The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-03-03

The March number of Che oAlahcma
Magazine IS by zee best YET issued
ltis rep,eic vi,N ..,4ry gems, and
contains "a spccja, feature iu thc way
90 pen pictures. written by Senator a.
t. S,ott Of Oklahoma City Mr. S,ott
take, for bis main subject Chief JUS
ucc Frank pal,. and the following is
what is said OF that popular citizen.
Whether as the umpire OF base ball
game or the chief Justice ot the terri
tory, Mr. Dale is the Grover Cleveland of
oklahoma pccocracy A decision once
reached by him. protest is uuavAiiuC,
be 10 from the profauc captain ~ the
other nine, or the aStutc attorney of
the arrr.evcd utiEant That square
law OF the learucd chief Justice is not
for nRurht. Even his kind blue eve
and benign smile cannot brcAN It's
force
But when one mas said this much he
has come To the end OF the austerc
characteristics OF Judge Dale. That
alone excepted, DE is altogether Iowa
ble. gentle. benign, sympathetic, kind.
At bottom he is not greatly unlike the
subject of the preceding sketch, Gov.
Seay
An inHeNible adherence 20 what is
right. or is believed 90 be ight, is the
foundation stone of both characters,
and a somewhat dogged and obstinate
persistence in the expression and exc
cution of this belief is highly charac-
teristic of both But the resemblance
ends there. On this foundation Gov
crnor Seay builds mountain OF sin
gularities and ccceutricities that fur
nishes both kaleidoscope Of interest
ing views On the same foundation the
Chief Justice rears a normal sunny.
simple fabric Of chara cter that leaves
no riddles to solve. no complexities to
batlle. Quaere. Has the wife in the
one case, and the absence Of her in the
other. anything 20 do with this
A great mind may dwell Is a small
body. but it seems more at home in a
larger temple. Judge Dale is large OF
frame as big though not as bulSy as
the ex-governor And his mind aud
spirit a.c likewise large. While relent-
lessly tenacious OF his views, be is
charitable and tolerant His appeal a.
n lawyer and a Judge is to general
principles, but within this limit his re-
spect for precedent amounts almost to
reverence Here again he differs harp
~ from Judge Seav; for il was the eN-
governor think. who remarked while
on the bench that he didn't like TO
have too many law books around him;
they confused him he said.
fTh. rs1.aa "a Tho Ihf.f 1rZffn.s n- a
Judge cannot be finally bee written at
this time, when his judicial career has
but opened. II is plain, however, that
he is not compelled 10 assume role
embarrassing and unfamiliar lie is TO
the ermine boru lie is judicial in
temperament remarked that GOV
ernor ~aay is more "a Judge than law
Yer. That is true, but 10 D., simply be-
cause the bench IS more 10 Dol, lkiug
than the bar Judge Dale IS also more
Judge than lawyer, but for % diff
ferent reason. 10 is because partisan
shin is distasteful 90 him. ln his
opinions from the bench bee 8, both
clear and profound, but more profound
than clear, Tho workings of u.- mind
are somewhat slow and p1uJ.rou,, but
they lead al last 90 conclusions "a a'mOst
degree, that legal sense that tine
professional intuition. that points the
way through guibbles and hobbies and
technicalities 10 "the law Of the case
He is not exactly handsome. but he
looks the chief justice. A somewhat
repressed, somewhat embarrassed. but
always winning smile, Is at easy call
with him. lie ~ diguiGed enough, but
N.a tU,f I..
steps from the bench 20 the lobby In
its less offensive sense he g., decidedly
one of "the boys" We speak of those
in exalted station as beiug approach
able or otherwise But somehow that
query does not seem 10 be in order,
when Frank Dale is in question When
the humblest citizen feels his warm
hand-clasp and looks into his friendly
eve, he knows at once that there Is no
Ice 70 break-uo barrier between the
Chief Justice aud the plowan. SIM
phcity and strength are almost insep-
arabic companions in human character
A complex, uufathomable personality
may conceal greatness. but greatues,
finds its most effective expression TO
the man OF simple heart OF this sort
is Justice Dale ] know nothing Of his
antecedents or his former life But hc
came up, ] venture 90 say. from the
farm and through poverty he has
not got far from the people yet and
his trend is not in that direction Gap
PLY. lie is not perhaps ~D strenuous
representative of the MASSES a~ Gov
ernor Seay, but hc is not cast .u SD
strenuous "a mold.
A just Judge Iuvable aud true
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