VOL. XVIII. NO. 51. MINNEAPOLIS, MINX., SAT I "I! I >A Y. OCTOBKR 24. 1!HW. $2.00 PER YEAR. STORY OF A COOPER JOSEPH G. CANNON BOY'S RISE TO POWER TO BE NEXT SPEAKER |itC* f

Patrick Henry McCarren Will Become the Something About the Distinguished Men Leader of Brooklyn Democracy Who Have Occupied the Speaker's if Democrats Win. Chair in the Past.

?w/mm Long the Follower of McLaughlin, He Refuses Cannon Will be the Oldest Man Ever Elected to Sanction the Latter's Policy Speaker. Hunter of Virginia, Was in the Present Fight. the Youngest. (To o »\i

An Intrepid Democrat Who Does Not Love Henry Clay Held the Speakership Longest, His Old Leader Less, But His Party His Total Term of Office Being Organization More. About Ten Years.

There wore Forty-niners, besides tlie coolest proposition in Democratic Tile selection of Joseph II. Cniilion er after Pennington was Henderson. folks who hurried pell-noll from the boots to-day—a kind of Arthur 1'ue as speaker of the house in ailvauce of In the long list Clay held I lie speaker­ Gorman without Gorman's experience Eastern States by every known route his clociioii is a unique ami unprece­ ship longest. His national political in the national affairs of his party. to the California gold fields, In those dented event in the history of con­ career was a curious one. lie was But Gorman, under a great strain, lirsl a senator for a pari of the term, days many families forsook home­ gress. says Hie Cincinnati F.nquircr. sometimes Hushes; McCarren never! and was then elected to the Kentucky steads in Massachusetts, Maine, Con­ Gorman has the manners of a calm, Alter I lie resignation of Speaker lion- house, of which he was immediately necticut, New Hampshire and Ver­ stiff, dispassionate statesman: so has ilersoti sentiment at once began to chosen s]leaker: llien was again sent: mont for new homes, whose environ­ McCarren, only McCarren occasionally crystallize in favor of Mr. Cannon, and to the I'nited Stales senate for .anoth­ throws in a kindly greeting and his no other candidate was seriously con­ ment promised greater prosperity, in er pari of a lerni. after which his lips sometimes make something like sidered by his parly, thus showing the house career began. This was about New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michi­ nil attempt at a smile. Gorman in preponderance of his popularity. The as irregular as his speakership lenns gan and Illinois, says the New York private life never utters an unkind balloting mi November III will lie mere­ in the house of representatives, there Sun. The venturesome American word of any mail alive or dead. ly a ratilicalion of his candidacy. In being two intervals during the in­ Neither does McCarren. Gorman, on view of Mr. Cannon's acknowledged spirit demanded broader opportunities MHRELY .! Si (Klh'STlOX cumbency, one of nearly two years tlie floor of the United States senate, ssion to I lie speakership for the than those furnished in the bailiwicks U. S.—There Little Girl. Don't Cry. Why Bother About Any Boundnry Lincs at All. and the second of nearly four years. once roundly abused Grover Cleve­ Fifty-eighth congress a splendid par­ of the Pilgrims :>m1 the Puritans. The .'niirtesy of (he Mmnc:l|>nliK Journal. His aggregate tenure was approxi­ land. A few years ago McCarren, at liamentary cat will he rounded out, great cities east of the Missouri Riv­ mately 10 years. Theodore Pomeroy. a meeting of the Democratic State although his greatest triumph was er were first populated by these im­ rick had been married to a blight him. It is one of those old-fashioned, interests and championing everything of New York, was speaker one day, committee, called David B. Hill a liar long deferred. Since lie entered migrants from the New England young school-teacher. She had been homely, neighborly districts which de­ that conies under tin denomination of having been elected oil the third of to his face. On tlie iloor of the senate upon his duties as chairman of States. Williamsburg, first a village, Miss Kate Hogan, and all the neigh­ lights to honor one of its boys. genuine patriotism." March, isc>9. on the day Colfax resign­ at Albany McCarren has occasionally I he Appropriations eomuiitleo of the next a part of Brooklyn, and now a bors turned out to wisli the young McCarren first knew