Arizona republican., 1920-01-25

[ tended. him in the spring. while he was at home. He seemed to recover from bronchial attack, which had put him in bed during the spring, but upon his re- turn to Washington several months later. he was again stricken and died there, rather unexpectedly, at the home of a friend.
 Henry Clay a splendid man. He was not only shrew statesman and a great orator-he was far more than these: he was an honest man. It was his great honesty that appealed to me. and it was that quality in Lincoln and in Woodrow Wilson that won my ad miration and support.
 Member of Whis Party
 Before the civil war I was Whig and remained one until the party quit. I then joined with the free soilers and ultimately became an ardent admirer Of Lincoln But that admiration, strange. this may seem, didn't hinder me from becoming democrat later in life and I am now what you might call a dyed-in the wool democrat. I voted for MT. Wilson in 1912 and again in 1916. and while 1 no longer am able to read, l can think straight. and gather the meat Of the arguments in what my good wife reads to me. She still sees well and reads we'll
 'I was against slavery and in favor of colonization of the negroes, and as to this last. I believe Lincoln felt the same way about it. Lincoln. with his great wisdom. would have settled the negro problem far better than the men who were afterwards called upon to perform that delicate task. and it was a great pity, both for the North and South. that he was assassinated. The South never had a better friend than Lincoln. No people, fin fact, ever had @ better friend than Lincoln, and l I fA ~1t1 The men are so much alike in so many ways. and in the current controversy, believe that we ought to leave the issues to Wilson. who is eminently ca pablo of deciding what is best
 Wants to Abolish War
 Ana1yzed in simple words, President Wilson wants to abolish war and he proposes doing that by esta ablishing an international tribunal, agreed to by all nations, and to which all nations must submit their quarrels. We have such tribunals for the quarrels of individ- uals and there is no reason why we can't have the same sort of thing for ratiops. Down in his heart every man believes the same way-at least he wishes for it. and we can never realize an ideal unless we try it.
 ''I saw the civil war in all it's terror. As q physician I worked with the sick and the wounded In Missouri here I saw all the miseries of war; all the in- humanity of it. War is terrible thing, and any man ought to be en- couraged in his efforts to check all wars for all time.'
 Dr. Halstead joined the Davis and Nelson lodge, A. F. and A. M, in Lex ipgton, in 1S43. That was 77 years ago and the old physician dates pretty nearly everything from that period.
 "I was a young man. just starting out in life'' he said, and my Masonic affiliations I have always held dear. l believe it is safe enough to say that I am the oldest living Mason; certainly am the oldest in the number of years spent in the society I never joined the church. When one is @ country doctor he hasn't much time for church. My wife, however, has been a consist ent Presbyterian and you might say that I have kept my religion in my wifes name. Most people. in and out of the church, are good people, and I think if one lives right, he deserves the respect of his neighbors, and he 1 is pretty certain to be regarded highly 1 by them
 Mrs. Halstead had been in an ad- joining room during the interview but she entered at q jnncture when Dr. | Halstead was talking about his honored | ancestors who had come from Phila- | delphia.
 Her Uncle Governor
 'If you write an article said Mrs. l Halstead with pride in her voice. T | want you to say that the doctors wife | descended from the Wyckcliffes and | that an uncle of mine was twice gov- | ernor of the state. You can also say | tbat another uncle Of mine was a sen ator and made all the arrangements for | the welcome of Lafayette in Lexington, | back in 1926"
 And Mrs. Halstead, having finished | the argument for the Wyckcliffes | laughed at her husband and returned l to her solitude. only to return when Doctor HaIstead was asked if, duk ing |