The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-26
Timothy Otis Howe, Long Forgotten in
Legal Circles, is EuIOgized in
the 1Green Bag"
WAS A DISTINGUISHED KENOSHAN
Duane Mowry. Famous Legal Writer. Re-
calls Some of the History of Former
Assistant Postmaster General.

Timothy Otis Howe, one of the most
disting uished of the men who have
gone into the councils of the nation
from Kenosha, is not to be forgotten,
for in the recent issue of the Screen
Bag magazine which graces the
reading table of almost every lawyer,
Duane Mowry, one of the most famous
legal writer's in the country, pays
tribute to the sterling worth Of the
distinguished Kenoshan.
Judge Howe died in this city twenty
years ago, and this is the first time
that his long public career has been
properly placed before the people Of the
country. In speaking of Mr.. Howe,
Mr.. Mowry says:
"A man who has sseen'' more than
a quarter :of a century of continuous
public service, andi who has, during
most Of that service, been conspicu-
Gus figure IN his country's AFFAIRS
who had Ebeen a.United States Senator
from his adopted State for longer pc
riod than any of his contemporaries
from that State; who had been on init
mate personal and official relations
with at least two IPresidents of the
United States, and who held the i'm
plicit confidence of one, who declined
Office, when to accept it involved the
sacrifice of principles dear 10 his heart
and vital, as hesE believed, to the best
interests Of his Country, who dis
charged, in an acceptable manner, the
duties of judge of the highest court
of the State, who declined the offer of
an appointment to the Office of Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court Of the
| United States for what appealed to
him as cogent political reasons, al
/ though greatly desiring to accept the
high and honorable position, who was
an important mbers of an interna-
tional monetary conference, and who
e'died in the harness. holding cabi-
net position, such man, lawyer, iur-
list, statesman, diplomat, deserves more
than passing notice or brief enco-
MUM, The career of such man is,
essentially, public property, and it is
| lifting that an examination of the
qualities which have given this country
such a notable character be made.
Such man was the late Timothy
Otis Howe of Wisconsin.
| It is doubtless true that Mr.. Howe
was never preeminentin the profession
of the law. His comparatively early
and continuous public career made that
practically impossible. And there are
those who are unchar.table eporoh to
say that he could have neither wanted
or made himself fitted for the Supreme
Court bench; that his early and later
tastes were in keeping with place Il
deliberative bodies, where he excelled.
His own immediate relatives assure
me that this is not the fact. One Of
them writes: ut was the only position
he ever really wished for.' And his
early training, both before the bar and
on the bench, as well as his long and
varied experience in public life, we'll
prepared him for the discharge of the
important judicial Office, if he had
chosen to accept it.
It is not claimed for Judge Howe
that he was particularly brilliant. But
there we're sterling qualities of head
and heart which endeared him to men.
AS one has put it to the writer: "He
was the soul of honor. He was, more
over, an exceedingly refined man, re-
fined in manners, in thought, and in
action. He had marvellous fund Of
wit, clear, sharp and incisive. He
was, essentially, man of conviction.
What he did, he did from principle, not
from policy"
Timothy Otis Howe will be best re-
membered for his distinguished public
services. These were given his coun-
try in 10 unstinted manner. He served
her well. And the nation may we'll
feel proud to have enlisted the wise
counsels and active energies of such a
man in its behalf. A noble profession,
too, is to be congratulated to have had
as one of its members, an individual
who has added something to the due
admiration of justice, and who was
never known to cause that profession
to be ashamed of him. AS lawyer,
| his abilities were eminently respecta-
BILE; as a publicist, his services to his
country were prominent.
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