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 Hon. Stanley E. Bowdle 
 
 Memorial 
 
 Held at United States Circuit Court 
 of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, May 26, 1919. 
 
 Published by 
 
 The Cincinnati Bar Association. 
 
Hon. Stanley E. Bowdle 
 
 Born September 4, 1868 
 
 Died April 6, 1919 
 
 MEMORIAL 
 
 Published by 
 
 THE CINCINNATI BAR ASSOCIATION 
 
 November, 1919 
 
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 IN Loving Memory of one who devoted 
 his life to the unselfish pursuit of the 
 highest precepts of his profession, the service 
 of his country and the uplift of his fellowmen. 
 
Memorial 
 
 On Sunday evening, April 6, 1919, the Honorable 
 ^anley E. Bowdle, while on his way to the home of a 
 friend, in alighting from a street car, was struck by an au- 
 tomobile. He sustained a fracture at the base of the 
 l>rain, from which he died a few hours later, at the Good 
 Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Mr. Bowdle was a prominent member of the Bar, a 
 leading citizen in the community and a Representative 
 of the First District of Ohio in the Sixty-third Congress. 
 He had taken for many years an active part in all pub- 
 lic questions, was a delegate to the Ohio Constitutional 
 Convention of 1912, and did much to influence the adop- 
 tion of the most important Amendments to the Consti- 
 tution. He was a progTessive thinker, a powerful de- 
 bater, and held a high and distinct place in the commu- 
 nity. 
 
 It was natural that the shocking and untimely death 
 of one who did so much to honor and serv^e others, should 
 cause great sorrow to his many friends and colleagues, 
 and find expression in an appropriate tribute to his 
 memory. 
 
 Shortly after his death, Hon. Simeon M. Johnson, 
 President of The Cincinnati Bar Association, appointed 
 the following committee — Edward Moulinier, Alfred G. 
 Allen, Charles B. Wilby, David J. Workum and Arthur 
 Espy, to take appropriate action upon the death of Mr. 
 Bowdle. 
 
 The Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamil- 
 ton County, Ohio, appointed the follo^^dng persons to 
 act as a Committee in conjunction there^Anth :--Judson 
 
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 Harmon, John Gralvin, Nathaniel Wright, Edward C. 
 Hauer, Sidney G. Strieker and Province Pogue. 
 
 Memorial Services were held on Monday forenoon, 
 May 26, 1919, in the Court Room of the United States 
 Circuit Court of Appeals, Government Building, Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio. Hon. Judson Harmon presided as Chair- 
 man. On the Bench seated with him were Hon. John 
 W. Warrington, presiding Judge of the United States 
 Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; Hon. 
 Howard C. Hollister, Judge of, the United States Dis- 
 trict Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western 
 Division; Hon. Walter M. Shohl, presiding Judge of the 
 Court of Appeals of Hamilton County, Ohio ; Hon. Stan- 
 ley W. Merrell, presiding Judge of the Superior Court 
 of Cincinnati, and Hon. Frederick L. Hoffman, Presid- 
 ing Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Hamilton 
 County, Ohio. 
 
 A large and representative gathering, composed of 
 the leading members of the bench, bar and citizens of 
 the community was present. Mr. Edward Moulinier 
 prepared and read on behalf of the Committee, a Memor- 
 ial containing a biographical sketch of the life and char- 
 acter of Mr. Bowdle, which was followed by brief ad- 
 dresses from members of the committee. 
 
 Upon motion duly made, it was unanimously resolved 
 that copies of same be sent to the wife and members of 
 the family oi, Mr. Bowdle. In carrying this resolution 
 into effect, The Cincinnati Bar Association, as a token 
 of love and respect to the memory of Mr. Bowdle, directed 
 this Memorial to be printed. 
 
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 Hon. Judson Harmon. 
 
 Losing a friend and comrade is always hard to bear, 
 but grief has a keener edge when that comrade is taken 
 from us in the prime and full fruitage of his life and 
 powers. 
 
 In Stanley Bowdle's case there is an added pang, be- 
 cause his death was due to the failure with which we are 
 all partly chargeable, to deal promptly and effectively 
 with the new and fast growing peril that sweeps by night 
 and by day along our streets and highways. 
 
 I had no close acquaintance with Stanley Bowdle. I 
 heard some of his addresses and read others, and was 
 once referred to him for information about Mexican law, 
 when I was amazed by his accurate knowledge of the law 
 and language of that country; a knowledge which he had 
 no special reason to acquire. But his was a mind which 
 thirsted for knowledge and would not stop short of under- 
 standing. The casual vision and scrappy information of 
 the passing tourist were not for him. Everywhere and 
 always he was a close student of men and things ; and he 
 generously shared with us all the treasures of his mem- 
 ory and the product of his thought. 
 
 Mr. E. P. Moulinier. 
 
 Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: — I have been asked by 
 the Chairman of the Committee appointed by the Bar As- 
 sociation and by the Hamilton County Judges to read 
 the written Memorial prepared by them, as follows : 
 
 On April 6, 1919, Stanley E. Bowdle was struck by an 
 automobile shortly after alighting from a street car near 
 
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 the Good Samaritan Hospital. He died a few hours later 
 without fully regaining consciousness. Thus tragically 
 came to an end a unique and remarkable career. 
 
 He was in his fifty-first year, having been born on Sep- 
 tember 4, 1868, in Clifton, Hamilton County, Ohio. He 
 attended the Clifton public school and Hughes High 
 School up to the age of fifteen, when he entered Cramp's 
 shipyards at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as an appren- 
 tice and served there three years. His natural bent, how- 
 ever, was toward the law, and he returned to his home to 
 become a student at the Cincinnati Law School in 1887, 
 and graduated in 1889. He began the practice of his 
 profession in that year, having offices in the Bodman 
 Building with Nathaniel Wright and Gustavus A. Meyer. 
 
 Some years later he and Nathaniel Wright removed to 
 the Blymyer Building and had offices with W. K. Hille- 
 brand and Edward P. Moulinier. This association con- 
 tinued until 1897, when he was compelled to leave Cincin- 
 nati for Colorado, in the attempt to recover from a seri- 
 ous attack of tuberculosis. He fought this dread enemy 
 for four years, spending the summers in the mountains 
 of Colorado, and the winters in various cities of Mexico. 
 It was while in Mexico that he learned to speak and write 
 Spanish with fluency. Owing to his intelligent study 
 of tuberculosis and the application of the newest and 
 best methods of personal care, he regained his health. 
 
 On November 29, 1900, while still in the West, he 
 married Lillian Crane Scott of New York, and she and 
 their only child Virginia survive him. With his health 
 restored he returned to Cincinnati and the practice of 
 the law. 
 
 He became associated with Kramer & Kramer in the 
 Union Trust Building, which lasted for a number of years. 
 
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 until he and David J. Workum formed a partnership with 
 offices in the First National Bank Building. 
 
 He took an active interest in politics, and in 1912 be- 
 came the Democratic candidate for Congress in the First 
 District, defeating Nicholas Longworth, the Republican 
 nominee. He served two years with Alfred Gr. Allen, his 
 Democratic associate from the Second District. In 1914 
 the same candidates opposed each other, but this time 
 Bowdle was defeated. 
 
