PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 202, 24 August 1904, Page 9

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.

Thc-rc is one pninl of great similarity between Prosidont llposp\p!r and Judge Patker. the Democr-trie nomirK'p for ti:c Presidency of the I'n'ucd States. Thrv are both decidedly family men, and arc never happirr rhrui when in the bosoms cf their families. President ttoosevrlfs strong opinions in favour of larjre families arc too well knerwn to rerapitnlaio here. bul the foHfiTriiig story, apropos of th.it «übjoct. is v.-pll voTth retelling. Shortly afttr t>,o ih-rsideni's declarstion nbour large families, daughter, whose flfTPr spcpe.hc* arc told every-■rc-hrr-N was pnwnt nf- a dinner, which was also attended by the young daughter nf an AmerKan Consul who had lived nbionil. This yxmnprpiil related a itory about an Italian cabman whom -he had r.iet in her travels, nud v.iio boasted ihnf lie had h?pn married twenty-five ye.ir?. and that hi* wii> had borne him twenty ehildrpn in thr.t lim.-. Wiilin.i! limitation ifi>s llr----.-;-.. '< -.., ; >l, '-11-.w lather v.fliild \nw. ihnt man:" The donwstie li'c of tnn Prrpiileiit-titi-i wife «( fV<!Gr Rny mipin tint inaptly he a* a nmlonced hc.T.eyrnoon. They both bHirve in open air, anc 1 it is the rre.sidcnt's favourite

afLerrmon pajumf in b-.ve a rcxp with , , r.i'- , children on the laM-n. J "i have n verj' \ ivid reeol'retion of ; sfcaliii-' up-t;ii:s with Mr iloo?evelr. j wht-n he va? A.*si?taTii-r-perpt:ii"y nf Tne ■ Naiy" , writes Mr Clilford Him aid in th** "'dirl'< R»ilm.'' "to hr.\c a loni; nt ! fiio ehildrrn. upon the e:rnre-- M!jii;l."i- j lion r'nai he sli-mld nor plar 'bpar" with j thr liahy. nnd ef hi-; guilly look when. I five minute* Intpr. Mrs Koosrvelt opered j i no door iipent a most tumultuous pame. j ■with the baby in wild ecstasies. 1 can | ??e him BfAV, stopprd in thr rniflrHp of | Che little Durrh ditly, of which I | heard the e7id, hnndtng over the ehiK ; with nr. opolopetic TVell. Edith, it w,t? —' Bti( lie eo'jld gci no further. The situation was too much for t'hc gravity 'even ot prnly-ofTended motherhood. At Oyster Brry Presideul T;oose\-rlt ha.-, reared nil his fnmily of lelurdy eHiidrr>n, ,-.nri fnv thi«; country home—which : I t"h? T*rfH : denf now use? a* n riimirier j Ti-ni*'—he has alirnyfc *f»'< rln» /lecpe-.t j ;" 1 n> i]n:<-nl. fhptfr Bay i= :i \ cry ?hnr! I ioiirnty from Ne\r York on the Lorj Islfiiid''Railroad, Although ."itidcje Parker's quiver i« not >-.o fill: a ■ the President's —he hns only one daughter—he fully reciprocates Pre-

sident opinion as to the duty of a, man bringing up a larje family. However, tho v.aar of more rlnildren oi his oun I- fully ''o:iipeTi.~;i ted hy tne p;^ , - FRnee of iiis prnndehildren. on \rao:u lie 1 n-• i = o» nv.ir , ; nf his .».Tt<"!ion. It. is a fiririiin ar.rt toncliinp *!pht at Roicnio'.i'..! to see Pr-rkej- r.nd lii 1 : wife romjiitij! amonjr Hit , tree-, of ihe estate with rheir fjriiiidi-hildren. .-:n11 almosl any afternoon, when free firm the cares of the Court of AppruK the may tin srrn danpling his on li;~ k n Pe. Likf Mr and Mrs Hooseve'.t, Judge >'nrker snd hi~ v.ite love n" place better than their country home, and both are firm bpHcver? in ihe opeii air. • iiidg-p Parker i> nlso a clever horseman, and a gnorl judge of hor-.ru well n-- ('f men. Nothing delights him more than to takv hi? '.rr«ndehildren on horse-

l>nrk round thp farm overlooking the ' Hudson River, and ivhen, a ripple of silvery laughter is heard among the rrees i lie- i'aria folk rest on their lioes and Mnilo. ••TIIOI-α goes the judge anil the children." I hey reclaim, and nod knowingly to each othPr. Judge Parker i? only iust fifty-two >>ais old. in person he is a large man. ■-k fpcr in height, broad in the shmild»r<-. oiii! unusually mu*cular. Although ho carries not an ounce of what athletic trainers call ' flesh," his woighi is nearly two hundred pounds. H i= two hundred pounds of bone and lirawn and brains. H> has not the &lighi-r-st -tendency to obesity. His arms and lepr* are lanre. and even under the dispui?r of garments that, fit him well the muscles both above and below are always in evidence 10 every observant eye.— Exchange. *