The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-21
ON THE GREATER new YORK
PICTURESQUE Personality Of Two Promi-
nsnt Figures in the Present Campaign
LEKUEL QUIGG And P. GLEASON.
Chfistnas Plans Of WalIStreet Men--Pros-
pee, of "a big Celebration This
Year Gieason's Unique
Career.


paign In New York may withdraw or drop
out OF sight, there are two sure to remain
prominently in the public view to the
very last-two whose names will be print
ed again and again, every day. In every
one of the New York newspapers And II
makcs for the gaicty OF the nations that
these two are far and away the most pic
turesduo OF all the figures upon which the
white light OF publicity IS now beating so
fierccly In this congerie Of big towns.
Only one OF these two is a candidate for
the mayorship OF the Greater New York.
lie Is Patrick Jerome Gleason for a de-
cade and half mayor Of Long Island
city. and now sof-nOminated 10 the
chief rnagistracy Of the Greater New
YORK TO be. The other Is Lemuel Ely
Quigg, chairman Of the Republican Coun-
~ Committee. and no one can properly
understand me political situation here
this fan unless he knows something about
the personality OF these two interesting
individuals
Both are self-made men in the sense
that each has obtained his present posi-
tion chiefly through his own efforts
Whether Mr. Quigg ever went to college
or not the present writer cannot tell. but
IL doesn't signify He won his place as
a politician for himself. in the face Of the
btterest opposition; in spite, also. Of a
certain tendency TO pose" and a lack
OF tact that would have downed many a
clevered men. even at the beginning of
his career
MIR. Quigg 81 son Of n Methodist
preacher. lie began his active life when
not much over twenty. as a journalist, de-
voting his talents and MS energy for two
or three years to n weekly sheet in a
small Long Island town. How well he
succeeded IN pleasing his constituency
does not seem to be on record. At all
events. there came q time when he re-
belled against longer catering to a few
hundred subcribers with a tendency TO
pay for The paper in turnips and cord
wood. and at the same time there arose
in his breast yearning for metropolitan
readers. so he wrote communication on
a political subject and sent IT to the New
York Tribune. II was accepted and pub
lished, and the editor was pleased with
its style and matter. with the result that
in short time the name Of Mr.. Quigg
was added TO the Tribunes payroll. His
work proved decidedly brilliant and
when the Dakotas. Montana. and Wash
ington were added to the Union he was
sent 10 write up the new States
QUIGG AND T. II. CARTER.
II was while he was engaged in this
work that he met the Hon. Thomas
tltHIe 1dIltif anu u was HIS dAN1tlHA-
ance with Mr. Carter that started the
young journalist upon a political career
of his own. In 1892 Quigg was one OF the
trusted employees at the National Repub-
lican headquarters i'm New York He
spent all Of the earlier weeks Of the cam
paign writing the documents" Then ne
set in TO act as Mr.. Carriers private sec
rotary. but dropped out OF the game
almost entirely some ten days or two
weeks before the Republican disaster
that came on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday In November During those
last few days his stock around headquar-
tiers was decidedly not up TO par, for
ne had made the mistake of measuring
swords with three or four members OF the
committee and had been worsted II was
due solely to Carriers friendship that he
stayed at headquarters at all. but stay
he did with a supreme confidence I'm the
future that was admirable. Those were
trying days for Quigg and 1t was freely
predicted that he had ruined his politi-
IS cal chances by bucking up against the
party bigwigs-as, indeed, ii seemed even
to his friends that he had.
But the whrlgig Of time does a lot of
queer things. as We all understand full
well, and II brought Mr.. Quigg near the
TOP OF the pile much sooner than the
most sanguine even could have hoped.
Within a year a vacancy occurred in the
New \ ork delegation to Congress- a spe-
cial election was held to FIJI it and Mr..
Quigg was nominated TO take Demo-
Gratis place To the surprise OF most Re
publicans. and TO his own great JOY. he
was elected. Since that date his career is
pretty familiar 10 the public.
Quigg's star now seems to be in the
ascendant. He will undoubtedly be near
the top at the end of the campaign. no
matter what may be the outcome there
OF. He is still a young man. being un-
der thirty-hve. His ambitions are bound
less. He fully expects some day to be
Mayor OF New York himself. and he also
has an eye on the United States Senate.
There are plenty of keen observers in pO-
ltical circles who say he Will never reach
the high goals toward which he is shap-
ing his course; but there are plenty Of
others, quite as keen who would be will
ing 20 lay money on his ultimate success
In whatever he undertakes-though they
might want rather long odds.
GLEASON'S QUEER FIGHT.
= Patrick ]. Gleason-Pat for SHORTS
an entirely different sort Of man.. SO far
as any one knows he has no aspirations
20 any Federal place, and in the nature
OF things he cannot In his heart expect
20 be made Mayor of Greater New York
But the man who could make Pat" Glea-
son admit for a moment that there is
any QutSi4ou OF MS erection mas yet TO be
born. Upon the surface he takes him
self with great seriousness. and there is
no doubt that he viii poll a clean ma
5ority Of all the votes cast In Long Island
City, besides thousands Of which ne will
win from the other boroughs Of the COM
Ing great municipality.
IL is worth going half a days journey
just TO see and talk with Gleason He
is somewhere near sixty years of age
His white hair Is bushy, his complexion
In fresh, and his eyes are bright. He
talks with a most delicious brogue, and
he was born in Tipperary. He came to
this country IN 1861 with the intention OF
fighting for the Stars and Stripes His
brother came at the same time but join
ed the Confederate army, and the two
did not meet again until after the civil
war was over.
BORN FIGHTER.
Gleason has been fighting ever since.
For while he combatted poverty with
. pick and shovel on the road bed of a
street railway in the city which is now
his domain. IL wasn't many years at
ter he began TO help build the railroad
before he owned it--that Is, ne controlled
the majority OF the stock and elected his
own board OF directors from the drivers
and conductors. When the trolley came
In he changed the motive power TO cleo
tricity. his road being the first 10 be
operated by the mystic current in all