The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-06
HONOR TO THE DEAD
HIGH TRIBUTE PAID JUDGE
 JOHN c. WINTER.
Montgomery Bar Association Meets and Honors His Memory.
 Eloquent Address by
 Alexander Troy.

I -
 The members of the Montgomery bar
 held an adjourned meeting at 12 o'clock yesterday in the Circuit, Court room of the County court house to hear the re- port of the committee appointed at the meeting last Saturday to draw up resoa lutions in honor of the memory of Judge John Gindrat Winter.
 Hon. W. L. Martin acted as Chairman of the meeting.
 A large number of the Montgomery bench and bar were present to hear the report of the Committed.
 l After the meeting had been called to order by Chairman w. L.. Martin, exc Governor w. c. Oates. Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, requested Alexander Troy to read the resolutions prepared by the Committee. Mir. Troy then read resolutions paying respect and honor to the memory of the lately de- ceased Judge, and paying tribute to his qualifications as a man and 2 lawyer. It was "resolved. by the bar of Montgomery That in the death of Hon. John Gindrat Winter. the judiciary of the State of Alabama has lost an honest, painstaking and upright Judge, Judge who wore the ermfne without spot or stain; Judge deeply impressed with the exalted char acter of the judicial office. Ndisnifed In Idemeanor, courteous and considerate 70 the members of the bar. and Judge who administered justice, but justice tempered with mercy" k The resolutions were heartily concurred in by ali of the members present and | were adopted by unanimous vote. It was also resolved that the resolutions be presented to the Supreme Court by the Attorney General, to the Circuit Court by the Chairman of the meeting and to the City Court of Montgomery by the So- licitor. with the request that they be en- tered on the minutes of those courts. The Committee was composed of w. c. Oates, A. D. Sayre, William H. Thomas, Aiex- ander Troy and Ray Rushton.
 After reading the resolutions adopted by the Committee in respect to the mem- ory of Judge Winter. Mir. Troy delivered a beautiful personal tribute to his mem- ory. eulogizing him as a man, a lawyer and a Judge. MT. Troy spoke of Judge Winters boyhood, his early school life and | his entrance into the Confederate army at the outbreak of the civil war. After the war he continued the life of Judge Winter, by speaking Of his later educa- tion at Columbia University wherein he graduated after taking a law course. Re- turning to Montgomery after his grad uation, he took up the practice of law and stood high in his profession. almost from the very. outset. MT. Troy then spoke of Judge Winters appointment by Governor Oates to fill the vacancy caused lon the City Court bench by the death of Judge Thomas M. Arlington and how he had filled the position entrusted to him with credit to himself and satisfaction to the bar
 When the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit was created Judge Winter was appointed | by Governor W. D. Jellxs to the position of Judge of the Circuit and 1t was be- lieved that he would have been elected without opposition at the fall election as his own successor. In speaking of the many lovable traits of character pos sesscd by Judge Winter MT. Troy eaid; "I am fully aware that fulsome and in- discriminate praise of the dead Is an in- suit to the intelligence of the living and an injustice to the dead, but if one whose I life has been sealed by death had quail ties which are commendable 1t should be the pleasure of the living to hold them up to their fellow men as worthy of em- I uiatIon. If our friend possessed, as insist he did, and in a superlative de gree. .the estimable and attractive quail ties of good nature, equitable temper, tn. swerving loyalty, sunny disposition and a warm, live, breathing sympathy for
 others, then 1t is meet and proper that
 we should say so, that those who are soon to take cur place on the busy stage of life may know what manner of mar he was. It was these qualities, as well
 as others, which I thought he possessed that caused to respect him as a man and
 to love him as a friend. .,-.
 Judge Winter numbered his friends hS the number of his acQuaintapces. IT closing his tribute Mir. Troy said: ''Ai he had faults, as who among us hay' not? can truly say, they were not ex hibited in that phase of his nature knowI Ito me do not recall them and I woult thank no too candid friend to tell me O them. If such they were, let thens lik the ignominy of the brave and gallan Percy sleep with him in the grave ant be not remembered in his epitaph. oh
 the grave! the gravel It ouries everI
 error, covers every defect, extinguishe:
 every resentment From it's peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets ana tender recollections." If there were
 faults and the accusing spirit should hl
 with them to heavens chancery, as ht did with the oath of the kind and gentle
 My Uncle Toby" in Tristram Shandy , may he feel the same reluctance to give
 them in and may the recording angel. al lin that instance, in remembrance of thu many acts of compassion, of sympathy and. of charity done by our departed
 friend to those who stumbled and fell bS
 the wAyside in their weary pilgrimag'
 through life, as he writes them down
 drop tear upon them and blot them ou
 forever"