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Show AS IT SEEMS TO MR. VARIAN. "Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air." Tommy Moore must have been gifted with a prophetic mind. I have often felt that he was calling call-ing up the future, when he wrote that, felt that he was casting my horoscope and reading my destiny, des-tiny, no to sppak, before I was born. I have felt that way since my early years in Nevada. Do the men of the desert know what It is for one like me to wear out such a life as mine among them? Of course they have an idea of my legal attainments. at-tainments. I have demonstrated that too often to have any mistake on that point, but the deeper, higher gifts, have they any conception of them? Now, I am named for a high office, and my name is displayed in the same kind of type that the names of common men are printed In. Wlir the public, the groat careless publiof see no difference dif-ference between my name arfflHhe others? Will they recogni2S that judicial calm on my brow which no ordinary snap-shot can catch and hold? I fear not. Will thev recognize my peculiar fitness for the place because of the steady judicial poise of my mind? Will they understand that the smaller vices which attach sometimes to great minds, such as vanity, egotism, pride of opinion, impatience at restraint, and a disposition to boss things, and if baffled or oven opposed, to r&ar when crossed, are all foreign to my nature? Will they see in me that even poise of Intellect, which In material form is represented in the ancient classic idea of the statue of justice; so severe of brow, yet so benign! so awful in wisdom. So far removed from anything mean or envious or mercenary like the small things that men struggle for on this old earth. A once so pure, and so austere! aus-tere! So considerate thera, so true and gen-erous, gen-erous, and forgivinr .-f course I will be elected. That sovereign, compelling force which shines out from an all-commanding circumambient Intellect will attend to that, but then what? In my chosen profession, and upon which I have shed so much luster, I shall have to meet and consult as though upon common ground with Bartch and McCarty. Think, of that! Are not there triumphs, after all, which cost too dearly? Is it really worth while? True the State needs me, true fur self-vindication, I "need the place. Often have I declared a principle prin-ciple of law which those chumps called judges, have derided. I need the place that I can make my record good. Every case I have ever lost needs a vindication, for I was not wrong. When was I ever wrong ? Each one of those cases shall be a co-respondent to establish how dull the judges were who decided them. They all wait vindication at my hands. AnQ the attorneys who measured their dull iron short swords with my intellectually Damascene, Damas-cene, blade, and who when on the floor have snubbed-me, will I not gve them some lessons in court etiquette? Surely the place needs me. And still what a pity. But yesterday I was perusing some decisions from the pen of Judge Alton B. Parker, and such opinions and couched in such phrases! v Still he is liable to become -President of the United States, while I but no matter. Neither Marshall, nor Jay, nor Kent, nor Storey, nor Everett, nor Chase; neither of a host more were ever President. Why should I repine? Why is it not true that some men are too, too great to be president? i Jul. I U I'ss |