St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-23
And the Prominent Pillars
Who Support the Struot-
ure in st. Paul.
Attorneys Whose Bright
Brains Have Made Them )
Prominent.
Oratory and Brilliance Allied
With Depth and Knowl-
edge.
Lawyers Who Shine at the
Trial or Excel Before =
the Bench.

the B6non.
1t is common with the general public
to class every man who has been ad:
mitted to the bar in the same technical
category. AS the old adage goes, ''All
lawyers are liars, but all liars are not
lawyers" so the public thinks only
of the profession as unit whose disci-
pies are all lawyers, and applying the
term in a general way. So lawyers are
usually looked upon, by those to whom
they have never been study, as men
expected to be eminently qualified for
the practice of law in all its radiating
branches and departments. This is the
view Of the casual observer, the man
who is too good to stultify him
self with litigation of any kind,
the average citizen and most
people generally. Instead of being
such monOtony of talent and such re-
peated pictures and mirrors of the law,
they are an entirely different set to
one, who, by close and continued assO-
citation, can note the diversity of the
legal learning as represented in each.
They are collectively the composing
features of the tablet of the law.
Some support one branch of the great
structure, while others by their learn
ing and wisdom build up and maintain
structure to all law-justice. Inclina-
ton and adaptation direct the
step of practice to certain and
distinct hooks and corners of the
temple; and then again fortune
and misfortune have their guiding influ-
ence. which, after having controlled Its
subject through years of legal practice,
stamps his identity with some distinct
branch of the law. He is either an ora
tor and ready thinker, and therefore
good trial lawyer, or he is a
deep, heavy thinker, mature in
judgment and learned and shrewd.
and he unravels his intricate
complications in his chambers, where
he can study with ease their effect. He
may be ready to maintain almost any
ground long enough to feed the average
jury with his side of case. and take
to criminal law and become great
criminal lawyer. The cold, deep forms
liking, and he becomes what is
ton attorney. The fees attached
to higher practice of such cases are
unusually large, and this branch of the
profession soon wins ease and study for
it's practitioner. Probably the greatest
fees of any particular department are
paid to successful counsel of gigantic
corporations and mercantile concerns,
Examples of some of the lump fees paid
by Minnesota and Wisconsin lumber
and mining corporations are simply
astonishing to those who have
never had any idea what great lawyer
can create out of his cerebrum-cerebel-
lum when its faculties are successful in
questions of moment, sometimes involv+
ing millions of dollars. When Judge
Villas practiced his profession in the
sister state, he was considered to be one
of the most eminently successful cor
the country. Els was the very highest
order of practice, and some of the re-
tainers he is said to have garnered from
such lucrative application of dis wis
dom and learning are said to be fabu-
lousy large. j. w. Lusk, also of Wis
conSin, and now one of the most sue
cessful trial lawyers of this dis
trict, was pre-eminently a rail-
road counsel of great attachments.
Mr.. Lusk is the representative for
several railroads, and is the happiest
trial lawyer that court could wish to
hear. He always maintains that suave
and obliging demeanor, when trying a
case, which wins for him the sympathy
of the jury. The louder his antagonist,
the more effectively do MIR. Lusk's
logic and balance initiate against the
opposition.
A veritable phenomenon is E. S.
Thompson, we'll known as one of the
most effective trial lawyers in the entire
Northwest. A man of remarkably fine
appearance and address. he has back of
his long legal training and worlds OK
perience that deep and thorough culture
which qualities him for the very highest
walks of life. There is distinct and
uncommon popularity about Mr..
Thompson's force of argument before
jury which SwayS him to
victory in the most threatening
moments. His manner is rather argu-
mentative than demonStrative, and in
the former he is giant. His speech is
erudite, and his talent and genius are at
tended by the official monuments which
stand to his credit in the wild territory
of Montana. He alone bears the dis
tinction of being the only man who ever
held the Office of district attorney in the
belt where Butte City fiourished with
out moving his Office from Earth to Eter-
nifty by the bullet route. At one time
he was Montana judge, and fearlessly
passed sentence upon the desperate
men with whom he was compelled to
deal. While practicing criminal law in
those blood-stained regions, he con-
victed twenty-seven out of thirty-two
murderers. tWenty-three of whom were
hanged. This speaks for his peculiar
force and influence with those sturdy
rangers who composed those Western
juries. His cross-fre at tie trial table
has been the subject of frequent COM
ment among the barristers of this state,
and when Mr.. Thompson counters with
his brother in case of any magnitude
or credit, his forensic qualities beam
with power. Of trial lawyers he may
be Justly classed as belonging to the
most successful type. OF late-for the
past eight years-this gentleman has
turned his attention to damage suits
against railroad corporations with UNI
bounded success and profit. This only
shows where good trial lawyer can
best exercise his ability. 1t takes the
best of such to win damage suits against
railroad companies, who always have
excellent talent to defend them.
The Hon. III: j. Horn and Judge
Flandrau are representative fOffice at
torneys. Mr.. Horn has been termed the
Nestor of the Bar, end is the surest and
deepest hinder of them all. He is one
of the seven members who were admit
ted to practice in 1850. He is wonder
full thinker and profound in his wis
dom. attaining greatest successes in