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Show WHAT JUDGX PABZZB DID WITH THE TELEGRAM, j Judge Parker Is rather careless of hm personal possessions. He has no interest inter-est in souvenirs, particularly of his own past deeds. After his nomination' for the Presidency, many newspapers and magazines were , eager to obtain Speeches of his that would give his views on general topics, but In this quest a surprising paucity of material was encountered, sit was well known that Judge Parker had delivered numerous nu-merous addresses. Pew ofthem were aavallable. for the very simple reason that he had never kept drafts of even those utterances yhlijh were most carefully care-fully prepared. . On the day after he had sent his famous fa-mous telegram to the convention at St? Louis, and the press had given evidence evi-dence that the country had been elec trifled, the Judge's son-to-law, the Rev. Charles M. Hall, went down from his home in Kingston to Esopus. He asktl for the original copy of the telegram, which the Judge had written on a telegraphic tele-graphic blank and then turned over, to his secretary to be typewritten, so that the operator would make no mistake. "What do you want to do with the telegram?" Inquired Judge Parker. "Why. I want to preserve it" replied Dr. HalL - VOh. nonsense." laughed the Judge. "I think it Is In the waste basket where It ought to be." Dr. Hall found it nd It was through him that the reporters obtained It for reproduction In fac-simlle. He consent-ea'to consent-ea'to give it to them only under the most implicit promises that It would be returned, and now it is one of the valued val-ued possessions of the Hall family. In speaking of It to an acquaintance. Judge Parker remarked: "One can never nev-er tell how hts personality or his ac-' tlons Impress others. The sending ef that telegram seemed to me to be the simple and obvious thing to da I whs astonished when I learned from the newspapers what a stir It was making throughout the country." . |