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Show nents which t-ve n:-3 t:r to fnrr.ous with fuch good ecct that IIarr::on succumbed and took up the PitUturg le of rcnsonlrg.' And that line won a case which was worth a cool million and a half. That let the country know what Pittsburg had loig tcfore realized full well. AltLongh his victories for the big steel concern were brilliant Lis. work in connection with the antitrust, anti-trust, laws J since his selection as Attorney-General has eclipsed all of his previous efforts for. the sim-ph sim-ph rca:;a that' the whole world has watched his every niore. - : , . Ui3 friends claim that he has won the admiration admira-tion not only of two totally different and differing Presidents, but of their Cabinets and of men high in the rants of both parties. They say that as a Ipablican his selection-as a Senator means the elevation of the standard of Pennsylvania political representation that will be a credit to the country as well as the famous Commonwealth which has done bo much to advance the material prosperity of the country. How Knox His Woi His Way. P. C Knox, who has just been named as Senator from Pennsylvania to succeed the ' late Senator Quay, is a type of the active and aggressive young , American in law, statesmanship and politics. Some w ondered where TdcKinley had picked up the Pittsburg Pitts-burg lawyer as the virtual head of the American bar, fohls position as Attorney-General entitles him to that very great honor To most of them Knox was an unknown in every other respect than that he was the successful attorney of Andrew Carnegie. Car-negie. 'o one believed that he would be anything else than a dyed-in-the-wool combine advocate, a friend of the trusts. Knox has so revolutionized the opinions regarding regard-ing him that it is refreshing to witness the homage . paid to his rare ability by some of the very men who early suHjtected that he was too one-sided for the seat in the President's family. His career has been spirited, clean to a marked degree, sincere, persist-ent, persist-ent, constant, remarkable and fairly .studded with the most brillliant legal work that has attended any of the efforts of the United States Attorney-General Attorney-General in. many years. Mr. Knox was a big lawyer in Pittsburg for a good many years before he accompanied Andrew Carnegie to see President Cleveland, and it took only a short conversation to impress the Democratic President and lawyer with the splendid attainments f the youug Pittsburger. He next leaped into the front rank of American lawyers in connectfon with a suit in Indianapolis in which the late Tresident llarrinonwas an attorney. It was a street railway fight. Harrison was inclined to ignore the Titts-burger Titts-burger because of his apparent youth. Harrison had been a leader of the Indiana bar for many years and a national figure. He felt his oats: Knox had an Idea how the case should be conducted and Harrison had his idea. Of course, they were opposite. Knox believed that he was right, and he delivered those sledge-hammer argu- |