 In 1911 he was elected as a member of the Ohio Con- 
 stitutional Convention and left his impress upon the 
 work of that body and extended his reputation as a man 
 of original thought and an orator armed with wit, humor 
 and learning. 
 
 In 1916 he became a candidate for Congress in the 
 Second District, but was defeated by Victor Heintz. 
 
 At the time of his death he was busy with his profes- 
 sion and increasingly occupied with important and lucra- 
 tive litigation and office business. 
 
 In the last few years he was associated, in the Second 
 National Bank Building, with Joseph B. Schroeder, Ed- 
 ward C. Hauer and Lorenz Lemper. 
 
 The above gives a mere outline of Mr. Bowdle 's life 
 but conveys no idea of his mind, heart and soul, or of 
 the qualities which gave him distinction and drew the 
 affection and esteem of his friends. 
 
 Of a tall, almost gaunt appearance, he commanded at- 
 tention immediately by his manner of speaking. Even 
 in familiar converse he was impressive. His enuncia- 
 tion was clear and distinct, his sentences well formed, 
 his ideas lucid and connected, and always there was a 
 graphic grace about his gestures and bodily movements 
 — not in the least conventional — that heightened the tell- 
 ing effect of his words and thought. 
 
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 He had a logical mind. Laying down his premises and 
 data, he proceeded by easy and imperceptible stages to 
 convince his hearers of the soundness of his conclusions. 
 He loved an argument and would fairly meet an opponent 
 point by point, whether in the field of law, politics or re- 
 ligion, 
 
 He had read deeply certain phases of history. French 
 history from the Revolution to modern times attracted 
 him. He was familiar with the speeches of Robespierre, 
 Mirabeau and the other great orators of those times. No 
 one who heard his paper on Thiers, the French states- 
 man, delivered before the Bar Association, can forget his 
 vivid character painting, his familiarity with the open- 
 ing years of the nineteenth century, his knowledge of the 
 tangled political currents following the Napoleonic era 
 and the trend of events up to and during the Commune. 
 
 The Bar Association heard also his papers on Emilio 
 Castelar, the Spanish statesman, and Juarez, the first 
 president of the Mexican Republic. 
 
 These three papers contain a most entertaining and 
 accurate synopsis of the history of the three countries, 
 France, Spain and Mexico, for the greater part of the 
 nineteenth century. They were enlivened throughout by 
 dramatic force, keen insight into political conditions, 
 sparklig wit, a characteristic pungent humor, and the de- 
 lightful surprise of apt epigram. 
 
 He was intensely alive to the great achievements of the 
 United States in the times preceding the war. As a 
 member of Congress he took occasion to become familiar 
 with the burning question of the merchant marine. His 
 lecture on this subject was given before many audiences. 
 It was a labor of love. From his boyhood days in 
 Cramp's shipyard, he began the study of the intricate 
 
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 problems of seapower in peace and war. He knew ships 
 from keel to crows-nest, and he carried in his mind the 
 statistics of world shipping, the names of the various 
 companies, the numbers of vessels controlled by each, 
 the laws governing the conditions of operation — all to 
 a degree of detail that was most amazing. He advocated 
 the acquisition by the United States of a strong merchant 
 marine, keenly realizing its immense influence on na- 
 tional safety and prosperity. 
 
 He had visited Panama and his illustrated lecture on 
 the canal, given frequently, never failed to hold the 
 tense interest of his audiences. 
 
 In his travels in the West his imagination was stirred 
 by the achievements of the Government in its series of 
 land reclamation projects. Here again he took delight 
 in delivering talks with steroptican views of these colos- 
 sal undertakings which have proven so valuable to the 
 rich arid lands of our Western Empire. 
 
 There was never a dull moment in any of these ad- 
 dresses; they were truly informative; and at times he 
 called upon his reading of the world's great philosophers 
 for quotations showing the analogy between the grandeur 
 of the material miiverse and the sublimity of human spec- 
 ulative thought. Throughout there were flashes of humor 
 to relieve the didactic or descriptive and the hearer arose 
 refreshed in mind and spirit to carry away a more ex- 
 alted opinion of his country^ 's greatness and of the dig- 
 nity of the moral world. 
 
 In politics he was a Democrat of the old school. He 
 felt sympathy with the cause of the common people. He 
 loved simplicity of life and cared nothing for pomp or 
 show. He took many a case for those who could promise 
 little or nothing in the way of fees. 
 
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 As a lawyer he was distinguished for his ability to 
 separate a law question into its most simple forms. He 
 loved to argue from principle and then proceed to fortify 
 his position with the most pertinent cases.. The illus- 
 trations he used in argument were mostly taken from 
 homely things. And yet at times he would marshal op- 
 posite incidents and illustrations from history, literature 
 or mechanics. 
 
 He showed great skill in his speeches to juries. Dan- 
 gerous points were minimized or dismissed with a sar- 
 casm that was not too caustic. He dwelt on the strength 
 of his case in strong simple language and in more than 
 one aspect, so that the jury could not fail to see his posi- 
 tion in its most favorable light. 
 
 No account of Mr. Bowdle's life would be complete 
 without some reference to his religious trend of thought. 
 That he was profoundly reverent of a supreme power as 
 ruler of the universe, no one who knew him even super- 
 ficially could doubt. His nature was one of engaging 
 frankness and he loved to talk of the things that gave 
 him the greatest interest. First among these was his 
 knowledge of the Bible. As a very young man he formed 
 the habit of studying the Scriptures. Although he read 
 widely among the agnostic and atheistic philosophers, 
 such as Spencer and Voltaire, he seemed never to have 
 a doubt of the Christian revelation. He saw in the New 
 Testament the fulfillment of the promises voiced by the 
 great Hebrew prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel. His form of 
 worship went through some changes in his life, but in 
 latter years he had become a member of the Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 Over and above Mr. Bowdle's attainments in several 
 fields of activity — political, legal and literary — were the 
 
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 personality and character of the man himself. There 
 was a never-failing boyishness— the incarnate spirit of 
 youth, notwithstanding the fundamental seriousness of 
 his nature. He was always eager and fresh for an m- 
 tellectual combat. When he had time he prepared care- 
 fully his arguments, but he was ever ready to engage 
 unexpectedly in debate and drew unfailingly upon the 
 ample store of knowledge always at his command. He 
 seemed somehow never to arouse rancor in his opponents. 
 They knew that he was genuine and that his quarrel was 
 always with ideas, not with the individual. 
 
 Perhaps the most noticeable characteristic of his men- 
 tal equipment, shown in both his familiar and public 
 utterances, was his unfailing sense of, humor. It was 
 not humor for humor's sake, but used to make dearer 
 the sharp point of an argument. Joined with the humor 
 there was also the wit that lighted up his thought by 
 juxtaposition with an unexpected contrast. 
 
