The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-06

states that can be depended on to give
their electoral votes for the Democratic
candidate for president in 1904 are
talking up Justice Parker stronger
than any of the others. According to
reports, the New York jurist is away
ahead in popular favor, particularly in
the gulf states. Both of the Texas
Observation-Disclosures and Bailey-have
declared for him, and papers through
out the state are sounding his praises.
Texas will have thirty-siX votes in
the next Democratic national conven-
ton. Hoke Smith, of Atlanta, secre-
tary of the interior in Cleveland's Sec
ond term, is already at work to secure
Georgias delegation for him. Senator
Mallory, of Florida, who returned to
Washington a few days ago, is enthusi-
astically for Judge Parker. Repre-
sentative Richardson, of Tennessee,
the Democratic house leader, says the
sentiment for Parker is evidently
growing rapidly throughout the South.
Reports from Missouri are encouraging
for him.
Justice Parker's name may not be
particularly familiar to a good many
newspaper readers in the North, but
in the South and Southwest newspa-
pers are making him pretty well
known.
Judge Parker's History.
Two things contribute to his boom:
A demand for a leader not identified
with the bitterness of Democracy's
wranglings, and secondly, the knowl-
edge that he is safe Eastern man,
without political record except as
oVr5e, fu or oil n
nominees He supported Bryan both
in 1896 and 1900, but did not subscribe
to the Chicago and Kansas City plat
forms.
What the Southern and Southwest
ern people have learned about him
from the newspapers is that he is a
native Of New York, fifty-one years
old, and comes Of Revolutionary stock.
When thirty-five years Of age he di-
rected the campaign in which David
Bennett Hill was first elected governor
of New York. In 1886 he was elected
member of the supreme court of New
York for a term of fourteen years, the
Republicans not nominating any can
didate against him. From 1892 to 1902
he was the only Democrat who carried
New York, and that was in 1897, when
court of appeals, the highest judicial
office in the state.
Further, Justice Parker has been pic
tured, correctly, throughout the South
and Southwest as a man of the high
est personal character. Even in the
bitterest campaigns no scandal has
ever been limited against him by his
political opponents. They know that
last summer he was strongly urged
to accept the Democratic nomination
for governor Of New York and the
returns on election night showed that
he would surely have been elected, for
a weak candidate was defeated by a
majority of but 5000.
Hill and OIney.
Of the other three named, Hill ap-
pears to be least in favor. One mans
reason as to why this should be so is
as good as another's. A plausible rea-
son is that he has been candidate
for the presidency so many years that
his candidacy may strike too many
people as chestnutty; and some very
able statesmen, John Sherman and
James G. Blaine, in the last quarter of
century, kept their candidacy be-
fore the people so many years that
it got in such condition. In a word,
many congressional leaders think that
Mr.. Hill could not be elected. AS for
ex- Secretary Olney, the leaders talk
is that while he has commanding abil-
files, he lives in Massachusetts, and
there are grave doubts whether any
Massachusetts man could carry New
York against Theodore Roosevelt. Mr..