The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-07


paid was bestowed on Thurman, and
he would not have uttered that had
he not thought it rebuke to Grover
Cleveland.
jeremiah S. Black and Mat H. Car
penter were like father and son, and
Justice Silas Miller thought Carpenter
the only lawyer of his time who was
match for Black. But these two had
a common ground. Both were Jeffer-
sonian Democrats, though Black sup
ported Breckenridge. in 1860 and Car
penter Douglas. Later Carpenter be-
came a Republican and Black went to
the grave the relentless enemy of that
party. Assuming that they were equal
as jurists, Black was the more accom-
plished man, and much the fiercer de-
batter, while Carpenter was by far the
greater orator and the most lovable
man of his day. His daughter called
him Matt" and it is doubtful if he
ever felt the sensation of anger. Many
was the night these two great jurists
sat from dusk till dawn specializing of
the learnings, the beauties, the pro-
fundities of English Jurisprudence.
There was not the slightest alloy in
their friendship, not the least of jeal-
ousy in their companionship, and when
the younger man died Black pronounc-
ed the eulogy thus: "He was the
greatest lawyer who ever spoke the
English tongue"
A delightful chumship was that be-
tween John Randolph Tucker and
James A. Garfield. The relationship
between Garfield and Blaine was much
like master and pupil, though the pu-
pill, the future president, was the ADLER
and the more accomplished man.
Blaine had rendered Garfield great
service. AS speaker he had made Gar
field leader of the house He had
saved him in the affair of the Credit
Nobiler." He had nominated him for
president and done yeoman service to
secure his election. Nevertheless,
when Blaine was not present to exer-
else authority Garfield felt the gall of
the yoke, and some weeks before the
inauguration he exclaimed in a pas
sion: "A president-elect ought to
make progress through proceeding
of personal and political bankruptcy
before he takes on himself the robes
of magistracy." But Blaine was re-
solved to remain the master, and he
did.
Randolph Tucker was F. F. v.
educated at the University of Virginia,
and Jeffersonian of Jeffersonians;
Garfield was born of the humblest
parents, in the western reserve, and
every drop of his blood was New Eng
land Puritan. Later he was educated
III MdoSdShuSCItS anu was f1dHlll-
tonian of the Hamiltonians, except
that he was hereto as to the dogma
of protection. Both Tucker and Gar
field were highly educated men, and
when in congress together they were
fond of spending hours in each others
society discussing the ancient and
modern classics. There was always
heap Of the grown-up boy about Gar
field. He loved to gush, though one
| of the most formidable debaters con-
gress ever knew, and perhaps his &C.
quired knowledge gained from. books
surpassed that of any other man in
the public life of his day. If he and
| Blaine, or he and Ben Harrison, had
been fused and made one, what a
giant he would have been! l have
said that Garfield was much of the
boy and very fervid. A case in point
was when he exclaimed: IF Cicero
were incarnate and should visit these
walks, Ran Tucker is the only man
who could hold satisfactory converse
with him" So great was his admira
ton and so implicit his confidence ir
his friend that he constituted Tucker
one of the guardians of his children
Tom Reed was too gigantic man tc
have close chumship with another
though he was quite democratic in his
manner and hail fellow with many
During his entire twenty years in con
gress he complimented but two men
one was oliver Cromwell, who hat
been dead more than two centuries
and the other was Henry G. Turner
of Georgia, doubtless the most fin
ished character then in public life.
But Reed was sociable. He loved
to be with Harry Tucker, McCall't
! friend and Roh Cousinc of Iowa h,,t