New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-18
MCARREN so ISOLATED
NEEDS MUSIC TO CHEER.
Seeks Seat ON Hearst Band Wagon
Players Object.

Senator Patrick H McCarren has applied for
q front seat on the Hearst band wagon The
Hearst people don't want him. but they viii be
glad to take whatever votes he can deliver. Nc
Carrens shift is flank move to regain his lost
prestige in Kings, and it does not necessarily
mean that there will be any formal declaration
by him that he has gone to Hearst 1t Is
McCarren's to ex-Controller Grout'
Mayor Mcclellan and others. who have declared
for reorganization of the Democratic party in
this city, with McCarren and Murphy pretty
well the outside.
McCarren figures that he can better protect the
corporate interests. which lawyer he rep
resents. by being on friendly terms with the
Hearst men than by being isolated AS stated
in The Tribune Sunday. the Hearst men plan to
run Hearst for Governor, and they also plan to
nominate about fourteen candidates for Supreme
Court Judges under the new judiciary reorgani-
zation law. If they do a little better than they
did last fall they will elect their tickets In New
York and Kings. McCarren, by throwing votes
TO Hearst Will be friendly footing with the
Hearst leaders, and may name one or two On Ihe
judges on the Hearst ticket in the I'd District.
McCarren broke with Mcclellan in the last
campaign. One of MCCaTren's friends was talk
ing with the Mayor about the prospects in Kings
and said that it looked If the Democrats
would lose the county. Mayor Mcclellan is al
legged TO have retorted:
81 don't care what happens to McCarren. L
hope the nails will be driven deep into his
political coffin that they cannot be pulled out.
When McCarren heard OF this utterance ne
called on the Mayor and asked him If he mad
said It, 1t is said that the Mayor denied H.
When McCarren came out of the Mayors office
his friend was waiting for him, and asked the
Senator:
Does he deny u?'
no
against US in this campaign and will be against
us afterward.
McCarren will not be welcomed to q front seat
by the Hearst men One of the Hearst men said
last night:
We don't want McCarren. If we MADE an
alliance with him we would lose more than we
would gain. Our hope lies in keeping men IKE
McCarren out of our organization. AZ Ihe setltg
time we are not driving away votes. we Nould
be glad 10 get the Endorsement OF every McCar-
rem man and, in fact, of any and every voter
no matter what his previous condition or servl-
tude.
McCarren would be an acquisition to the
Hearst men in that he knows the upstate
Democrats we'll and that he would know how to
work in order TO get them in line for Hearst.
The Hearst men are organizing around the
State with the idea of swinging Erie. Monroe,
Onondaga, Albany and Rensselaer, counties into
line for Hearst at the next State convention
Hearst does not expect to get the Democratic
nomination for Governor, but he does expect
that in counties where he has been doing work
for his Independence League even the dele
gates to the next State Democratic convention
will make a demand for his nomination. Nc
Carren is Just the sort of to advise the
Hearst men in a game of this kind as he Will
be of the commanding figures III the next
Democratic State Convention. The detection Of
| McCarren, even If not complete, goes 10 prove
that the Democrats in this State hopelessly
divided for the fall campaign