The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

Grams of the New York bar remember
Ned" Sandford as by all odds the
cleverest jury lawyer they have ever
known; not excepting Thomas Adds
Emmett or Ogden Hoffman. John
COchrane-subseque surveyor Of
port, congressman, civil war general.
reform alderman, and in his old age
a police justiCe-also made a fiery
speech in denunCiation of the two
faced Austrian eagle. Chief Justice
HornblOwer. Of New Jersey-grand-
sire of the William II. Hornblower of
the present Bar association-spoke for
the judiciary. Another disagreeable
incident occurred to mar the general
harmony when the Knickerbocker jur-
ist, John Duer, in his speech bluntly
expressed the hope that Kossuth was
not in this country to stir up interna-
tional troubles between it and Austria.
Many lawyers interrupted Mr.. Duer,
saying that his remarks We're unkind
to their guest, and when he persisted
In his line of criticism some of the
younger members of the bar hissed.
Thereupon John Cleveland, a leading
commercial lawyer, interrupted and
said that so eminent a man as Mr..
Duer. ought not to be treated badly.
while Kossuth audibly expressed the
hope that the free speech of America,
so pleasantly different from the mu2.
zled speech Of Austria, would be re-
spected The incident showed that
Kossuth's visit was regarded by many
out of congress as we'll as in it as a
menace to our friendly relations with
Austria.
Thus Immediately previous to the
Christmas of 1851 New York city under
went a period of Kossuth mania and
it affected the holiday presents. Every
New Years gift associated itself in
some designation with Kossuth and
Hungary. Restaurants abOunded with
Hungarian boulash, a savory dish of
boiled beef and vegetables strongly in
fused with red peppers and there were
KOssuth craVats formidable bands of
satin or silk wound around the neck,
with ends literally folded over the shirt
'front.', Kossuth pipes, Kossuth UNI
brellas, Kossuth belts and buckles,
Kossuth purses, Kossuth jackets, and
Kossuth braid and tassels for wearing
apparel. Then the Alpine hat, with a
certain peculiar shape of crown and
brm. soon became, and for years con-
tinued to be, known as the Kossuth
hat Photography was then in its first
decade of popularity, and turn which
ever way a pedestrian might on west
side or east side, the strong features
of the Hungarian hero stared him from
beneath the picturesque felt hat
Schoolboys cultivated recitations aim
ing to become an orator like Kossuth,
and school girls We're taught the Kos
suth polka.
Soon Boston and Philadelphia yearned
for him, and to these cities he jour
neyed, to find new hero worship. But
by degrees, as Kossuth journeyed west
ward, his popularity waned; for he was
now practically a solicitor of subscrip-
tions, and in after years 1t became a
question of popular discussion what
was the result of the Kossuth loan
fund and what was done with II. And
when he re-embarked for his home
ward journey there were few New
Workers at the steamer to speed him
the Kossuth mania had become a
thing of the past.
History tells us of the subsequent
amalgamation of the Hungarian with
the Austrian government and how
Kossuth for years afterward sulked like
an Achilles In his tent and rejected
many imperial overtures; but after the
autonomy in 1870 of Hungary he be-
came a member OF its legislative Diet.
and oddly enough often fought his old
liberal allies.