Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1912 — Judge Hoar's Retort [ARTICLE]

Judge Hoar's Retort

On innumerable occasions when Judge Hoaf Indulged In the retort mordant perhaps none gave him greater satisfaction than the following: B. P. Butler, his chief adversary at the bar in the early fifties, as the counsel for the defense, closed an emphatic appeal to the Jury with: “We have the highest authority for saying: 'Everything which a man hath will he give for his life.* ” When Hoar's torn came he said. “It has for a long time been suspected by fidao who have watched Mr. Butler’s career that he recognised as the highest authority the Individual upon whom he now relies. Fbr, gentlemen, as you well know, the statement which he quotes from the book of Job was made by Satan."