The sun., 1891-07-03
Tho Fuller Boom.

That profound psychological observer and
Student OF human character, the Hon. JOHN
y. MxAoHER OF Mankato. Minnesota. is for
Once at fault. He has furnished to the press
his estimate or intellectual chart Of the Hon.
NHLvI1LE WESTON FULLER, not in further.
ance OF tho FULLER boom for President,
but rather to restrain and suppress It.:
~ trust Chief Justice FuLss will not enter the lsta
lsb rishs where he should Be. This epoch has pro
Asesd rev ike him. ilis 10 purely judicial mind
aad the country needs him In the very function he
s1piss and thsre should be incentive him
- seospt Presidential nomination. White he would
D. credit 70 the nation and he would add iussrs to
~ long line OF Frssdsnta and think he would Be
siesssd Uhsf Justice he has raised the court to
hisAsr panA and Il the admiration Of the legal craft
= he world"
y Mr.. MRAaHRR is moderate when he asserts
that this epoch has produced few mon like
Chief Justice FULLER. This epoch has pro-
duced mono other like him, either In respect
ofmental or capillary versatility.
But Mr.. NEAaHRR Is far adrift from tho
truth In describing the Chief Justices mind
- "purely judicial" as II the Hon. MEL
\ WILLIE w. FULLER were a mere BABBAaE's
machine Of law and logic, fed with facts and
grinding out decisions, and working with
cog-whoel precision from premises to irre-
sistible conclusions.
It would DO nearer tho truth to say that
tho mind Of tho Chief Justice Is almost pure
lypoettc u Its temperament. His genius is
.3n ll6ative. creative. sympathetic, emo
tional. and It's distinctive quality is typified
by the exuberanoe Of his phenomenal mus
taohios. No purely judicial mind can pro
duce such prose rhetoric as that with which
the Chief Justice astonishes Chicago ban
quets. or such stirring verse as he composes
IN Intervals Of aesthetic leisure. In fact we arc
quite justified In affirming that the judicial
career Is Mr.. FULLER's avocation, while his
vocation was pronounced in unmlstakable
terms BY the gracious representative OF the
Sacred Nine who presided at his birth:
soayiy the wine In our soblsts IL cleaning.
Bright on its surface the foam bubbles swim;
20 the smiles Of our Joy from each eountenancs
beaming.
Are the bubbles that on the CUP Of lfss bri.
~oh what are LIES hopes, and its high aspirations
But wishes for things that not what they sseni
Away 70 tho shades with suoh dull contemplation
Utopian visions whore all u . dream.
-Ths nag ss our masthead is Pleasures own banusE
And to the breeze boldly its broad folds We ninx
while each sailor will raise the hosanna
Ioivycrownsd BAccAUa our jolly.sousd king.
1n0n nll up your RlassoA ladA NIL up your GlAssost
with frolosoms pleasure the moments employ,
Since life 10 span each bright hour It passes
when ssssd on its disht It u ours to enjoy"
I II tho Hon. MELVILLE W. FULLER were
the person portrayed by Mr.. MEAaHER of
Nankato. he could not hope to be nominated
for President OF tho United States, much
Less elected as President. The purely
judicial mind is useful In it's place. but it
does not produce Anacreontic and Horatlan
melodies like this Bacchanalian song of
NRLvnLE WESTON FuLnER's. first publish
ed In 1855 In the interesting little volume
entitled Gems"
In any FULLER canvass, 1t would be the
campaign song. Welded to appropriate
music. 1t would be heard everywhere
throughout the land. except. perhaps, in
some parts of Maine and Kansas; and 1t
would win for FULLER more votes than any
judicial opinion he ever pronounced, even II
hiaiQdieial opinions aud decisions were as
wise as those OF SOLOMON and as lucidly
expressed as JOHN MARsHALL's.
But who In the name Of BAcoHus is the
Hon. JOHN F. MEAaHER Of Mankato2