Evening star., 1926-05-11
PARKER'S FUNERAL
:TOBE TOMORROW
Former Judge and Candidate
for President to Be Buried
in the CatSkiIlS.
BY the Associated Press.

! BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 11.-Alton
| Parker, farm boy, who became q lead
| ing iurist, and was Democratic candl'
I date for president in 1904 against
| Theodore Roosevelt. is to be burleC
| tomorrow.
The former chief justice OF the
New York State Court of Appeals died
! of q heart attack yesterday afternoon
while driving through Central Park
on his way, with his wife and nurse
| to his country home at Esopus, n.
He contracted q cold three days
ago. and, because of his "a years,
his physician ordered him to wait until
yesterday before leaving for his
country home at Esopus, where he
had planned q holiday with horseback
riding and motor boating.
Leaves Widow and Daughter.
Besides his wife, he is survived by
a daughter Mrs. Charles Mercer Hall
wife of a Bridgeport, Conn, clergy
man, and two grandchildren. Mary
and Parker Hall. Mrs. Hall is the
daughter of Judge Parker and his
first wife, Mrs. Mary Louise Shoon.
maker Parker, whom he married in
1873, and who died in 1917. He mar
ried the present Mrs. Parker three
years ago.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
noon at st. Thomas Protestant
Episcopal Church. Interment will be
In the Parker family plot at Kingston,
N. Y, the lower Catskills, where
Judge Parker spent his youth
Among the honorary pallbearers
will be Charles T. Hughes and John
w. Davis.
Rose From Farm Boy.
From the drudgery Of an obscure
farm boy to the chief justiceship of
the highest court in his native State
Of New York, and thence to the
eminence of Democratic standard
bearer in the presidential campaign
Of 1904, was the lot of Alton Brooks
Parker, frequently called Parker
the Silent" preceding the election.
because of his refusal to utter a word
in behalf of his candidacy until for
mally notified.
The candidate of q party, torn by
opposing radical and conservative
elements, and nominated on a com
promise platform which made not
the slightest mention of the all
absorbing currency problem of that
period, the defeat of Mr.. Parker
was the most decisive ever recorded
in q presidential campaign up to
that time. OF approximately 49,
+, 0O0,000 votes cast at large, Presi-
dent Roosevelt. who had been In
the White House since the death
of President Mckinley, in 1901, re-
ceived a clear majority OF nearly
| . 900 900.
| Resigned to Seek Office.
J The measure of Mr.. Parker as a
| politician may best be taken by a
! brief review of that spectacular cam
| paign. When his name was placed
| before the Democratic national con-
yention in St. Louis he stood, as
chief judge of the Court of Appeals
of New York. in the front rank of
the legal profession. When the bal
lots were printed he was a private
citizen, having resigned from the
bench before he would turn a hand
in the interest Of his election.
Despite the fact that a majority
Of the delegates had gone to st. Louis
determined TO repudiate the free sill
yer policy of William Jennings Bryan
when he ran against Mckinley in
1896, many political historians today
agree that Judge Parker himself was
responsible for much OF the party
confusion which in a large measure
precipitated his defeat
His deep silence through the most
critical and trying weeks of the pre-
convention roundup. when the nom
ination was conceded to be any mans