 It may be said of him that he was self-educated m the 
 best sense. He was always willing to learn, and in con- 
 sequence his views on serious subjects were constantly 
 being broadened and ripened. His reading was extensive 
 and embraced religious, philosophical, historical and lit- 
 erary masterpieces. 
 
 He had the gift of making close and loyal friends. His 
 conversation was stimulating, his understanding of views 
 other than his own quick and sympathetic. 
 
 His influence on others was widespread and invariably 
 elevating. No one could converse mth him without be- 
 ing better for the contact. His domestic life was ot the 
 
 happiest. 
 
 To say of him that the example of his life was inspir- 
 ing, that the love and admiration of his friends will live 
 
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 on, that his memory in the community will be ever cher- 
 ished, is to utter a common-place, but it is the simple 
 truth and we, of! his profession, are honoring ourselves 
 as well as him bv this sincere and heartfelt tribute. 
 
 Mr. Arthur Espy. 
 
 ''Mr. Chairman and Friends: 
 
 Stanley Bowdle I perhaps knew longer than any of 
 you. We were about the same age, we were both born 
 in Clifton and went to school together, passed through 
 our primary education together. 
 
 I can bear tribute to the fact that as a boy he showed 
 all the promise that was fulfilled by his remarkable life. 
 Those who were associated with him then considered it 
 a privilege to know him. I knew him well. His family 
 has lived in Clifton for three generations. He lived, 
 when we first went to school together at the end of the 
 ridge of hills that begins on Lafayette Avenue. The 
 old house is still there just below Mt. Storm — a beautiful 
 location overlooking the Millcreek Valley. I remember 
 well when he was in the fifth grade and the Principal 
 came up to him and said, "Stanley, you can move up to 
 the Sixth Grade. ' ' That was a very exceptional achieve- 
 ment. Stanley moved up to the Sixth Grrade and went 
 along there just as if he had not skipped at all. 
 
 He was beloved by all the boys. He was fond of any- 
 thing that was new or different and the kites and other 
 toys he made were prized highly and thought to be the 
 best at the time. 
 
 After he graduated from school I did not see much of 
 him until later, when he came back as a Member of the 
 
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 Bar and was Solicitor of the 'Village of Clifton. We, 
 of Clifton, thought that was a high honor and we thought 
 it was well deserved. He was also a Member of the 
 Council for a short time. 
 
 It was a privilege and pleasure to know him and no- 
 body has ever made a deeper impression upon me, boy 
 and man, than Stanley Bowdle." 
 
 Mr. Nathaniel Wright. 
 
 Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: 
 
 Thirty and two years ago this Autumn I first met Stan- 
 ley E. Bowdle; we were students in the same class at the 
 Cincinnati Law School. 
 
 Even during these two years, a formative period in his 
 life, the qualities which have commanded the admiration 
 and respect of his fellows and won the affection of his 
 friends, were evident. He was a marked man among his 
 fellow-students, and he fullj^ maintained in his after years 
 the reputation gained in his two years in the Law School. 
 It was during these years, when habits of study and close 
 thought were necessary to success, that the seriousness 
 of life and the complexity of its problems began to dawn 
 upon him, and the duty to meet and grapple with them 
 became the principal object of his lif^e ; for the seriousness 
 of life, its many inequalities and the seeming injustice in 
 the lives of many appalled him; and it is one of the 
 beautiful traits of his character that his life was devoted 
 unselfishly to the amelioration of the lot of those in life 
 whose fate was cast in bitter lines and were struggling 
 upward to the light, dimly seeing in the fogs of their en- 
 vironment, but which burned so brightly and clearly for 
 him. 
 
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 He wanted to help and he did help. His life and his 
 acts prove it. He lived the clean and the honorable life. 
 His ideals were the ideals of honor, justice and fair- 
 ness, and he so squared his conduct in life with these 
 ideals, that his memory is a very precious heritage to all 
 of us who loved him. 
 
 He hated sham and had no patience with hypocrisy, 
 or sympathy with the sordid struggle for wealth and 
 fame. He was genuine. No man had the least doubt 
 where he stood, or what views he held on any question. 
 He had the courage of his convictions, and where duty 
 beckoned he followed. He fought his fight and ''held 
 his peace, and had no fear to die." 
 
 He loved an argument; an intellectual contest ap- 
 pealed to him ; he delighted to match the keenness of his 
 own mind with the mind of an adversary; and such was 
 his mentality, so well stored was his mental armory with 
 wit, epigram and learning that on many a ' ' stricken field ' ' 
 of intellectual combat he more than held his own; but 
 he was a fair fighter; his arsenal held no poisoned arrows; 
 he was intellectually as well as personally honest; to him 
 a victory won by sophistry or unfair weapons was a de- 
 feat. 
 
 No one who knew Stanley Bowdle can fail to remem- 
 ber the quaint, original sense of humor which he pos- 
 sessed. In public argument and in private conversation 
 his humor flashed forth like the gleam of a rapier. It 
 was fashioned to amuse, not to wound ; to point an argu- 
 ment or to illustrate a situation. There was no malice. 
 It was too spontaneous for that. It was one of the per- 
 sonal, intimate traits of his character, and we loved 
 him for it. 
 
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 No sketch of Mr. Bowdle's life will be complete without 
 reference to his religious views. He was deeply relig- 
 ious, a student of the Bible and theology. He was not 
 contend with the orthodox views of salvation and immor- 
 tality handed to him by others. He insisted on studying 
 the record himself and drawing his own inferences there- 
 from, and I am sure that the results he obtained gave him 
 great comfort. He believed in a divine being, in life 
 after death, and that the reward of immortality comes 
 to all who have kept the faith. 
 
 As he lived, so he died, in the full respect and admira- 
 tion of the community in which he lived, leaving a repu- 
 tation of ability, honesty of purpose, devotion to duty 
 and a character of spotless integrity. 
 
 My friends, an honorable man, a useful citizen, a 
 Christian gentleman and a valued friend has passed from 
 among us ; we mourn his death, but we rejoice in his life 
 and the achievements thereof. 
 
 Mr. Charles B. Wilby. 
 
 "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: 
 
 It has seemed to me that I could make no contribution 
 to this testimonial so worthy of our friend as to read some 
 illustrations of his unique and remarkable power in the 
 use of language. 
 
 Possibly no instance better illustrates Mr. Bowdle's 
 delightful sense of. humor, mingled as it ahvays was with 
 a touch of pathos, to say nothing of his far-reaching 
 statesmanship, than his speech delivered in Congress, 
 January 12, 1915, on "Woman Suffrage," which attracted 
 nation-wide attention. Indeed, his keen thrusts aroused 
 
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 great indignation on the part of the more hysterical ad- 
 vocates of that much mooted question, who sought to dis- 
 tort his remarks as a reflection on woman. The follow- 
 ing extracts from Mr. Bowdle's speech will show how un- 
 deserved were these criticisms and the remarlvable genius 
 of this fine character: 
 
 "Mr. Speaker, I rise to voice the position of an un- 
 numbered multitude of good women of America relative 
 to the suffrage movement. A multitude of women whose 
 voices are not heard in the streets; who do not seek the 
 rostrum of political debate; who, though life is not ex- 
 actly what some of them would have, do not defame their 
 husbands and brothers because they have been unable 
 to declare the kingdom of, heaven to be at hand; women 
 who are not ashamed of their sex lot, though it dis- 
 qualifies them from many functions allowed to men. 
 
