The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-15
!. pulcs Both Sides of River
Mare Than Croker or
Murphy.
mrILAN IS DEPENDING
ON THE BROOKLYN BOSS
,,pae Coalition in Politics of
Man Supposed to Be
Practically Dead.
5ba Tribune.

rC YORK, July 1.-The survival
r,,;ck II. McCarren appears to be
1 !, tbo wonders Of latter day poll
Tho leader Of the Kings county
,,,t;on of the Democrats would
E,o baye more lives than cat
INST at present when it would ap'
Il :. though he must be at his weak
bs nabout down and out y
ss nm on the horizon stronger
ray hefore, For no matter
Tho Mayoralty administration
|(sIonel George B. Mcclellan is Tor
A. for evil, this one thing Is pc
I.y more and more apparent daily
IA tbe strongest man So behind the
sn in connection with the Nc"
administration is McCarren.
vho claim that the Mcclellan
EiGra,ion is sinking TO the level
= Tweed regime see in 1t all the
= TcCarrenism. And the few
.,st;c reformers who insist that
;EIlan is a good man doing the best
so can under difficult circum-
.s shake their heads at the men
Il the name of McCarren.
;Carren appears to illustrate per
Ebstfer than anything else the rule
,snolitics goes by the rule of con
Ii Senator McCarren was born
[cmbridpe, Mass, right under the
rrs of Harvard university, but in.
35M indulging in dreams connected
"a .Sose classic shades he began life
Il ,ooner-as a maker Of barrels. And
Smny of politics is nowhere better
|,.tsted than by the fact that in
srzan probability there are not
L. living graduates of Harvard uni
|rty who are today exertlng as great
|irausnce on the destinies of the ma
as this man who turned from
H. Intellectual to things practical,
Edlng practical politics.
Evolution of M'Carren.
II the evolution of things-in the
Iii Order Of things ii may have
n natural that Senator McCarren
Ia settle in the Sugar House
La of Brooklyn And he has gen
n held thut district III the hollow
Il hand, though once and only once
be caught mapping, being defeated
10 unknown man whose only
\ 70 afamc today Is that he de
. Senator McCarren for the post
zktc Senator. Many there are who
I that "McCarren, who was one
s'lieutenants of the late Hugh
nphlin. was traitor who bolted
lder at the time that Mcclellan
hn for Mayor. Mclaughlin fin
lid support Mcclellan for Mayor,
q ic would not support other men
BE tickets, both city and borough.
= fight started then, and there. was
4 |f the most bitter in the history
dngs county. it might have been
pssd that Mayor Mcclellan would
helped Senator McCarren with a
nI slice of political patronage
be first came into the Mayors
n But il happened that Leader
pay Of Tammany Hall could not
llong with McCsrrcn. who had dis.
p Mclaughlin as the practical
~ Of the Kings county organlza
b time the fight between the
- Of the Kings county Democratic
nizahon and the leader of Tam
~ Hall was one Of the most bitter
'tcord. Mcclellan did not quarrel
n McCsrren and McCsrren did not
rel with Mcclellan, but this hap
ln 70 be at a time when Mcclellan
= calling Murphy "Charley" and
may was calling Mcclellan
apd when Senator McCarren wanted
patronage for Kings county he
1lo that Mcclellan would do nothing
MS friends. Shut off in city, State
" p.tl pn.atlon with the Democratic house
AlnRs divided against itself and
pee Incapable of eiectinp a ticket,
Gs looked indeed dark for Nc.
4 The Hearst Pill.
or did they continue to improve.
nenrst wave swept into power in
isayn as the municipal ownership
p9ate TOT borough president former
VI Snonptrollcr Bird S. Coler. at one
pemocratlc nominee for Governor
s b: h. Odell Coler wss the
%,;l naired boy" OF Hugh Nc
talin and undoubtedly owed his
%n 10 the fact that the McLaugh-
rEas VI tne organization in Kings
AZ supported him for borough pres,
anu wheu Hearst was nominated
ii lor Governor last fall, a
IN MAR broke out between the cdi.
|, X tne journal aud American and
pSmoeratlc leader of Kinps county
3 issaI nea,st did 10 the main swallow
sta,a uckets named by Murphy tho
/Bss%" sue Of the river at the
,m9 OF the big bridge he abso,
aEvruseo TO have anything to do
4 SLd direnlsm. Full and complete
Z sace thsae League tickets were nom
Z n %,ooghqut Kings county by the
n, "sh. IN ,McCarren retaliated by
x inc Democratic machine Of
'K soanty TO knife Hearst in re-
As TO whether lc was a traitor
IaHar,y or not, this is /. question
Z '.arren and Hearst are still
out In the courts, the Hearst
iusseavoring to have McCarrcn rr,
q Hsentoo.s,'n nis post as Kings county s
<|litles ~ on The Democratic State
ICE OF the Empire State.
~ - s'erne5s Of Situation.
krS. mgrasn n.!,, probability these pro
~ r. ss wsnl come to naught. but they
ANA ow the bitterness of the sill
|Ses we fact that locally politics
= n;srS ,orS city and State is still
Z fy bsda, bsS,a., And though Hearst Has
|S4usto.iy knifed in Kings county
l' : douh,..aa .aacCarren s friends, it is
l'j Ass,roted whether the opposition
N 1hirbt cost him as many votes
y |aie hoe imagined Undoubtedly
y "a of ffAI y. regular Democratic organ.
sas Nlngs knitting him at the
y im - serious thing, but this op-
q sat W McCarren's $ undoubtedly
= tand, inc Hearst banner mapv
thus oa VI radical Republicans who
s'nVinced that Hearst meant