The evening world., 1912-11-07
FIGHTING FOURTH
| TAUGHT MONAHAN
T GAME Of POLITICS
After Fifteen Years as B. r. T.
Conductor He Goes to the
Assembly.
VOTE GETTER FOR SURE.
Financed His Own Campaign
and Overcame Former Big
=. Republican MsjsdtX
VOTE GETTER FOR SURE.

NV mat Wilson'S plurality In ths
uoDetorai college has been fairly we'll
osesrminsd. why not consider the piu-
nafty Of Joseph J. Monahan. b. r. T.
conductor. In che vote for Asssmbiyman
y the Twenty-second Assembly District,
1Eooklyn7 And why not consider Jo-
ssoh J. Monahan himself? Both he and
tAe vote he rolled up. which puts him
- . legislators seat In Albany. are In
Wrestling objects OF consideration
Last Tuesday night along about 10
o'clock. when all the world and his
wife were out In the main paths Of
Night watching the destinis Of the ma
sSoa bsins forsshadowsd By the wavsr-
Nc figures Of returns on the stsrsop-
t1oon sheets. Joseph J. Monahan, Demo-
cratic candidate for the Assembly In .
district which last year gave 10000
majority to . Republican. bounded up
he stairs OF the little two-family house
q No. 10 De Sales place which ne calls
home. Into the bright light Of the
dining room he Jumped and he gathered
Q red-chesksd wife. . growing boy. .
little giri and an infant all In his
arms-A comprehensive swesp OF the
asms ehaa-and began passing kisses
around ~ he would apples
I'VE did live did I'll" wab all he
could say. TIE Albany for ours. We
~ chs others licked"
% the nswu Of how ne dsstinies Of
~ famtly Of Monahan had ARISEN came
- ths CIRCLE Of iampiiSht even - the
grsat world bayond the front door
rocked with ths clarion CRY. "wiison
e,eoesdi" And %. altar the kiddies had
bsAn tucked into their beds. . man and
HI wife sat hand In hand. and tried 70
look out into . new iife which would
not b bounded BY . conductorS glove
and els week.
a BORN FIGHTER FROM NEW
YoRk's OLD FOURTH.
Aonakaa 10 . nghtsr-A regular old
Fourth Ward Gtrips Of ruotion maker
end strong man. There. N The old
yevrth IN New York. he was born
solsky-dx ysars ago. end b. moved
away only bsoanss ne saw . better
Chance In Brooklyn. Fifteen years ago
- got . 10 - conductor with the B.
n T.. end fifteen years OF hcnorahls
0o6v3co eTo toooueo " Nn0 U6S0 WI
his sissvs. Ten years aSo. whsn things
were going right" h married the
nnsst GID that ever trod sole heather;
now hs hes her end me three itttis onss
bsuldss.
Now polatics eoss with mothsrs milk
n NE old Fourth Ward. % poattios he
knew bsfors hs was old enough TO vote.
and politics he hes played for many
a year over IN Brooklyn. The rise of
2Gonahau was slow. because. maybe. he
went into politics not % much tor what
As could get out Of It. but Tor tho pure
fun OF mixing up with the boy~ Ho
was always . Democrat. even though
his assembly district. normally u over
whsimtneay Republican.
Nonahan was captain Of his district
the year when the boys came around
ana told him he must run. Twas q
Suss year for the Democrats. they said,
hs'd been q good worker and something
Was coming 70 him by HE own right.
But Nonahan had the wife and the
youngsters 20 think Of: there was tha,
~ Per which he had to keep svsr IN his
m1nd.
'.Run anyway" the boys urged and q
ho ran.
Opposed to him were Edward r. w