The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-06-06
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INTERESTING READING ABOUT
sENAToRl PHI LANDER c.
sEsss:, x;sPREsIpENTlAL
PossIBiLlTY..
WAsHINGTON.ssls June G-Barely
over ave feet In height. Philander
Chase Knox sena tors from Pennsylva-
mia and former Attorney General OF
thesu United States. lie, physically speak
Ing tiep most fdim1nutive5 candidate TO.
the pTealdenc that the country has
eyers seer. But short as he is in stat
nre;E he is long in intellect.
1 Y There are other superlatiye adjec-
lives that might be applied. For in
stance he Us the richest OF NIL the Re
uhlicans candidates. the dresslest. the
\ nostsreseryed and the sportiest. He
Il owness some of the best Sblooded hors-
.sess JIM America. He has earned the big
5 gestH fees for defending corporations,
and he was the first Attorney General
ito ind and make use of IN effective
weapon stosprosecute.t them. He is also
the balde Of all the candidates. and
the only one that Is smooth shaven.
Knox likes the company OF young
men. this house lnlmost+every even
4 ing there Is 4 d spinochle or billiard
Z game iniproEyess In which the Senator
and some youngs of his acquaint-
ance are the participants. When he
t1ndss ag young man displaying marked
ability II any line Of work, he is very
apt extend a helping hand. 1t was
thus that Milton D. Purdy.f sometimes
referred ito 5as the trust buster, of
the Eadmintstration: came into notice.
@ Knox met him when he was In Mime
sofa In connectlon with the Northern
case. when Purdy2had Just
Z begun to- climb the Legal ladder. Knox
was attractelto him and his work.
s5and when the law was passed author.
izingi the Department OF Justice to EN-.
2$play special assistant attorneys gem
EZRA. ssheB sent for; Purdy and gave him
iSpnes of the Jobs. That Purdy has made
s. good Is tribute to Knox's discriminate
Ing jnd gment of men.
Knox Is sensitive. Some years ago
Y he entered at the New York horse
\ show az pair OF blooded horses that
Us had @pedlgrees reaching back to the
Dark Ages, and which to his mind. as
sssanE expert, Twas the finest matched
team of trotting horses in America:
The prizes, however. went to horses
OF New York's social favorites and
Knox's pair received no mention. He
has never exhibited there since.
a. He owes his prominence partly to
b the fact that he was once expelled
from the West Virginia University for
a boyish prank: One of the rules OF
faculty was that no students
should attend theatricals. One day
Accompany playing East Lynne
came along and Knox. together with
s. about twenty fellow Students, decided
q to see the performance. One of the
prnfessors, sent to take the names of
~ the Aofender reported them, and all
were sentenced TO expulsion. Eighteen
were reinstatel on signing an agree
ments not to offend again, but Knox
and zone other left.
re invent to Mt. Union College.
lliance, Ohio, and 1t was there that
hes arst smet William Mckinley. Jr.
ndec:de ed as to the profession he
9SssiRonld dopt, 1T was entirely due to
Mckinley that he finally resolved to
y become lawyer. But for that meet
Ing. he Nigh not be bank cashier
IN Sa$ country town. like his father.
A close student. especially OF cases
ID Ia hich 4he&was Interested, and with IL
fine CO pacfty of resolving abstruse
tatement Is .of the law into concise
land lucid Language understandable
y ever: by laymen, Knox succeeded in
his SprofcssI sion from the start In the
EEsearllerR days of Andrew Carnegie he
IA became the ironmaster's lawyer and
esSrecelvel 1T is sall. m income or $780,.
200 n year from this source alone
IN the! twenty years following his
resi- gna ton in 1876 as Assistant Uni.
ted Sta ties Attorney for the western
district OF Pennsylvania n place tina.
he hell for only one year, his per-
Honal retainers 4 averaged $4,000 n
year! These, with his interest In the
other business OF HIS firm. gave him an
" Income of about Isl 10000 a year, and
he came to be recognized us one OF
The most successful corporation law.
yers IN the country. incidentally he
became d i stpckhota sr3 In the u. s.
Steel icorporat ton. the Union Trust Co,