The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-09

here some of the most important opinions
 handed down by rhe Court of Appeals
 have been written,
 Judge Parker is only fifty years old, 2 | powerfully built man, with an iron hand
 grip and the simplest manner imagina- l ble. At the first glance one Is impressed | by sense of tremendous physical force.
 The broad shoulders, immense chest. | square, formidable chin: strong, mascu- | line mouth, shaded by a coarse, tawny
 mustache: high cheek bones fresh color
 inS-as red and white as a young girls | face-great brilliant brown eyes and mas sive symmetrical limbs-go we'll with the
 deep. full voice and grave dignity of the man.
 When he is now striding about his farm, playing with his grandson or riding over the rough roads on his favorite sad l dle horse-for the Judge rides an hour every day. wherever he happens to be- he sits in sunny room walled with law books and works out his judgments Is 6 Conservative Democrat.
 about it's fields md paths or sit by the
 blazing logs in the Judges roomy fire- place, as many a political leader has done within the past few weeks, and you will
 come away ignorant of the Judge's poli.i-
 cal views. save that ae Is a conservative
 Democrat who believes in tariff revision
 and is confident that the American poo
 pie can deal wisely and successfully with any problem that confponts them. His slow manner of speech and the straight. honest look out of his eyes indicate the careful deliberate mind. But, in spite Of his impressive bearing, there is a sin gnlar suggestion of the warm-hearted farm boy that persists.
 This is the man who Is being talked of for President of the United States in many parts of the country, the man who most people believe would have been elected Governor of New York in the last election had he been nominated, the man who managed the campaign that re- suited in the election of Governor Hill, who was offered an office by President Cleveland. who voted for Mir Bryan. who was the personal and political friend of Samuel J. Tilden-the mystery of Demo- cratic politics today.
 Who Judge Parker Is.
 Judge Parker Is descended from Eng fish ancestors, who settled in New Eng land nearly 200 years ago. His great as private, His father was a farmer. Fifty years ago the Judge was born on tis fathers farm near Cortland, New York He attended the primary and nor IS he taught school in a country school house and established his authority by thrashing the bully of his class. Then he taught school in Birmingham. Later an Ulster County village. After that, his hopes of attending Cornell University failing. he entered the law of1ce of Schoonpaker Hardenberg, at Kings ton. Next he attended the law school in Albany. Then he returned to Schoon- maker & Hardenberg's office. and after a | few months he took a law partner named | Yenyon and opened an ofncs in Kings | ton.
 For twelve years he practised law in | Kingston, and during that time he was free from the control or influence of | large corporations.
 Tn 1877 he was elected surrogate of Ul- | ster County, and when his term expired | he was reelected.
 By this time the young lawyer was rec ties of Ulster County, and in 1885 he was persuaded to become the chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committed which had charge of Mr. Hills campaign Tor the Governorship. Governor Hin ap- pointed him to a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court when Judge Westbrook lied
 Then a curious thing happened. Judge Parker was only 8 years old, and yet he was unanimously nominated for the Su- 1reme Court bench by the Democrats, and he Republicans refused to nominate an antagonist or oppose him.
 Not a vote was cast against him. He Ierved in the Supreme Court until his election as Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals in 1887 by plurality of about Q, 900.
 Although Judge Parker refuses to dis uss political questions. sheItering him. elf behind the proprieties of his office, 1t s well known that he takes a geen in- crest in his party And was in full ac- ord with the last Democratic State plat l orm. except for the coal mine plank, which he regarded as preposterous rub ,ish The key to his views on the strug- 'ae between capital and labor can be