The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-25

I the steamboat Napoleon Bonaparte las I
night ia fdgrdnte dehctu The steamer
was rounded to, and the editor and his para
/ mour were set ashore upon the bank Of the
river. Great excitement peryades the sur
rounding society," Well, the item slipped
into the paper. The editor of the West Vir-
giniG Republican brought suit against the
| paper"
"Was be guiltyTn inquired some one
"No. It was not the editor Of the Repub-
licdn at all who had been discovered, but
! the editor Of the paper which sent the item
to the Enquirer. We prepared TO make
defense and exhausted every resource, but
/ the jury found against US for about 5000
/ and we had to settle"
HOW MEL FULLER LANDED.
Mr.. johnson yielded to an inquiry as to
why Chief Justice Fuller was appointed by
! President Cleveland. The interlocUtor said
we have been of the opinion that be was APP
pointed because he lived in the powerful
city OF Chicago which might have an in
fuence in re-electing Mr.. Cleveland"
NO, said one Of the United States sens
stors who was present II will tell you
how it was done. Mr.. Cleveland probably
knew very little about Mel Fuller. Mel
Fuller is a first-rate fellow, genial fellow,
and he was an active, successful practi-
toner who made plenty OF money at the
bar in Chicago. he ought not 60 have been
made chief justice. however, for the law
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and spirit in the head of that bench. Fuller
is smart enough TO handle the law well,
but judge ought not to be man who has
been too much In the world. The
chief justice --oes not require to be
a smart fellow so much as a real
lover of the genius Of the law. Fuller owed
his appointment to the friendly support
of his townspeople, and especially Of those
| who congregate about the Chicago Club
"W hat is the Chicago ClubW asked one.
1.-THE Chicago Club is something like the
| Down Town Club In New York. 1t is situ-
ated in the heart Of business Chicago and
! there at lunch every day assemble the
active spirits Of that city, who stand az
! high as practical self-made men as any
| band of men in the world. l refer to such
men as George M. Pullman, Phil Armour,
Norman Ream, De Koven and several
others. These were the men who made
Fuller chief justice. They liked Fuller per-
sonRlly, SAW that he was q democrat aud
saw that there was a chance for democrat
to be appointed. No very great agitation
had been made about chief Justice
Probably the lawyers in Illinois gave but
slight attention to the vacancy, supposing
that this was a national office which would
have competitors from many Of the states
more in line with scientific law such as
Ohio, New York, Massachusetts and Cali
fornia. But the Chicago way of doing
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eight, ten or twelve Of such men quietly
resolved to bring Fuer's name TO Cleve-
lands attention in such a way that he must
feel 10. So, without respect TO party, aud
many Of them were republicans, they sent
a petition for his appoint ent.
They then selected in each of
the Important centers OF the United States
some prominent democrats to write to the
President and inclose names in favor Of
Fuller Men of the GLASS have named, who
employ attorneys in many of the states can
exercise large influence GU such subject
at such time. They had the states distrioted
in such a way that Cleveland would receive
on successive DAYS for a period of weeks or
a month some three or four important let
ters in the nature Of petitions. There was
Arthur Sswell in Maine, who was put in
charge of the matter up there. Along would
come petition from Portland for Fuller's
appointment; another would come next day
from Bangor; another would follow from
Saco or Bath. Now Cleveland would
have passed over Fuller's name,
probably, IL 1t had only come 70 him
once In local petition from Chit
oago. But he opened bis mail and here
was a petition from New York city, asking
for the appointment of the distinguished
Melville Fuller OF Chicago as highly accept
able to the bar of New York. Those fellows
were doing all this from the Chicago Club.
10 Ic4k oh1 bDo poklblOu9 from AlDdnY
would come in and those from Buffalo and
Rochester and Brooklyn. Before the Presi-
dent could get the rubject out Of his mind
along would come petition from st. Paul
and Minneapolis, Cleveland finally re-
marked: Why, this Mr.. Fuller of Chicago
seems to be one Of the most popular men In
this country with the bar So Cleveland
appointed him, thinking that it was the de-
slre OF the bar all over the land. He felt
perfectly confident that the spontaneous
selection OF the bar was Melville Fuller.n
CHARLEY FOSTER AND CAL BR1oE.
The day after the above conversation l
came upon two distinguished Ohio men at
the Fifth Avenue hotel, Calvin M. Brice
and Secretary Charles Foster Of the treas
ury department. MIR. Foster is probably 10
| years OF age or more. His health was quite
bad about the time he took the office OF
secretary, and he was compelled to 90 to
Europe last spring to get the benefit of a
sea voyage While he is thinner than
| formerly, observed that his skin is OF a
| better color, and his spirits | found to be
bright and alert. He was sitting at the
table with DR., Hamilton of the navy, whom
he had brought on to supervise the ouaran-
tine against the cholera. He remarked to
me how forgetful the American people
were of facts which had happened but a
| short time past
I'm 1887" said he, 1--WE had more deaths
from the cholera than have already taken
place in the present emergency, and vet |
can hardly find nybody who remembers
the fact, though living right here in New
| York"
Mr.. Foster and Mr.. Brioe were two OF the
active spirits in building the Nickel Plate
railroad, which is more than 500 miles long.
They were together also in opening the
Lake Erie and Western railroad, which
brought about the development of oil,
natural gas, etc, in the vicinity of
Lima, where Senator Brice resides.
which Is at no great distance from Fostorla.
the town which Secretary Foster and his
father, In the main, have built up These
iourishing towns stand in or about the
well-known Black swamp OF former days, a
sort of basin with slow drainage, overRro wn
with vast timber, which was thought to be
almost irreclaimable. and stood across the
path of the traveller from the east TO Mchi-
gan and Chicago until the improvement Of
the rivers and the railways. | said to Mr..
Brice:
1.-THE first time ever saw you you we're
sitting in your Office at Lima, when | went
there to lecture one night. The next time /
saw you you told me TO sit down in this
Fifth Avenue hotel, and you related TO me
the particulars of the sale of the Nickel
Plate railroad, which had been made that
dav What IL thu nj ~ ffort Of he