New-York tribune., 1906-12-05
THE CRAWLING OF PAT.
MCARREN THEN AND NOW.
Offers s1,O0O,OOO for Proof OF
Treachery AGAINST Hearst.

Senator Patrick II. McCarren is at last show
ing the white feather in the face OF the COM
piled forces Of the state committee Yesterday
/ he declared that not only had he not caused
the knitting of W. r. Hearst by his famous anti
! Hearst TRADE OF October IS, but also that he
would not think Cf doing sucn thing When
asked if the speech had not contained material
that would lead his followers to knife the head
or the ticket. he became greatly enraged and
declared that he would give the reporter ST.
oooooo If he could find anything in the speech
that could be so construed
lt is interesting to compare the views Of the
hhgs County leader expressed before and
a1ter the election. When he made his famous
speech he was confident that Hearst would be
swamped. and that Brooklyn would give c. e
Hughes $4,000 majority, because Hearst was op-
posing Democratic candidates by Independence
Leaguers Before he made the speech he wrote
Hearst note practically defyng him to oppose
the Democratic candidates in the field Hearst
accepted the challenge. and McCarren's speeoh
followed.
Now, events have different ASPECT. Demo.
Gratis in all parts of Brooklyn are organizing
against McCarren The leader finds himself IN
'he position of having openly opposed popu.
lar candidate and of having inflicted a SUBJ
stantlal injury on him. Hearst carried Brook.
lyn' but he ran some $4,000 votes behind hia
Lieutenant Governor. popularity supposed 70
nave peen largely the result Of MoCarren's
stand with which Richard Croker sent a mas.
sage of sympathy
-noOdrFen is now at odds with the majority
OF MS party. an insecure position The cha,r.
man of the state committee has practically IA.
posed MN from his position in the party nv
acknowledging the Delaney-Haves organization
Hs the true Democratic organization Of the
county. rms organization IS strongly antt-Mc-
Carreh and around It as a nucleus the anti
Ni0CaireilteS and the men who feel that they
1--WE arrogance to the party rather than to Nc
Sarreh are organizing McCarren sees that he
ioSl srouhc while absent in the West and that
ne Is losing 1t daily, and he now wants people
10 forget his speech and Chambers $4,000 anti
hearst friends, and to climb back again on the
NIUE here is the statement he made yester-
day:
,tG ne coInmittee cannot find that I caused the
A@l!i.iis - OF hearst because / did nothing of the
sort L would not think of doing such tbing
,ii Inat tley VIII find is that 1 rose before the
COUNTY committee and expressed my personal
opinion Of the candidate Surely was actin.
WITHIN my rights when I did that and after :
tau t loIu "hat thought of Mr.. Hearst I moved
for ratification. u
Ihere Is something about his words that
pictures the strong man bending before the
storm
MADE IN your speech led your followers to knife
Hearst?" asked the reporter.
I'll give you S1-O000G0 if YOU find anv such
statements in my speech!" cried the Senator
Here is a section of the famous speech which
the reporter thinks should win him the Sem
ator's 81. 100000:
we can with propriety call upon the people
or Brooklyn to resent the slurs on the chara cters
or the men who have been referred to nv the
tive or party popularity in our community re-
sent emphatically by our votes on Election Dav
thlS insult offered to them.
And want TO say. also, that we have an addi-
tional reason for asking the citizens of BROOKLYN
py snelr s votes 70 Indicate the character of our
candidates. and their characters are ~ unas-
saiIabIe. This villifcation comes from a man
VINO IS recently here from the West. He is here
only few years and during all that time he
has been an energetic applicant in the p,,rsuit
OF official positions.
am reliably Informed that he could NOT he
elected poundmaster in his native CITY He is
now engaged in an effort to defeat the Demo-
cratic ticket in the State of California He is
attempting to do there what he is attempting
TO DO here-namely destroy the Democratic
party.
Here are a few Of the anathemas which Nc
Carren applied to Hearst: "He is a pretender".
The league (Nfr Hearst's personal corporation
WAS organized for the purpose of blacRmgling
the Democratic party; Il believe that there is
yellow streak in him; Everybody knows how
the Hearsts) nomination procured; This
candidate, who has rallied at bosssm and at
political machines. is the greatest and most
absolute boss we ever had in any politica! or
ganiZatiOn that is known 10 the people Of this
country. All the bosses OF all the times rolled
into one would he a Liliputian compared TO this
political Gulliver."
Senator McCarren was received with small
applause and considerable shufning of feet by
the members Of the Kings County Democratic
General Committee At the annual meeting in the
jefferson Building. Brooklyn, last night After
a member Of the committee from the 18th As
semby District had resigned Colonel James D.
Bell was taken in and reelected chairman. BY
some oversight Colonel Bell had been forgotten
when the delegation from his district was made
up. After John Mcguire had been recommended
for reappointment Elections Commissioner
the meeting adjourned.