The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-10-23
PAT M'CARREN
LOSEyBATTLE
DEM atic Leader Of Brook.
~ Ign Dead.
REALIZED INEVITABLE FATE
Tells Doctors He Was IN Losing
Fight.
After Hard struggle for Life Political
Leader Gives Up-Death Result
of Operation for Acpendi-
citis-Mother ID Not
Informea.
EAlIzED INEVITABLE FATE

Carren, State Senator and Democratic
leader of Brooklyn, died at st. Cath.
crimes Hospital, Brooklyn, at 1:15
o'clock this morning. never having
completely rallied from the effects of
an operation for appendicitis which
was performed on October Is. His
death was not unexpected, in fact the
Senator himself realized throughout the
afternoon and the earlier part of the
night that his end was near.
Senator McCarren remained fully
conscious all day. He said to the ply
sicians in consultation over him to-
day:
Gentlemen. I know what you have
come here for. There Is no need for a
consultation. I knew / was dying the
day I walked into this hospital. / have
made a study of my own case and I
ind that my trouble Is an old heart
and old stomach. If you replace them
with new ones there might be chance
of my getting better"
One of the pathetic features of Sem
l'ator McCarren's Illness was that his
aged mother was not apprised of his
condition. She thought that the cam
paign had kept him from home and
senator McCarTen nau ihsistcO that
she be kept in ignorance for fear that
the shock would be too great for her.
picturesque Political Figure.
Patrick Henry McCarren. by trade a
cooper. by profession a lawyer, and
by vocation a politician. was one of
the most picturesque figures in the
| political history of Greater New York.
, No leader was ever more roundly con-
demned. yet at the close OF sixty-one
years of his life. he was probably the
| most strongly entrenched leader in
| New York State. and had even welded
| some influence in national politics.
| Born in East Cambridge. Mass, he
settled in Brooklyn when he was s
years old and was graduated from the
public schools. He was apprenticed
to a cooper. and having mastered his
| trade. he answered the call to some
thing more intellectual. He took up
the law and from the law went into
! politics. In 1882 he was sent to the
| Assembly. and has since served al
| most continuously in the LEGISLATURE
He was elected to the Senate in 1891,
but two years later was defeated
| Elected again in 1895. he stayed there
until his death.
Senator McCarren first became rec
| ognized as a coming leader In the days
when David B. Hill was at the heighth
of his power. BY 1898 he had become
| so well recognized that the Demo.
cratic State Committee made him head
Of the Executive Committee Five
years later he wrested the leadership
Of Brooklyn from Hugh Mclaughlin,
who had held 1t for forty years. Since
| that time the Senator has won all
| primaries, although his political death
was predicted each year. At the
Democratic National Convention which
| nominated Alton B. Parker the task
| of inducing Southern leaders to re.
main in line following the arrival Of
the famous gold telegram, fell Oh
McCarren's shoulders.
Opposed MIR. Hearst
McCarren's opposition to the candi-
dacy of Mr.. Hearst for Governor led to
charges of treason against him and his
delegates were excluded from the party
convention in April of last year, which
named delegates to the Denver national
| convention. Nevertheless, he appeared
there with delegates who were again
rejected. His downfall was then con-
fdently predicted, but only last mont ,
he received what he regarded as dnas
vIndication when he won nineteen of
the twenty-three districts of his Bor-
ough.
Physically. Mr.. McCarren was very
tall and lank. His face was almost
funereal when in repose. In manner
he was courteous and generous of at-
tention. but niggardly of speech. The
| qualities which. in the opinion of his
| friends, contributed must to his success
| in politics, were keenness, tenacity OF
| purpose, personal fidelity. perfect self
control and patience. He was some-
times called a hard man. devoid OF sen
| timent.
IT had romance once" ne said to a
man I fell in love with girl and we
were married. We lived very happily
| We had five children. When was 81,
had buried my wife and Ave children"