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Alton Brooks Parker
AL1
LTON BROOKS PARKER, the
Democratic candidate for pres
ident. Is fifty-two years old, six
years older than Theodore Roose
velt and nearly ten years older than
was his rival when be assumed the
presidential authority.
He Is just a little under six feet in
height.
He is broad shouldered, deep chested
and weighs I'.HJ pounds.
Ills checks are ruddy, and his hazel
brown eyes sparkle with the glow of
health.
Ills hair, which Is thlu on the top
and sprinkled with gray on the sides,
is of an unusuulebut attractive shade
of Ted, characteristic of other members
of the Tarker family.
His mustache, which is usually worn
close trimmed, Is a shade darker than
his hair.
Like PrfjSideut Roosevelt, he is an
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JUDGE PARKER AND ROSBMONT, HIS HOME AT ESOPUS, N. T.
"out of doors" man. lie keeps his mus
cles hard and his mind clear and keen
by'much exercise in the open air, horse
back riding, driving and walking and
fnrm work.
. lie Is alert and energetic in his ap
pearance, movements and speech. His
manner In association with friends is
a (Table and kindly and without the self
assertlveness of the Judge.
His conversational habit Is to be dl
rect and frank and scrupulously care
ful In his choice of expressions. I'
ally when his opinion Is asked on any
subject his reply Is Instantly ready.
Judge Parker Is one of the best ex
amples of a self made man In the
United States today. . Born poor, he
has built up a small fortune that am
ply provides for his needs, and above
that he appears to have no further am
bition in a monetary way. His three
farms, oue at Cortland, another at Ac
cord and the third at Esopus, complete
bis land possessions, and in all his
wealth Is estimated at not more than
$30,000.
Having and good judgment have
brought to him what he has and not
any stroke of good fortune.
Itosemont, the Judge's house at
Esopus. Is n modest but comfortable
wooden structure, standing on the
stone foundations of a Dutch house of
colonial times. It Is set on the side of
a hill among shade trees and fronts
the river. It is the abode of hospital
Ity and refinement, the typical home
of an American gentleman. The pic
MBS. ALTON B. riBKKH.
tures, the books, the furniture, the
wide hall and glowing fireplace, the
sunny library and the dining room,
with Its long mahogany table, all show
evidences of Intelligent tastes that
were not developed in one generation.
Here Judge Parker walk among his
cattle In top boots and pea Jacket, the
Incarnation of strength and virility.
He stride through the sorghum and
hay fields, visits the great barn, tend
the sick cow or fondles the latest calf.
and help his men to clear np the
leave or the stubble.
None of hi eight farm hand knows
half as much as be about the treea, the
crops, the cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens,!
turkeys or ducks. YVbether In the
peach or apple orchard, in the cow
pasture, barn or sty, he is the master
of all In knowlexlee fla well aa In
energy. He will Wy his pllthfork or
put his shoulder under a heary loud
with the best of them, and It Is a good
man who can keep np with him. He
drives his family to the church of his
son-in-law, Hev. Charles Mercer Hall
at Kingston, every Sunday and sings
so heartily that strangers in the con.
gregatlon are apt to turn their beads.
Nor does he forget to have his do
mestic servants who are Soman Cath
ollcs driven to their own church regu
larly. The Judge Is a vestryman In the
Kingston church, and, although a man
of very moderate means, he Is prob
ably the wealthiest man in the con
gregatlon. He is the practical pillar
of the church and takes an active in
terest in Its charities, its cooking and
sewing and dancing schools. Its phys
ical culture class and Its basket ball
game for boys. He is also a con
tributor to the funds of the local or
phan asylum and is one of the man
agers of the Kingston City hospital.
His neighborly usefulness is to be
seen on all sides. He Is even the
freight agent of a steamboat company,
so that the little private dock on his
farm may be used for the convenience
of the community.
He is a confirmed magazine reader.
He seldom reads poetry, but is fond of
good novels. Mrs. Parker is always on
the alert for a new story for her hard
working husband. But his natural
taste is for Dickens, Thackeray and
Scott. He delights In the vigorous out
of door atmosphere of "The Scottish
t'hlefs." Jefferson Is his favorite po
litical writer. Any book or article on
agriculture or cattle breeding is sure
to Interest him.
