Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-19
EX-LAwYER HARRISON.
Partner Miller MOurnfully Moves Into
the Office of the sident. elect.
Correspondence of the New York sun

| the Office Of the Preside t.elect.
| Correspondence Of the New York Sun
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 1.-THE faded old tin
sign. with "B. Harrison" at the top and the
names Of the other two partners in the law firm
below, is still nailed against the entrance &c
one Of the buildings opposite the post-office
here, but that name on the sign is about all the
Harrison there has been about the Office fol-
several months. In the comfortable suite OF
four rooms Young Partner Elan goes about his
increasing business with a brisk step and a
fresh ring of reflected glory in his voice. He
is unaffectedly reioiced that lone of our firm,
has been chosen President. Old Partner Miller
takes 1t 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.
The general hasn't been here over three OF
four times since he was nominated" he says
half sadly. Il suppose 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. I've moved my desk in here now,
and shall use 1T this winter. No, not for the
odor of glory about it, but for the SUM- It's a
warm, nice room. Do you know, think the
general will wish he was back in it sometimes
after he's in the White House, it's such a
sunny, pleasant ROOM and it's a hard thing to
leave the law when one has been in it all his
life"
The quiet, gentle old lawyer-he really isn't
old, bat he has such an air of ripened wisdom
and patient courtesy that it would seem vio-
lence to nature to call him middle-aged-ac-
tnaiiy sighed little at the thought of q man
being compelled by unkind fate to lay down
the joys and comforts of 1.-The law" for the
worry and trouble of being President.
They will make it very hard for him down
there" he continued, ''for awhile at any rate.
They are beginning it even now, and / suppose
there1l be horde of them here every day. 1t
won't do them any good; they might better
stay away, for the general isn't a man to be in
fiuenced easily, and he is perfectly indepen-
dent. There never was a man elected to an
ONCE more free from pledges or alliances or
agreements of any sort than he is. He will use
his own judgment, and all the delegations that
can get here between now and March won't IN
fiuence 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,
monrns for his old partner, and feels lonesome
without knowing il at sight of the sunny emp
tiness of the room of which the general was for
so many years the central feature.
1t Is only within week that Partner Miller
and Partner Elan have settled down again to
legal work. The vacation of the courts began
and although 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 and other
things legal and illegal in the great case on
ion. A man who Is too stuck up" to travel
about the state hustling for his party can't be
judge in Indiana, and politics is the principal
business of large proportion of the lawyers.
Peaceful, gentle Partner Miller himself is
hustler from way back and whooper from
Whoopervilie when he gets out of sight of his
books and into politics. They do say that he
has furnished in his modest way good share
of the brains on the republican side in this
state this year.
The old Office retains about the same appear
ance that il had when Gen. Harrison was nomi-
mated. A new typewriter willOwy, graceful
blonde, has the place of the brunette in gray
who used to be there, but who,is now going to
Europe for a vacation. Gen. HarrisOn's former
private Office has hada big American flag added
to its furniture, but otherwise looks about as
ever. Partner Miller's desk sits where Gen.
Harrisons used 20. but as both desks are the
same in size and style there is no difference in
the room. Its 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 attri-
ton of the boots of genius writhing in the
throes of inspiration, sits ON the oil-cloth mat
that thriftily protects from injury the carpet in
front of the desk, and the arrangement of the
room remains the same as when the photogra-
pliers and curiosity seekers began to come to
see il last summer.
There is some speculation among lawyers as
to whether the firm will maintain its old stand
ing with Gen. Harrison out. 1t is thought that
good deal of the corporation business that
has been III the hands of the firm may go else
where now, but the general idea is that the
election has been a 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 blonde typewriter is
confident that the firm is all right