The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
WAS SANFORD NEW Y | R K E R WHEN APP OIN TED ID
 ALABAMA BENCH?
Is He Qualified Either to Hold Office or to Vote? Read
 His Affidavit

In my announcement for the Court of Appeals. referred to the fact that the Governor had felt constrained to appoint to that court This relative, the present incumbent. who applied for the post while engaged in the practice of law in New York and came back to Alabama to accept the position"
 In reply to this, Judge Sanford has widely circulated letters and adver- tisements challenging the correctness of my statement as to his nonresidence. l refer to his circular letter reading;
 "When I was appointed to the hisn office which I now hold, l was en- gagged in the active practice of law as member of the firm of Ball & Sam ford. Montgomery, Ala."
 Also to his advertisement in the Christian Advocate of July IS, reading:
 q was born, reared and educated in Alabama, and have never ceased fer a day to be a citizen of this state- prac- ticed law continuously for nearly 25 years in Pike and Montgomery coun ties and throughout the 'wiregrass' section of Alabama mp to the time I was appointed to the bench.'
 And lastly. I refer to his circular letter to members of a certain lodge recently circulated on the Court of Ap- peals stationery beginning, My Dear Friend and Brother in which he says:
 Tn accepting this position. I gave up my practice in Montgomery" etc.
 It is to be regretted that Judge Sam ford forces the necessity of publishing his own affidavits to the contrary. do so without extended comment, and the public may draw their own con- clusions as to whether he was a resi- dent of Alabama or is under the law qualified either to hold office or to vote and as to whether he has shown in his public utterances that unspar- ing respect for the record which is the first qualification for an Appellate Judge.
 New York Directories
 Two of the most reputable legal di- rectories known to the profession aro HubbelFs and Martindale's Hubbells Directory (191D, under New YoSS City Lawyers, page fs2, lists MT. Sanford S law firm as follows:
 Stamford & Kennedy Manhattan I11e Bldg, 66 Broadway. Wm. H. Sam ford, Henry W. Kennedy"
 Hubbelrs (1s16), under New York City Lawyers. page 134, lists:
 Stamford, Rapallo & Kennedy, Man. haitian Life Bldg. 66 Broadway; WE,. IT. Sanford, Edward S Rapallo, Henry ". Kennedy"
 tNIr. Rapallo withdrew from the firm.)
 Martindale's Directory GalD, under New York City Lawyers, page 1166 also lists Vm. H. Sanford, 6e Broad way, and his firm, Stamford, Rapa1Io & Kennedy"
 Martindale's A(for 191s), see page 115S, to the same effect.
 Trow's New York City Directory (for 191D, page i7os, carries the following: ::
 Stamford, Wm. H. Stamford & Ken nedy), 66 Broadway. Room a00.,
 Stamford & Kennedy (Wm H. Sam ford, Henry w Kennedy, lawyers, 63 Broadway, Room so0.'
 The New York City telephone book lists MT. Samford's law firm Feb l., 1917 (his appointment having been made in March. 1a17). as follows:
 Stamford, Rapallo X Kennedy, Attys., 66 Broadway. Rector 1039."
 The annual statement of the Man- hattan Life Insurance Co. (66 Broad way. Kew YorlS). filed in the office of the Superintendent of Insurance, Jesse