St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
Some of Ohicagos Citizens Whose Life is
Spent in Seeking Public
Applause.
Garter Harrison Stands at the Head Of the
List with Emory A. Storrs a
Good Second.
The High Monetary Value of the
Mayors Character--Storrs' EX-
qutsite Dilettante1sm.
How Divorces Are Ground Out by
Wholesale on Any Grounds to
All Applicants.
A Valuable Character.

Correspondence of the Globe.
CHICAGO, May 7.-Mayor Harrison's
damage suits for $500, 900 against the Chi
cago Inter Ocean and Edwin Lee Brown
still create considerable comment Many
people do not hesitate to express the opin-
ion that the mayor has placed a
rather steep estimate of the value
of these qualities in fixing his dam
that sum is only S75 900 less than the value
of the Chicago Times was appraised to be.
1t may be that Mr.. A. S. Trude that astute
and successful lawyer upon whose advice
and encouragement it is Shrewdly
limited the mayor acted, fixed the
estimate himself. Mr.. Trude has no
superior as all adept in gauging the money
value of a mans reputation. He said that
the Chicago Tribune had damaged j.
Appleton Wilson's character to the extent
of a couple of hundred dollars, and accept
ing the able counsellOr's appraisement the
jury returned verdict for $3.50. Mr..
Trude was the attorney for the defense in
that case and it makes no little difference on
what side a lawyer derives his retainer. 1t
is not too much to surmiSe that had he been
employed by Wilson he would have held
that his character was worth 100000 the
sum he asked, and by the same reasoning if
retained by the InterOcean and Edwin Lee
Brown he would probably maintain that
MIR. HARRIsON's REPUTATIo
has been deprecated by the many assaults
made upon it until it is not worth one cent.
A lawyer can look at question accord
ing to its merits. If Mayor Harri-
son should recover anything in his suits
h 49,, aIr of no
press which will be severely felt. No con-
sentative man believes that reckless and
unfounded statements involving the honor
and character Of private citizen are justl-
able, but the most conservative do not re-
gard newspaper structures upon public
persons, it matters not how
severe they are, as nwarranted
in free press. In arTaying himself against
the liberty of the press therefore the mayor
only prOvokes the ridicule of his enemies,
and even his friends. 1t is enhanced by
the knowledge that many worse things
public speakers in his several terms as
mayor to which he has taken no exception.
IF POLITICIANS ARE GOING
into the business of suing newspapers Pre-
mier Gladstone will have his hands full on
the other side, where the press is a muzzled
dog with government license. The mayor
declares he is ''going into the business" of
suing newspapers and affirms that he will
regulate" them. The next week will
probably see proceedings begun against the
Tribune, the Times and the News and there
are many inquirerS anxious to know if the
mayor thinks the Inter Ocean said $500, 600
worth of hard things about him. at how
much he will gauge the cOndemnatOnS OF
that great apostle of light and mOralityt the
Hon. Joseph Medill.
When this great and good man assembled
the stand in the suit of Wilson against his
paper, and affixed his ebony audiphOne to
his auricular organ
A MURMUR OF ADMIRATION
traversed the crowded court room,s and an
almost universally simultaneous surprise
was manifested at his extraordinary like
ness to the saint whose surname his spon-
sor gave him. When he proceeded to tell
how very discreet, prudent and careful his
paper was to secure reliable and
truthful reports of current happenings there
was scarcely dry eye in the audience.
There was one [ remember-the eye of a
juror which had been obliterated in a rail
road accident. If the citizens of Chicago
are anxious to have the Tribune sued it is
for the sole purpose of fiocking to the trial
to witness the great grief OF the Hon. Joseph
Medill and to hear his pathetic disclaimer of
any malice against the Hon. Carter Har-
rison. Mr.. Medill will be unable to conceal
his Joy, imagine, should the mayor carry
out his threat and
APPLY THE REGULATING PROCESS
to the Daily News. This paper has lost no
opportunity of haunting the great editor
since it disagreed with Col. Medill upon the
subject of presidential nominee. Mel
vile E. Stone was one of EX-President Ar
thurs staunchest supporters. He believed
that he would be renominated, and
even up to the last ballot.
when Mr. Blaine captured the apple which
subsequently turned out to be a very sour
one for the man from Maine, MI. Stone for
got his Christian training and recklessly
hazarded a S. bill to 81 that Arthur would
get there. AS Mr.. Medill earnestly sup
ported Mr.. Blaine gulf as wide as Lake
Michigan separated the two editors. 1t
widened to illimitable breadth when Stone
repudiated Blaine and supported Mr.. Cleve-
land. There is nothing too bitter for Mr..
Medill to say of the enterprising paper to
which he cOvertly refers as "a morning
sheet" A large share of the good mans
venom dates from the time when the Daily
News played the Matthew Arnold hoax
Oh its esteemed contemporary.
A VALUABLE CITIZEN.
I don't know what Chicago would
do without Emory A. Storrs. He
is called great lawyer, and steel engrav-
ing and biographical sketch of him, both
paid for, appear in the Bench and Bar of
Chicago" Apart from lending his name
and day or two of desultory presence to
one or two criminal cases, | don't believe he
has been in a law court in Chicago in the
last two years. He is an orator and some
thing of a lobbyist and politician. In this
treble capacity he has been giving half his
time to the cattle syndicate. The other
half is devoted to appearing in public as the
orator of the day or evening. There has
not been an event of any Importance within
the last decade that Emory Storrs was not
announced.
HE HAS ONLY ONE RIVAL
and that is Mayor Harrison. Storrs places
a high money figure on his oratOry and the
mayor trades his off for popularity and
votes, StorrS' income from his several
sources Of revenue is not less than $40, 600
a year, yet he spends it all and has nothing
left. He leads the life of gentleman
of elegant ease if not leisure.
He has a suite of handsome rooms at the
Leland, and dimes half the time at Kins-
ley's. AtOne time he drank very heavily,
but he has given that up. 1 don't think he
touches anything stronger now than cham
payne He smokes so cent cigars and has
necktie for every three OF four hours
He is fond of pictures and bric-a-brac and
his law office on Washington street is one
of
THE FINEST AND HANDSOMEST
in the city. There are two other men who
perhaps have costlier-furnished apartments,
but they are not lawyers. One is C. III.
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