The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-17
AL TON B. PARKER
PROBABLE DEMOCRATIC
NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT
Indications Point
Democracy's Standard Bearer

upon strong and well-moulded neck
and it is a head with good DOME
we'll filled across the brow and cover
ed with a rather close cropped thatch
of hair that is red rather than brown
In repose, the jaws suggest tirmness
almost to severity, the full square
chin completing a face indicating IN
its strong lines a mind behind 1t of
resolution. The mouth is ample and
Complementary in its firm lines to the
chin below 1t, and it is partly yelled
by a vigorous and well-trained mus
tache that is somewhat coarse and
hristly, and certainly red. The cheek
bones are prominent, but they are
BEAUTIFULLY rounded.
a Man of Dignity and Force.
That is the man as one sees him
moving. in at the head of the line of
judges TO take his place as the presid-
ing officer of the Court of Appeals. Clad
in his silken robe of office, speaking in
low, measured and distinct tones, he
gives the impression of great force, of
reserve power, fine composure and at
tention and becoming dignity. off
the bench and out of the robe he is
quite different without losing a dignity
that sticks to him at all times He
gives grasp of the hand that is
hearty and strong as that Of a steve
dore. His home is at Esopus. a short
distance from Kingston, where he be-
gan the study of law and where he
grew up to a mans estate among old
friends.
His Domestic Life.
While Judge Parker was teaching
school in Rochester village, before he
had gained the right to practice law,
he met Mary L. Shoemaker. The
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young lawyer could see his way clear
TO supporting a wife they were mar
mled. For many years they lived in
the winter season in a handsome house
in Kingston, owned by the Judge A
great love for the country and for
country life drew him each spring,
however to an old farmhouse near Ac-
cord, where he could dip into agricul-
ture or his law books, as the inclina-
ton or the pressure of business re-
CURED. OF his marriage there were two
children, son, who died when Z years
of age, and a daughter Bertha, who
is the wife Of the Rev. Charles Mercer
Hall, rector of the Church of the Holy
Cross, Kingston. Mr.. and Mrs. Hall
have two children.
Fell in Love with the south.
Mrs Parker is the descendant of one
of the oldest of the Holland Dutch
families that made New Amsterdam
and all of the province famous. more
than two centuries agone. She would
grace the White House just as she
graces Rosemount Hall. She accom-
panied the Judge to Georgia when he
came to address the State Bar Asso-
citation in Atlanta last summer.
and fell in love with the South.
Her husband tells a story of her com
ment about the trip. After she had
- Ton oil II
Il have never been with you
when l did not meet gentlemen but
l have never been anywhere before
when all the men l met were gentle
men,"
That is the sincere, unaffected i'm
preston the mistress of Rosemount
formed of the Southern people The
Judge says she has been after him to
| come South to live ever since she re-
turned home.
Judge and Mrs. Parker in savannah.
When Justice Parker stopped in Sa-
Vannah on his way North after the
Bar Association meeting in Atlanta
he was accompanied by Mrs.
Parker A breakfast was given at
Col. Meldrim's for both Judge and Mrs.
Parker and later in the day many Sa-
vannah ladies met Mrs. Parker at
luncheon at Mrs w. r. Leakens, and
were charmed with the probable future
mistress of the White House
Many of Savannah's leading citizens
met Judge Parker during the day on
a drive through the city and at a
dinner given by Mr.. George w. Owens
at his home on Thirty-seventh street.
Judge Parker was greatly interested
in Savannah, but took the greatest in
terest in its commerce and its indus
tries.
His Home at EsOpus.
Judge Parker's country home at Es-
opus is on the banks of the Hudson,
ample, retired, yet within convenient
distance of Kingston, his daughter and
his grandchildren. Upon this tract Of
ninety acres, and at the top of bluff