 These I represent." (Applause.) 
 
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 "Mr. Speaker, a great many men do not comprehend 
 the significance of the antisuffrage movement among 
 women. They can not understand why women who do 
 not want to vote should impede women who do want 
 to vote. Just a word or tvv'o of explanation : 
 
 "Giving the franchise involves a change of status on 
 all who receive it, whether they exercise it or not. The 
 women who do not vote will infallibly experience a 
 change of status. Let us see : 
 
 "To be an elector implies certain things. Elector- 
 ship, which is simply the power to determine the nature 
 of the civil state, carries with it, or must sooner or later 
 carry with it, the power of administering all affairs of 
 state, including the administering of justice. It must 
 be clear to the Members of tliis House that the power to 
 determine the legal nature of the state must imply the 
 power to assume and administer any office in the gift 
 ot the State. It would be a disturbing thing to have 
 electors with power to erect institutions which they could 
 not administer. 
 
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 "Necessarily, therefore, this proposed extension of 
 the franchise involves finally a movement which will sub- 
 ject all human rights to feminine decision; and the 
 women of America who are opposing this movement are 
 opposed to this change of their status. Those women 
 have a vested interest in this question. They ask the 
 men of this Nation not to foreclose that interest without 
 a vote from them. The antisuffragists are the Jeffer- 
 sonian Democrats on this question. And this is pre- 
 cisely what those women will not get if the suffragists 
 
 have their way." 
 
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 ' ' Oh, yes ; I know women have played a great and 
 noble part in this world's history; but it is a notable 
 fact that this noble part was played without the ballot 
 and some time before the movement came which last 
 year destroyed $5,000,000 of London property created 
 by men. The women who played that noble part did 
 not have to be watched by the Scotland Yard detective 
 force; they did not leave bombs in St. Pauls; they did 
 not burn the Edinburgh collection of scientific marine 
 instruments, working an irreparable loss to science cre- 
 ated by men only, and which marks streets and lanes in 
 the high seas. No, Mr. Speaker, the women whose 
 names grace the page of history admired men and bowed 
 to the scientific and political genius which he has slowly 
 evolved and ever used to make of this planet a place of 
 
 residence for wholesome life." (Applause.) 
 
 ****** 
 
 '*To the State man is primarily responsible. He must 
 serve it, protect it, and die for it. The State holds him 
 primarily responsible for these duties and a thousand 
 others. He pays the rent when he lives with her and 
 the alimony when he does not. He goes to jail when 
 he fails. Is it allowing him any peculiar privilege to 
 manage the institution wherein that responsibility is to 
 be discharged! The dollar is earned in the State, not 
 in the home. Shall he who is charged with the duty of 
 
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 bringing it lionie have the State managed by the one 
 
 who receives it!" (Applause.) 
 
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 ''All history, Mr. Speaker, is nothing but the record 
 of an affair with a woman. Happy is that man whose 
 affair is honorable. 
 
 "I saw smoke curling up from a cottage chimney in a 
 mountain glen. I followed it and entered the house; it 
 was an affair with a woman. I looked ii.to tlie dimpled 
 face of a babe; it told of, an affair with a woman. I saw 
 a myriad of blackgrimed men emerge from tlie mine's 
 mouth with lamps and dinner pails, and they smiled and 
 went each his way, and I wondered why they worked 
 amid such dangers; but I followed and found it was an 
 affair with a woman. I was in the cab of an express 
 locomotive hurling us_ through darkness toward tho city. 
 I wondered at his willingness to endure the dangers, as 
 block signals and switches and cars shot by, but I saw 
 his face for a moment by the steam-gauge light, and he 
 smiled as we approached the division end; and I knew it 
 was simply an affair with a woman. I wa;^ with the in- 
 ventor in an upper room at night, where he had slaved 
 for years on the turbine principle, and I marveled at his 
 constancy; but he showed me her picture, and, Mr. Speak- 
 er, it was an affair with a woman. And the words of 
 Swedenborg came to me 'Though men know it not, love 
 is the life of this world.' [Great applause.] 
 
 "Women; have they a mission? Yes; it is to rule in 
 the world of love and aff'ectiont — in the home. It is not 
 to rule in the State. They have a function to perform 
 which precludes the latter sort of rule. Man is king of 
 this universe; woman is queen. The queen rules when 
 the king is dead, or becomes a mollycoddle, and the Amer- 
 ican man is not that yet." [Applause.] 
 ****** 
 
 "I personally have no fear of what suffrage will do if 
 it comes. But I deny its claims." 
 
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 "They say that * man-made' laws are not just to them. 
 When did woman acquire a well-being separate from 
 man's well-being! When did this race become divided! 
 When the well-being of man is cared for the well-being of 
 
 woman is assured." 
 
 ****** 
 
 "They say that in some States a man is still able to 
 will away even his children and may confiscate his wife 's 
 wages. Mr. Speaker, I have had a long experience at 
 the bar, and I have patiently read the legal journals, but 
 I have never heard of an American man asserting such 
 rights, if he ever had them. I know that in all probate 
 and orphans' courts where I have ever practiced the 
 tenderest consideration has ever been shown for the 
 rights of wives, mothers, and widows. And as for 
 wages, the vast mass of American workingmen turn over 
 their pay envelopes to their wives, keeping only enough 
 for a little chewing or smoking tobacco. The nations of, 
 the world agree that the finest and most generous man 
 on earth in his treatment of women is the American 
 man, the suffrage leaders to the contrary notwithstand- 
 ing." 
 
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 "They say that the present situation is taxation with- 
 out representation. The fact is that 99 per cent, of the 
 women of wealth received the same either by gift or in- 
 heritance from some 'tyrannical' dead man, who labored 
 hard to make it. Men create the property wealth of, this 
 world, and it is proper that they should. 
 
 "Mr. Speaker, there is in America to-day a forgotten 
 institution known as the 'old man.' I know him, you 
 know him. Our mothers knew him and honored him, 
 and lie honored them. Rut he is now f orgof ten and often 
 derided. Suffragists insult him. I looked upon his 
 frozen features as he conquered the Antartic Zone, while 
 women burned up five millions of his property at home, 
 made by him with back-breaking labor. I have seen his 
 face in the deadly saffron flames of molten metal, where 
 a mismovement meant death. I have been with him in 
 
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 the bowels of steamers and have seen him wipe the i>cald- 
 ing sweat from his face as he fed hellish furnaces. 1 
 have been with him working on great engines, in work 
 taxing nerves and strength, where a mistake of a thous- 
 andth of an inch meant ruin. I have been with him in 
 the grease and slime of repairs to great engineering ap- 
 paratus. I have gotten up with him in the frosty dark- 
 ness of the morning to go to the great shops of the cities, 
 while leisure America slept. I have eaten with him 
 his spare breakfasts. I have been with multitudes of 
 him around the f.orges of the world at noon dining from 
 buckets, yet always cheerful. I have seen him pinned 
 beneath locomotives, with his flesh frying on his bones 
 and his hand still gripping the throttle, when his last 
 question was as to the passengers and his last message 
 was to a woman. I have gone in imagination 5,000 feet 
 into the sea and visited the Titanic wreck and have seen 
 500 of. him, cold in death, still in the shaft alleys, engine 
 and boiler rooms, and each dead at his post •, and a thou- 
 sand more I saw, all men, who had nobly offered their 
 lives that women might live. I have seen multitudes of 
 him in the lagoons and morasses of virgin countries, shak- 
 ing with malaria, yet pushing forward the frontiers of 
 life that more life might safely live upon this planet. 
 
