The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-08
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years past having been mostly of this
nature.
In many Of the more important cases
Of the state he was either retained by
one side or the other or acted with the
attorneys 50 retained in an advisory
capacity, and there are number OF
eases now pending in which he was 50
acting at the time of his death and in
which his services viii be greatly
missed. AS one prominent lawyer ex-
pressed It this morning when he said.
I hate to see Glen de- for he was
so called as an endearing term by his
fellow practitioners and friends, @for
two reasons. First, he was one of the
finest men have ever known, and
then We were associated IN several
cases yet to be tried. and I expected
him to furnish the brains with which
to Win them
known as a man of great tenderness
of heart he was without enemies. he
was also q man who hated the shams
OF life as well as the creeds and isms
behind which SO many of the misdeeds
of life find refuge and was by many
supposed to be an atheist. This, how
ever. was wrong for he was firm be-
lever in a supreme being and a hear
after though not member of any
church.
Throughout the west he was known
for his drolleries and the brilliancy of
his Witticism as we'll as his eccen-
tricities. His hair, which has been for
ears d great WHIT lt0EAS IiAlSHs lie al
ways wore long, reaching almost to his
coat collar and reached high above his
broad forehead. adding to his distin-
guishedz appearance.
He was always punctiIious in his
habits, leaving home~ins the morning at
a certain time and returning a about
the same hour every evening unless de-
tanned on business. A few moments
before z O'Clock each day he would
leave his office and walk to barber
shop in the same building for his daily
shave, On Sundays he always visited
the Elk club within = few minutes of
two o'clock in the afternoon, where the
same barber who shaved him on week
days waited for him. Being shaved he
would visit for ABOUT an hour with his
friends and then return to his home for
the remainder OF the day. These have
been MS ha D1tS for several years and
they were seldom varied even by the
difference of a few minutes In time.
He was a ready writer and his efforts
were full of keen witticisms and scath-
ing scarcasm and which were invaria-
bly, directed towards the benehting of
his fellow man. Ills writings were
iaostly of the lighter vein though he
wrote a law treatise or two which were
published and have become books Of
reference in the law libraries of the
state. In the drawers of his desk at
his Office he kept many of his most
brilliant writings which we're dashed
oft at odd moments on any available
slip CT paper IflGt might De near at
hand, and these his intimate friends
were permitted to read when they
visited him at his Office. though he al
ways treated Ibis scrap as he termed
sequences though it is more than likely
that they will be placed in book form
by his admiring friends.
For various reasons he was not a sue
cess as a politician though he always
championed the side of the oppressed
n 1874 he nv ,1f =
lists for governor of the state and made
8 brilliant campaign against odds that
he well knew 5hat--he could not over
come. Thought as he expressed it, ~K1e
had more fun out of the campaign than
any other two candidates on the ticket
and did not have to worry as to whether
he would be successful or not
He was at one time nominated for
mayor Of Topeka though he treated this
nomination as a joke, having been
named on a ticket where there was no
chance of overcoming the odds against
him. The only office that he ever held
in the state was that Of supreme court
reporter, an appointive one which he
held for two years, ending March !, 1893
when he was succeeded by T. F. Dewey
who died less than a. year ago while
serving in that capacity. His record
while filing this was most enviabie
one.
After his retirement from the office
OF supreme court reporter ne again re-
sumed his practice of law in Topeka
and to the time of his death was known
as one of the best lawyers IN the west,
and one whose opinion was eagerly
sought especially when the question of
the constitutionality of law was at
stake.
Mr.. Clemens bore a striking resenl-
blanee to Samuel Clemens mark
Twain) and his mind was a store house
of stories of amusing mistakes which
&t,s- a4 r,e
which is illustrated by the following
story published several years ago in
the New York Press:
For man ia have a double is often
confusing, but when the aforesaid dou-
BILE is famous complications of a stu
man out in Topeka. Kan. by the mama
of ClemensZG. c. Clemens-is constant
~ being taken for the humorist Of the
same name, and the more vehemently
he denies any relation to Mark Twain
the more the people laugh and declare
it's the best joke vet. He found people
taking his most serious remarks as
exeruciatingly humorous. He went 10
Europe years ago, and people there
dined and Wined him. believing that
they had the real old stuff with them
The more he. tried to. explain that II
was all q mistake on their part, ana the
madden he got, the more ttckied Iney
were. oh, Mr.. Twain, they sald, you
are SO 1uI415 - N9"7 ~ SCI III oA-sl1 -. =
all, and you can't conceal your identity
from u.s. On another occasion in cross
ing the brine he was asked to make q
speech on shipboard on the Fourth of
July. On reaching Glasgow his speech
was printed in one of the newspapers.
and of course was credited to Mark
Clemens tried all sorts OF arguments
to proye that he wasn't Mark Twain
but ali the editorssaid was. If yotl want
to travel sincog. it's all very well, but
cannot and will not tell my readers that
the speech that I have published as
yours Is not your own
THAT night Clemens went to the
theater with some steamer friends, and
greatly to their amusement Mark
Twain gags were thrown at him from
the stage The next day crowds OF
neopfe came to his hotel for his sigma
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