The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-10

| Tout for his sons interests, and at the
same time that the young man was on
| hts quest In search Sof employment. the
father had secured him an engagement
which. from a. pecnniary s and point, was
more attractive U than Nj ha tss Itch the
| young man had concluded for himself js}
When the young man returned home
Hate at night and related to his father
with some pride the result OF his mission,
| his Their instead $of sharing In his
elation, expressed his regret, xplainlng
that he had secured for him the prom
| Use Of a much better place than that a 4
Virgil. Young Parker. much crestfalen.G
proposed that he return to Virgil the
next m orning and cancel his enga cement.
No. said his father, "you have made
It and you must keep It. Es have OBJ
served that when a young man once
fails in that way he Is, pretty apt to 1
fail all through life. Z fs 53s }S9
There were some boys at the Virgil
school who were larger than their six
teen-yea r-oId & teacher, and he found IT.
.dinicult to maintain discipline, One day
when he had corrected the bully OF the
school, that individual mot only resented
the correction. but showed 4 fight One
blow from young Parker fist sent him
sprawling to the floor. After that the
young teacher had no difficulty In COM
manding obedience from his pupils:
IN Law and Politics.
When he had obtained a degree frome
the Cortland Normal School. young Park
er sought some post as a teach er " HIGH
would enable him to enter upon his law
studies at tho earliest possibel date. He
obtained such an opportunity in Ulster
county. He took charge OF the public 4
school at Rochester. IN E that count at 4
the age OF twenty, his salary being s. /.
q day. IIe held that position a year de-
voting all OF his spare time to the study
OF the law. Augustus s. schoonnaker,
then a prominent practl Toner. at the bar l
OF Kingston. ~ took a fancy to- him and he 4
was received Into the II law VI office of 4
schoonma kers & Hardenbergh, Later he
was ena bled to take a two years course
at the Albany Law School.
v Soon after young Parker entered his 4
office Mr.. Schoonnak er was elected coun-
ty} Judge. He was defeated for re-elec-8
lion after hard campaig and WAS so
1'sheartened that lie decided to with
craw from politics. Believing that his
patron was lundulyi discoula aged. young
Parker arranged for Schoo nn1aker nom-2
.nation for State senator il In the fol-S
lowing year, and prevailed upon him to
accept the nomination. Parker managed 4
the carnpaig schoonmaker was elected
and his prestige In politics restored.
Tarkers success In managing ScAoon-
!, aker's campaign brought him into prom
;,lsnce & In Ulster county politics. and In
s.tT7 ha was nominated for surrogate. He
Mas the only Democrat on the county
ticket who was elected that year.
Judge William Lawton, the r b)ican
who had defeated Schoonmaker for cour-
sy5 Judge, was picked out as surrogate
Farker's opponent when lie came up
Tor re- election In 1854. Parker won by
| Ihe hand some majority OF ], 400 In q total
vote OF is, Co., When he had served two
YEARS Of his second term David b, Hill,
| the Democratic cand idate for Governor,
no had watched Parker's successful
Lolitical n work In. Ulster county with \
| much interest, reached the con clusion
I}tbat Parker was the man lie wanted to
manage the state campalg n. y Parker was
elected to the Democratic State Commit
tee at Hills insti ton and made It's
chairman. HIS conduct OF the Stats ca ms
paign proved that MT, Hills estimate Of
ewing n to his masterful work he whole
|jyemocratic state ticket was elected by
pluralities ranging hetWeen j 900 alli
49, 900. ,, 4, ], !. /. !. 4
31leutenant-G Governor In 1883 and 1855, giy-3
lBinp9as his reason that he did net wish
Ia abandon his chosen field of lab he
law. president Cleveland tenderad him
IStha first assistant acknowledgements u
ship, but this he also decl ined, Spn nd tor
| The sa nae reas on, ssg 5s3;s
Supreme Court Justice. 8s
when Theodore r. Weslprook diei.i
,l,cayinR the Supreme Court lustlceshlp
4 Tor the Third judicial Dist rict vacant,
c,nyernor Hill INN ately appoln ted Par
! ! kes. to the vacancy. Ills record on the