The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-22
nAron x,e LITTLE BOOM.
The Boy orator or Syracuse Thiuks He 10 just
the Man for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

the Man for
SYRACUSE, Feb. 21.-Mayor James X. Mo
auire has launched o little boom. 1t is a modi'
fed boom, and 40 yet has a string attached 10
Il by which 1t can be pulled back. AT present
Mayor Mcclure IL handling 1t like q toy balloon.
After Il has been tried to see II 1t has sufficient
buoyancy. and he learns to like the feel OF IT, no
NAV nav out on the string. 1t all depends.
Tho Mayor was ''triumphantly re-eleotod'
last fall BY q fusion of tho Democrats and MO
Kinley League, the followers of Congressman
James ]. Belden in local politics, on q platform
whose important pianks were Sunday baseball
FREQ beer on Sunday, and protection 70 gam
blers and the Tenderloin. His platform two
wears earlier was political. social and civil ser
vice reform. Tho youngest Mayor OF any
great city in the United States as he stylec
himself In post.election speeches. found to his
sorrow that reform was not 80 popular as he
had imagined. He discovered that there had
10 be atchoico between good LORD and good devil.
and. being "a little 'stute fish" as Kipling says.
be wasn't long In deciding. The boys whooped
IL I'M. and when election was over last Novem-
ber he thought President wasn't any too good
for him, but he was willing TO be mngnanimous
and take.G Governor. Then Mayor Mcclure went
to New York to sit In state, at the HOFFMAN
House Tor a week and permit Iamm9n my TO come
in int the v Snlts Sl,y st SIsrt q %e III aa lEse s stSse C pssa.
ants shouted for him on the outside; They ten
stories at the HOFFMAN House about that visit
When Mayor Mcclure returned to Syracuse
after his triumphal tour he told Frank Matty
and Sim Dunfee. his hackers. that whiie ne nag
would be good politics to do much shouting, az
he disliked to hurt the feelings Of John b;
in It's modified form. The Mayor a short time
other leaders in Democratic State politics. from
which no returned with a smaller hatband.
t ae sa ,Sst out nlt to nai 0 aiii and nti' CTot sns a .lrofmSi
his superior qualifications as q vote getter,
they were inclined TO regard him as a second
a factor OF strength to tho ticket should be q
similar one; Consequently, he had decided.
e eGnslS UPON 1S5 the the l Passs ioU Of the o st;aeaisa and md
SO Mcclure for Lieutenant, governor" is the
watchw ord that Former State Committeeman
William b. Kirk, present Committeeman John
+. Gaynor, prospective Committeeman Sim
along the limo with the confidential assurance
that it has boon accepted and Endorsed by
member Of that club. and it is expected that
ono Of the few Tamnlany delegations from up
the State to the ,o Democratic moo canD; state sed Convention 1;y, P. on
MeGuire's own choosing: His friendship for
Hill is not 20 great but that he loves Tammany
and Croker. 1t Is not the Tammany boss who
would be thrown down. ~;
Mayor Mcclure is an ardent admirer of the
methods Of Paddy Gleason. lately, Mayor. of
Long Island City. In his office at the City Hall
hangs q gilded and beribboned axe. the gift of
Gleason with best love. Not unlike Gleason.
McGuir has 80 far been successful in office
getting BY being all things to all men and
looking out all the time for James x. Mcclure:
He has posed before the public as hoy orator"
"youngest Mayor" and friend of the masses
80 long that he believes himself all three. He
has found the last pose especi lily pleasing to
the Democrats, of Syracuse. and maces IT his
| boast that he has never worn u swallow-tail
coat. On the occasion OF the recent annual ban
quet of the Chamber of Commerce OF this city,
at which Seth Low and other guests were en-
tertained, Mayor Mcclure made himself con.
spicuous by his absence. He sent, word to- the
accept the invitation OF the Pastime Athletic
Club, an organization that conducts cheap box
ing bouts and had a dinner the same evening.
He made q speech, at this dinner, and few re-
newspaper stating that he said in his speech
that he preferred meeting with his friends,
the common people. to sitting at a feast of lux.
would meet only with Insults" This being in.
terpreted meant that he was not invited to
speak at the bigger banquet. McGuirc's fne
scorn Of the eristocraey and their ways was
On one occasion at dinner he sent u finger bowl
spinning, half way across the table. remarking
with an angry frown and in n tone to be heard
AL over the room, that he had no use for such
Mcguire expects to stump the State in his
own behalf, a. he did for Bryan and FREQ silver
in 1895, and to appeal to his friends for support
suit or dipped hand in Q finger bowl. Tho fact
that he has twioe been elected Mayor Of q city
phat gives q Republican Presidential majority Of
1900 is believed BY the leaders. he says. to in.
ganiEing abilities. He also modestly admits
that ho possesses these attributes.