Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-07

very nervous, uneasy state He said
A he had been living a life of daily ter.
ror, as some of his friends, for whose
estates he was trustee, had been re.
ceiving anonymous letters, advising
them to look into the judges trust af.
fairs; that the Reinhart crowd had
been using renewed pressure to make
him let go all his Seaboard stock,
which they wanted to secure at the
low prices to which they had de-
pressed 1t, in order that they might re-
organize and carry out the scheme
they had been 80 long planning. Judge
Sands went on to say that the day he
was compelled to sell his Seaboard
stock he would have to make public
an announcement of his condition, as
there could be no sale without the
courts consent His closing was:
My dear daughter, no one knows better
than I the almost hopelessness Of expect
ing any relief from your operations But
| so hopeless have I become of late so
much am I reliant upon you, my dear
child, and eternal hope 80 springs In all
Of us when confronted with great neces-
| stiles, that 1 have hoped and still hope
| that you are to be the savior of your
family that you, only a frail child, are
! through Gods marvellous workings to be
the one to save the honor of that name
we both love more than life, the one to
keep the wolf Of poverty from that door
through which so far has come nothing
but the sunshine of prosperity and hap
piness the one, my dear Beulah who is
to save your old father from dshonored
grave. Dear child, forgive me for plac-
ing upon your weak shoulders the addi-
1f L bo1r,
less and compelled to rely absolutely
upon you. After you have read my letter,
II there is no hope, 1 command you to tell
me 80 at once, for although I am now
financially and almost mentally helpless,
I am still a Sands, and there has never
yet been one of the name who shirked his
duty, however stern and painful it might
be.
When I handed the letter back to
Miss Sands, she said:
Mr.. Randolph, let me tell you and
Mr.. BROMLEY a little about my father
and our home, that you may see our
situation as it is. My father is one of
the noblest men that ever lived. / am
not the only one who says that-if you
were to ask the people of our state to
name the one man who had done most
for the state as a state, most for her
! progressive betterment, most for her
people high and low, white and black,
they would answer. Judge Lee Sands
He has been, and is, the idol of our
people. After he was graduated from
Harvard, he entered the law office of
my grandfather, Senator Robert Lee
! Sands. Before he was 80 he was In
! congress and YVES even then reputed
| the greatest orator of our state, where
orators are SO plentiful. He married
my mother, his second cousin, Julia
Lee, of Richmond, at %, and from
! then until the attack of that ruthless
| money shark, led a life such as a true
man would map out for himself if his
Maker granted him the privilege. You
would have to visit at our home to APP
preciate my fathers character and to
understand how terrible this sorrow Is
to him. Every morning Of his life he
spends an hour after breakfast with
my dear mother, who is a cripple from
hip disease. He takes her in his arms
and brings her down from her room to
the library as If she were a child He
then reads to her-and he knows good
books as we'll as he knows his friends.
After he takes mother back to her
room, he gives an hour to our people, !
the blacks of the plantation and his |
white tenants throughout the county. |
He is father to them ell. He settles |
all their troubles, big and little. Then |
for hours he and go over his business |
affairs. Every afternoon from four to |
five he devotes to his estates and the |
men and women for whom he acts as
trustees. He has often said to me: |
We have a clear million of money and |
property, and that Is all any man |
should have in America. 1t Is all he |
is entitled to under our form Of gov
eminent. Any more than that an |
honest man should in one way or an /
other return to the people from whom
he has taken it. l never want my
family to have more than a million
dollars When he went into the Sea-
board affair, he explained to me that
1t was to assist the Wilsons--they
were old friends, and he acted as their
solicitor for years-in building up the
south. He discussed with me the
right and advisability Of putting in the
trust funds. He said he considered II
his duty to employ them as he did his
own in enterprises that would aid the
whole people of the south, instead of
sending them to the north to be used
In Wall street as betting for the 'Sys-
tenn grinder These fortunes were
made in the south by men who loved
their section Of the country more than
they did wealth, and why should they
not be employed to benefit that part
of the country which their makers and
owners loved? l remember vividly
how perplexed he was when, at the be-
ginning, the Wilson's would show him
that the investments were returning
unusually large profits.
cit is not right, Beulah,' he said to
me one morning after receiving a let.
ter from Baltimore to the effect that
Seaboard stock and bonds had adj ]