 "I have visited the trenches of battle fields populous 
 with his ragged corps, unmurmuringly dying for his 
 country. I have seen him strapped upon the plank of 
 the guillotine and stand upon the scaffold 'with head 
 bloody but unbowed' offering his life as a witness to his 
 principles. I have seen him upon the calvaries of this 
 world drinking the vinegar of temporary defeat. I have 
 seen him labor w^ith his philosophies, without hope of 
 gain, that men might be happier here and — 
 
 ' better know their end, and the number of their days, and to be 
 led to incline their hearts unto wisdom — ' 
 
 "And I have seen him work in music, and laboriously 
 chisel in all arts that he might better teach his fellows 
 the divine destiny of the race. Yes ; I have seen all this, 
 
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 and you have seen it, Mr. Speaker, and i* ^l- <:«";>'^^<f_ 
 me long since of man's divine origin and destiny. Ue 
 Tpite the buffetings of sin, the angel in him has overcome 
 S Jacob in him as Jabbok, and I this day beheve the 
 nspirTd accomit of his creation, when Jehovah speaking 
 wUh an nnnmnbered mnltitnde of the heavenly host, said, 
 •Let us make man in our own image and likeness. 
 
 "As to hostility to women, allow me to say that never 
 for a moment have I done other than honor them, and on 
 thit great day when 'God shall judge the secrets of men 
 "ttfver othL sins may rise to shame nie, and they are 
 many, no wretched Magdalen will rise m the judgment to 
 "ay tl at I helped her down ; and I can say to my sainted 
 mother who always honored men, that those principles 
 r this' regard which she bound upon my fingers and 
 wrote upon the tables of my heart have been kept. Mr. 
 Sneaker I love masculine men and feimnme women- 
 no't women of the rostrum, not senatorial lad.s who 
 cross thei rlimbs in political wig-x^-ams. I love those 
 women whose functions are so beautifully described m 
 Byron's tragedy of Sardanapalus ; 
 
 'The first o£ human life is drawn from woman's breast; 
 Our first small words are taught us at her knee-, 
 And our last sighs are too often breathed out m 
 i woman's hearing, when others have fled the ignoble 
 Task of watching beside him who led them. 
 
 "Mr Speaker, I have come in late years to see who is 
 the real statesman in America. He is not always, or even 
 usually, the honorable or right honorable personage in 
 n rno V halls of legislation. He is rather the qun.t man, 
 
 e silent man in the community, whose lite lived agree- 
 aWy with the ideals of patriotism and religion, serves to 
 creltrthose conditions on which the State and all laws 
 m^s finally rest. And in this statesmanship true women 
 Zre and have ever shared. Such women are states- 
 tmen! indeed, far more potent than any ballot box or 
 
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 rostrum lady will ever be. It is this profound states- 
 woraanship that makes certain the claim that — 
 
 'TLa hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the 
 world.' " 
 
 I shall read a short extract from his own closing argu- 
 ment for the defendant before Hon. James B. Swing, 
 Judge of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, 
 in the case of Madden v. Madden, in 1906; some passages 
 from his paper entitled "Recollections Of an Appren- 
 ticeship," which he read before the Literary Club last 
 November — to my mind the most remarkable thing he 
 ever wrote; and some passages from another paper that 
 he read before the Literary Club some years ago. 
 
 In opening his paper entitled "Recollections of an Ap- 
 prnticeship," he said: 
 
 ' * These recollections are personal. I secured them with 
 my own bare hands. Of old, men have delighted to talk 
 of themselves — chiefly because the subject is near, famil- 
 iar, and requires little thought. I am a son of that bore- 
 some crew. Even Zaccheus, the Publican, in the syca- 
 more tree, when beheld and accosted by the Christ could 
 not forbear to deliver some pleasant recollections of him- 
 self. Bankers with perfect propriety tell of their mak- 
 ing, although their business appears to me to be very 
 stupid. Captains of industry may freely arrange for 
 write-ups, telling how they came to be what they are 
 from very unpromising origins; but a plain man with a 
 plain tale is rarely endured. 
 
 Tonight we change all this. I purpose giving my rec- 
 ollections of an apprenticeship, and I expect to enjoy the 
 recital whether you do or not." 
 
 Then, after referring to his reasons for going into that 
 business and the dissipations of the shop, he says : 
 
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 "The.se recollections touching drunkenness and loose- 
 ness have this value to me. They tell me how much we 
 have advanced in some important particulars. Corpora- 
 tions are today doing very much for the comfort of their 
 men, and what they are doing is cancelling many old 
 time evils. The cities too have advanced. The old time 
 brutalities of the prize ring are gone, and viciousness is 
 verj' much restricted, and even without prohibition the 
 drinking of former days is very much abated. The elec- 
 tric car, the telephone, branch libraries, and the pictui-e 
 show have all added an interest, a zest, to life, which en- 
 gages and legitimately consumes that excess of pleasure- 
 seeking energies which formerl}^ found expression in 
 many evil and some unmentionable ways. It is only by 
 these contrasts that one can keep his optimism alive and 
 observe the trend of humanity through the wilderness 
 of the world's sin." 
 
 Then speaking of the subsidies which the Cramps 
 wanted, he continues: 
 
 "Philadelphia in those days was 'Protection's' chief 
 incubating point. Those were the days of Samuel J. 
 Randall and William. D. Kelly ('Pig Iron Kelly'). Many 
 a time at the Academy of Music I heard those men ex- 
 pound the holy doctrine that waste makes wealth and 
 that taxation produced prosperity. I believed what they 
 believed. The whole city dealt in the goods of this Diana. 
 But in this also where sin abounded, grace did much 
 more abound, for I well remember the work done for Free 
 Trade by William M. Singerley, the owner and editor 
 of the Philadelphia Record and by Col. A. K. McClure, 
 the owner of the Philadelphia Times. Those great pa- 
 pers occupied diagonal corners at Ninth and Chestnut 
 Streets and from there they issued their challenges to 
 the whole crew, I could not but admire their courage. 
 While hating their doctrines we were obliged to hear 
 them, for the Record was the first one cent paper in Phil- 
 adelphia. The fight waged against Mr. Singerley was so 
 
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 strong that he determined to challenge the selfish enemy 
 by appealing to their Quaker money love and for one 
 cent he secured a large audience. The Philadelphia Rec- 
 ord was a great paper then and is so today. It was the 
 only paper seen about the Yards. Singerley some years 
 later lost much of his fortune and his health. In a period 
 of deep depression he suicided. Colonel McClure also 
 died poverty stricken. Handling truth is no guarantee 
 of fortune. Truth has no band wagons, no bargain coun- 
 ters. As a rule, good things cost nothing and pay no 
 money dividends. The truth-seeker must prepare for 
 a dinner of herbs and must be content with spiritual satis- 
 factions. And it must be so, for truth must l)e saved 
 from the rush of the profane. Truth is found by the 
 honest; but it is applied to the others like a mustard 
 plaster. For the mass of men it is qiiite in vain that 
 truth 
 
 'Hath mingled her wine and hewn out her 
 seven pillars and sent her maidens into the city.' 
 
