Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-19
PARKER'S LABOR VIEWS
DECISIONS WILL BE WIDELY CIR
,scULATED BY DEMOCRATS.
Were Pointed Out. by Representative
Fitzgerald Of New York In Speech
in the Recent Session.

The democratic leaders are preparing to
play what they regard as a trump card for
catching the labor vote of the country for
Parker and Davis
They propose to give wide circulation to
Il statement of the decisions of Judge Par
kerr as chief justice of the court of appeals
OF New York state, relating to labor ques-
lions They declare that Judge Parker in
all these decisions has been sound from
the viewpoint of labor organizations. and
that IL will only be necessary to have al
the labor people of the country fully under
stand his attitude on the questions in which
they deeply concerned IN order to OBJ
tain their hearty support of his candidacy.
IL Is also said to be a significant fact
that in all these decisions affecting prob
lens of labor organizations Judge Parker
went into the questions at issue at conSld-
cradle length, while as rule his decisions
have been extremely brief and relate merely
to essential points. The greater length at
which he comments in his decisions on Ia
Dor problems is pointed TO significant Of
his great interest in such matters.
Judge Parker's Decisions.
These decisions relate to the eiSht-hOur
law, to immigration. to injunctions and
other matters that have direct hearing
upon labor problems. In the recent session
of Congress they were all pointed out by
Representative Fitzgerald of New York in
a speech delivered in the House of Repre-
sentatives. For the purposes of the cam
paign that speech will be amplfied and 1t
is proposed to give it very wide circula-
ton.
This move on the part of the democrats
has long been looked for by leading repub-
licans. They have regarded it as, of i'm
pcrtance in introducing in the campaign a
policy that many of them regard as having
the seeds of great danger in the future.
q CD mi ON
posed by the democrats apt to do injury
To the republican ticket, but they see in it
danger that in the event of Judge Par
ker being able to make political capital of
his judicial record there will be a great
temptation on the part of men on the bench
to so conduct themselves to commend
them to voters for political preferment Of
one kind or another.
1t is said that judge sitting on the bench
with an ambition to be governor might if
he should follow the same plan of proce-
dure, stury to render decisions that would
commend him for the nomination of his
party and to the people for election
1t Is pointed out in this connection that
Judge Is supposed to render decisions of
the law without being influenced by per-
sonal opinions on the propriety of the law
he extent to which his personal bias in
huenceS the decision Is declared to he the
extent to which he is acting in a Legislative
capacity while on the bench. The fact that
a judge renders a decision one way or the
other is not regarded as equivalent to a
declaration of his personal opinion If he
merely acts in judicial capacity
The Republican Intention.
When these opinions have been circu-
lated and referred to on the stump repub-
Hcans VIII ask democrats who put them
forward whether they regard them as in
the nature of declaration of the personal
views of Judge Parker, and as Indicating
his personal opinion to the questions at
issue or whether they are to be regarded
as merely an analysis of the law on the
subjects treated.
Just how soon the document containing
THESE extracts from the decisions of Judge
Parker Will be published and circulated is
not now known. There have already been
great demands for it, and 1t is proposed. to
use II In New York state, among the labor
organizations of the city of New York es-
peciaIly. The strike in the building trades
or New York city. it is supposed will rem
ger large number of workmen friendly to
candidate who will be pictured as rem
derlng decisions exactly in line with what
they want done on labor matters
III is also intended to circulate the speech
IN Illinois for use among strikers in Chi
cago. There is little expectation among
conservative democrats that Illinois can
be made doubtful in the present campaign,
but at the same time they are willing to
give these speeches of Judge Parker a
Woe circulation, in order to Influence as
many voters as possible.