The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-12
KCARREN'S WORD PAINTER.
HE'S THE HON. THOMAS s. NOR
, GAN, JR., CRACKER STATESMAN
And Crackerjack spellblnder-He Read
Law in the Cradle and Played POLL
tics In the dergarten--nrOokIyn
Has Discovered His Nimble Tongue.

Law in the Cradle and Played Poll.
tics in the kindergarten Brooklyn
Has Discovered His Nimble Tongue.
The mystery surrounding the origin.
habitat and calling of Senator Patrick
Henry McCarren's new speilbinder has
been cleared up. All that anybody has
been able to get out Of the Williamsburg
statesman is that his find is Thomas Morgan
OF Georgia, but greatness is bound to be
identified
This new Demosthenes is the Hon. Thomas
s. Morgan, Jr., formerly Of Savannah,
Ca. and now practising lawyer in Brook
Ign, with Offices at 10 Court street and "a
Smith street. His home is at 202 State
street.
1t will be a hard blow to the bar Of Chat
ham county, Ca, of which Savannah 10
the county seat, to say nothing Of the grief
Of some of the oldest and most aristocratic
families in the Empire State Of the South
to learn that there could be, anywhere.
any mystery surrounding the identity OF
Tom Morgan, IA everybody IN Savannah
Familiarity calls him.
Mr. Morgan is not much over IS years
old He is almost as well known at the
Savannah bar as the Hon. Fleming du
Bignon or Col. George A. Mercer or Major
Meldrim or the late Judge Chisholm. He
is related to Rear Admiral Sias Casey
to the Ferrills, the d'Antignacs and the
Mediums of Georgia and is brother OF
Lieut.. Casey b. Morgan, L. S. n,
So much for his pedigree, but young Mr.
Morgan doesn't go as much on pedigree as
some Of his knsmen in the South. When
he was ready for college he concluded to
start right. in reading law. instead OF going
In two years ne presented himself for
examination. The old presiding Justice,
who had always known the boy, looked
down from the bench at him and inquired
gravely.
May ask how old you are Mr. Morgan?'
Am | expected to make statement or
| an oath?" replied the candidate interroga-
lively.
With as straight a face as he could COM
mand the venerable Justice replied: Maybe
| it had better be Just statement
Then. I'm 81, sir" was the reply.
IL thought it wouldn't be necessary for
You TO he much older, said the Justice,
and the eighteen year-old lad was admitted
to the Georgia bar, having passed the best
examination in his class.
In two years he had more business than
he could attend TO, and he was admitted
to be the most eloquent advocate in the
State of Georgia. A year or two later he
was elected 10 tne peOTPd Legislature,
Three or four years ago, he decided that
he wanted to practise law in New York.
His father had large financial interests
here, and the young man made up his mind
that he could make more money up this
way than he could in Savannah. There
fore he came ard settled in Brooklyn.
He opened an office in Court street, and
business came along so fast that he soon
opened another in Smith street, He prefers
criminal 10 civil law, but he has found the
money is in the civil courts in these parts
and since his retainers have been largely in
civil cases, he has rather gone back on his
first love; but, for all that, there is nothing
this eloquent young Georgian likes better
than to get into criminal court now and
then and plead the cause of one accused.
He says there is only one side to be on in a
criminal case, and that is the Defence