The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-01
THE RECORD
 OF PARKER Something of the JuriSts
 Career. IS NOT THE TOOL OF HILL In Fact, They Have Long
 Been at Odds. A to Regularity" Bryan Has Never Questioned It, Nctwith- standing the Douots in the
 Mind of 'stallings.
IS NOT THE TOOL OF HILL
Advertiser Bureau. Colnro Ia RltflStn

Colorado Building, a
 Washington. March a. His former colleagues in Congress, es- pecially those from Alabama, have de- rived much entertainment perusing re- ports of the speeches of a former repre- sentative of the Second Alabama district, the Hon. Jesse F. stallings. in his bat tie for the ''hill-bIllics" and ''rosin- -chaw- ers' of the De rscy against the reor- ganizers who seek. to grab the Democ- cratic Party and run off with 1t to the devil. s4 .4 A
 "Jess,'' as he is still fondly recalled. is remembered for irrepressibie drolleries and inimitable pranks with indisputable facts, although there are few who have beheld him keep a series of truths going through the air while he performed the side-splitting stunts of drinking from a bucket or pitcher of water or anon pause 3to borrow chew of tobacco from a spell bound auditor.
 E From assailing MT. Cleveland. Mir stall- Kings appears to have turned his power fiof pranking with truth against Judge |lParker of New York, and seeks to make Ian impression that the jurist-Democrat 1 fdid not support the Democratic ticket in l |tls96 and 1900.
 H Judge Parker's Record. H When Judge Parker's name was first {tmentioned in connection with the chief [}judgeship of the New York Court of Ap- [tpeals, it being known that he was not a |sfree-silver man, inquiry was made into 3his party fidelity in 1896. The election for tjudge was in 1897. His neighbors knew how true he was to the party. but there 5were other Democrats who sought satls- Faction on that point.
 "A Ever since he had voted for the first kims, 1t was known to the people among whom he had lived and who soon were oleased to honor him, Judge Parker not bnly unwaveringly voted the straight party ticket but contributed money very. iberaily to the campaign fund This he Hid in 1896 and in 1909, Not even Mir, sryan-William J.--has ever questioned vhether Judge Parker supported the Ticket. tl. MT. Bryan's chief objection to Judge Parker, as just reported. Is that he does bot know where he stands as to impor- saht questions. especially. since the merg- Pr decision by the United States Supreme tsourt. Is MT. Bryan anxious to know if Fudge Parker has any views on trusts lnd the rights of labor. tt-
 Parker and the Trusts.
 Friends of Judge Parker here, say he poke from the bench in Democratic ind patriotic way on these great issues long before the United States Suprenno
 
 nd did it from the New York Court of Appeals. Representative Fitzgerald pf lrew York. in his recent speech, quoted bundantly from several cases involvtng ue rights of labor. showing opinions landed down by Judge Parker. He has elivered opinions involving the trust uestion which demonstrate the pure Democracy of his mind notable among hem being the case of Cummings gainst the Union Blue Stone Company, khich lawyers may find in 18th New ofk reports, page 401. -. -le case shows a contract void when ,ending to create monopoly. It turned pon an agreement between the produc- Hrs of nearly the entire product of a commodity known as the Hudson River lue stone, and of ct least 90 per cent. sf the whole amount sold and company which engaged to sell the marketable stone produced by them for the ensuing ix years at prices fixed by an association omposed of such producers and to ap- ortion the sales in specified proportions ketween them, no sale to be made except R1rough the company.
 It is a very interesting and instructive tecision, and will repay study by those Tho are curious about the nature of the Parker mentality
 Parker and Hill.
 Judge Parker's record as a judge ought settle another question, which appears M a~itate the minds of those who are neasy lest the Democratic party get to- |sther this year and win victory in bite of William J. Bryan and William . Hearst. The followers of these two x range political bed fellows insist that Barker is Hill's tool ,or Hilrs man.
 Ion that point an intimate friend of lldge Parker, who is also on good terms lith former Senator Hill a prominent fo Tk,o Advertiser correspondent:
 i'"The attempt to injurc Judge Parker representing him as Hills man is ab- hrd It is nineteen years since he was
 any way connected with Hill politics Ain prevented him from being nominat- |5 Il for Governor two years ago. When his Ame was proposed for the presidency. ere was a quick response from the huth Hill did not endorse it. His si- snce has never been explained, and the spicion prevails that he hoped that his En name would head the ticket. Mir Hr has seized upon Judge Parker's renEth to aid himself. How can Judge hrker with out playing politics do any linz to free himself from the unjust in rences which are being drawn?
 Moreover, when the franchise tax law as passed MT. Hill said that 1t was a Alitical and a legal blunder. He denounc- it as unconstitutional. He was employ
 to kill it in the Court of Appeals.
 Decided Against Hill.
 Judge Parker not only declared the 4 Nv to be constitutional, but he pronounc- it good law. This, in itself, shows kdge Parker's mental. moral and of- . Hal independence. Again and again has MAI ldge Parker voted against Hills argu- bnts in the Court of Appeals.
 ifJudge Parker's strong, quiet person. # klty and his stainless record on the hlch is in itself an answer to the large that the Democratic party is reck- lsly vindictive against the business in- fests the country. He is absolutely -. se from stock speculative influences. He
 a lawyer who has never served a lust" large or small. His attitude as l'.4 " hnaroocrat and as a iudae has been al-