Show MR LAFFAN i Mr 1 LatTan who died on Sunday Sunda last had ii owned the Sun since Dana died He Hc was born in Dublin Ireland in 1848 lIe He was i educated in Dublin university and took a I If 1 f course at St. St Cecelia's school o of medicine 0 rSS When his education was Wi finished he lie became artist to the thc t pathological ical soci society t of or Dublin H Hr r came came to America shortly after He was married in Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore Balti Balti- more to a Miss l Radcliffe in 1872 It seems he lie was managing editor of the San Francisco Bulletin in 1876 then he became editor and half owner of the Baltimore Daily Bulletin Ho lIe went on the Sun in 1877 as a general writer Ho Ic was the art editor of Harper Bros in 1881 1882 and 1883 He TIc was wa elected publisher of the Sun in 1884 In 1900 IDOO he lie purchased the time interests of the time estate of Charles A A. A Dana in the Sun Printing and Publishing association Lion tion and bv b tAhle the president and controlled all the papers published b by the Sun Publishing company com UI pan pall up to the tire time of his death lIe He was known a aJ a famous caustic satirist It will be very hard to fill his place on the tire Sun I liin Lia picture shows r-hows a strong but cruel face He lie is is I the tire one ti tL l in an editorial on candidates for or tie lie e presidency said One of th tin candidates is a gen gen- tiernan Hernan but not a politician Another is a politician ln but no a gentleman and the th remaining candidate i neither a g gentleman nor a politician President Roosevelt made an attack upon the time Sun in regard to the Panama canal purchase and antI andin in iu reply Mr lr Laffan among other things said The editor of the Sun declines a a. controversy with Mr Ir Roosevelt He lIe is by no means indifferent to tc the implied compliment discernible in Mr Roosevelt's tirade but Mr Roosevelt has shown in his frequent collisions with various persons of distinction distinction dis dis- dis- dis that he has an overwhelming advantage over any respectable antagonist in his Mr 11 Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's complete freedom freedon from any sense sensa of personal personal personal per per- obligation in respect of the truth The Sun will be he better and worse through his i loss It will be a more human newspaper but it j jwill will vill lack a great deal that a great grent rent man many readers love lo to see In his career he seemed to carr carry carryout carryout out ant the time old story of the time Irish editor who in a controversy controversy con con- ers tro with a contemporary wrote an article and passed passed it to a friend for his Jis opinion Time The friend read it and found it simply a tirade against the time rival editors editor's s 's mother altogether shameful But But said the friend do you yon know this lady Divil a bit but if her son has the time spirit of a man in iii him when lie he reads that it will cut ent him to the time quick |