 "Indeed the maidens had better be careful, when Pro- 
 tection 's magnates are about. * * * 
 
 "I was at the yards during the last of the era in which 
 there existed a personal relation between employer and 
 employed, and before the coming of the great corpora- 
 tion with its widely diffused stock ownership, in which 
 the employer can not be located and when all has be- 
 come mechanically ordained." 
 
 Then, after speaking of the Cramps and their further 
 seeking for subsidies, he said : 
 
 "At that time the protective theory was justified, on 
 the score of aiding infant industries just past the bottle 
 period. Now, it is justified on the score of helping us 
 pay good wages to the workmen. Since the infants are 
 now in angle iron cradles, rocked by Corliss engines, and 
 taking pap through wire-bound hose, the claims of in- 
 fancy are cancelled; hence the need of another slogan. 
 
23 — 
 
 Paternalism in Government, now everywliere obivons 
 among us (and I am thinking of the movement quite 
 aside from the War and its exigencies) is a necessary 
 result of the protective theory. If the Government hands 
 out a special protection to an industn- in order to enable 
 it to pav high wages, or any wages, that industry be- 
 comes a Vustee of an express trust and the Government, 
 accordingly, has a perfect right to superintend all rela- 
 tions between the employer and the employee m that in- 
 dustry. Paternalism and protection are logical mates. 
 Just now I fear that they are soon to be delivered of a 
 huskv son, Socialism. We seem to be drifting toward 
 that monotonous period when every man may aspire to 
 own a Ford and dine at Childs. * * * -. r ^ 
 
 'q3uring the early period of my apprenticeship I lived 
 at a boarding-house near the shop. It was my first ex- 
 perience with that horribly necessary institution an 
 American boarding house. There were but three of us 
 lodged and fed there. It was kept by Mr. and Mrs. X., 
 childless and well advanced in years. Mr. X. was fear- 
 fully deaf but he was a rather interesting man and much 
 addicted to chess. His infirmity had played havoc with 
 her voice and disposition. Her throat was granite paved. 
 I remember awakening the first morning m the house 
 to ask mv brother what was the cause of the not down- 
 stairs. He replied, 'They 'are quietly discbssing the 
 day's menu.' Deafness is a most terrible affliction i 
 concluded then that the sound-eared consort ot a cleat 
 spouse could by no means be saved-the rum wrought to 
 the temper and disposition forbids it. Of course, the 
 afflicted one hears none of the storm and fury, and-can 
 plav chess Daily do I pray that my wife and I may 
 presei-^^e our hearing despite the depredations of years 
 on our other powers. Thus far Providence has done His 
 part." 
 
 After speaking of the benefits of the eight-hour day 
 as compared with the ten-hour day he goes on to say: 
 
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 "The world is today burdened with useless. learning. 
 The public educational plans conspire to make this so. 
 Think of taxpayers burdened to teach young men the 
 relations of Chaucer to English literature; law taught 
 by Y. M. C. A's. It took this war to arouse us to the 
 value of the practical sciences. Another ten years of 
 peace and our public educational plans would have ruined 
 the nation, turning out young men altogether too soft 
 handed to work and just smart enough to l)e unhappy 
 and go about preaching impossible utopias to be achieved 
 by legislati(m. Think of the way law has been taught 
 and young men importuned by advertisement to come 
 into it. How much worthy character has been ruined 
 by that terrible period of waiting for business, the sloth, 
 the negligence, the apathy, that arises during that period. 
 Dives in Hell had the merit to wish that some one might 
 go and warn his brethren lest they come to his place of 
 torment; but what one of us has had that merit? 
 
 "There is nothing so worthy as work, physical work, 
 and some physical science absorbed in the process of it. 
 School education is complete and highly successful when 
 the student has achieved an interest in somethings — I care 
 not what. An awakened mteresf, blessed is that thing! 
 
 "I have met the nation's great, so-called, in political 
 fields at least, around the cloak rooms of the House and 
 Senate ; and I have often wondered how they managed to 
 sustain it — of course by a camouflage somewhat older 
 than that developed by this War. I have worked with 
 the unknown great in the democracy of plain clothes and 
 plain food, the men who have made the apparatus of 
 modern life, the 'men not often thought of,' as Pro- 
 fessor Summer describes them — I know them; their life 
 has touched mine and stirred mine and I stand at atten- 
 tion in the presence of their work. 
 
 "Whatever of comfort we have in light, heat or power, 
 we owe to such men whose genius has tunneled our moun- 
 tains, bridged our rivers, and brought continents near, 
 harnessing Nature's plenitude of raw titanic forces, 
 changing history's currents, and making around the earth 
 
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 *a highway for the people on which there is no lion or 
 ravenous beast. 
 
 "At times I have felt that I should like to have had 
 Yale or Harvard for my Alma Mater. How I should 
 have loved to sit under Prof. William G. Sumner whose 
 published lectures early taught me the beauty of right 
 thinking aiid the importance of fearless acceptance of 
 facts; but there is an eternity before us for spiritual 
 Yales or Harvards. For this world I bow gratefully to 
 my Alma Mater, The William Cramp and Sons Ship and 
 Engine Building Company, Beach and Norris Streets, 
 Philadelphia, Pa." 
 
 This, as I before stated, is an extract from Mr. Bowdle 's 
 closing argument for the defendant in Madden v. Mad- 
 den, before Hon. James B. Swing of Hamilton County 
 Court of Common Pleas, in 1906. Mr. Madden was then 
 and still is the owner of the famous Stud farm in Lex- 
 ington, kno^\^l as Hamburg Place, and the suit was by 
 the wife for alimony. His wife had left him and he was 
 paying her a monthly smn under a contract, but she came 
 here and sued him for alimony in gross. Mr. Bowdle 
 said : 
 
 "The praecipe in this case should have read — 'An ac- 
 tion for money only, the amount claimed being an in- 
 definite portion of Hamburg Place.' It is a vigorous 
 rush for money by Mrs. Madden, supported by two able 
 legal half-backs. Ah! half-backs, did I say! No, as- 
 suredly full backs. It smacks of money. There is in it 
 a powerfully pecuniary vein. It does not even ask for 
 children. * * * Under no enlightened jurispinidence in 
 the world could an action like this for gross alimony be 
 maintained. It is only under the jurispnidence of this 
 extremely western civilization, which many philosophers 
 think is now somewhat decadent could this precise kind 
 of action be maintained. In Israel, in the days of the 
 Judges, a man could be compelled to support his wife. 
 
