The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-01

snapper" movement and the Bar aSsO-
cations successful opposition to the
election of Judge Maynard. On the
heads of most of his democratic
colleagues in those revolutions the
walls of regular" wrath have been
emptied. Messrs. Peckham and Horn
blower have been subjected to the
humiliation of rejection by the SEN
ate of their nominations to the SUI
preme court bench. Messrs. Ander-
son and Fairchild have been treated
with anything but respect in the
written and spoken utterances of the
regulars" But Mr.. Coudert has
totally missed his share of the angry
recriminations which those move
ments called out. 1t is not that he is
less prominent in his party. Save for
the fact that he has never taken public
Office, he is more SO than most of the
gentlemen named, inasmuch as he
alone among them possesses talent
for popular oratory of a very rare or
der. His appearance upon a public
platform-where he looks 80 much
like French parliamentary leader
that you always think of the phrase
mounting the tribune"-is always a
signal for ecstatic applause. At the
great Cleveland-Hal meeting in the
campaign Of 1891, when both of those
kings of Rrentford smelled' for one
night at least at one Flower, he was
the recipient of almost as tumultuous
a greeting as the two rival leaders Of
the democracy.
1t is not unusual to think of Mr.. Cou-
dert as French by birth as well as
descent, but as matter of fact, he is
more of New Yorker than nine-tenths
of the leaders of the New York bar.
He was born here in 1882 and educated
at Columbia college, which he entered
at fourteen. and in the first circum-
stance has the advantage Of the great
est New Yorker that ever lived, Alex
ander Hamilton. He passed his en-
trance examination before he was
eligible to practice, and had to wait for
his twenty-irst birthday, in the year
1858, for admission to the bar. He had
then been five years out of college.
Marked as has always been his power
to sway juries and popular assem-
plages, the lines of his life's work have
fallen like those of most great lawyers
of to-day in other and more toilsome
places. His clients have been said.
perhaps extravagantly, to be 1.-The
crowned heads of Europe" Certain it
is that not the least of Mr.. Coudert's
public services is witnessed to by the
- l.
extradition he has participated. He
has been decorated by the French and
Italian governments, the former confer
ring upon him the Cross of the Legion
of Honor. To his Office at Nos. 90
and 20 William street, comes the cream
of the legal business growing out OF
the enormous mercantile transactions
between Paris and New York. But he
has never neglected the higher side of
law. The greatest eminence that he
ever reached in this broad field was
undoubtedly his appointment last year
as one of the American counsel in the
Behring sea arbitration, where, with
his colleagues, he met the two great
British advocates, the bar leaders re-
spectively of the liberal and conserva-
tive parties, Sir Charles Russell and
Sir Richard Webster. Ten years be-
fore that. however, he was q delegate
to the international congress on the
laws Of nations. not q mere nose
rubbing function, but an arena of de-
bate, in which he was charged by the
chamber of commerce with the main
tenance of the rights and the improve
ment of the condition of the American
merchant and ship-owner In 1877 he
WAS one Of the democratic lawyers