The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04
A Noted Kentuckian.

Now up more flights in the elevator
and with shelves of buff bound law
books and high outlook over the East
river you begin to combine a great
form of a man a couple of inches over
six feet and generously broad in pre-
portion-William Lindsay former
judge and senator from Kentucky. He,
too, is clean-shaven, but he has the
easy careleSSness of attire of the
thinking, easeful man, whose crown of
white hair bears out the almanac when
1t says he is sixty seven. A cheerful.
mellow soul allows him to be kindly
to the stranger, whom he makes COM
Portable on a great lounge.
Il don't know what others may
think, but I've had all I want of the
United States senate. Eight years in
the Kentucky court of appeals and as
long in the senate about filed the re-
quirements. 1 don't know anything
pleasanter than the senate There is
the right atmosphere, the sense of uni
vversal consideration. 1t is high air,
but one must live pretty high and the
salary must be backed with something
else easily realiZable. Then, when it
is all over, like Mr.. Morton, there is
the problem of a new and private COM
mlttee on ways and means. With me-
it meant law practice in New York.
OF course, man would be less than
human, or more than human, if he
did not feel the loss of the perpetual
personal recognition that comes to a
man of any prominence in his home
land, but he must face his question
without qualmS and solve it like a
man. After the broad life of Washing
ton the choice of where he will practice
law is easily decided in favor of New
York. Here is where the great battles
and the great prizes are. If you look
n 10Th 0Ol~,ct Al
he is like as not counting millions and
naturally"
The senator smiled out the rest of it
in way that was worth a world Of
speech. Big, powerful, brainy man,
he had the philosophy of the great
magnet in a nutshell, recalling Ten
nyson's Northern Farmer:
"Doant marry for money, but goa
where money isl
One leaves him with regret, looking
out over the East river and chuckling.
AS you depart you read of Lindsay,
Kremer, Kalish & Palmer on the door
as at the seat of custom for all kinds
of law. How they run in cacophonous
fours!
You may dig them out of almost ev-
cry office building, these senators, gov
ernors, cabinet members, congressman
all atoms in the Manhattan maeI-
strom, ants in the great ant hills.
scarcely recognized by their fellow
ants who have been there all their
lives.
Attorney General John w. Griggs, who
was a lawyer, assemblyman, state SEN
ator and governor in New Jersey be-
fore President Mckinley called him to
his cabinet, has been practicing law
at II Pine street since his resignation,
but still clings to his residence in
Paterson, N. j. He is only fifty-thr
years old and does not look upon him
self as q helpless Eek" of any kind.
whatever fixed conclusions others may
have on the subject.
Daniel S. Lamont, two years Young
er than Mr.. Griggs, has been the shin
ing light of post-political success in
life. Go UP ever so many flights at
40 Wall street and find yourself in
spacious offices marked Northern Pa
cific railroad. There in the presidents
chair sits the little man, quietly genial
but abnormally Shrewd, looking at Won
out of keen, quiet eyes, who was a
journalist after he left Union college.
then private secretary to Mr. Cleve-
land When he was governor and also
when president for his first term.
When the second term came he slip
ped into the chair of the secretary Of
war and held 1t down so successfully
that his return to private life meant
SPCh SAVES " 1OIIuIlS, WHICH he IOTCn-
with entered and made himself at
home.
James E. Campbell was governor of
Ohio ten years ago, after six years
in congress, and he has found his way
into the law in New York. He is fif-
ty-nine years old, with the activity of
Twenty-Five, and hangs out his sign
with the rest.
Frank S. Black, who stepped out Of
the governors chair at Albany to yield
1t to Theodore Roosevelt, has also CIV
en- up life in a country town for BUSH
ness purposes and has hung up his
single as a lawyer at 149 Broadway.
Two years in congress and two years
In the goyernorship have probably
concluded his public service for some
time to come.
Not only in the heart Of financial