St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-26
Harrison's Law Office Will
Mourn for His Pres
enee.
Young Partner Elam Goes
About With a Brisk
Step,
But Partner Miller Keenly
Feels the Loss Of Benz
jamin.
The Backbone That the Man
Of Luck Pos
sesses.

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The faded old tin sign. with ''B. Har-
son" at the top and the names of the
other two partners in the law firm be-
low, is still nailed against the entrance
to one of the buildings opposite the
postoffice here, but that name on the
sign is about all the Harrison there has
been about the Office for several
months. In the comfortable suite of
four rooms, Young Partner Elam goes
about his increasing business with
brisk step and a freshs&ing of reflected
glory in his voice. He is unaffectedly
rejoiced that zone of our FIRM has
been chosen president. Old Partner
Miller takes it differently. In his back
room, lined with books from floor to
ceiling ON every side, he sits permeated
with gentle gloom and the essence of
law.
s'The general hasn't been here over
three or four times since he was NOM
mated" he says, half sadly. Il sup
pose that when he goes to Washington
the firm will be dissolved, but nothing
has been arranged yet. There has been
no time. This was the generals private
Office" he adds, leading visitor into
the sunny front room. "Fve moved my
desk in here now and shall use it this
winter. No. not for the odor of glory
about it, but for the sun. It's a warm,
nice room. Do you know, | think the
general will wish he was back in 1T
sometimes after he's III the White house;
it's such sunny, pleasant room. and
it's hard thing to leave the law when
one has been i'll it all his life"
The quiet, gentle old lawyer-he
really isn't old, but he has such an air
of ripened wisdom and patient courtesy
that it would seem violence to. nature
to call him Internationally sighed
a little at the thought of man being
compelled by unkind fate to lay down
the Joys and comforts of ''the law" for
the worry and trouble of being presi-
dent.
s'They will make it very hard for him
down there he continued. 'sfor awhile,
at any rate. They are beginning it
even now. and suppose there,ll be a
horde of them here every day. 1t won't
do them any good; they might better
stay away, for the general isn't man
to be influenced easily, and he is per-
fectly independent. There
~ NEVER WAS
man elected to an office more free
from pledges OF alliances OF agreements
of any sort than he is. He Will use his
own Judgment. aud all the delegations
that can get here between now and
March won't influence him against it.
But still they'll come, suppose
Partner Miller sighed again. He is
plainly attached almost as deeply to
Gen. Harrison as he is to his own law
books, and, IN way, mOurnS tor his old
partner, and feels lonesome without
Knowing 1t at sight of the sunny empti-
ness of the room of which the general
was for so many years the central feat
ufe.
1t is only within week that Partner
Miller and Partner Elan have settled
down again toIlegal work. The, vaca-
ton of the courts began at about the
time Harrison was nominated, and, als
though the courts opened again IN Sep
TENDER, the proceeding was little more
than formal, for not only the lawyers,
but the Judges also, were on the stump,
presenting briefs. arguments, pleadings,
bills, answers, land other things legal and
illegal in the great case on trial before
the people. This is Indiana fashion. A
man who is too ''stuck up'' to travel
about the state hustling for his party
can't he a judge in Indiana, and politics
is the principal business of q large pro-
portion of the lawyers. Peaceful. gentle
Partner Miller himself is hustler from
way back and aWhOoper from Whooper-
Vile when he gets out of sight of his
books and into politics. They do say
that he has furnished in his modest
way a good share of the brains OH the
Republican side in this state this year.
The old Office retains about the same
appearance that it had when Gen. Har-
rison was nominated. A new type
writer, wiliowy, graceful blonde, has
the place of the brunette in gray who
used to be there, but who is now going
to Europe for vacation. Gen. Harri-
sons former private Office has had big
American flag added to its furniture,
but otherwise looks about as ever
Partner Miller's desk sits where Gen.
Harrison's used to. but as both
desks are the same in size and
styIe. there is no difference in
the room. It's dingy carpet is brighter
looking, because less used, and the
litter Of Congressional Records and
similar documents that used to be
stacked about have been taken away.
But the ancient chair, with its legs worn
by. the attrition OF the boots or genius
writing in the throes of inspiration,
sits on the oilcloth mat that tlriftily
protects from injury the carpet i'll front
of the desk, and the arrangement OF the
room remains the same as when the
photographers and curiosity seekers
began to come to see it last summer.
There is some speculation among
LAWYERS as to whether the firm will
maintain its old standing with Gen.
Harrison out. It is thought that a good
deal of the corporation business that
has been in the hands of the firm may
go elsewhere now, but the general idea
is that the election has been pretty
good advertisement for the generals
partners, and that they are tolerably
certain to maintain their place at the
head of the bar in this state. Young
Partner Elan is sure of it, and the
Honda tynauritar is confident that the