| Show STATEMENT BY JUDGE PARKER Calls Public to the Fact That W R Hearst Lied About Him New York Oct 2 Judge Alton B Par Parker ker her tonight gave out a statement in re reply reply reply ply to an attack upon him by William R Hearst In a recent campaign speech In Ii his address Mr Hearst said that Judge Judg had appeared inan on orL the side of election criminals in the thi thicourt court he formerly graced and there ar argued argued argued gued again and secured a reversal of an az 1 opinion he had formerly rendered Judge Parkers P statement follows For something more than two years year i inow now I have haye submitted without reply to t the wanton assaults of William R B Hearst S I should probably pay pa no more attention 1 to his insulting and maliciously false speech of last evening than I have to his hi S other attacks were It not that the necessary necessary sary and intended inference of his hi speech speed I constituted an attack upon a great court a court with a membership that t at is not no t surpassed in this or any an other country While that court Is so well grounded in inthe inthe ii I Ithe the confidence and affections of the peo pea people pie pI as to need no defense from any such sue LI attack the opportunity is afforded to ti a warn the people that a man having such sue conceptions of the judiciary as will per permit permit permit mit him to make such an attack ought ough t never to be permitted to name men for forthe forthe fo r the bench as Hearst contemplates doing doin under the deal I will refer also to one other state statement statement statement ment made by Hearst After stating the th e fact that I had appeared in the Mc election contest and made mad e arguments therein he said the reason that tha t prompted me to do it was because the th C corporations which employed him as their the r corporation attorney wanted him to do it 1 t tand and paid him to do it This statement about me like Ilke many man y others of that have been brought brough broughto t to my attention Is wholly false Neither r rI I nor any member of my m p firm was re retained retaIned tamed by b any corporation or paid by b any an corporation directly or indirectly one on e dollar for the service we rendered in that tha t contest We were retained by Mayor or Mc McClellan fc Clellan CleIlan but declined to receive from him hit himor n or from anyone else any compensation whatever for our services We Ve rendered those these services because we believed i L to tobe tobe t 0 be a public duty to prevent Hearst from i depriving the people of the services of c their duly elected candidate George B I McClellan |
