The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-18
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when Patrick ! O'Nril went ~ bed SatuF
day night he wasn't ~ oil surr that he
would win ont In his fight for the Tatnmany
leadership ~ tho now Thirty-fourth Assem-
bly, district When he woke up yesterday
morning the outcome of tho six Curnercd
fight was a cinch, In Smiling Pats min
An angel had appeared to him In n dream
and old him not 10 worry,
O'Ncil -upped latc at The Bronx Club
on Saturday night lie went TO the club
to put In a few good words for 0'Neil and
to make sure that old Or. Hafien wasn't
doing a little gumshoeing. No less than
six men want TO boss the district and they
ARE all hustling. Until the angel, n lady
angel in flowing white robes, appeared TO
O'Neil the contest was an even thing, nip
and tuck.
The others In the fight are Barney Murray,
n real estate man and contractor; Peter j.
Everett, an ex-Assemblyman; Nicholas w.
Ryan. a contra ctor and builder Arthur II.
Murphy. Haffen's man, as O'Neil Gays.
and Patrick H. Clune. a lawyer. who Is
strong with the Knights OF Columbus and
the Elks.
At the Bronx Club o'Neil had something
to eat, he doesn't remember what, except
that there was lobster In II, nothing to
drink. because he has a special seat on the
Bronx Club water wagon, and much TO say
because the other candidates were there and
making hay fast. Mrs. O"Neil who IL a
pretty clever amateur politician herself.
was putting in good licks for her husband
with the other Bronx wives.
'O'Neil and the lobster went to bed about
midnight. Some two hour after the vision
came which he, that is, O'Neil, described
Yesterday afternoon in his home at Cauld-
well avenue and le5th street.
Maybe the leadership scrap sat heavy
on nv mind" he said, Not that l was
worried, it takes more than Haffen to bother
me but | was a bit excited and heated up.
Suddenly, it seemed to me there wsa
a beautiful light in the room, a sort OF violet
and pink tinge. 1t seemed funny to me
then, but / remember thinking how pretty
one of those worsted notices looked in
that light. The God Bless Our Home"
seemed to stand out. As I'm a WIN
man. that was the fact OF 1t.
Then a tall, white figure seemed to rise
right up from behind the bedstead First
thing | saw it was a lady angel and that
made me smile In my sleep because l had
read in THE Sun that the sculptor, Borglum
l think his name was. made a lot OF lady
angels to put on the front Of a new cathedral
and then had to take EN- down again be-
cause the preachers or somebody else who
claimed to know all about angels said the
angels were all men and the Bible would
prove 1t.
This angel seemed to have golden hair
and sky blue eyes. She was dressed in a
long, flowing robe, a sort Of religious XII
mono, you know. ! thought l felt the
touch Of her hand on my head and then
know / heard her say: '
It's all right, Pat. Don you worry.
All you need to do is to keep things going
as you have them and you've got the fight
won. You're a winner
Then the white robed figure melted
away, or so it seemed to me, and that was
all there was of it. Now my wife's a dream
sharp and knows what those things mean.
When | told her about that angel she said
right away:
Pat, you've had a sure enough vision.
You've got a message straight from heaven
and that's the meaning of it,
Now what chance have the other five got
after that? I'll back my angel against
Louie Haffen any day in the week and give
odds. It's a cinch and I'm ashamed to
take the money, in a way OF speaking.
Yesterday afternoon the new Thirty
fourth buzzed with the story of Pats vision.
Several committees from the Bronx club
waited on Mr.. O'Neil, who repeated the
story solemnly and without noteworthy
variation from the first telling.
+The word of q Tipperary man for it,"
said Pat. "Remember, friends, | never took
a drink or told a lie and | amt starting in
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