Show GOOD ADVICE TO J. J H. H BAILEY JR We are told that Mr J. J H. H Bailey DalIe jr is au ail able and ambitious young oung man desirous of or achieving success atthe atthe at atthe the bar There is reason to believe he ho wants to be a successful criminal lawyer He has not gone about it in inthe inthe inthe the proper wa way Before Defore these lines can appear in print the decision of ot court and Jury in the Sullivan case must be fixed So that nothing here bere could be bo of or effect in determining that case And Arid It Is not written with that purpose It is simply to tell a young man who has bas far Car too much good In him for failure that he has also far too much of oC the things that make for failure And If it he wants to win fame and fortune at the tIle bar he will have to depend on legitimate means and leave clap trap for the fakirs The practice of law Jaw Is one of or the noblest of professions No man can study that science and treat it as trivial It Is a big life He for tl too the biggest man to lead Of or course the winning of oC cases is the prime an and ultimate en end to be bo secured But it will not pay par an any lawyer aw er to employ illegitimate means for that promise The personal appeal to juryz jurymen en the appeal on private grounds is as bad as newspaper newspaper news neVIs paper in the course of a a. trial It is as ba bad as tampering with witha a juror in the interest of either state or defense Now and then a lawyer pressed f for r means to secure acquittal tries tricks like the arranging of bottles or orthe orthe orthe the display of skeletons It has never been done wH without out a distinct ct loss Joss to the lawyer laWer It sets him further back backon on his bis road than a failure to secure a verdict possibly could Frank H Hanly nh of ot Indiana na once tried to secure the acquittal of oC a n. by pulling a United States Stales flag from his pocket If in lii the midst of oC his argument argument argument ment and waving it before the astonished astonished aston faces of the jurors admonishing them in the name of ot Old Glory not to send his client to the penitentiary It was a wholly improper act and lowered a big bg man mI mightily in ip the esteem of his friends In the story called The e Right flight of Way there is a proper s statement of ofa ofa ofa a lawyers lawyer's be best t method The stu study y of or orthe the case the study of the tIie jury the careful arrangement of argument the careful marshalling of facts facts and and above all a perfect candor and and honesty honest with judge and aud jur Jury T These ese are the ways was to success at the bar The biggest biggest big big- gest lawyers win cases by direct means They do not resort to adventitious ad ad- accessories They do not lug their religion and their friendships I into the argument I And men who do it ought to tall fall |