The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-10-23
Brooklyn Politicians End
Came This Morning
DUE TO APPENDICITIS
Senator Who Had Dominated Brooklyn
Politics So Long Made Brave Fight
for Life to the Last--His
Career.

New York, Oct. 20. Senator Patrick
Henry McCarren died at the St. Catherin
hospital early this morning, the great
Democratic leader Of Brooklyn breath
ing his last at laos o'clock.
All hope Of saving the life Of Senator
Mccarren was given up late last night
and the senator's relatives and few
intimate friends gathered at st. Cath
erins hospital, where the operation for
appendicitis was performed, and waited
for the end At 1850 Dr. Peter Hughes,
the senator's personal physician, said
that the senator's pulse was impefcepti-
bic, and that at that hour he was itlat
between life and death. The patient
DR., Hughes said, wis suffering great
distress and could retain no nourish-
ment whatever.
Earlier in the evening Controller Metz
walked over TO the bed and MeCarren
recognized him at once. The sick man
had some difficulty in speaking, but
finally said; Il am glad tia al over
Good bye"
Senator McCarren was taken sick
while in the midst OF an exciting politi-
cal campaign. and it Is declared bv his
associates that his disability at such
time preyed on his mind and aggravated
his ailment he repeatedly expressed
the hope that he would be able 70 20
to the polls on Nov. 2 and vote, but
that wish, the doctors declared, could
not be realized even IT the patient lived,
The senator was cheerful throughout his
tfWan1. vsI Ntaxtn4-.,I tt.e ,fsaf
tude. He ioked and talked with his at-
tendants even at times when his condi-
tion was most precarious.
Senator Patrick Henry McCarren. who
was sixty years old on the 18th Of last
June, was the absolute master Of tie
Brooklyn democracy since 1908, when
he overthrow the old leader, Hugh Me.
Laughlin He had been power for
years before that, but with the fall Of
Mclaughlin McCarren became something
more than local figure He grew sud
denly to the full stature Of boss. be-
came a national figure, a man to reckon
with when presidents we're nominated.
For six years he held the Democracy
organization in Kings county gripped IN
his fingers He held It against Tam
many raids. the rebellion Of district
leaders, the furious assaults Of pulpit
and press. and not infrequently against
the consequences Of his own acts but
he held il He never knew when be was
licked and never gave an inch against
the most determined attacks.
MeCarren was born on June IS, ls4a,
mp in East Cambridge Mass. His father
was Owen McCarren, who was a natural
born politician In 1851 the elder Nc
Carren moved from Massachusetts, to
Williamsburg
Young Pat was apprentieed to coop
er after picking up common school ed
ucaton. and he worked hard He hadn't
turned his twenty first year when lie
put up fight against Nolan at the pri-
maries. was uproatiously beaten and
sent back to think IL over He thought
IL over SO proftably that the next time
he went after the old leader be rot
him. McCarren knew something In
those days about using his fists He
was tall and lean and slender, but he
had a good punch and could Use both
hands quick and hard.
His big opportunity for leadership
came IN 1908. For several Years IL had
bNtH EtHtiaii1 ANNNAAtHtA tHHl AiANNffNf
was the shrewdast, hardest fighting lead
er the Brooklyn Democrats could point
to. and everybody knew it was only
matter Of time and opportunity before
be won absolute domino ton Of the or
ganiaation In that year, 1908 George
\. Mcclellan was nominated for mayor
G. r. Murphy. the leader of Tammany,
said little, but he never overlooked
chance TO deal McCarren a blow The
breach widened, il possible, when Muir
ply forced Hearst's nomination at the
state convention in 1906. MeCarren was
savagelv against Hearst. In the cam
paign McCarren worked SO subtiy that
many persons attributed Mr.. Hemsts
defeat BY Charles y. Hughes to the re
markable detection IN Brooklyn Per
haps the bitterest Of all fights between
the two leaders came in 1907, when Mr.
Murphy's power was sufficient to have