The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-26
HE KNOWS JUDGE HOOK.
New Federal Jurist Is Honest and
Conpetent.


Guthrie, o. T.. June 25.-John Golobie.
editor of the Oklahoma State Register.
was at one time a companion of William
c. Hook at Leavenworth. IN the recent
issue Of his paper, Golobie says the fol-
lowing OF Judge Hook:
Judge William c. Hook, who was pro-
NOTED from the federal district bench 10
the circuit court, { osueceed Judge Cald-
well. is destined for the supreme court
of the United States The editor of the
State Register and the judge roomed to-
gether for three years at the beginning Of
the latter's law practice and knows him.
II was a third story back room, (romance
always hegins in n dingy garrett and the
writer. measuring his friends dimensions
with the eye OF imagination and admira-
ton for greater and peculiar teients. set
bis heart on nothing less than the presi-
dency for him. There seemed nothing alb
normal about this Ee was homely as
Lincoln. ard had a bigger head-wore
seven and seven -eishts hat He was as
dispasionate, Old and grave at 20 as at 50.
He was of such serious mood that the
writer refused TO be his guest any longer
at meal time for fear that the depressed
feeling he produced would give him the
dyspepsia. whereupon he declared that
he would not Tough for a thousand dol
lars; that when he gave an opinion on
law. he wanted it to have the same weight
as though he was 62 instead Of y. ana
he had his wish. He was the coming
young man OF Leavenworth. Kan. lie was
rnethodicaI and systematic. When he once
had a firm or a corporation for client,
he never lost them. 4 Democratic mayor
desired TO turn the old town upside down
and put II on a boom. He made Hook
Republican. as matter Of necessity, his
city attorney. simply because he could
deueuI upon bis legal advice
When Hook insisted on being great
lawyer instead OF a statesman he was a
disappointment TO the writer; he saw the
presidency. go glimms srine; and being him
self cheated Of the presidential Illusion b.
,cause Of his foreign birth, he had laid
great stock in Il for bis friend There IS
no romance IN the supreme bench. Il IS
the internal process of reasoning IL IS hot
initiative action. One act Of the pTesid.at
can keep a thousand judges construins
FOR a Thousand years-
Hook mental flFl+elllIae 81 Atir NNt.+-~
TO gather facts. ssirniiate them. reason
upon them. and deduct from them. H
has no mental passion. 10 emotion There
are no waste cells IN bis brain. There IS
no necessity for per.odi-ai iuN @ Keep
his mind healthy. Literature ard the Hae
7rt. are but ylstric Juices 20 Sim Tor IRE
proosss of mental 1naztication. That is
ttes-ese1n that hc makes the ideai judge
Ills i-raelaatiou does rot rrsn away with
his elections The futEre does rot IN
ti-lidate the present he greater io1e-7
do not overwheIrn TIE leerer
Every act IS Young man vres cor F
si5errti71. re IS not ts1 "a schoal law
yer that carried nis raoers in Fl. hst
v-he. hs rraIurfed - iar. somehow Pc 1
also graduated 81 '-a',see1lrE. A-nonE +
the frst ,ainrs re b1arht was safe %
r-. bfs fo~el re-,-r before p Tas
worth a cent n s'r--t hls name i7 O.
certain var So ths- rhea ils rrtar
was v.e-tl sc-ctfl-e. TO one vc-id he