The daily Alaskan., 1904-07-09
THE MAN
Judge Parker, the Demo-
 cratic Nominee

Alton Brooks Parker, who was nom- mated by the national democratic con vention yesterday for president of the United States, is chief judge of the highest appellate court of the state of New York, lawyer and jurist of pro found ability and citizen of the high est order. He was born at Cortland, N. Y, 53 years ago, of New England parentage.
 The exalted station in life which Judge Parker occupies was self achieved. His boyhoOd career was spent on a farm and his early education was such as can now be secured in any first class high school, Having early determined to be a lawyer, and being one of those who has always done what he had determined todo, he taught district school for the money to defray his ex- penses through the Albany law school, at which he made an excellent record.
 Young Parker began the practice of law in Kingston, on the Hudson, the largest city in the neighborhood of his birth, and soon became recognized as a man of splendid abilities with capac- ity for hard, thorough work, and a con science that made him man to be re- lied upon. His first law partner, Judge Schoonmaker, became his tather-in- law, and his first induction into politics was in the successful management of his father-in-law's campaign for county attorney. This was done with so much skill that Parker was himself nominat- ed and elected surrogate of his county, position worth 5000 a year, at the age of 30, While iD this office he be- came the recognized democratic leader of Ulster county, which at once ceased giving republican majorities and be- came a democratic stronghold.
 Parker's work in Ulster county at- tracted the attention of the state lead CTS, and in 1885 he was made the chair man of the executive committee which managed successfully the hard cam paign of David B. Hill for governor of the Empire state.
 Parker became judge of the New York supreme court the first of Janu- ary, 1886, by appointment from Gov. Hill, and thus ended what promised to be a brilliant political career, but a great judicial career was begun. Judge Parker was elected to succeed himself and made such a record that in 1897 he was nominated by his party for judge of the court of appeals, the highest judi cial position in his state, and notwith- standing that the year before the state gave the republicans a majority of 26S,- OCO, he was elected by more than co., 900 majority.
 Twice, iu 1891 and in 1893, was Judge Parker offered a United States senator ship, and twice, in 1898 and in 1902, was he offered his party'S nomination for governor. He refused all the ten ders, so satisfactory to him was the ju- dicial position which he held
 Like the distinguished president of the United States, who VII be his com. petitor in the campaign that is to take place, Judge Parker has athletic tastes He has the personal appearance of being a man who is not yet 40, is large of stature and healthy in mind and body,
 The time of the democratic presiden- tial nominee which is not taken up with his judicial duties, though he is said to be the hardest worker on the court over which he presides, and off whichhe is the youngest member, is devoted to agp'suiJure. He operates a farm near his birthplace on scientific lines and makes it pay.