The evening world., 1888-02-16
WILL M'GLYNN RUN
Asserted that He Will Be a Candi-
date for President.
His Friends Deny 1t, out Others
Say 1t Is True.

W. It. Croasdnlc Insists that the Priest Will
be n Candidate and that Gaybert Barnes
Is Urging Him On-Dr. McGiynu Refuses
TO be Interviewed-whnt Other Members
Of the United Labor Party Say.
Father McGlynn is going to DO q candidate for
President OF the United States. This Is not q guess,
but Is absolute news. philadelphia Times.
as Rev. DIR. McGlynn to be n Presidential
candidate on the United Labor party plat
form ?" was the question p~ropounded to w.
Il. Croasdalc, one of Henry Georges editorial
writer's and nm opponent Of the McGlynn
movement.
An EVENING WORLD reporter was the in
quisitor and labor leaders, reply is given at
length.
THAT is my belief" he said ~ am not
in the counsols OF the people who are rum
ming the new Butler movement, but | happen
to know that Gaybcrt Barnes, its master
spirit, does desire that DR.. McGlynn shall be
n candidate for the Presidency, and l also
know that ever since Mr.. Barnes acquired his
strange influence over DR.. Mctilynn that the
latter has lone whatever the former wanted
him to do.
1.-THE first evidence l had that DR.. Nc
Glynn had consented to Mr.. Barnes's plans
was alordedOby the speech he delivered in
the Academy of Music on last Sunday week.
- had been unable to account for his sud
den demand for the abandonment of their
meetings by n fraction Of his former parish
toner's but when he addressed them at the
meeting and told them that he no longer
wanted to go back into the priesthood, it
flashed through my mind and through the
minds of others that this meant that he was
to be n candidate.
Up to that time. in every public utterance
in which he alluded to the subject, DIR. Nc
Glynn had made the strongest asseveratlons
that he was IA priest and not a politician, and
that he should ever consider himsel II priest
OF the Church, let others do what they might.
Even SO late as the Saturday before cleo
ton he had startled n large audience III
pected shortly to be restored to the priest
hood.
II supposed that declaration to have been
made in good faith until, happening to meet
intimated that he had put the Doctor up to
it, and e%xultingly asked me IL ! did not think
that it would pretty ~efectually Offset Mgr.
| Preston's scheme to use Patrick Ford's
article to cause a further detection from the
Labor party.
Another reason for believing this state
ment that Doctor McGlynn is to stand as a
candidate for the Presidency IN the platform
of United Labor, is that about the time that
Mr.. Barnes's PREPARATION for his public attack
on H.. George were complete, IN inspired in
tefview was sent ont to the Philadelphia
Times and other papers, declaring that DR..
McGlynn would probably be the candidate.
This interview was inspired the very day
the order was issued for disseminating the
meetings of the st. Stephens parishioners
and marks the time when DIR. McGlynn
changed his mind regarding priesthood and
politics."
It's a crazy scheme" continued Mr..
Croasdale. " and l don't think that they can
get n convention to nominate the Doctor. My
views in this regard are shared by all on our
side who do not believe in an Independent
National ticket"
Mr.. Croasdale said that he would like to
know the opinion of some of the Doctors fol-
lowers regarding the scheme. particularly
those of DIR. aottheil and James Z. Archi-
bald, whom he described as men of indie
pendent thought"
Louis f. Post. another of Georges lieuten-
ants, thought the statement true, and said
that " Gaybert Barnes's tlattery has made
the Doctor think himself a bigger man than
old George"
Michael Clarke, Secretary of the Anti-Pov
erty Society, said that there is nothing in the
story that the Doctor is to become a Presi-
dential candidate.
DIR. McGlynn was at Room 80. Cooper
Union, this morning, but refused to see The
EVENING WORLD reporter or talk on the sub
ject further than to send word that he is. ms
he always has been, in favor of independent
action of the Labor party in the national
election,