The Press., 1890-06-12
LAWYER CASE AS 4 FARMER.
HE MAKES AN ABLE DEFENSE OF THE \
 LIGNED CONNECTICUT YANKEE.

M | HE MAKES AN ABLE DEFENSE OF THE MA
 LIGNED CONNECTICUT YANKEE. There is good story going the rounds about Attorney William c. Case, probably the best known criminal lawyer in the state. Lawyer Case recently returned from trip to Minnesota, and it was some time before he confided the story to any one, but it was far too good to keep. Law yer Case has deep vein of humor, and l when he lets it out in his inimitable ora torical fashion he is apt to carry all before him.
 While on his way east, Lawyer Case had most amusing experience. He was in the smoking car, and was enjoying quiet smoke, when he became interested in the conversation which was going on about him. It so happened that the car was \ mostly filled with New Workers and Chi- cagoans. The forces were about evenly divided, but the men from the Windy City were the more aggressive and loud spoken. The conversation had naturally turned upon the worlds fair, and especially the selection of Chicago as the place for hold ing it. The New Workers started the ball a-rolling by declaring that their city was the only proper place for the great fair, and that big mistake had been made by SelCCtlAS OuIcdSO. 4u0y u0lO up tuo du- vantages of New York, spoke of it as the States, praised it for its many facilities, it's situation, size and prosperity.
 To this the Chicagoans were not slow in replying. They said that the day was not far distant when the proud head of New York would be bowed, and the palm of being the biggest and wealthiest city in the new world would go to the city by the , lake, They spoke of how centrally Chica- go was located, it's great railroad facilities. it's water commerce, and declared that Chi cago was pre- eminently the spot of all oth CTS in which to celebrate the discovery oi America by Columbus.
 Thus the heated war war waged as the Chicagoans pushed forward triumphantly while New York supporters as gradually fell back. The climax was reached wheI large, well-dressed and apparently we'll to-do Irishman said i:
 , ''The remarks of our New York friend savor very much those of the New Eng land farmer, who is the clustlest, meanest f most close listed, narrow. minded man il America. I am sorry to see the tendency 3 of the gentleman from New York to apo that creation of New England"
 :, The New Workers were completely takel blck, but the patriotic spirit of Lawye Case rose to the emergency. He hfd pre- viously taken no part in the conversation s zlng up the man who had given utter ance to the islander, he commenced V "Well, now, differ from that gen ntleman I am New England farmer, and don r think that the facts bear out his state ments."
 By this time all eyes in the swiftly mo1 if ing car were upon him, the man who hs dared to declare himself one of the clas }, which had just been so savagely assailed.
 "What? You New England farmer, II come from various parts of the car. "Yes, I'm New England famer," ref ' erated MT. Case, seeing that he must pu n on bold face or be driven to tue wal
 Mr. Case then waxed eloquent and gay hot shot right and left to the men fror n Chicago. As the home patriotism mad 4 itself more and more manifest, MT. Gas continued in vein which silenced all rt z ply. The Chicagoans sat mute, while th New Workers gazed in wonder at the sudden champion. He finally wound u
 his defense of the New England farme
 with the words: ssTalk of our cloee-istet ness Why, you westerners live onl through our sufferance. We hold nor
 gages on all your farms and in all you cities. If the mortgages were foreclose
 there would be little left of your Chicago
 your farms and your cities. It is the Ne
 England farmer who gives you the chane
 to exist. The west lives only by the ger
 erosity of the east am surprised to SC
 about me men from New York who do nt dare to defend US. A sister state, lyin
 close to my own, Connecticut, allowin n such inuendoes to be made without wor d in it's defe nse."
 y" "Well," ejaculated one of his hearers 2, "You may be 8 Yankee farmer, but
 nightly doubt it."
 The rest then pitched in and tried 2 give out who the eloquent farmer was an
 and where he lived, but to all Mir. Gas
 returned general answers, so that the e were no wiser when they were throug
 than when they began. As for the Irisl C man and his fellow Chicagoans, they ha n not word to say.
 Just as MT. Case was leaving the ca
 one of them said: "Well, if you're Yal
 kee farmer, all have got to say is th'
 they have mighty good representati'
 here, that's all. s Id When Mir. Case returned to where h "a wife was sitting in another car, she n : ticed that his face was somewhat fushe' al and asked him what he had been doing.
 ''Taking the part of 8 New Englar
 farmer" responded Mr. Case.
 "You New England farmer" and MT
 Case burst out laughing.
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