After he has spent a morning work
ing on his judicial opinion hours of
grave concentration, when no fine Is
permitted to Interrupt his quiet and
when be Is waiting for lunch his sec
retary, Arthur McCausland, will sit
at the piano while the judge in a
sweet tenor voice sing old fashioned
ballads or hymns, "I Feel Just as
Young as I Used to Be," "Only an
Armor Bearer," "Hold the Fort," and
so on.
Judge Parker was bora May 14, 1852,
at Cortland, N. Y., and was the son of
a farmer. Two hundred year sgo bis
ancestors had come from England and
settled In New England. From genera
tgjki to generation they were of the
hardy farmer class, and they drew their
love of country from the soil to which
they had been transplanted. Judge
rarker's great-grandfather was a sol
dier lust the ranks of Washington's
army.
As early as be could do so young
Parker attended sches at Cortland
academy and later got out of the Cort
land Normal school all the equipment
for life that it could give him. Hi
parents were not able to send him to
college or even to take care of bltn
w hile he was trying to find a foothold
At sixteen he became a AJhuti
nntry school
teacher.
Reluctantly he was obliged to give
up the hope of a college training for
his profession and to think of the old
fashioned approach to the bar through
the office of a preceptor. Having sur
rendered one cherished ambition, but
not hi chosen profession, be was ad
mitted to the office of Sohoonmaker
Hardenbergh of Kingston as a stn
dent of law. Working bis way, be
was at last enabled to enter the law
school at' Albany, gravitating between
the office of his preceptors at King
ston and the law school, according to
season and necessity. Ia 1ST2 be was
graduated, and soon after the sign of
Parker & Kcnyon was hnng out at
Kingston.
He speedily demonstrated a decided
ability for political management
From the start be was Democrat.
Career of the Democratic
Candidate toW President.
Born on a Farm and Firmer
Judge Still A Good Tenor
Singer and a Wise and
Learned Judge HI Early
Struggle
Ia 1877, when he was twenty-lire, the
Democrats of Ulster county nominated
him for surrogate of the county. He
was elected for a six year term and in
1883 wus re-elected.
In 1884 he was a delegate to the
convention at Chicago that nominated
Grover Cleveland for president, and he
helped to pull the candidate through
In the hotly contested campaign of
tfjnt year. Cleveland wns elected, aud
In Januury he turned over to Lieuten
ant Governor Hill the uncompleted
term of oftlce he was obliged to sur
render to become president.
Governor Hill was nominated In the
fall. The Democratic party was worn
out with the efforts It bad made in
the preceding year, its money was ex
hausted, and Its stock of patience was
growing small.
Hill was urged to select this or that
man to take charge of his Interests In
the conduct of the campaign. He, too,
had come to know Parker very well,
and he had a clear conviction of his
superior fitness for the difficult posi
tion to be occupied. He sent to King
ston for rnrker, who not only over
came the apathy of bis party and dis
regarded the disadvantage of an
empty cash box, but overcame all the
advantages supposed to be enjoyed
by the Republicans and saw bis candi
date victorious by 11,000 plurality In
the state in which Cleveland had with
difficulty secured about 1,200 the year
before.
During the campaign Supreme Court
Justice Theodore R. Westbrook died.
Governor Hill was urged to fill the va
cancy at once. "After the election,"
was his answer to all pressure. When
the election was over be announced the
appointment of Alton B. Parker to the
judgeship.
In June, 1880, was created the second
division of the court of appeals to ac
celerate the work of the highest court.
Judge Parker was designated by Gov
ernor Hill to sit with this new court.
He was only thirty-seven years of age.
the youngest of all Judges of the court
of appeals. He sat in this court until
18!)3, when, upon Its dissolution, he
was appointed by Governor Flower,
urged thereto by uinny judges, to be a
member of the general terra of the
supreme court off the First district.
Here "Be remained until the creation of
the appellate division of the supreme
court, when he resumed the trial terms
in his own district. In 1807 he was
nominated to be chief Justice of the
court of appeals and was elected by a
plurality of 00,880.
That not every one, however, re
gards Judge Parker as a Delphic oracle
is shown by the following anecdote:
A very able New York attorney who
was quite deaf and very sensitive
was arguing a case liefore the New
York court of appeals. He dwelt at
JUDGE PARKER AND HIS GBAXDSOX AT
ROSEMONT
length upon a fundamental law princi
ple. Finally Judge Parker interrupted.
