The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-23
DIVVLE A HURT TO MCCARTHY
DEFIANT ROOSEVELT CORNER on
TENTH AVENUE.
Furniture store window = Republican
Campaign Bulletin, TO the Disgust OF
the TammaDy District Leader and
the Amusement OF the Four Corners.

the Amusement OF the Four Corners.
What ails Mccarthy That is what
the Eleventh district is asking these days
In that Gibraltar Of Democracy over on
the West Side, where Republicans are
scsrcer than hens teeth. and the Tiger
rules supreme, a political force of I'm
measured potency has suddenly arisen to
disturb the district It's Mccarthy
Everybody in the Eleventh district
knows Mccarthy. He's the little Irishman
who has kept the furniture store on the
corner OF Thirty fourth street and Tenth
avenue for the past fifteen years, Every
body is a politician over In the district
which Mccarthy has supplied all these
wears with chairs to sit in and beds to sleep
in. In politics they're. pretty much all of
oneway of thinking, from the Hon. Billy Dali
ton down. Except Mccarthy. MoCarthy's
an independent This year he's out for
Roosevelt.
Now over in the Eleventh man may be
Republican but it isn't considered good
business to advertise it. That's why they
are asking What ails Mccarthy"
For the past month Mccarthy has been
getting up at sunrise every morning and
cutting out of the newspapers every refer
all, hostile or friendly. Long before the
people OF the district start for work McCar-
thy has these plastered on the window of
his little corner store above his daily bar
gains, for every one to read, and on each
reference to the President. tackled upon
the pane appear the comments of Mccarthy
in his well known sorawling hand. :, ..
If it Is a cartoon hostile to the President
there is something from Mccarthy to Offset
it's evil influence il friendly, something to
make the eulogy still stronger.
A picture of Roosevelt with the big
Stick provoked this from Mccarthy
Roosevelt Fearless and Independent
True and Tried Z o. 90.
cartoon entitled Shall Roosevelt
Have Walkover?" had this on it; Poor
Old Parker Beaten Already"
Mccarthy first startled the district with
this window display in the middle Of last
month: He has kept it up ever since. Each
morning has seen fresh supply on his win
dow and each day his shafts and taunts
have become more bitter. Now, over in
the Eleventh, it wasn't to be expected that
any one could violate the political tradi-
tions of the district in this manner and 60
unrebuked. The captain Of McCarthys
election district, when he saw the side
walks crowded morning and night in front
of McCarthy's window, decided to see II
Mccarthy had gone crazy.
What .ails you. Mccarthy" be asked
one day not long ago, alking into the little
store where Mccarthy was dilating on his
wares.
What ails me?r said Mccarthy. "well
now I'm thinlin' that I'd better be askin'
that Of you. II it's due to that there
said the little Irishman, pointing to the
I'm shown me colors.- and an Irishman
that's afraid to do that ought to have left
the old country with the snakes
The Tammany captain walked out: The
space tn his clippings and comments and
less to his bargains: People began to get
Of passing cars to look at his window. And
Sssas oye fao and r sse sese hs a.
The Mccarthy mail began to grow. Letters
unsigned ami in disguised handwriting
began to CONE in One read like this
Mr. Insav :r' , sfga de e ss hsn
am sure that you will die some day for what
you are doing.
The next day that letterwas in McCarthy's
Another letter came along, 1t was aimed
at what was evidently supposed to be Nc
Carthy's vulnerable spot. 1t was addressed
to IT. p. Mccarthy, the Irish King and
read: -.i
Hooray for your store. Having been .
svns You m adyiee thnE it 'n sdvissbIs to
do away With the clipping in Tndox
have good store and if taken care Of yo !I
will have no customers.
Conspicuous in the window the next day
was the letter and McCarthy's defiance,
reading thus:
FEW WORDS TO T1 Of all
s ns!I po IT heP%%ean am
H P 1wRieS wouidn inteTfere with Mccar.
thy's bank accountl. ! intend to show up
Responsible for the rotten corruption Of the
city Of New York. WHICH feel proud to be
S fs1 p.Dad b sasyd tSe S Kns
"'"'S' III ~ T.P. MCCARTHY.
Mccarthy is still getting letters and he is
his window was pelted with rotten to-
rnatoes The Irishmen in the store are
loyal to Mccarthy, though they and McCar-
thy's two sons belong to the Tammany or
throwers away and cleaned OF his window
for him, and che next day the display was
bigger than ever.
Now McCarthy's window is entirely
Irishman stands inside his store receiving
Populations from the district who want to
know what ais him and threaten boycott.
To all Mccarthy returns the same answer:
II the people OF this district want McCar-
thy they can come to him. II they don't
they can stay away
A Sun reporter found Mccarthy yester-
day in his little store and crowd outside
looking at the display OF literature in his
window.
why am for ROOSEVELT" said Mccarthy,
cooking his eye and looking the reporter all
over suspiciously. well, you see. be-
lieve he's honest and square and that's say
ing a lot, In McCarthy's way Of thinking.
When this fellow Roosevelt was Police
Commissioner. my sop-in-law, Joe Donahue 4
fellow and Tammany Hall man. too-he
wanted to be made cop. He went to Tam
many and they asked $500 to get him on the
force. Then he went to Roosevelt. and
what did he dor He made hing without
it's costing us a red cent. Well, sir, Joe
died Tammany Hall man. but he died a
Roosevelt man first and I'm for him still
Mr.. RourEe Cochran isn't worthy to tie his
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