The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-03
TRIBUTES TO GRAHAM
COURTS AND LAWYERS EULOGIZE
 DECEASED ATTORNEY.
Impressive Exercises by Montgomery Bar Association In City Court Room-Three Judges Sat on
 the Bench.

The Montgomery Bar Association yes- terday mroning at 10:3O o'clock in the City Court of Montgomery paid its respect to the memory of one of its former most brilliant members, the late Captain Edward A. Graham.
 A large number of barristers were present and joined in the exercises. Court was convened in due form by Judge A. D. Sayre and w. H. Thomas, of the City Court of Montgomery and Judge T. Scott. Sayre of the Circuit Court. Henry H. Matthews, clerk of the City Court and David Johnson. clerk of the Circuit Court were also present.
 Eulogistic speeches were delivered by Solicitor s. Hugh Dent and Major R. E. Steiner at the conclusion of which, memorial resolutions were in- troduced.
 In responsei to the speeches. Judge A. D. Sayre, as senior judge spoke as follows:
 speaking tht of my personal feei- ing, rather than for mere conformity to official ptopriety. recall that when l came to this bar, it bore upon its honorable rolls the names of many eminent lawyers, then actively dis charging the duties of our profession, who. in the comparatively short inter- vening period, have died. Among them was rather a remarkable number of men who have worthily borne great parts in the judicial and forensic histo- ry of the State, and whose lives have illustrated the best traditions of the bench and bar of Alabama. There were Watts, Stone, Clopton, Rice, and my friend and preceptor, Judge Airing ton; Bragg. Tompkins, P. T. sayre, Troy, and Semple; Lester Smith and Lomax, just beginning his short but brilliant career; Holtzclaw, Blakey, Williamson, and Elmore Fitzpatrick; Colonel Arlington. the Winters, father and son, and Colonel .Roquemore, who came from another part of the State, and with him J. M. White. whose brief activity in this field won profound respect and personal affection.
 The loss of so many gentlemen dis tinguished as these were, for talents and great powers. must have been deeply felt in any age or State To those of us who were privileged to know them in a personal way. their places will never be quite filled.
 Now, Captain Edward A. Graham, among the youngest men of the genera tion have named, has joined the illus trious majority. No one who enjoyed the pleasures and advantages of an association with him at the bar could fail to note the commanding authority of his character and personality as the secret of his great reputation and in- fiuence. For he was an impressive ex- ample of genuine manhood.
 His early years at the bar were not marked by any of those shabby neces- sities which have so often been sup posed to magnify by broad contrast the accomplishments of successful American men; but, on the other hand, he fol- lowed no primrose path nor royal road to professional success. His situation, happy as 1t appeared, because equally removed from blighting extreme, yielded to him easily a thoroughly com- potent knowledge of the science of the law and yet imposed such uses of ad- versity as developed solidity, loyalty, fearless advocacy. uncompromising in- tegrity-in a word, strength He walked without leading strings He hewed his own way And so he reach ed an imposing statue as lawyer and citizen. and was. in many admirable and important respects. at the time of his death, first in the ranks of his