"It would seem. Brother , that
you Infer that this court Is not well
versed in this elementary law point."
Now, the attorney didn't catch what
was said, but be made it rule to
agree always wltb what the court said;
so, smiling and bowing, he said:
'Precisely, your bonnsa,precisely. You
have stated the proposition correctly."
The court laughed. Judge 'arker
smiled, aJt'l the lawyer continued bis
argument;
Nonconsplcuous in the public ey-?
lies been Mrs. Mary D. Parker, the
wife of Judge Tarker. This Is because
she has led an unusually quiet life.
Mrs. Parker was born at Accord, in
Ihe township of Rochester, In Ulster
county, and is a daughter of the late
Moses I. 8i hoonmnker. Her early life
was passed upon the farm upon which
she was born. Her girlhood was pssa-
ed at Accord, and was much the same
as that of most American girls reared
in the country. She continued to re
side at Accord nntil her marriage to
Judge Parker.
Since then Mrs. Parker has spent ber
time between Albany and Esopus, with
frequent visits to Kingston, the home
of her danghter. Berths Parker Hall.
wife of the rector of the Mission
Church of the Holy Cross.
The Schoonmakers, from whom she
is descended, were among the early
Dutch settlers of New York state, and
the good Dutch vronws would look
with pride anon so worthy descend
ant and daofbter. . . . i
Henry Gassaway Davis ;
If
ENRT GASSAWAY DAVIS, the
Democratic vice presidential
nominee, is a man with more
than an ordinary business an
political career. In West Virginia an
nearby states he long has been regard
ed as a financial giant, and bis politi
cal life has been characterized by con
servatism and sagacity.
Uls nomination at St, Louis confers
upon him the peculiar distinction of
being the oldest candidate ever select
ed for the office, Mr. Davis having
been born In Woodstock, Md., on Nov.
10, 1823. His father was Caleb Da
vis, a successful'Bultimore merchant,
who died a few years after the son's
birth, and his mother was a Miss Lou
ise Brown, whose sister was the moth
er of Senator Gorman of Maryland.
Like Judge Parker, Mr. Davis spent
bis early days on a farm. He received
his education in a village school and
at the age of tweuty entered the em
ploy of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road as a brakeman. This was the
first railroad built In America, and Mr.
Davis has the distinction of having
been the first brakeman on any rail-
HENRY GASSAWAY DAVIS.
road lu the United States. He was
soon advanced to the position of con
ductor and was then the only railroad
conductor in the country. An amus
ing story illustrative of the grip of ear
ly associations on retentive nature
used to be told of him In Washington.
It Is said that well toward morning of
a wearisome all night session of the
senate Senator Davis was asleep, his
bead resting upon bis desk. Senator
Edmunds bad provoked Judge Tbur
man to a speech, and by Introduction
the judge unfurled his red bandanna
and blew a blast of more than usuul
power. Mr. Davis may have been
dreaming of his old railroad days. At
any rnte, he sprang to bis feet in a
half dazed condition and, catching
sight of the red flag the old signal of
danger and seeming to Imagine that
be bad heard a shriek of alarm from
the open throttle of a locomotive call
ing for "Down brakes!" seized his
desk and wltb the brakeman' quick
twist wrenched it from the floor.
It rs while serving as a conductor
that Mr. Davis met and formed the
acquaintance of Henry Clay, who was
a passenger ugon Mr. Davis' train
while going from bis Kentucky home
to the capital and returning. Clay
would board the train In Baltimore and
leave It at its western terminus and
make the journey over the mountains
into Kentucky In the old fashioned
stagecoach. Mr. Davis got his first
THE CANDIDATE IN BRIEF.
Henry O. Davis Is el(hty years
old.
Left an orphan at an early ag-e.
bearan n career aa superintendent
of a plsfljtatlon.
Became brakeman on the Balti
more and Ohio at twenty and
later was promoted to conductor.
At thirty be was supervisor of
trains.
Invested In eoal lands and laid
foundation of tmTienee fortune.
Founded the West Virginia towns
of Davlaand Elkina.
Was awnlonlat during the war.
