The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-16

| SO antag0uistic to these earlier views
Exactly what Calhoun the elder advocated
the younger has been doing, excepting that
the development Of railways has occurred
since that time. so that the great national
highways consist Of steel rails rather than
plank roads. Calhoun the younger has also
| been interested in much the same scheme OF
| inland water communication which CAL
houn the elder advocated.
SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN.
Here, too, is another man Of southern
Dirth, although never in sympathy since he
reached his majority with the ultra doc
trines which prevailed in the south. This
Is stephen b. Elkins. republican Of the
| most enthusiastic stripe; republican be-
cause he believes in the nation and not in a
section exacted over the nation, and yet a
man Of southern birth because it is his con-
| vlctlon that the business and financial pol
| icy of the Republican party means prosper
ity and the extraordinary development of
the SOUTH
| Mr.. Elkins is estimated here as one OF the
| most remarkable of the business intellects
that have come to New York from the
south. Probably he himself could not tell
| what his wealth is in figures, because so
much Of 1t is invested in properties whose
value IS contingent and speculative.
mean by that, dependent on development,
but he is generally esteemed to possess a
1
As they say on the street, when speaking
| OF mans wealth: "His estate would prob
| ably cut up 81, 900, o00n Yet Elkins has
made this wealth without any adventitious
| aid; poverty was his lot in his early DAYS
and health, courage, energy and a sort of
conservative audacity-to coin an express
sion which describes his intellectual quality
were his capital in early life.
Republican as he is, conspicuous as he has
been as a politician, absorbed as he was
| during two campaigns in the business of
eiecting republican candidate, yet in his
| relations with the other southern men who
are here. Mr.. Elklns knows no politics and
they know none. They stand on the same
| plane; they are for business prosperity:
they are working hard to make money, and
their enterprises are all of a nature which
binds states together and tends to conserve
the true and best spirit of nationalism.
TWO SOUTHERN LAWYERS.
II we turn to the professions we can dis
| cover here two representative southern men
| who came to New York to establish them
selves in the practice of law, and who have
succeeded beyond their fondest dreams.
These are Roger A. Pryor and John s. Wise.
Who would have supposed that that jovial
and yet dignifed, peaceful and yet active,
conservative and yet aggressive lawyer, who
is seen daily at our court house, was that
red-hot fire eater, who hieing post haste to
Charleston in the early spring of '61,
demanded that the shot be fired upon Fort
Sumter, and that declared that within
twenty-four hours after this shot was fired,
by a Shrewsbury clock, Virginia would
| secede from the union.
He was regular Virginia ire-eater; he
was for defending his honor on the field,
and he INDUCED in the speeches Of a Bonn
bastes Furioso while member of the House
of Representatives before he was 80 years of
age, which were very frightful then to listen
to, and which seem to have been accom-
panied with gestures made with a bowie
knife in one hand and pistol in the other.
But Mr.. Pryor is very gentle now, and he
| smiles grimly as he recalls those antics of
| his youth, and even confesses to a suspicion
that he was a good deal of Bob Acres in
those days There is no blood in his eye
now, and he gesticulates with no meta
| phorical bowie knives or revolvers: his
speeches in recent years have been full of
sentiment such as any lover Of the nation,
even one who spelled it with very big n,
would be rejoiced to hear.
| Mr.. Pryor, it is true, remains democrat,
| but it is not the democracy of the fire-eaters
| of '61.
johnny Wise, as every one calls hi m,
| who inherited much of the ability and all
| of the political beliefs of his distinguished
father, Gov. Wise of Virginia, who served
| as a chubby faced boy in the confederate
| army, and who, while in that capacity, ex-
| pected to see the day come when he would
be one of the successors of Jefferson Davis
as president Of the confederacy: he, now,
| just entering the prime of his manhood has
| come TO New York to take part in the tre-
mendous competition which the practice of
| his profession here is sure to bring to him.
Wise has been here about three years.
| He has lost two things since he became a
member of the New York bar-he has lost
the ambition he once had to become an
| office.holder, with his face set toward the
vice presidency, and he has lost about forty
| five pounds of avoidupois which the sunny
climate of Richmond had burdened him
with long before the time when it is proper
| for men to assume aldermanic girth.
He left his ambition behind him on the
| the night he was defeated as a candidate
for governor of Virginia. In its place came
| the desire to win fortune and professional
repute in his practice. He mad the good
| luck to become acquainted with those who
| were near Edison, and to be engaged as
| counsel for those who were seeking to es-
| tablish electric lights in Richmond and
this connection caused him to turn his at
| tention to electricity in his relations to the
| practice of the law.
He was, perhaps, the first of lawyers out
side of New York to make a speciality of
| the legal aspect and treatment of electricity
| as applied to daily use; and he is beginning
to reap the rewards thereof. Wise is in
| quite frequent demand as speaker, and his
| latest speech on the occasion of the dinner
| in memory of Gen. Grant in this city is
spoken of as perhaps his most felicitous
| effort.
These men have discovered and they are
telling their southern friends that the wealth
| which awaits the southern men can only
come to them when they recognize that
great business developments in their section
can only go hand in hand with the true
spirit Of nationality.
These men talk freely amongst themselves
| but with the exception of Gen. Pryor aud
Mr.. Wise, none of them possesses the gift of
| public speech.
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