The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-09
RESOLUTIONS.
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Washington Cor. Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
Elhu Root is Secretary of War. and he
has a grand OPP ortuniiy There are 20 or
20 men in this union. each of whom is the
greatest lawyer" living. Mr.. Root is one
OF them. We have a number of fancy law
yers I'm American. Joe Choate is one; Il.
j. Phelps is another; Secretary Root 10
yet another. / much doubt If The whole
"bilin of EN-" would have made patch
en-" for old Ben Hardin al his best. The
late Bin Bolts would have made monkey
of all three Of them before a jury down In
Barren, Hart. MetCalfe, Green and Monroe
counties. But then. had Bolts been adj
mitted to the bar in New York in his
youth, he might have been a rival, and q
successful rival of James 7. Brady as an
advocate.
have heard many speeches intended as
arguments before the Supreme bench of
The United States John c. Carlisle Is
about the only man | ever heard az that
har who talked English. / have frequently
heard William NJ. Evarts there-aaother
fancy lawyer-and he might just as well
have argued in Greek as the talk he made
in English, for all | could make of it. 1
heard him frequently in the Senate. too.
and, as / now recolect, he spoke IL Greek
In that body also. But you can read that
speech he made in defense Of Andy john
son in the Impeachment proceedings. No
Greek there. 1t is fine; It is splendid. And
yet IL is not so fine as Groesbecks, nor so
splendid as Curtis.
Senator Edmunds is another greatest
lawyer" in The union. He talks Greek, too
but II is Greek you can understand. A RAJ
pid penman can report his speech at long
hand" The reporters of the Senate had
standing orders never to send proofs"
of his speeches TO him. They had further
orders TO report him literally. In a fine
magazine article Senator Hoar reDroduces
the stenogra phic report of WebsteTs reply
to Hayne, il was literal. and IL was only
the skeleton Of The reply" that we all
read and memorlzed and acclaimed when
we were boys. Great thinker that he was
the "God-like Daniel was greatest in af-
terthought. So are all men.
| never heard ED Marshall before the
Supreme Court He was as dry as
shuck. He was replying to both Evarts
and Edmunds, and 20 me his speech was
as much Greek as Evarts' and more Greek
than Fdmunds' And this was the man
had heard on the stump in Kentucky set
the river aire. ! have Away wondered
what would have happened In the Ken
lucky Democratic state convention of 1871
II they had let Ed Marshall make that
speech presenting Thomas G.. McCreery's
name for Governor. / am going to write
that scene one OF these days for the Cou-
rier-Journal. There was heap of poll
tics in the state house yard that fine May
day, and It turned out that the Penny
rile" beat the Bluegrass In the DEAL though
both sides had friends In the other camp
/ heard Joe Choate argue the Pacific
Railroad cases before the Supreme Court
some years ago, and | might say that he
did not talk great deal Of Greek. / could
follow him, and did, through his three-day
argument and great argument IL was.
The bar was crowded with lawyers from
the Senate and House. Henry G. Tur-
ner, himself great lawyer, was an inter
ested listener. Later / asked him If he
thought Choate as great a lawyer as Rob-
ert Toombs. He did not but he had great
admiration for the red-headed rooster from
New York Mind you. Judge Turner dill
not so designate him. He called him Mr..
Choate. If Col. Moses Gibson were a lit
tie better-looking he would favor Joe Cho-
ate very much.
An executive Is needed in the war office
al this time-a Godolphn. Pitt. a Car
not. a Stanton. May Eaihu Root prove all
Of them in one. lie has a grand opportu-
nifty. / hope he will seize it and eat II
up blood-raW.