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 In Rome, in the days of the praetors, a man could be com- 
 pelled to support his wife. In England, France and Ger- 
 many today, a man may be compelled to provide his wife 
 a living, but this is an action not for monthly or yearly 
 maintenance. It is an action by the wife for the parti- 
 tion of Hamburg Place. * * * They are not satisfied 
 with maintenance. Only in these days when we hear 
 so much about the emancipation of, the ladies, could an 
 action for alimony in gross be maintained. For it is 
 only in this nation, where legislators are often moved by 
 the clamor of ballot-seeking women that we have statutes 
 such as this one in Ohio, * * * but, may it please Your 
 Honor, there is a God in Heaven who 
 
 ' postpone th the devices of the crafty, so that 
 their hands can not perform their enterprises.' 
 
 '*In the Oriental days, when the Delilahs would de- 
 stroy their Samsons, they clipped their locks. The mod- 
 ern Delilahs bring alimony suits and this one expects 
 Your Honor to say that her residence in Hamilton County 
 for the purpose of maintaining this suit, was an honest 
 residence. That was the residence that her lawyer built, 
 and here is the lady that lived in the residence that her 
 law^^er built, and this is the alimony suit brought by the 
 lady who lived in the residence that her lawyer built. 
 Oh, Your Honor, how unfortunate that a young woman 
 'whose big blue eyes and snowy hands would shake the 
 saintship of an anchorite,' should allow herself with up- 
 lifted hands to come into this Court and swear that based 
 on such facts she had a residence of one vear in Ohio." 
 
 Mr. D. J. Workum. 
 
 Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: 
 
 For ten years Stanley E. Bowdle and I were associated 
 as partners in the practice of the law. 
 
27 — 
 
 This constant and intimate association gave every op- 
 portunity to know and appreciate him as a man and as a 
 
 lawyer. 
 
 His life as a lawyer had a steadf.ast purpose of con- 
 stant effort in the path of the highest ideals of his pro- 
 fession. He coupled with this, for mental recreation, 
 deep study and thought on varied subjects that required 
 much reading and careful investigation. His method of 
 expression was unique and peculiar to himself; for it 
 was not studied or guided by imitation of others. It was 
 natural with him. His was a keen sense of humor that 
 he could not resist. Religious and ideal, with views of 
 life and men simple and clean, his every thought was 
 
 pure. 
 
 In personal appearance he was a striking figure any- 
 where ; though frail, he was tall and erect and possessed 
 of an abundance of nervous energ>^ and his action, men- 
 tal and physical, made him quick and alert. When on his 
 feet he forgot himself and his physical frailties, so that 
 he always commanded the careful attention and respect- 
 ful consideration of his hearers. 
 
 He was human. He sympathized with all misfortune 
 and took to heart the trials and mental unhappiness of 
 a client whether a litigant in court or in the counsels of 
 the office. This sympathy and gentleness often obscured 
 to him the proper value of men. 
 
 In the preparation of work he was most careful and 
 painstaking, conscientious and devoted to the work on 
 his desk, without a thought of its monetary value to him. 
 lie never made the simplest address without sketching 
 out w^hat he intended to say. 
 
 His taking off was indeed swift and cruel, and every- 
 where the news was combined with a pang of mingled sor- 
 row and regret 
 
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 Well may we be proud of him. He was recognized as 
 a brother wherever men know what is praiseworthy in 
 man. 
 
 I trust that this idealist's dreams have now come true 
 and that "Before the starry threshold of Jove's court 
 his mansion is where those immortal shapes of! bright 
 aerial spirits live ensphered in regions mild, of calm and 
 serene air above the smoke and stir of this dim spot 
 which men call earth, and with low-thoughted care con- 
 lined and pestered in this pinfold here unmindful of the 
 crown that awaits them there." 
 
 Mr. Sidney G. Strieker. 
 
 Mr. Chairman and Fellow Members of the Bar: 
 
 It is with a mingled sense of. melancholy pleasure and 
 regret, that I rise to pay tribute to the memory of Stan- 
 ley E. Bowdle. He was my friend, my very dear f^riend, 
 whom by years of intimate acquaintance I had learned 
 to love, honor and respect. I have had friends whom 
 I have known longer, but none for whom I had a deeper 
 and more profound respect. My experiences in this re- 
 gard, I am sure, was no different than yours. All w^ho 
 knew Mr. Bowdle loved and admired him. Those who 
 did not, never knew him. 
 
 He was not a pretentious man who sought the favor 
 of men. He was a modest man who found society in 
 solitude, rather than in conventionalities. He was not a 
 worldly man who reached out for popular acclaim, nor 
 was he ambitious for material gain. Though conscious 
 of his power, Mr. Bowdle never obtruded himself in pub- 
 
29 — 
 
 lie or private. A student of history and keen observer 
 of men, he had to be drawn out before he would express 
 his views. He never spoke unless he had something to 
 say. When he did, he always said something that left 
 its impress. It was more than his charm and manner 
 of speech that commanded and held attention. It was 
 originality of thought and fearlessness of expression 
 borne of honesty of heart and a clear mind, that made 
 others eager to hear him, however they might differ from 
 
 his views. 
 
 He was more than entertaining. He was enlightening. 
 A great reader and student, he had a full and ever ready 
 store of, knowledge that made him powerful in argument 
 and quick in repartee. He had a style peculiarly his 
 owTi. With a deep, resonant voice, serious in look and 
 gesture, clear and direct in speech, he rose to great 
 heights of eloquence and was a commanding figure when- 
 ever and wherever he appeared, whether before court, 
 jury, or in the public forum. Simple, honest and un- 
 affected, he was of the Abraham Lincoln type. 
 
 To those who did not know him well, Mr. Bowdle, at 
 times, appeared 'peculiar.' He was peculiar in the 
 sense that he did not tread the beaten path and had no 
 fear of being among the minority, when in his judgment 
 it represented the true cause. He had a distinct person- 
 ality which at once gripped attention. Kindly by nature, 
 he had a supreme contempt for hypocrisy and sham in 
 any form. Uniformly just and generous in his relations 
 with others, he resented selfishness, stealth and dishon- 
 esty in any form. Keen in sarcasm, there was something 
 gentle in his thrusts, however incisive, which were al- 
 wavs relieved by a delightful sense of humor which he 
 
— so- 
 possessed to a rare degree. Courtly in manner and 
 well contained, he was always a gentleman. 
 
 Pronounced in his views, Mr. Bowdle was not a par- 
 tisan. He was a democrat in the truest sense of the word. 
 Politically, he believed that true Government had no 
 higher function than to preserve the individual rights 
 and liberties of the people. Socially, he believed in the 
 common brotherhood of man. In religion, he believed 
 in a supreme Father of all who controlled the laws of 
 creation and destiny of man. 
 
