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 The Late Judge Emmet Field of Kentucky which is the one thing needful—high over all, and all including, as charity is to the Chris tian." The admiration and esteem shared by so many were well voiced by Col. Bennett H. Young, who said:— "It was my privilege to have been upon terms of close and intimate friendship with Judge Field. After practising before him for more than a quarter of a century I can say, without limitation, that he had every quality that a judge could possess. He was firm, yet courteous; he was always kind and consider ate; he was patient and painstaking. He was a thorough student of the law. His sense of justice rose higher than technicalities and forms. His conduct toward the bar was ideal; his deportment on the bench was always dignified and upright. "In my long experience I never heard one human being question Judge Field's absolute fairness. He was remarkable in that he did not permit his friendships in the least to affect his treatment of every lawyer at the Louisville bar. He was particularly kind to young men. If an inexperienced practitioner was getting a little the worst of it Judge Field held the scales evenly and saw that no wrong was done. He had as complete a sense of right and wrong as any man I have ever known. "He had become a great Judge, and in this connection I mean a man who knew the law. There was no question or matter that any member of the Louisville bar would hesitate to submit to Judge Field's opinion. Neither fear nor favor moved his opinions or conduct as a Judge. "The death of a man of such splendid char acter is an irreparable loss to Louisville and Kentucky. There are no words that can overstate his qualities as a man and a Judge and his courage as a soldier." The Chief Justice of the old Common wealth, Hon. Henry Barker, left the bench at Frankfort to preside at this bar meeting, and said in accepting the honor:— "You all know we have met here to

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take the necessary steps to express our respect for the memory of one we all loved, and one who was in every way worthy of that love. "No house ever had a nobler head; no state ever possessed a more faithful servant; no bench or bar ever had a member whose life more fully exemplified its highest standards and ideals. He lived righteously. He served faithfully. He died gloriously. "The ending of such a life calls for neither sorrow nor tears, but rather for the bugle notes of triumph—the plaudits of victory. This world is nobler and more beautiful be cause he has lived. The next is richer because he has died." The Democratic city and county convention which met at Louisville July 2 nominated William H. Field to succeed his father on the Common Pleas bench. Judge Matt O'Doherty, in presenting this nomination, declared the son to be in every way worthy of his honored father, and to be one in whom his father had "instilled those principles of rectitude, of integrity, of the highest honor and the high est citizenship which shone so conspicuously in his own character." When he placed the name of Judge Shackel ford Miller in nomination for Chancellor, Morton K. Yontz referred to the late Judge Field in these terms:— "The Democratic party is proud of the men it has given to the bench. It gave to the bench that sweet-spirited, gentle man, that just judge, Emmet Field, of glorious memory. 'I cannot say and I will not say That he is dead; he is just away.' "His loved form is laid away in the quiet tomb, but his splendid influence goes march ing on. He was content to be a Circuit Judge; that is to say, he was content to sound the shoals of honor. In him no vaulting ambition o'erleaped itself. But as Macbeth was made to say of Duncan: 'Oh, he was so clear in his great office I' "