The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-28
DINNER TO APPELLATE COURT
MANHATTAN CLUB ENTERTAINS
A HOST or JUDGES.
Morgan J. O'Bron, Presiding, Declares
That the safety Of the Country lies in
Upright C~Ourts-Justioe Clarke De
tends the Bench-New Name Tor Bryan.

lne bTOnho Lazy WHO bWlnks y mothl
sphere marking the passage Of time In
the Manhattan Club looked down last
night from her place on the marble manteI
In the banquet hall upon most Of the judges
In these parts.
Every division Of the judiciary In New
York State, from the seven In Albany
who have the final say 10 the police MaEis-
trates Of this town, were represented at
the complimentary dinner which the Man
haitian Club gave 10 the Justices Of the
Supreme Court who are members Of the
Appellate Division Of the First department.
The dinner expressed emphatioally-as the
club planned that 1t Should've respect
and approval Of the bench, the bar and
the citizen for the Appellate Judges in
particularly and the judiciary in general,
EX-Judge Morgan j. O'Brien. president
OF the Manhattan Club, presided. The
attendance Of Judges. lawyers and citizens.
all Of them Of more or less prominence in
the affairs Of this city and State, was 80
large that the main banquet hall was in
sufficient 20 seat them, 90 there was an over
flow which took up a smaller room.
At Judge o Brien's right sat Justices Gray,
Mclaughlin, Scott, and John Fox, president
Of the National Democratic Club. On his
left sat Chief Judge Cullen and Justices In
graham, Willard Bartlett, Clarke and
Houghton. Justice Laughlin was not pres
ent, having been called to Buffalo.
Others present we're:
Justice +. b. Amend, August Belmont,
Charles II. Beckett, Justice Blanchard, Justice
Bischof, Justice Burr. Gen. j. b. Burbank,
John. G.. Carlisle. Senator Cohalan, John +.
Carroll. Richard Croker, Jr.; William Y.
Cromwell, John J.. Cadwalader. Thomas
c. Durham, Justice W. Dayton, Justice j.
Downing, William B.. Ellison, Amos +. Emo.
Justice FtzGerald. John W, Gates, Justice
A. Gildersleeve, Ebert II. Gary, Assistant
District Attorney F. p. Garyan. D-Cady
Herrick, William b. HOrnblower. William
NJ, WINS, Gen. Brayton Ives. Magistrate
Kernochan. Abraham H.. Lawrence. Justice
Leventritt, Justice Lambert, Edward lauter-
bach, Comptroller II. A. Metz, Justice Mccall,
John b, Mcdonald. David Mcclure. John &.
Milburn. De Lancey Nicoll, Justice O'Gorman.
Alton B. Parker. Corporation Counsel PEN
dletOn, Isidor Straus, William +. sheehan,
Timothy p, Sullivan. Justice Seabury. Justice
c. II. TruaX, President William H., Truesdale
Of the Lackawanna Railroad, Samuel h..
Untermyer and President +. ID. Underwood
Of the Erie Railroad,
Judge 0'Brien, after a few words Of praise
for the course Of the club and a considerable
number 10 express his own admiration for
his former associates on the bench, con-
tinued:
In the midst Of our great national pros
perity, however. we could not II We would
fail to observe those dark aud omInous
clouds which hover over our national frma-
mani and which ara tho tnaVtVaIla 0n0n
runners OF a violent storm. Such a storm
may accomplish good or bad. may be in
creased or diminished. according to the
manner in which 1t Ia met and directed, If
the now smouldering embsrs are to be fed
by demagogues and sensational papers into
a living flame, the end no man can foretel II.
II, on the other hand. advantage is taken
Of present conditions TO direct into safe and
patriotic channels the raging torrent then
instead Of evil good will flow. Hence the
burden which rests In a special manner upon
our Judiciary 10 see TO Il that from prevailing
conditions shall result good instead Of evil.
To accomplish this nothing is more needhli
than respect for law apd Judges. but they
are powerless unless supported by enlight-
ened public sentiment.
We are In the in the throes Of one Of these
great eTas Of unrest, when former conditions
will no longer be tolerated and this spirit and
temper rules throughout the world, and in no
single place more actively than in our own
country, wherein is being fought a tremendous
and severe though bloodless battle. in
volving not only social. industrial aud political
conditions and principles but our whole
framework OF government. Its outward and
physical manifestation is apparent in the
financial and industrial panic through which
we have passed, which for the moment de-
stroyed confidence and enterprise, which has
driven capital from IT'S marts. which has ST ayed
the hand Of the mechanic aud laborer and
inflicted misery upon all the people.
The hopeful patriot and virtGous citi-
zen knows and feels that the evils which
threaten our country. the rights Of capital
and lsbor, and all the other great questions
needing solution. can be solved by our
Judges 10 some way consistent with vested
rights and the rights Of property. in some
way consistent with the preservation Of
the law and the Constitution, Upon which
rest our peace. our liberty and happiness.
The settlement Of such questions, subject
to legislation. must be left to our courts.
Justice Ingraham, speaking for the
Appellate Judges, thanked the club for
It's hospitality, devoting most Of his brief
talk TO "reminiscences concerning the mem
Of the club twenty-five years ago
when he became a member and about the
the Manhattan Club then exerted
a. the representative Of Democratic prin-
cipes.
Justice John Proctor Clarke. voicing also
the response Of his department, remarked
upon the great power in the hands Of the
Appellate Judges, a power, said Justice
MI. ~ 80 - z-aI l.
the interests o. any political party or TO
UNIV orthy ends.
QUESTION: he said, ARE decided upon
their merits. and despite the clamor Of the
public and the agitation by sensational
the Appellate Division cannot
DO moved a hairs breadth when it has de-
,ided a thing 10 DO right Applause.
Then they called upon the maker Of cpl
Patrick Francis Murphy. who apollo
yized for his intrusion among the Judges,
aging that IL had been planned for him 10
at table with two railroad presidents.
He hoped he would not tire them.
For said Mr.. Murphy solemnly. there
8 nothing more tortuTing mar a speaker
Fho knows be had nothing to say except
he doesn't know it
One Of Mr.. Murphy's quips as TO politics
vas Democratic children In this country are
aught 10 believe that this would be a good
epuohC were u uOt LOT 'uo hSpuDhCans,
Republican children are Instructed
hat this would DO al ideal democracy II
Ve didn't have any Democrats
Mr.. Murphy moved tho Judges 10 no.
oarious laughter when he dubbed William
!. Bryan the hair shirt Of the Democratic
afty."
Mr.. Murphy thought IL was a good thing
hat the Judges do not get the same chance
I the Ten Commandments that they do at
he Consultation. and expressed the per-
onAl opinion that the reason the figure Of
ustice always wears a bandage is that the
DOR lady haA got 30 many black eyes from