 He was an idealist. The great gulf between his lofty 
 conceptions of the ideal and the actualities of life made 
 liim at times appear sad. Behind it all, he was intensely 
 human. He did not hope against hope. He lived on 
 earth, but he prayed on the mountain tops. The world is 
 richer in that he lived. It is poorer in that he is no more. 
 He was an honor to the bar, a power in the community, 
 a loyal friend and a patriotic citizen. 
 
 Such a man w^as Stanley E. Bowdle. We shall miss 
 him in the years to come. His memory will be bathed in 
 the love, honor and affection we shall ever cherish for 
 him. His life was an inspiration. God bless his spirit. 
 It shall ever live among us. 
 
 Hon. Alfred G. Allen. 
 
 Mr. Chairman and Fellow Members of the Bar: 
 
 I come to lay forget-me-nots upon the shrine of the 
 memory of. my friend and colleague, Stanley E. Bowdle. 
 A noted philosopher has said, "We stand on the bank 
 of life's river and watch the mystic bark take from 
 our shore its passengers on a voyage from which 
 
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 there is no return and we are lost in speculation. 
 The wdsdom that takes the strong and leaves the weak, 
 that takes the wise and leaves the foolish, that takes 
 the pure and leaves the vile, that takes the young 
 and leaves the old, is beyond our ken. The passengers 
 have no choice. The why, the wherefore, they are taken 
 comes only at the end of the voyage. Those behind gaze 
 upon a solemn mystery which each must solve alone with 
 the dreaded boatman." 
 
 Stanley E. Bowdle was a fine citizen, an able lawyer, 
 a strong debater and a wise legislator. He believed in 
 the people and had a keen interest in their welfare. 
 Nothing touched him more deeply than the struggles of 
 the poor. 
 
 The story of his life is a glowing tribute to courage 
 and fidelity. His wide reading, deep thinking and prac- 
 tical experience well qualified him to perform our coun- 
 try's service. His heart responded to every pulse-beat 
 of the honest citizen. He sympathized with humanity's 
 just demands against the heartless claims of avarice and 
 greed and his analytical mind was able to solve the per- 
 plexing problems of litigation and of government. In 
 the midst of his usefulness, in the strength of his zealous 
 manhood, with his task yet uncompleted, he was struck 
 down Mdthout a moment's warning. 
 
 He was an original thinker and one of the most en- 
 tertaining of men ; his philosophy, figures of speech and 
 dry wit held his audience until the last word was spoken. 
 He was reared in a home where luxury and idle hands 
 were not supposed to have a place and where all under- 
 stood and obeyed the divine law *to go forth and earn 
 bread by the sw^eat of the brow.' He toiled at whatso- 
 ever his hands found to do and was not ashamed of the 
 
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 grime of his hands or the garb of the laborer but esteemed 
 each the badge of honor in the sight of God whom he 
 early learned to love and serve as the whole duty of man. 
 
 As a Christian, his faith and life were of the stal- 
 wart, ever-going order which neither time nor season 
 nor environment in any wise affected. He was un- 
 usually familiar with the Book and hymnology of the 
 Church, and while not pretentiously pious or demonstra- 
 tive, he could repeat the Book and sing the old familiar 
 songs of the Church with such ability that those who 
 heard were charmed with the sincerity of his devotion to 
 the Divine Master. 
 
 He worked at the bench by day, and studied at night, 
 and passed from his trade as machinist to practitioner 
 at the Bar where he soon found recognition as an able, 
 trustworthy attorney, one in whom clients could place 
 implicit confidence and whom courts from highest to low- 
 est would hear and to whom they gave full weight of con- 
 sideration, respect and accord. 
 
 In 1912 Mr. Bowdle was elected to Congress. He be- 
 came a prominent member of the important Committee 
 on "Merchant Marine and Fisheries" and was on the 
 sub-committee which drafted the first shipping bill which 
 l)assed the House by a large majority but was defeated 
 in the Senate by a filibuster at the close of the 63rd Con- 
 gress. Mr. Bowdle was an able representative, loyal to 
 the jjcople, faithful to his trust, fearless in expressing 
 and advocating his views and devoted to those policies 
 which he believed to be for the good of all. He never 
 dodged a vote, but to use his owti expression, 'loathed 
 the fellow who exceeded the speed limit in getting into 
 the cloak room when a vote was about to be taken which 
 might cost him some prestige at home. ' 
 
— sa- 
 lt is said that life is a mystery and that death is simple 
 and natural, yet the latter is always impressive. It has 
 also been truthfully said that the span of life is marked 
 by spring-tune and autmnn, for if we but lif.t our 
 eyes and behold under the shining canopy this day, we 
 will see nature blossoming forth everywhere with ver- 
 dure, life and beauty. The green blades are coming 
 forth, the buds are opening, the flowers are blooming, 
 and all is radiant with the mystery of life; and in the 
 last analysis, the philosopher explains it not. Travel on 
 until the chills of. autumn are reached, with eyes earth- 
 ward turned, and behold the leaf is seared, the blade is 
 no more, the bud is gone and the flower is dead upon the 
 stalk; and all along the pathway from spring to autumn, 
 here and there, prematurely, blades decay, buds fail to 
 open, flowers bloom no more and great trees of the for- 
 est wither and die in mid-summer. So it is in the path- 
 way of human life, where without a single note of alarm, 
 our colleagnie fell by the wayside before the allotted time 
 of man. 
 
 *A Ship of Mist sailed out of a cloud, 
 
 Out of a cloud at the sunrise time ; 
 
 The glint of the dawn was on sail and shroud, 
 
 The glint of the dawn of the sunrise clime. 
 
 Into the blue from the harbor gray, 
 
 Into the blue of the living day, 
 
 Into the vast, she sailed away. 
 
 "Ahoy, lone sailor; what of the voyage?" 
 "I've neither chart nor bearing, friend," 
 
 *A Ship of Mist sailed into a cloud, 
 
 Into a cloud at the sunset time ; 
 
 The shade of the dusk was on sail and shroud, 
 
 The shade of the dusk of the sunset clime. 
 
 Into the gloom with the dying light, 
 
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 Into the gloom of the endless night, 
 Into the vast, she sailed from sight. 
 
 'Ahoy, lone sailor; what of the voyage?" 
 'I'm past the care of caring, friend." 
 
 Tribute by Mr. Edward C. Hauer. 
 
 Mr. Chairman and Friends: 
 
 After deep and full consideration of the sterling quali- 
 ties which endeared Mr. Bowdle to his fjiends, to me, the 
 one which stands out foremost, was his politeness and 
 elegance of manner and his courtesy, which was marked 
 for its genuineness — an inborn family trait developed 
 by a noble character. As Carlyle says of courtesy, 'It 
 is love in little things.' Every act of. Mr. Bowdle 's 
 was done gently and with love. No matter how heated 
 his argument, no matter how eager he was to convince, 
 his speech was ever softened by his courtesy. No man, 
 however poor in wealth or mental ability ever received 
 anything but the most courteous treatment from him, and 
 that regardless of race, creed, or position in life. 
 
 His other numerous splendid traits attracted friends 
 and followers, but it was his courtesy which endeared him 
 to us all. 
 
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