The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-03
TAAI9GANY'S MCCLELLAN.
fcontinued from Fourth Page.l

. LAOAA1 Y d6SsI
 house that his wife, rich New York
 woman, had purchased from the estate
 of the late George M. Robeson of New
 Jersey, congressman and secretary of the navy in Grants cabinet, and enter taining and being entertained most
 lavishly by the polite world of the capi- tai. Cochran at that time divided the
 honor of social lion with Tom Reed, who for the last ten years of his life
 was the most magnetic drawing card in the West End as he was in the big
 marble building on Capitol Hill. When
 Cochran asked Croker why he had been clipped he received an insulting teIe-
 gram in reply, and afterwards stated over and over again that Croker's change of heart and sudden enmity was due entirely to his jealously of his
 (Cockan's) social success.
 With Mcclellan the case is somewhat different. for he comes of distinguished ancestry and has always enjoyed such
 social standing as he chose to claim, like his father, General George B. Me- Clellan, the most 'exauisite' officer of the Civil War. Colonel Mcclellan, who derives his military title from the fact that he once held a commission on
 the staff of governor of New York. is
 small, we'll built. dapper man, always
 we'll dressed and clean shaven; but he is more of a 'jollier'' than his famous father. He has mixed more in politics and rubbed more against the masses" The Tammany organization has been
 his cradle, where he has been rocked by day, only to be transported to another
 world at nightfall and coddled in the
 bosoms of those who never go below
 Madison Square, and who could not find
 their way to Tanmany headquarters any more than if it was located in a jungle in India. Under modern condi- tions. it is quite possible to live two separate lives of this kind in the metro- polls, and few men like Mcclellan and the Belmonts have so far done it quite
 successfully, without meeting with the fate sof Bourke Cochran. The wife of the real boss of Tammany Richard
 Croker, would not dream of aspiring to an invitation to the house of Belmont. any more than the family of the deputy
 leader, Charles F. Murphy, the saloon-
 keeper, would dare to hope to meet the
 family of George B. Mcclellan on terms
 of equality. Yet their fathers and
 husbands associate daily on terms of
 intimacy ip the political headquarters
 and the down town clubs until after
 office hours" when they go their
 separate ways, not to even hear each
 others name mentioned again until all
 return to common neutral ground.
 In Washington the McClellans belong
 to the most exclusive social set. At
 night during the social season, while Leader Murphy and his cohorts are in
 their saloons or clubs setting up pins, making and unmaking men and parcel- ling out the suufruct the McClellans are "back of the line" within the charmed circle at the White House assisting the Roosevelts to entertain the world of Washington, dining at the British ann- bassador's or dancing the cotillion with Washington's 400 at Rauscher's. While a polite and agreeable man. MeClellan's hold on Tammany is something of a mystery. He has no marked force of character and no particular strength as a public man in any direction. Speak, ing of him as a public man he is de- cidely commonplace. He Is not an orator or student, not a political or ganizer, and apparently has no further interest in Tammany affairs or in political life than comes from his natural desire to hold a conspicuous public office. and especially one that will add to his social distinctions. Me- Clellan is a clever man as men go and having . saving grace or f1un1or he i avoids the mistake of taking himself l seriously and thus giving the news papers chance to attack or make fun | of him. They could not consistently do | the latter, for Mcclellan is level-headed. practical and sensible, and natural in | all that he does. The newspaper re- porters have always been his friends | since the days when he was one of them. l and if they don't constantly depict him | as statesman of the first water they | at least tell the truth about him and l give him credit for what he is. an easy going, agreeable, up-to-date young man, not pompous and conceited, and vet aware of his own importance in the world. Washington Letter to Provi- fence Journal.