The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-02

tice. Among the rest were John I.
Stuart Cyrus Walker, s.. II. Treat.
jess. u. Thomas, George Forquer, Dan
Stone, Nlnlan w. Edwards, John j.
Hardin. Schuyler Strong, A. #. Bled-
soc and Josiah Lamborn.
BY this time Mr.. Lincoln enjoyed
considerable local fame as a politician.
but none. Of course, as a lawyer. He
therefore needed partner and got one
In the person of John II. stuart, an
able and distinguished Whig, who had
relieved bis poverty years before by
the timely loan of books with which
to study law aud who had from the
first promoted his political fortunes
with zeal M dlsInterested as II WIS eff
fectlve. The connection promised well
for Mr.. Lincoln and no doubt did well
during the short period OF Its existence.
The courtroom was In IToffmans row,
and the office of Stuart a. Lincoln was
I'm the second story above the court
room. IL was a little room" and gen
orally dirty one" 1t contained "a
small, dirty bed" on which Lincoln
loungcd and slept. n buffalo robe, a
chair and n bench. Here the junior
partner, when discngaged from the
cares OF politics and the legislature.
was TO be found pretty much all the
time, reading. distracted and gloomy"
Springfield was small village, con-
tanning between one and two thousand
Inhabitants. There were no pave
-.
made OF chunks" stones and sticks.
Lincoln boarded with Hon. William
Butler, a gentleman who possessed in
an eminent degree that mysterious
power which guides the deliberations
of party conventions and legislative
bodies to foregone conclusion. Lin
coin was very poor, worth nothing and
in debt, circumstances which are not
often alleged In behalf of the modern
legislator, but Bill Butler was his
friend and took him in with little ref
erence to board bills and the settle
ment of accounts. According TO DIR.
Jayne, he "fed and clothed him for
years." and this signal service, render
ed Mt very critical time. Mr.. Lincoln
forgot wholly when he was In con-
gress and Butler wanted to be register
of the land office rs well as when he
was president Of the United States and
opportunities Of repayment were null
tltudinous. 1t Is doubtless all true, but
the inference of personal ingratltude
! on the part OF Mr.. Lincoln will not
bear examination. II will be shown at
another place that Mr.. Lincoln regard
ed all public offices within his gift as a
sacred trust to be administered solely
for the people and as In no sense a
fund upon which he could draw for the
payment of private accounts. He new
err preferred his friends to his enemies,
but rather the reverse, as II fearful
that he might by bare possibility he
influenced by some unworthy motive.
He was singularly cautious to avoid
the imputatlon of fidelity to his friends
at the expense of his opponents.
In Coke's and Blackstone's time the
law was supposed to be "a jealous mis-
tress," but in Lincoln's time and at
| Springfield she was anything but ex-
acting. Politicians courted her only
to make her favor the stepping stone
to success In other employments. Va
rlous members of that bar have left
great regulations to posterlty, but none
Of them We're earned solely by the le-
Ultimate practice of the law. Douglas
Is remembered rs a statesman, Baker
as n political orator. Hardin as q sol
der, and some now living, like Logan
and Stuart, although eminent I'm the
law, will be no less known to the his
tory of the times as politicians than ms
lawyers Among those who went to
the law for living and to the people
for fame and power was Mr.. Lincoln
lie was still member of. the legisla
ture when he settled at Springfield and
would probably have continued to run
for a seat In that body rs often as his
time expired but for the unfortunate
results of the "internal Improvement
system" the hopeless condition Of the
state finances and certain gloominesS
of mind which arose from private mis-
fortunes that befell him about the time
Of his retirement. We do not say posi-
lively that these were the reasons why
Mr. Lincoln made no effort TO be re
elected to the legislature of 1910, but {
careful study Of all the circumstances
will lead any reasonable man to be
lieve that they were. He was intensely
ambitious. longed ardently for place
and distinction and never gave up 1