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Show CLEVELAND ON PARKER, Former President Gives Personal Estimate Es-timate of New York Jurist. NEW YORK, Oct 21. Grover Cleveland, Cleve-land, In McClure's for November, gives his personal estimate of Judge Parker as a candidate for President He says In part: "We sometimes find features of character char-acter so prominently visible ln a man's mental organization that, like the features of his countenance, we need no proof of their existence. This is preeminently pre-eminently true of Judge Parker's ln-tenso ln-tenso deliberation ln reaching, conclusions conclu-sions and his Inherent Judicial conservatism. con-servatism. These qualities of his mind are so distinctly apparent that they are at once seen and known by all who gain tho- slightest knowledge of the man. This should make It thoroughly understood under-stood that those who love Presidential pyrotechnics must look elsewhere. "I have known Alton B. Parker for more than twenty years. He Impressed mo on our first acquaintance as a sincere, sin-cere, honest and able man; and this Impression Im-pression has with time and observation grown to clear and undoubting conviction. convic-tion. I ant sure that I venture nothing in making the positive assertion that the guiding trait of his character Is his constant and unyielding devotion to duty. "Judge Parker's experience in Judicial Investigation, added to his natural aptitude apti-tude in the same direction, ought to satisfy the most cautious and exacting of his abundant ability to discover ln the light of constitutional requirements and in the atmosphere of enlightened but conservative Americanism, tho manner in which a President should best serve his countrymen. "I am persuaded that the American people will mako no mistake if they place implicit reliance in Alton B. Parker's devotion to duty, in his clear perception of the path of duty, In his steadfast persistency against all temptation temp-tation to leave the way where duty leads, and in his safe and conservative conceptions of Presidential responsibilities." |