Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-04
Pen Picture of
 Ju1ge Pa a-ker
CORRESPONDENT OF SUCCESS
 VISITS HIM AT HIS HOME
How the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York Appears-home Life Simple-Man Science in Every Act os His Life.

With all our restless curiosity about politics, especially about the chief actors therein, it is anomaly that the man who has been for full year the most conspicuous figure in the dis cussion of the Democratic nomination for the presidency is known to the country only by name.
 Usually it is enough barely to men, ton a man for the nominat;on-the papers, the next day, in the remotest corners of the country, present even the smallest commonplaces about him, and his peccadillos become known in the country crossroads and villages. How many cigars he smokes day, what books he likes to read, his favorite "cuss words what hour he gets up in the morning, and of what color are the neckties he wears-all these and other details are made known so fully that, if the man should get ohs the train and walk up the main street in any wideawake American viii lage, the residents would know him at sight.
 But there are twenty congressman and twice as many senators whose personal side is better known to those who may read the papers than the man who, three months hence, may be a rival competitor of Mr. Roosevelt for the presidency. He lives in New York state; but, if he should walk up Broad way, less than a dozen men would recognize him. He could walk abou. Chicago for a week and no one would know him. If he should go to Wash ington he would be as much a strang- bassador, and, if he should walk into a meeting of the national Democratic committee, probably not over three members would know who he is.
 He Is Over Six Feet Tall, and Prefers
 a Country Life.
 Substantially, but two things are known about him; that he is the chief judge of the highest court in the state of New York, Alton Brooks Parker by name, and that he carried New York by a majority of sixty thousand on Democratic ticket the year after MT. Bryan lost it by two hundred and sixty eight thousand. These two facts, and a venerable newspaper cut portraying preternaturally solemn man with a mustache, and with a somber gown hanging from his shoulders, make up the sum of what the public has found- ed it's picture of Judge Parker on. With the istless interest of Americans regarding a high judicial person, the average man has not troubled himself to find out any more.
 If you should tell him that Judge Parker is a Fiji Islander, you would not surprise him more than if you should describe the man as he really is. The shock to his native notion of what a juGge should be would be no less.
 What would his amazement be, for instance, if you should tell him, that, instead Of the pale. cloistral. sunken templed, dry-dust creature of his imagination, the chief judge of the court of appeals is husky individual like this:
 He is big, strapping, red-haired, red mustached, strenuous, and six-footerl He has never lived in city, and would rather take blue ribbons with his cattle at a country fair than be given dinners at Delmonico's; his fa- vorite recreations. between his hours on the bench. are the occupations of his Hudson River farm-yanking the scythe for an hour before breakfast, and generally joining with the farm hands in the work which he was train ed to as youth, and in the afternoons gossipping with his neighbors at the village, or galioping along the rough country roads on his favorite mount, a big black horse that he takes with him back and forth between Albany and the farm at Esopus.
 The first time I ever saw him I was looking for conventional jurist-a being grove, dignified, unearthly, the