Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-03-29

of "a very fine point of law. Chief Justice
Gray listened attentively, and when the
young man had concluded, startled his col
leagues and the whole court room by leav-
ing his seat, and passing down to the bar,
where he shook hands with Mr.. Moody and
congratulated him on his argument.
In the first session of the Fifty-fourth
Congress two stockily built young men hap
pened to draw seats next to each other.
AS they sat down at their desks arranging
papers, etc, one o. them, smooth-faced
man with stiff, light hair, parted exactly in
the middle and brushed back from his fore
head, turned to the other and said:
Haven't 1 seen you somewhere?'
Really, don't know" replied his neigh
Dor, 1T is possible We have met some
where
"Oh. 1 know you. You were counsel for
the commonwealth in the Lizzie Borden
trial at Fall River and your name is Moody.
My name is Quigg, and reported that trial
for the New York Tribune" The two men
shook hands, and Lemuel E. Quigg of New
York and William Henry Moody of Massa-
chusetts started on their congressional
| careers together. Mr.. Quigg's congress
sional experience was limited to two terms
while Mr.. Moody kept on until now he is
transferred to another branch of the gov
eminent service.
This Borden trial marked one of the dis
tinct triumphS in Mr.. MoodyS career. At
| the time he was district attorney for the
| eastern district of Massachusetts and was
brought into the case at the solicitation of
Attorney General hn0Wlt0n, who desired
| his assistance. Mr.. Moody's conduct in the
| prosecution was so able as to command ma
| tional attention. Few trials of recent years
| have attracted so much attention and sell
| dom have the details Of examination been
| published SO infinitely.
Entered the House in 1895.
There is man who will make a name
for himself in Congress-" was the remark
of Senator David B. Hill of New York
when Mr.. Moody entered the House in 1895
| Il read every line of the Borden trial" said
| Mr.. Hill. land I was impressed with the
high grade shown in Mr.. Moodys conduct
| of that case. He is an extraordinary man
and the country will hear from him. This
| tribute to a stanch republican from an
| equally determined and stanch democrat
was praise of the highest character.
| Lodge, that young man of yours from
| Massachusetts, Moody, is all right" This
was Speaker Thomas B. Reeds common,
| on the young representative who succeeded
the well-known and distinguished General
| Coggswell. Those are the kind of people
we grow up in Massachusetts, was Mr.
| Lodges retort.
j General Coggsweu had been reelected t.
| the Fifty-fourth Congress. but died several
months before it met There was a univer.
| sal demand in the district for the nomina
| ton of Mr.. Moody. Every newspaper: rep
| resenting both parties, in his district sug
gested him as the man most likely to dc
4
! He was nominated without opposition and
in discussing his political experience Mr.
Moody declares with some satisfaction thai
he was nominated and elected four times
| without the expenditure of one dollar on his
part. He made his modest contributions
| each year to the campaign funds pu,
never spent a penny in his own personal
campaign.
my election to Cong ess from the OLD
| Essex district was high honor and re.
| gard it as such. 1t is a great sa abstraction
| to have the Endorsement of your home PEG.
| pie and to know that those with whom YOU
have associated from youth and who have
known you from birth repose so much con.
ffdence in you" Mr.. Moody might have
added that he never goes back to his home
town of Newbury without receiving roya
/ welcome and listening to expressions OF
/ pride from his old neighbors at his success
The district which he has represented il
! Congress Is a notable one, and its praise.
have been sung by many statesmen. Sena
| tor Hoar, whose pride in Massachusetts ant
love of her people and history prompt hin
on all occasions to sound her praises thu,
| referred to this district in pronouncing :
| eulogy on the life and character of Genera
| Coggsweil: Essex, where Winthrop land
| ed, where Endicott dweIt. where Putnam
was born, where Whittier sang, where Dan,
and Cutler planned the great ordinance o.
1857, which stands, with the Declaration
and the Constitution. as one of three greai
title deeds of American liberty, and where
sailors put to sea for the great sea fights OF
the war of 1872"
Moody is Red Headed.
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