And Columbia

we still miss him. Good night.