The Washington herald., 1907-09-08

ty-one minutes. leave it to your honor,
however to say what shall be done under
the circumstances" He smiled sweetly
as he thus handed one" TO the court
You ought probably. to be relieved. so
I will withdraw the assignment" was
all the court could hand him in return.
Il viii arrange with my former partner
TO go on with the defense If desired and
as this seemed good practice to the court
that arrangement was made, and Chanler
grabbed his nat and coat and bolted for
the subway lie got his train all right
One bitter cold day he secured the &C
quittal of an assigned client who had
been under arrest for months, a minion
Of the district attorneys office having
seized him in the fun possession of his
summer toys, the mercury being well up
in the sos at the time. ones nature may
be hardened by long incarceration, but
his skin never. and the poor fellow shiv-
cred and hesItated as he passed out of
the warm court into chilly freedom.
why don't you put on your overcOat
and go home?" demanded Mr.. CHAMBER
| Me oVercoatt" he exclaimed with a
chatter. I've ne overcoat and no home.
Me wife's just dead They wouIdPt let
me go 10 the funeral Me heart is broke.
Ne body might as we'll freeze and 90 out
with the tide tonight
1t was a pretty good oyereoet as fur
lined overcoats go in Gotham that the
man found hlmself Inside Of within the
next minute Something that nightly
Iresembled the Tong green" was slipped
into his hand. and he was told 20 be at
the lawyers Office the next morning
ready TO take q Job that would be found
for him.
There is and there isn't honor among
thieves There are two sides 10 the ques-
ton. As a negative proposition on trial
Il might find q competent witness in Mr.
lChanler. though he never grumbled over
the incident nor did il lessen his faith in
human kind. He had just secured the &C
lquittal Of an East Side thief. and, meet
ling him a few minutes later in the CORR
doris, he stopped 70 talk with him. The
man seemed thoroughly penitent, and
was ELUSIVE in his declaration that he
would go out into the world and earn
enough money honestly 10 pay him a fee
The lawyer explained that that wasn't
really necessary, that he would feel
wholly recompensed if he should learn
that he had adopted the straight and mar
b row path instead Of the broad Bowery for
future travelling purposes. The heaTt-to-
) heart talk lasted some minutes. and then
the fellow shook his hand warmly and
hurried down the steps. With him went
along the lawyers watch, which he re-
! membered to have looked at just about
the time the rascal was making his most
imprisoned declaration of undying devo-
ton to virtue in all future relations with
mankind.
He reminds me of some political re-
formers have met" remarked the law
yer. dryly, as he toyed with the remnant
Of the broken chain.
Fair in Presiding over the Senate.
When the lieutenant governor assumed
! office he knew instinctively what should
be done by the presiding officer in the
senate. So far as principle was concerned
he might as well have been a running
, mate of Gov. Hughes as Of Hearst He
believed the governor desired TO honestly
serve the public, and, as he himself knew
) nothing of any other kind of public serv-
+ ice tran one based on honesty and fair
! dealing it was natural and easy to give
such assistance as a presiding officer
might to a well-intendoned governor. He
announced at a dinner at the National
Democratic Club, in New York, that this
: would be his policy, and he has literally
: followed it. On several occasions he has
found it necessary TO differ Sharply with
e his Democratic friends of the minority.
: and his Democracy was questioned.
! What is right is true democracy has
= been his answering sentiment, and the
/ gavel has done the rest. Probably he is
the fairest presiding officer who ever oc-
} cupied the chair IL the New York senate.
1t is as natural for him to be just as it
is for a partisan to be unjust. Temperate
in all things, tenacious as teak Of his own
convictions and tolerant of the opinions
. of others may truthfTIly be described as
the characteristics of the young Democrat
5 who within six months has become a ma
] tional figure. So impressed was the Re
= publican senate with HIS conduct as pre-
siding officer that its leader introduced
and the entire body united In the passage
of a resolution of commentator. some
thing unique In the history of the upper
house, where the politics of the State finds
full and free and vociferous expression.
Mr.. Chanler is q member of all the
clubs affected by the swell set of New
York, as well as the National Democratic
=. and the Manhattan. which are dedicated
D to the doing of political business on strict
JeffersOnian lines. But he finds little time
or satisfaction in club life. His law inter
e ests, his duties as lieutenant governor. a
r devoted wife and three children. and the
E management of his own large business
] interests all draw so heavily on his hours
that he has little time. even If he had the
: inclination, for Indulgence in the club and
= social life.
Stamped Ireland for Land LeaguerS.
Somebody has figured that the estate of
, his cousin, William Waldorf, the wealth
lest absentee landlord in the world, if
lput on the New York market would yield
its owner $500 O0o.O00 a tidy sum, surely.
, It is a moral certainty that not a penny
of its income would be contributed 70 his
, campaign fund should the Democrats en-
ter Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler as their
candidate In the next Presidential cam
, paign. For in the latter sos young
Chanler went over to ireland to help the