Show i I A P SKETCH up V V in the Grei lag Bag When in 7 Alton B Parker was wasI I elected chief justice of the New York court of appeals the court of last re reSort reI j I Sort in that state he was 4 years old He was the man who had heui ever b been ca to t be lh th head officer r of New Yorks a judicial system H i li LV i already been on the bench for hr years and he had eat sut for several r al years on a temporary second division of same court of appeals over which he was ma aw called en n u o For one so o oV V much of whose baa been spent in the comparative isolation of judicial duLes hf tie ha hd 3 a r 1 tv v ir arid and ht hi is tilt ine nail mail t Ue be pretty hilt apt to k id I Iiri o t rO ry career that was rut not A word t sal i u Parkers political lea leu ai I tins t 05 time Partly from th tn fairly yen even balance of at politics political f y 0 account of Nw Yorks iu iii in B r aPi I f r ni uh from i tUrne r i V o ct X N iv v York hr T i i ti v I h fair air regularity regula rity u a number r ui ci rr a V lively engaged In politics i ot personal integrity with a U tigh erd r of practical fr political service Of these the tae most mo t striking group his historically i iPa IP Ic the th Pa was vas in cee and intimate r rd c the Albany regene oM latter cays dys was A warm warra friend of President oc land leid Refused Cabinet Position Early in 1 5 ho bl was summoned by bya a telegram to Washington where Frost d tIit nt Cleveland offered him the post poet of o assistant postmaster R nral 01 the United States The ci s iry ry was Parker thought the matt t I and although hi as wis only 3 W he promptly decline V place as he feared that to withdraw fm the active life ife of ida nis own courty w v v 1 mean the toss lose of h sive every promise of being established willin willina a very few years Somewhat surprised and a little IMS ilis appointed Mr Cleveland sent for Mr Vilas the postmaster general saying Parker says ays he has a salary as surrogate of Ulster county and is building up a law liv practice and aM he cant afford to take a place strange said aid Vilas Why I left a practice to take an place in the Yes Tea retorted hilker and if I bad been making X a year for forten forten ten years I should not mind taking a place in Washington in the same year the was made to Parker of oftie tb tie Democratic for lieutenant governor of New York but this too he declined V Su ds The ike tUne time was at Ct hand ban when Parker should definitely retire from he was not yet half through his thirties On the urgent solicitation of the Democratic leaders con consented meted in the autumn of ll to act as chairman of the Democratic executive live tive committee in the state campa That campaign is still spoken of as one of the most efficient and successful earn cam campaigns of the past generation With practically no campaign funds Parker fought an uphill tight wherein few hoped for success and ended the campaign with witha a decisive victory Here his political service came M in an end for in of the same year 1885 he was appointed to a i vacancy on n the bench of the supreme court in the following year ha was elected to a full term the Republicans hint him the compliment of PUnning no candidate He 11 was 35 years old |