Arizona republican., 1899-05-19
DEPENDED SENATOR QUAY
interesting Personality of Lawyer
 D. T. watson.

Since the acquittal of Senator Quay
 the personality of Lawyer David T.
 Watson, whose brilliant efforts during
 the trial attracted great attention, has
 become more widely known. Although
 he has enjoyed what is slid to be the
 most lucrative practice in Pennsyl-
 vania, but flaw persons in Philadelphia
 had ever heard of MT Watson before.
 Unassuming in manner, genial, care
 less in dress, he came here from Pitts
 burg with nd blar'e of trumpets, walked into court. and fifteen minutes after
 the trial began he was the central fig
 Gre i'm the case. When the hearing finally ended every man in the courn
 room, from the judge to the smallest and most 1Inimpc.ltant tipstave, was
 his friend. MT. Watsons personality
 during the ordeal was always delight
 ful. There was the mark of the old
 schCol gentleman. the gentleman bred
 of generations of gentlemen, about
 everything he said and did His voice
 was thin and net always audible tatthe
 rear of the room, yet his smallest ut
 terance was followed with the deepest interest He always used the simplest language and never reSorted to an era torical trick, but what he said was ter ribly effective. Two words tel the se- crst of his power-law and logic
 Of the former the rCdund, red~faced man was a veritab.e encyclopedia. G. tatilcns simply flowed from his lips, and when he would form an angle by joining his two forefngers in frcnt of his nose it was always warning to Judge Riddle that a clincher was com- ing. The logic of the man was superb Everything came in the most orderly sequence. He either started from the foundation and buiIded up, or else from the tsp and tore down-which- ever style best suited his purpose.
 When he talked for a long time his speech was full of apologies, his man. her most deferential. Sometimes in his hurry he was careless as to words. but never as to thOUghltS. Time and again he drove back attacks cn the defense's lines by sheer mental force. In repOse he was always approachab.e, always good natTed; in action or re- pose invariably universal favorite.
 l. WAS probably the grealtlcsc tribute Senator Quay could have when Mir. iWaljsch appeared for him, for he is a lawyer who never practices in crimi. nal ccFurts. It was an act of pure friendship. Not long ago Governor Sl-i1e wanted to make Mr Watsl-n, who by the way, is a. democrat, a justice of the supreme court, but the Pidtsburg nam mCldestly declined the honor When the Quay trial was ever he hur- ried home without waiting for the yer dlct or the shower of congratulations |
 MT. Watson fas Tong been the cen tral figure in legal circles in Allegheny county. He was born in Washington, | Pa, fifty years ago, and is the scn Of | Judge James Watoon, who, for many | years, was a prominent jurist of Wash | ing'Gcn county. He was educated in | Washington and Jefferson college, and | after studying law was admitted to | practice. Finding that Washington | county as a field fer the practice cf | law was limited, he went to Pittsburg, | where he opened an office.
 MT. Watson began to attract atten- tion in the early '70s, when he was en- gagged in the celebrated Standard Oil | trust cases, in which he was victori- ous. Since then he has been counsel in all the big Standard cases tried in | this section. In 1874 he was engaged by Allegheny City to defend the mu- nlclpality in the suits growing out Of the great Butchers run flood, i'm which 3 dozen lives were lost. His masterly argument, in which he claimed that the flood was due to the will of God, and which could not be prevented. gave him nationa, prominence.
 Anlather prominent case in which k Mr. Watson was interested was the g1ealt fight made over the improvement 0f Penn avenue. AS a result of this Mir. Watson was engaged to draw up an act which still stands, and under which all street improvements are now made.
 Mr. WatsCn has made a speciality 3f corporation law, and is counsel for he largest PTdtsburg corporations. He 5 associated with John s. McCleave, md the income of the firm, it has been is several hundred thou 'and dcllars annuaTy.-Phiiadelp