The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-05-05

to think have very patient mind l mean by
that mind which moves slowly which plods for
ward instead of dashing or leaping. There is moth
ing brilliant about it. brilliant mind 1t strikes
me- is like thoroughbred horse. good for
but afterward needing to be stabbed for day or
two My mind is like pillow horse. 1t cannot
squirt, but it can go on turning furrow after fur
row. That lets me get through a lot Of work.
BY a patient mind" he went on Il also mean
a mind which does not leap to attitudes and deci
sons. but feels its way And mind which does
not get its back up easily. Opposition does not
make my mind bristle difference of opinion is
not personal thing with
And think" he said, his dark eyes twinkling
and his wide lips quirking with fun, 1T has been a
very decided advantage to me to be 80 little and
to look young. l really mean that" he fastened
to add and cited two instances in illustration. One
was his argument before the Supreme court of the
United States in the Cleveland traction cases,
argument which attracted the lattering favorable
comment of the learned justices. The other a
speech which was Of the outstanding features
OF the Baltimore convention which nominated
President Wilson.
Neither of those he commented, could by
any stretching OF words be called a great speech.
The natural fairmndedness of men was what
pulled me through in both l looked
Handicapped that my hearers said instinctively.
Give the boy a chance!"
Such cool, almost academic self-analyss led
to ask him how life struck him, to speak
what ambitions it stirred in him I'D like to prac
tice law he said That is my ambition.
There is office position that l care for. But
I'd like to practice and practice and practice law
Further talk along that line developed the rather
interesting fact that the new secretary Of war is
OF those men who seem to have been moved
forward by the urgings and propulsion of their
friends instead of fighting forward of their own
accord in response to an inner impulse. Post
master General Wilson all but dragged him from
his briefessness in Martinsburg to get his first
taste of cabinet ways and duties and responsible
ties. Martin Foran dragged him to Cleveland to
become trial lawyer. Tom Johnson dragged him
into politics And Woodrow Wilson has just
dragged him to the department.
The circumstances OF the Foran I'm
usual enough to partake of the romantic. In 1897,
when the young and still younger looking attorney
returning from his first visit to Europe, he
table mate of the late W. T. Stead and mild
hammered. retiring English barrister. One day
Baker came on deck to find the barrister in peck
of trouble stalwart lawyerish, six-foot Irish
man, full of Gaelic fire, had wayaid him and was
charging him, In his own person, with all the
wrongs England had perpetrated on the dis
tressful country. Il happened to be rather IA
miliar with the Irish land laws" SO Mr.. Baker
tells It, and contrived to substitute myself for
the barrister in the argument. The upshot Of II
was that my opponent and became good friends
and spent the rest OF the voyage playing chess
together. We parted in New York. l went back
to Martnsburg, and no word passed between us
for two years. Then the man-Martn Foran-
wrote the firms business had increased that
another partner required and that he wanted
me. had long felt should be in a larger com
munity than Martinsburg, and liked Cleveland
but l knew they wanted q trial lawyer. which
was not. So went full Of excuses. prepared
to thank him and be dismissed in friendliness
Before l could get my FIRST excuse out Mr. Foran
had ushered me into an office and said. Here's
yours and before caught my breath he had sent
some clients in for me to talk with l stayed in
Cleveland and learned to be trial lawyer"
His enlistment active fighter in the John
son camp was equally casual Tom was sick
one night, and the young lawyer was pressed into
service to fill his place at rally. Toms sick"
aid the man who introduced him This 10 New
ton D. Baker. who's going to speak in his place