The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-26
Uncle Jake and Uncle George.

Two Incidents of the election OF dele
gates to the Republican County Committee
have passed by without receiving the at
tention they deserve. They are the re.
tirement OF JACOB M. PATTERSON from
the leadership of the Tenth Assembly dis.
trict, and Of GEORGE B. DEANE from that
Of the Ninth ward. Quarantine Commits
sioner and ex-JudRe PATTERSON has been
for twenty-five years a conspicuous figure
in the Republican politics OF this city, and
"Uncle GEORGE" DEANE has been not less
notable. Both of these veteran politi.
clans have performed their share Of vigil.
liant and successful party service. and both
now retire, not from the Republican organ.
ization or from participation in its affairs,
but from the cares Of active leadership.
"Uncle GEORGE" DEANE, as he is COL
loquially called in the Ninth ward, Is now
80 years of age, and in his youth he was
one Of the founders Of the Republican
party, having been q delegate in 1855,
forty-one years ago, to the convention
which in the city of Philadelphia in June
nominated JOHN G. FREMONT for the Presi-
dency. Since that time Mr.. DEANE has
been a delegate to other Republican ma
tional conventions, n member of the Re-
publican State Committee, a representa-
tive Of his home district in the Legislature,
and an active and consistent Republican
always. At his age the routine labors Of
leadership are naturally burdensome to
him, or at least not attractive, and
the sweeping changes in the character Of
his district may have robbed the old
time leader of a feeling of congenial-
| ffv with hio anrropnIip ~ Tho Ranph-
lican associates of Mr.. DEANE in the Sew
enth District, of which the Ninth ward is
an important part, have adopted resolu.
tions 6tly lauding his services, and have
refused to assent to his retirement, but he
has become nevertheless a lay member, no
longer o leader.
Judge JACOB M. PATTERSON, or "Uncle
JAKE" as he Is sometimes called in the
district of which for twenty-five years he
has been leader, and of which he Is a ma
tive, does not retire on account of age, for he
is only so years, but to obtain respite from
the responsibilities and cares of the office.
"Unclc JAKE" has been active in Republic
can politics in the Tenth district since
1868, and he enjoys the distinction
of having been the first Republican
to represent it in the Legislature, hav-
ing been elected twenty.seven years ago.
In thirty. four of the thirty-fve Assembly
districts of New York the total vote cast
for BENJAMIN f. TRACY fell below the
total Republican enrolment. The excep-
tion was the Tenth Assembly, of which
Judge PATTERSON was the leader. In that
district Gen. TRACY's vote exceeded the
Republican enrolment by several hundred.
With such a record Judge PATTERSON can
well afford to retire, but it will not be from
activity as a Republican, for he has been
elected one of the County Committeeman in
the Thirty-afth, or Fordham, district, Of
which he has become q resident.
The political passing" of GEORGE
DEANE, the advocate of FREMONT and LIN
COLIN, the friend of SEWARD and ARTHUR,
and of JACOB NJ. PATTERSON, member OF
Assembly, Clerk Of Board of Aldermen
Commissions Of Excise, Police Judge
Quarantine Commissioner, President of the
Republican County Committee in 1876, anG
Chairman Of he Republican Executive
Committee in 1890, 1891, and 1902, II
illustrative of widespread changes which
are now taking place in the management
Of the affairs of the Republican party II
this town the veterans are stepping asid,
to make way for younger men.