The Adair County news., 1915-07-28
"SlANLEY OF KENTUkY IS A
LEADER"
nigh Tribris Paid to lion. A. O.
Nanley by "Savoyard," AssOci.
ate Editor Of the Washing.
ton Post and One of Amer.
ica's Best Known News.
paper Writers.

A. 0. Stanl y is a remarkable man,
says Eugene Newman, associate edi-
Tor OF the Washington Post.
1T was no royal road that Owsley
Stanley travelled to success. There
was no more indefatible worker in
Congress.
Stanley has been leader of one OF
ohe aolest bars in Kentucky.
He has ability, eloquence, courage,
honesty, enthusiasm and industry.
STANLEY knows more about the row.
ing, the harvesting the curing, the
packing, and the marketing of tobac-
co than any other man in the world. 4"
Stanley landed in Henderson from a
steamboat on damp, lark, surly, bit
ter night in March, 1898, st. Patrick
Day.
Had he known the character of the
Henderson bar he would never have
left the boat.
Vance, the Justinian of Western
Kentucky, was the leader.
Yeaman, perhaps a more learned
lawyer and finer advocate than his
brother, the great Yeaman of New
York; Clay, the peer on the stump of
of McKinnie; Powell, eloquent, schol-
arly, learned; Merritt, subtle and pro-
found; Lockett, Yeaman's partner
and little Short of Yeaman's equal;
Givens, and Cecil, former Justice
those were the oldest of the profess
sion. The young lawyers we're Nc
Claim, the junior Lockett, Taylor, the
Wards, Sebree, Cunningham, Peters,
Dudley and many Others who made
the Henderson bar the equal of any
in Kentucky.
The circuit judge was the accom-.
plished John L. Dorsey, one of the
greatest Nisi Prius judges of his gen.
GRAFTON.
If any one had told young Owsley
Stanley, stranger and unheralded,
friendleSS and nearly moneyless, that
within four years he himself would
have the most lucrative practice at
that bar, that Judge Dorsey would
resign from the bench and accept a.
partnership with him, and that he,
Stanley, would be sent to Congress
from that historic Kentucky district,
he would have smiled at it as castle
in Spain. ...4-.,
Yet Stanley forged to the front by
his wonderful ability and became the
observed of all Observers" 49,.
Judge James H. ,Hazefrigg, Of Frank
fort, when sitting as Chief Justice of
the Kentucky Court of Appeals, found
himself especially interested one day
ia an argument which struck him as
being remarkable.
The lawyer addressing Che court
was a new one to the court. 1t was
Stanley.
When the sitting was over Chief
Justice Hazelrigg called Stanley aside
and said to him You have all the
earmarks of great lawyer Hender-
son, down on the Ohio River, is the
place for you. 1t is prosperous coun-
ty, thriving town, splendid people
John Young Brown is in Louisville,
and the great Lawyer Ball is dead,
and their nantes are awaiting some
one. Suppose you try it,
Thus it. may be seen from. Eugene
Newman's article that Judge Hazel
rigg, perhaps more than any other
man, was responsible for Stanley To-
eating in Henerson, making "a great
success at that bar, and becoming one
of the best known congressman that
Kentucky ever sent to Washington.
STANLEY is one of the most courageous
men that ever sat in Congress. When
ever he rises in debate the House
knows it is going to listen to a man
who is not afraid to say what he
thinks and who can say it as no other
man in Congress can say it.
40. Stanley is not only a leader,
he is a loyal and Fearless friend. He
is a scholar and a gentleman, but
above all A. o. Stanley is man.