The Irish standard., 1907-05-11
..G!;LYNN'S |: CAREER
Brilliant State Comptroller of
New York Has Good Record.
Thirty-Six Years of Age and
Served in Congress.


sciences are perplexed concerning vast
sums Of money which are or will be
expended in completing the great canal
system of the state. 1t seems late now
to lament losses when the trouble, if
there is any, is already done, but what
seems stranger still is the fact that
they waited until a young man newly
elected to office should start things go
ing and because he had the temerity
70 question certain previous transac-
tions. the entire state is in uproar, says
the Boston Republic.
The young man who poked his plo1-
ding way into conditions of things was
Mr.. Martin H. Gynn. Glynn is state
comptroller Of New York. He is in
addition, and this is Of greater inter-
est, one Of the most accomplished
young men in public life Not yet
thirty-six years Of age, he has been
member of Congress, National Com
missioner at worlds fair and man.
aging editor of daily newspaper. To-
day his is the hand which controls the
finances of the most important state
in the union. If you know nothing
else Of the man, there you have his
record: he has made good all his life
and men don't get to the top unless
they have something in them. Glynn
has done more in the twelve or thr-
teen years that he has been out of COL
1ege than most men do in twice that
time. and today while still a young
man his fame is made on eternal pro-
portions.
Martin H. Glynn was born in Kim
derhook. New York. in September.
1871. He went to the local schools
and when he was able to go to college
like the good Catholic boys of the day.
his parents conceived of nothing but
Fordham. because Fordham. primarily,
was a Jesuit college and more espe-
cially because in those days its fame
and name was greatest amongst Jesuit
institutions of learning. At Fordha m
who have since been prominent in the
life of Boston and his instructors
there at the time included many of the
Jesuit Fathers who have since been
at Boston College and ST. Mary's
Church in the North End. Father
John F. Quirk. S. j., brother of former
Councillor Charles I. Quirk. now Of
I4oyola, Md, but formerly of Boston
College, was one of them. 1t was i'll
1894 that he finished up at Fordhsll
and Immediately he went into news
paper work. He did political reporting
for local papers and did it we'll. AT
Albany a. political reporter; If he is a
good one, is a force. Albany is the
little hamlet up the Hudson which de-
rives its chief fame from the fact that
1t has no right to tell the great met
ropolitan city of New York what it
should do, but nevertheless it does so
direct it. Glynn handled state house
copy with efficiency and constant deal
ings with men in public life put the
virus into his veins. After five years
Of political newspaper work he es-
sayed the role of public life himself,
and here, as, indeed, Throughout. his
young life, fortune greeted him. There
was a vacancy in the goth district OF
New York-or rather there wasn't a
vacancy, but there was apt to be one
"A good sound and solid Republican
was in Congress, but, nevertheless,
Glynn wished to go there. The Goth
district Of New York was Republican,
strongly so; and Glynn was a Demo-
crat. Then he would make it Demo-
cratic. He did; and he went to Con.
n gress. Doesn't matter how the thing
4 was done-in the bright lexicon OF
\ youth there is no such word as method
e It's results you look for: and it's re-
suits you get if you get anything worth
. having. It matters very slightly that
that was an exceptional year; that
Ii there was a split in the Republican
ranks and that hence it was easy fol
siai
H tional that year: Glynn was running
f and he was exceptional. Hence the
drift Of things.
He went to Congress, and the ac.
tivities which had made him known t.
ALBANY statesmen soon made hin
Is known to Washington. He was par
iaeE OF WASHINGTON and he made every.
body know it, If you had visited
Washington in those days and hac
FL not been introduced to Glynn of Al.
he bany your visit was to that degrees
imperfect. He was prominent in de,
bates, in the lobby and the Congress.
sional library rooms and especially
.ss charity work. With the present mayor
Of Boston. who was then Congress