Elected to lower branch of West ,
Virginia legislature aa t'nlon-Con-7
aervatlve IMS and to the senate two
yeers later.
Elected Tnlted 8tat senator In
im and served until 1SS2.
Haa been deleeate to six national
conventions.
taste for politics from Henry Clay in
his conversations with that great
statesman during these trips over the
Baltimore and Ohio, and he cast bis
first ballot for Hay for president
I .a tor he became station agent at
Piedmont. Having erved wltb the
railroad company for fourteen, years,
he turned his attention to commercial
porsui: and established the firm of
Davta It Bros, at Piedmont.
Socially be always was difuderit, even
backward at times, but when called
upon be never failed to declare hi
conviction. Ia hi railroad life, bow-
ever, his practical skill, courage and
energy overcame all difficulties.
Piedmont waa,the center of the Cum
berland bituminous coal region. The
present great eoal fields of that part of
i
the country were then undeveloped,
and Davis perceived that that section
wus one of Immense Industrial prom
ise. The firm of Davis & Bros, en
gaged In the shipping of coal and
lumber for the producers, lind Its busi
ness grew rapidly.
In 1800 Henry G. Davis organized
the Piedmont Savings bank and be
came its president This bank was sup
planted by the National Bank of Pied
mont, of which Mr. Davis is also the
guiding spirit. He and his brothers,
whose possessions were originally ln
slgnllicant, have since been able to
count their capital by millions, while
their landed estate at one time approxi
mated 100,000 acres.
Before the war Mr. Davis was a
Whig, while after its close he allied
himself with the conservative wing of
the Democratic party.
He made his entry Into politics in
1806, when he was elected to the West
Virginia house of delegates. He was
a delegate from West Virginia to the
Democratic national conventions of
18(18 and 1872, while in 1807 he was
elected to the legislature of bis state
as a Union Democrat, being re-elected
two years Inter. In 1871 he was made
United States senator to succeed W. T.
Wiley, Republican, be being the first
Democratic member of that body from
the then young state of West Virginia.
At the expiration of his term he wns
re-elected. After serving twelve years
In the senate he declined further po
litical honors, preferring to devote bis
entire time to bis rapidly Increasing
business affairs.
Early in bis public career be assumed
an unequivocal position on financial
questions, from which he has never de
parted. Almost at the beginning of
his legislative service he was confront
ed with the issue of the responsibility
of West Virginia for a portion of the
debt of the Old Dominion. Despite the
advice of friends who considered mo
mentary popularity rather than Justice,
he took a bold stand In favor of bis
state's meeting her Just proportion of
the debt of the mother state, when that
equitable proportion could be ascer
tained. By reason of bis determination
he made a profound Impression upon
all his associates.
Until recently Mr. Davis wa presi
dent of the West Virginia, Central and
I'attsburg railroad, which he projected,
and also of tbv Piedmoat and Cumber
hind railroad. He was one of the dele
gates to the pan-American congress
and was a member of the United States
Intercontinental railway commission.
Today he Is known as one of Ye8t VlrF
glnla's "Big Four," and bad toe boom
of Senator Gorman materialized be was
to have managed it.
In 1853 he married Mis Kate A.
Bantz, a daughter of Judge Gideon
Hants of Frederick, Md. He has two
sons, John T. Davis and Henry G. Da
vis, Jr., aid three daughters, Mrs. Ste
phen B. Flkins, Mrs. R. M. G. Brown,
wife of Lieutenant ConSBander Brown.
V. S. N., and Mr. Arthur Lee.x Mr.
Davis' wife died two year ago. He
bn beautiful villa at Deer Park, Md.,
where he passes the summer months,
but his borne aa a voter Is at Elklns,
W. Vs., where his residence adjoins
that of United States Senator Stephen
B. Elkina, bis son-in-law. The people
of Elklns are very fond of ex-Senator
Davis, who has done very much for
that town. He built tbe Davis Memo
rial hospital at a cost of nearly $100,-
0u0 In memory of his son, who was
drowned while cruising on the African
coast. With Senator Elklns be has
founded the Davis and Elklns college.
a Presbyterian Institution at Elklns
that soon will be dedicated. He was
also Instrumental In the erection of the
Davis Memorial Presbyterian church
at Elklns.
