The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-10-26
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INST toS IA TINA IA man the com
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oonss3 as possib1 es but
com oluntarily chooses;
npanions habi tual resorts.
bes gegard "a as cong genial agree
abb reSs him as can
Jad kera has the reputation Of
i befng admirable gent eman:
Senator DepeW is alleg1
nav called iii III When Judge
Esark iths Senator Depew he is
Jekyf ae. not with Senator
nepe mn eli. rs chief associate
polfti cal md socially for many
has been David 3. Hill. When
Judss Parker S with Ex-senator Hill
1T is impossible for.
man of@ ex=S Senator Hill IS well7earn-
n puta ion to lie admirable or
8s an else an thoroughly bad
oiighEand trough. Mr.. Hin has
ssIakGIlSg0QQsscaFSsEeI ! uuSe7fH f>SI, 9dtld
adEanced ia ON the position of
regate lister county to be
4 Chief Justi the Court Of Appeals
and Preside ntial candidate. And that
Because Judge Parker has taken
good care ofS exsIoverno Hill, made
him oYernor; United States Senator,
and ept him alive politically. They
HAZE been he 81 Sao 5Dromios OF the
1emoeratiic Coined Of Errors in
fata.
an IFS career as q peanut
cfan; hen he was practicing
law Ellnair His first important
enterpri VIZ So to engineer.
thousands of dollars out OF
Iii Stateafo for damages caused by the
Of the sChemung river The
Z oXerffo owed many times before,
All has overfowed every year.
Just as the Susquehanna and
Ghenango have, but only upon that
sonespc casion was there lawye
made his business to mulct the
next became prominent as a
Tweed embl ynan. That may be
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and yolr he lasting friendship of
Iudge Parker. Ies3S5 defended ed Tweed
IN th I'll Assembly, and voted for the
I rs ich robbed the city of New:
FORK Of many millions 3sof dollars.
II Did III receive any Of the Doodle
IS Known that Tweed put $4,000
he sElmi Gazette for Hill to run
mot Known that a dollar OF the
money ever went back to Tweed or.
hefrs!
Hill Continued to travel in poli-
les on his barrel. He was elected
may of Elmira in 1882 He resign
once the same year to take
che once Of lieutenant governor. to
ssysass elected when Grover
CleYeland was elected governor. Two
years later Cleveland was elected to.
the PresIdency and Hill was elected
to the goYernorship. Judge Parker,
as chairman of the Democratic State
omm1tte engineered that cam
paign How a part of the campaign
barreI8Swas raised caused chapter
Of the worst political scandal with
ch any public man was ever as
Is sociated New y ork City was build
ing an acqueduct and through HIS
B fnduencea hat of Hills former law
partner contract was awarded to
OsBrden and Clark for $4,000 more
han lowest bid. They sold their
contract So as to clear 900, and
sSt lat sum turned into the Demo
B cratic campaign funds or into the
81 governors campaign funds. Did the
Il chairman OF the committee know
about 3it2 IT he did not he is about
the only man in the State who did not
have chance to hear OF it and read
Bout Il it. Judge Parker received his
reward at the hands OF Governor
Hill In promotion upon the bench
The theft OF the. Legislature in 1892
was an mi guilty which branded itself
pom Governor Hill's features. He
g$iooks just like it, and wears it as the
brand Or Cain. The facts are well re-
"a III enbered by many persons who had
@S3 tabs on public affairs at that time
The election of 1891 was. close; the
Assembly was Democratic. The Re-
pubHcans had a majority of one i'll
435Te&