The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-01-10
NEW STATE ADJ
M|N|STRATION
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lOIIoN' GU
The biographer who shall truly sun
up the man Williams, must be on,
who has known him long and init
mately and he must posses sthe ca
paCity to comprehend and appreciate
those hnenesscs of mold and charac
ter that make him a most remarkabl,
and extraordinary combination OF hu
man characteristics. To many these
characteristics have been tmpenetra
BILE, much in the same way that an
understanding of women has baffled
men throughout the centuries. though
of course, the comparison ends there
Judge Williams is essentially mascu
/ line. He is a mans man and a splen.
did hard-knuckled fighting man.
| II there is one man more than an
| other whose impress on the pages
of history recalls to mind the new gov.
ernor of Oklahoma, it is the virile,
duelling Andrew Jackson. Judge Viii
lams possesses the classical learning
and the polish which the hero of New
Orleans did not possess. The Oklaho-
man greatly admires the chara cter of
General Jackson and has given much
study to what has been printed con-
cerning his life. If it were left to the
prolific pages OF history for compar-
ative summing up of the man and the
public official, should say that Rob
crt l.. Williams is a twentieth century
edition, uneXpurgated, of Andy Jack
son and Chief Justice John Marshall
combined. ! should say of him that
he represents the high patriotism-th
disinterested love of country and SER
yice-that the first chief justice of the
supreme court of the United States
eXcmplified; his legal learning and
his classical knowledge-an the stur-
dy, rugged, honest demOcracy-the ag
gressiye, splendid fighting qualities
OF Old Hickory. \ concession might
be made to those of keener Judgment
and less information on the subject,
and avoid the accusation of fulsome-
ness in praise, by adding that he pos
sihly possesses these qualities in "A less
degree, certainly. But | am unwilling
to make the concession.
Marshall might have been president.
but he chose to go on the supreme
bench Of the nation and vitalize the
constitution he had helped to frame.
There are those who say that Robert
l.. Williams might have been the first
governor of Oklahoma, and he was
urged to enter the first race, but he in
sisted on going on the supreme bench
of the state and vitalizing the consti-
tuition OF Oklahoma-to put teeth in
IT, he said. The second campaign he
was again urged. Cases were pending
involving the vitality of the Oklahoma
constitution. He put ambition aside
and remained on the bench.
1t is well to remember here that
Judge Williams became chief justice
of the supreme court of Oklahoma at
the age of 80 years. His income from
the private practice of law at that
time is set byt those who had oppor-
tunity to know, at $4,000 a year.
Already, starting out as a penniless
boy, he had acquired life compe-
tence. He was ready for public ser
vice. Without a family of his own,
simple as to wants, and with nominal
personal requirements, the mere mat
ter of money making no longer held
any appeal to him.
These facts open up the necessity
for further exploitation of the mans
remarkable makeup. 1t is certain that
when he entered the race for delegate
to the constitutional convention that
ne had achieved the first definite, fixed
chapter in his life program after fin
ishing his education--he had gained
a competence. His desire for public
service was born for one thing out of
the purpose to accomplish results for
his fellows in the field he best knew.
II is possible that the pinch of early
poverty, the obscurity of his early life
and his name, coupled with the glamor
that attracts men to the calcium OF
political life, may have inspired him
with ambition for public preferment.
II is possible that a domineering nature
may have inspired in him the thirst
for power, but If this be true, it is
certain that ambition has been subser
Went to the higher purpose for human
service and that the acquisition of
power has replaced his domineering
disposition with a big, fine spirit of
softened good will, not, however, with
| lossened firmness. Since the election
men have remarked wonderinsly on