The Irish standard., 1903-10-24
Long the Follower of Mclaughlin, He Refuses
to Sanction the Latter's Policy
in the Present Fight
An Intrepid Democrat Who Does Not Love
His Old Leader Less, But His Party
Organization More.

There were Forty miners, besides the
folks who hurried pell-ne1l from the
Eastern States by every known route
to the California gold fields. In those
days many families forsook home
steads in Massachusetts, Maine, Con-
necticut, New Hampshire and Yer
mont for new homes, whose environ
ment promised greater prosperity, in
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, NIichi-
gan and Illinois, says the New York
Sun. The venturesome American
spirit demanded broader opportunities
than those furnished in the bailiwicks
of the Pilgrims ssld the Puritans. The
great cities east Of the Missouri Riv-
er were first populated by these i'm
migrants from the New England
States. Williamsburg, first village,
next part of Brooklyn. and now a
uCAoCAJ PopuitltSNl SCClloll VI lllC iii
perial city of New York. was long
way from the Bowery in those days of
40, when the N[cCarren family arrived
within it's pretty borders from East
Cambridge, Mass. These We're Father
and Mother McCarren. born in the
Ould Dart, and their two sons, Pat
rick Henry, named for the famous
Virginia Give-me-liberty-o me-
death orator and statesman, and
Charles, both OIL the sunny side of five.
The McCarrens pumped down in the
old Fourteenth ward, and there they
have lived for tifty-three years, and
there Father AIcCarren and son
Charles died. Patrick Henry's mother
is now SO, and she has lived to see
her son become politically famous in
now in the nation. Wherever Demo-
cratic campfires are bright in this
land. there you will hear to-day the
name of Patrick Henry McCarren, the
intrepid Democrat who did not love
his old leader, Hugh Mclaughlin, less,
but the organization Of his party more.
When Patrick Henry was little chap
in skirts, Hugh Mclaughlin was the
sturdy and uncompromising leader of
the Democrats in Brooklyn. Nc
Laughlin was then 80 years old. For
fifty years his sway has been absolute
and never questioned until McCarren
refused to sanction NIcLaughlin's
policy of non-support to candidates
named by an overwhelming majority
i'll a regularly constituted Democratic
convention. He had been taught
Democratic regularity and consistency
by his old chieftain and he declined
to unlearn the lesson. AS the sitlla-
ton stands to-day. McCarren has cap
tured the great Democratic organiza-
ton in Brooklyn, which. standing by
itself, is the fourth city in the Union,
and has dethroned the veteran leader.
Yet not man or any set of men who
now proclaim McCarren Boss and
speak of him as ''our new leader" will
he permitted to add one unhappy
thought to Mr.. Mclaughlin if McCar-
rem can prevent it, Mr.. Mclaughlin
has said he has lived beyond his time.
1t is not So say McCarren's friends.
and they add that the minor chief
tains upon whom Mr.. Mclaughlin re-
lied for wise counsel in the snowy
years of his life are alone responsible
for the political humiliation-if such
it turns out to be-Of one of the most
astute thinkers and leaders the Demo
cratic party has ever had But who
is this man McCarren: Some call him
Senator (he's the Democratic State
Senator for the Seventh district: some
Others Pat, and few intimates Long
Pat" because he's 6 feet . in his
socks and slender as lath. Features?
What can YOU ga ther from McCarren's
face in the picture? Little or nothing.
In reality it is eXpressionless by no
manner of means: yet to some it seems
unsympathetic. cold. even cheerless.
In appearance a sort of combination
of Kellar the magician. and the late
bill Nye. McCarren is considered the