The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-07
CHOATE LIKED FOR
HIS AVAILABILITY
Immensely Popular in England
and United States
IS. A PLEASING ORATOR
No Man Has More Powerful counte-
nance in Repose-His Humor Is
Infectious and His kindIl.
ness Is Admirable.

B. B. in the New York Mail
what We like most in Mr.. Choate"
says Sir Ralph d. M. Littler, one of the
leaders OF the British bar, in letter to
a distinguished American jurist, deserib-
ing the function at which the American
ambassador to the Court of St James
became beneher of the Temple, what
we like most in Mr.. Choate is his seraphic
amiability. In this respect he is more
like Lord John Coleridge than Lord John
Coleridge was"
Truly just tribute, and the humor of
the putting of it would catch the fancy
of a Scotchman.
Enumerate all the delightful character
isties of the chief of the American bar,
holder of the blue ribbon of the American
diplomatic service. and you will rest at
last upon his sweetness of disposition. 1t
is not the amiableness that has been de-
scribed as jellyfish amiability-"a quality
which allows ones principles to be Will
fled without a word of defense" 1t Is the
habitual benignancy of resolute, honor
able manhood, which awakens friendli-
ness in turn, and begets trust for trust.
Like the late Baron Coeridge, MIR.
Choate is a metaphysician, a theologian.
a scholar, a modern St. Chrysostom of
golden eloquence. But the voice of Cole
ridge was too dulcet to be natural his
smile was too obviously artificial; his
cial methods were too elaborate to con-
ceal their own artifice.
Colerdge was an actor-as great an
actor in parts of his own choosing Is
Irving himself. That famous pundit-the
most elegant, high perfumed and dantiy
maneured jurisconsult who ever held the
post of lord chief Justice of England
whole a most agreeable companion at
the banauets of the Temple benchers,
never succeeded in removing the impress
sion that he was nsincere.
Soon Became Popular.
Mr.. Choate went straight to the heart
of John Bull and has not once left the
Judgment Britons enjoy his sunny ma
ture precisely as Americans enjoy it, and
for the same reason.
Unlike Colerdge Mr.. Choate is never
severe The sheer suaVity that enabled
him, while active at the bar, to inveigle
those whom he questioned into making
suicidal admissions, was not the cross
examiners trickery lauded b. Francis
Wtllman. but the logical sequence of his
disposition.
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