Weekly journal-miner., 1918-01-09
BAR ASSOCIATION GIVES BANQUET
 ID SWEENEY
OCCASION OF ELEVATION OF YOUNG ATTORNEY TO SUPERIOR BENCH IS GEL EBRATED BY FEASTING AND SPEECH-MAKING.

Judge John J. Sweeney, recently i appointed by Governor Hunt as pre-
 siding officer of the destinies of the { Yavapai Superior court, was the
 guest of honor at banquet given by the members of the locar bar associa-
 ton at the Yavapai club last night, the affalr having been staged for tho purpose of allowing the members of the bar to express in an official way their congratulations at the good fortune which had come to Judge Sweeney, and incidentally apprize the youthful jurist that they expected to extend 10 him the fullest measure of their cooperation in the matter of the conduct of court affairs. Twenty eight guests were present, the list in- .cluding Judges Ellis of Mohave county and Crosby of Apache county
 LcRoy Anderson was master of ceremonies, and following the serv- ing of .hc banquet, Mir. Anderson in- troduced each of the several speakers of the evening. An especial effort had been made to get one or two oi the occupants of the State Supreme bench to put in an appearance but all declined the invitation, couching their respective rcfusals in carefully worded telegrams to Judge Haworth. An invitation was also extended to Governor Hunt, the chief executives s regrets being wired to Mir. Haworth as follows:
 While greatly appreciating the kind invitation extended by you in behalf of the Yavapai County Bai Association, regred that the numer- ous duties confronting me at this time will render it impossible for me to be present at the banquet in honor of Judge John J. Sweeney this eve ming Please convey my regrets to the association and my best wishes for successful term of office to Judge Sweeney.
 GEO. w. P. HUNT, Governor
 The congratulations showered upon Judge Sweeney by his legal friends were mingled with copious helpings of advice, some of the latter sentt- mcnt coming from men who are now occupying the bench or who have held similar honors in the past. There was little doubt, however, that the local judicial change met with the hearty approval of the members of the Yava- pal county bar, and the keynote oi the evenings program of speech making was expressed in the remarks of County Attorney Haworth when he said that the lawyers hereabouts could hcavc a genuine sigh of relief now that the court was again m the hands oi one whose presence on the bench would obviatc the unwelcomc necessity of the attorneys spending about nine-tenths of their time watch ing the court instead of devoting their attention to their business and to the interests of their clients. The bar members could now, said Mir. Ha- worth, devote their concentrated energies toward practicing law with out having to wonder whether or not they were going to get square deal when their cases came to trial, and whether personal feelings would en- ter into the shaping of the rulings which came from the bench. Mir. Haworth's statements were roundly applaudcd, indicating, apparently, that he was not alone in his belief that the local barristcrs had much for which to be thankful just now.
 | Judge Wells. who is, by the way, the oldest member in point of prac-
 ticc, of the local bar association, was ! the speaker selected to open the post prandial cloquencc. Judge Wells told some humorous incidents of the local courts of the old days. and noted the changes i'll court procedure which had obtained since 1875, the time of his entrance into the practice of law in ! the territory. Robert F. Morrison, who has practiced law in Arizona all most as long as Mir. Wells, also gave
 some interesting "reminiscences of old territorial days, when he was praotic- , ing over in Apache county. Follow ing Mir. Morrison came County At ] torncy Haworth, the latter being fol-
 lowed by Judge John Ellis of King.
 man. Judge Ellis told of the con- ditions which confront a young attor-
 ncy in the performance of his duties as Superior judge, and took occasion
 to give Judge Sweeney few help i full suggestions which will doubtless
 come in mighty handy later on.
 Judge = roSby of St. Johns told d few
 more details of the old-time practice | in Apache county, where it would
 seem, many of the most interesting
 criminal cases ever called in the ter ritory, came to trial.
 ! P. w. O'Sullivan a member of the : local bar since 1890. cnlivcned the evening with a few yarns of the old days, one of his stories regarding ., trial in which the late Judge Wright