Ex-Senator Darts, though In bis
Careesfcof the democratic
Vice Presidential Can
didate HWs Born on
Farm and Wis the First
&ilrod Brakeman In
America A Man of
t"lilljpns e Je Jm Jm
elghty-flffet year, is as spry a a man
of sixty, and a good deal sprier than
many. He was a delegate to the recent
national convention and a member of
the committee on resolutions. He wa
cholen as a member of the subcommit
tee thnt had charge of the platform,
and he stayed up all night during tbe
deliberations of that committee at tbe
Southern hotel. When he went to the
Jefferson hotel at noon the neit day
he did not appear fatigued, and he told
his friends he could stand another
twenty-four hours of it aa well a not.
He favored the Insertion of a gold
plank lu the platform. Wbetj bis
name was being considered by the na
tional convention there was some ques
tion as to whether be supported Bryan
In 1800 and 1000. Chairman Jones of
tbe Democratic national committee put
It at rest by saying that in 1896 Sena
tor Davis presided at a Bryan meeting
in West Virginia and voted for Bryan.
At that time Senator Davis was en
gaged in building a railroad and had a
large obligation at a bank which be
desired to renew. When he went to
the bank the president said:
"I understand you presided at a
Bryan meeting last night." ,
"Yes," said Davis. "What of itr
"Well," sold tbe bank president,
"don't you know that tbe theories of
Bryan are opposed to all the financial
Institutions in this country? I do not
see bow you can come to this bank or
any other for favors, holding the view
that you do."
"Do yon mean to say," asked Davis,
"that the fact that I remain loyal to
the Democratic party makes any dif
ference with my credit?"
"Not at all," said the bank presi
dent "But we are not Inclined to do
any favors for such people."
"This Is no favor to me," said Davis.
"I am simply carrying this obligation
as a business transaction, and If you
don't want to renew It I'll pay It now
and withdraw my patronage from tbe
bank."
The bank president grew alarmed at
this, because Senator Davis 1 heavily
interested In financial operations In
West Virginia, and he begged Davis to
reconsider. Davis would not recon
sider. He paid the obligation Jn cash
that afternoon and cut that bank off
his ilst of business connections.
Senator Davis Isniany times a mil
lionaire. He has been an enthusiastic
Gorman man ever siuce the canvass
for the Democratic nominee In 1004
began. At one time be said be would
spend a million dollars to secure the
nomination of Gorman, and it was no
mere idle boast, because he had tbe
money and would spend It.
Personally, Senator Davis is an af
fable, genial man, democratic and mod
est. He does not look his years, and to
the casual observer he would appear
to be not more than sixty-five. He Is
more than six feet tall, erect aud
straight as In the days of his youth.
His shoulders are square. He Is well
muscled. lie has a springy heel and
toe walk. There Is not tbe slightest
evidence of any loss of mental or bodi
ly vigor.
His face features are regular and
bold. His nose is aquiline. His eyes
are gray and sharply penetrating, but
withal kindly lu expression and set
wide apart. His face is not deeply
furrowed, though fine wrinkles appear
about the eyes. His beard of snowy
MBS. STEPHEN B. ELXIKS.
whiteness Is a feature that does mere
to denote advanced age than any
other. m
Tbe whole bearing of the man de
notes an alert vigorous Interest In life
fftid the matters that appeal to him for
action.
His daughter, Mrs. Stephen B.
Clklns, Is one of Washington's noted
entertainers, and her gracious woman
liness has won beV many friends.
E i Senator Davis is but one of many
vigorous old men who are still active
In public life. Here Is a list of some
of the prominent old men who are still
active and hale like Mr. Davis:
Ex Speaker Galusha Grow of Penn
sylvania, 80; ex-Vice President Levi P.
Morton, 80; Senator John T. Morgan of
Alabama.. 80; Senntor George F. Hoar .
of Massachusetts, 77; ex-Secretnrv
Boutwell, 86; Senator Edmund W. Pet-
tus of Alabama, 83; Senator William P.
Frye of Maine, 72.
Russell Sage, capitalist, at tbe age of
eighty-seven is still active In Will:
street, and Charles Hayoes Haswell '
works every day as civil, marine andi
mechanical engineer In New York, a!-;
though he is hi hi ninety-sixth year, j
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