The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-29

w. 10 De an ututSJItdblc 1iCt-tfldts
in spite of the perversi0n Of millions of
dollars belonging rightfully To the
policy holders. the big life insurance
companies are practically unshakably
solvent. He has been careful not 10 rob
a single witness of his rights. yst he
has never hesitated 70 REVEAL wit
hess. by his own testimony as damn
ably false to his trust whenever such
has been the ali too frequent case, AND
last. he is equally Jealous OF his own
rights and to fulfill his sworn duty
as best he knows how. Hence honest
absolutely fair in his dealings all
round. he has not permitted influence
TO deaden his scent of evil doors,
though heaven knows mighty forces
were very fOolishly set TO work for lust
this early in the inquiry He is blind
To all sense Of social prOportion--le
handles the presidents of great life
| insurance companies with as much
consideration and no more. as he 1oes
their foan-b borrowing messenger dunn
mics. He looks upon the $780, 900 head
and the $500 mental as just SO much
human matter from which to squeeze
facts pertinent 10 the investigation
His Reputation for Absolute Honesty.
Hughes" said an intimate friend,
speaking Of this marked characteristic,
mas always been too good an Ameri-
can-toO thoroughly demOcratic-to be
dazZled either in an official or a pri-
vate capacity by the glamour Of social
position, enormous wealth. financial or
political influence, or any of the other
things that operate TO give their pos
SCISSORS and wielders unearned promi-
hence in the eyes of many of their fell
! lows. A man must prove himself really
| worthy Of respect before he can hope
to gain respect from Hughes. And be-
cause he steadily practices this demo-
cratic principle he is meeting with a
large share Of the astonishing success
| that is now his. Can you not recall
how many eminent lawyers, examining
very eminent members of the cOmmu-
nifty have invariably handled them
with kid gloves, but handled without
gloves poor devils of fellows utterly
unknown and with reputation unsung
outside their own wee circles? Well.
no one can. point to 4 page. of the. testi7
mony that Mr.. Hughes has brought
out and say with truthfulness; Why,
he's done the same thing here
Further" continued this friend,
the man who would say that DIR.
Hughes, i'm all his practice, has not
been integrity itself, would also be
speaking a downright lie. This is an
exceptional record in these days. when
the New York bar has so many corrupt
members and many others willing 20
prostitute their talents in order to Sc
cure the fat TetaineTs that numerous
individuals and corporations are only
too willing To give for legal advice
which VIII get them successfully
around the very laws passed by the
people for their regulation, and stifl
keep them just outside prison wallis
he nf
York state and city MIR. Hughes has
been very favorably known, indeed, es-
pecially as advocate and counsel SOr
other attorneys in appeals, since his re-
sumption of active practice, following
his resignation as professor of law in
the Cornell university school of law
twelve years ago. He has conducted To
a successful issue many cases of in
trinstc value arOusing keen interest
among the profession, though until this
year he has never CHANGED to figure in
that class of legal work which furnishes
the newspapers of this country with
scare heads. In other words. the public
generally has long been ignorant of his
existence even, to say nothing of his
peculiar talents Nevertheless, | have
every reason to believe that several I'M
scrupulOuS corporations were aware of
his brilliant legal attachments years
ago Then, you may ask, why has he
the deserved reputation of being free
from entanglements with such corpo-
rate interests? / answer, because the
interests that would have liked TO Sc
cure his services knew better than to
try to bride Charles E. Hughes with
big fees TO give them the use of his
head when he could not put his whole
heart in the work"
Happiest Two Years of Mr.. Hughes
Life.
II was in 1891, when he had become
thoroughly tried out after the four
years of particularly hard work, fol-
lowing his entrance into partnership
with Mr.. Carter that Mr.. Hughes was
asked 10 become professor of law in
the Cornell university school of law.
His weakened physical condition. his
depressing mental WEAKNESS and his
bOyhOOd's prediction for teaching as
sorting itself, caused the offer TO APP
pear TO him with peculiar force. De-
spite the earnest opposition and dis
gust of Mr.. Carter, who had become
his father-in-law in December OF 1888,
he soon decided in favor of the profess
sorship.
There followed what Mr.. Hughes has
called the happiest two years OF his
life. In that time he regained his
health, his work was pleasant, his sur
rOundings dignified and his daily ASSOC
ciates of the type that appeal strongly
TO men possessing the scholastic tenn
permanent. These things kepS Mr.
Hughes blind for time to the fact that
a professors salary is none too liberal
to provide for the needs of a growing
family. His habit of working hard
caused him TO start new courses con-
tinually, thus preventing him from eX-
periencing the ample leisure that he
had looked forward 10 with such de-
light. In addition his father-in-law
kept at him eVerlasungly to resume &C
tive practice. At last. his health be-
coming more vigorous than ever before,
he felt a decided longing for the siren
uOus life again, and at the end of the
school years of 1893 he once more be-
came d law partner Of the man who,
during his lifetime, befriended more
young lawyers than any other MEM
Der of the New York bar, living or
dead
The firm name at this time was set
down as Carter, Hughes & Dwight,
Mr.. Dwight being a nephew of the
Professor Dwight who nominated Mr..
Hughes prize fellow at Columbia. On
AIR. Dwights death in 1903 the firm
name became Carter. Hughes. Rounds
& Schurman With the death of Mr.,
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