New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-27
PARKER FOR THE BENCH.
PLANS OF HIS FRIENDS.
Want to Secure Supreme Court
Nomination for En-Judge.

The friends of Alton B. Parker are WORKING
ouietlv to bring about his nomination as JUS
tice of the Supreme Court in this county. Inc
plan involves a change of voting residence py
the ex-judge who now lives outside the flrst
Judicial Department This would not be diff
cult, however, as Mr.. Parker already has es-
tablished himself in the practice of his profess
sion in this city, with an office with william f.
Sheehan.
Some of ex-Judge Parker's friends in the Man.
haitian Club are hopeful of getting his name on
the Tammany judiciary ticket next fall. This
will he feasible in certain contingencies. If the
bill for the reorganization of the Supreme Court
discussed by the Laws Delay Commission last
year is passed by the coming legislature. there
viii! be an increase of three or four justices to
be voted for next fall In addition to these.
three Tammany justices will leave the bench.
either because of the expiration of their terms
or because of the age limit These are Justices
Charles H Van Brunt and George L. Ingraham.
of the Appellate Division, and Henry A. Glider
sleeve. There is strong probability that JUS
tees Ingraham and Gildersleeve will be re-
nominated by Tammany next fall. thus leaving
only one vacancy TO be filled by the selection of
a candidate There are a number of aspir-
ants for this vacancy. Two of them James
W. Gerard and Corporation Counsel Delany.
In view of the fact that other men have 1.-THE
CALI for the only vacancy now in sight. IT would
seem that Judge Parkers chances for a place on
the bench at early day rest on the prospect
of there being immediate increase In the
number of justices in this county. This increase
would be warranted. lawyers say, by the con-
dition of the calendars and by the steady anu
apid increase in the business of the courts.
The friends of Judge Parker in the Manhattan
Club are planning a non-partisan dinner for
been
sounded about the advisability of giving the
dinner before the holidays. The probability is
that it will be given some time in January II
at all. This dinner is counted on by the Parker
set In the Manhattan Club to develop kindly
all-around feeling for the judge. and TO pave
the way for his nomination for the bench, in
case Charles F. Murphy can he prevailed on to
make a place for the man whose nomination
was distastefu to him, and instructions Tor
whom the Albany convention disrupted the
Democratic party in the State.
With Mr. Parker on the Supreme Court oench
his friends indulge in the hope that Governor
Higgins might designate him to the Appellate
Division at an early date thus insuring MN
dignifed position with salary of $17,So0 prac-
tically for life.
That Judge Parker would exchange his voting
residence without a qualm goes without saying
according TO some of his friends His home
county. township and election district gave
Roosevelt a plurality. Mr. Parker feels, II IS
said, that there is no particular reason for his
maintaining "A voting residence in Kingston
provided the way is open for him to be nomi-
mated and elected to the Supreme Court benCh
in this city.
The Manhattan Club people, who quietly
pushing Judge Parker TO the front, believe that
the Mayoralty fight is going to be close one
next fall, and that Murphy will he glad to &C
cept Mr.. Parker as one of Tammany's candt-
dates for the bench.
Judge Parker's salary chief judge of the
Court of Appeals about $4,000 If he can
get back on the bench with the increase in sal
airy of about 81 800. his friends are confident he
will be glad to accept a nomination next fall.
Charles F. Murphy has not as vet been con-
suited about the scheme. The feeling in Tam
many Hall for Mr. Parker is none too cordial.
His alliance with William F. Sheehan does not
raise him in the estimation of the Tammany
lawyers. who have worked long and hard for
the organization, and who want to go the
bench at the earliest possible opportunity.
Judge Newburger, Charles H. Knox and Charles
w. Dayton feel that they have claims the
organization in connection with judiciary
honOrs. Their friends will not look with any
particular favor on any scheme which aims to
put Mr.. Parker on the bench to the exclusion
of men who have worked for Tammany with
the sole ambition of being elected judges.
Just what the dinner will accomplish
'plaCatlng' element remains to be seen.