McLaughlin in I'ndor the caption 'Koine Results of ed to enter upon the duties of vice- fired away in bitter words against his Fifty-fourth congress lie has steadily densely populated section of the im­ couple Godspeed in good old homely 1870. lie has boon to every Demo­ Federation." we might state that president. This is the shortest term Republican opponents, but never in grown iu iulluelice before (lie house. perial city of New York, was a long fashion. cratic State convention since that one since the convening of the Atlantic on record. John Bell, of Tennessee, his private life has McCarren been His life of picturesque incidents, way from the Bowery in those days of McCarren was an oil inspector ten in IKS", which nominated Hill for Gov­ City convention several of our county filled the Stevenson vacancy June 2, heard to say an ungentle word of any liis homely but forceful speech, '•19; when the McCarren family arrived years. Five children came to the hap­ ernor, and to every national conven­ Federations have started a vigorous I*:II. and thus served only nine man. So say his personal intimates of sound sense and determined will, within its pretty borders from East py young couple and all the neighbors tion of liis party since 1N84, when crusade against Socialism. As a re­ nionlhs. Andrew Stevenson, Demo­ many years. They speak of him as tempered with good 'humor and Cambridge. Mass. These were Father had sorrowful hearts for them as the Cleveland was nominated, save in sult of agitation the Jefferson Coiintj' crat, of Virginia, was speaker four one of the truest philosophers they comradeship, are qualities that i- and Mother McCarren, born in the children died in infancy. l!l(li>, when ho took a jaunt to Europe. Federation of Kentucky has succeed­ times, and is next in record lo that, ever met; never elated by victory, inend him to the entire country. Ould Dart, and their two sons, Pat­ Xow, in 18S1 MeCarren hadn't This is the story of the cooper boy ed in having holy mass regularly cele­ of Clay. Blaine, Carlisle and Reed never daunted by disaster, adamant Probably the most unique thing about rick Henry, named for the famous bought any of the kerosene factories who has been built up politically by brated in the Louisville Industrial were each six years speaker, and Ran­ as the turn of tlie political and finan­ Mr. Cannon is his peculiar, somewhat Virginia Give-ine-liberty-or-give- me- on Newtown Creek, as the neighbors his neighbors among whom he still School of Reform. Several religious dall served live years. Strange lo say. cial wheel, whether for good or ill, awkward, but always forcible ges­ deatli orator and statesman, and had fondly predicted lie would; but lives, as he did fifty years ago. Many denominations have expressed a de­ New York, with its large membership and whisking off the little affairs of tures. His capacity for public serv­ Charles, both on the sunny side of five. he was elected to the Assembly by the parents are gone, but their children sire to co-operate with the Federation iu the house, has had but one speaker. life with listless unconcern. Such a ice anil his integrity have been prov­ The McCarrens plumped down in the Democrats of the Sixtli district, and their children's children still stand in the mailer of securing state aid for Mr. Taylor. leaving nul of account man. it has been said, does not have en by his administration of II ins! old Fourteenth ward, and there they which comprised the old Fourteenth by the son of old Father and Mother denominational schools. Rigid divorce Ponieroy's single day's service. Penn­ many happy moments, and neither trying and most responsible chairman­ have lived for fifty-three years, and and Fifteenth wards. In the estima­ McCarren and delight to honor him. laws arc to lie recommended. I sylvania has furnished fliroo, Miiiilen- does lie have many sorrowful ones. ship under the legislative arrange­ there Father McCarren and son tion of the neighbors that was the And he. in liis turn, is proud and courses and congresses are being ar­ burg. Grow and Randall: Virginia How did McCarren attain 'his present ment of congress. His election may diaries died. Patrick Henry's mother next best thing to owning a kerosene happy to have such warm and sturdy ranged for by various county Federa­ lour, Barbour, Stevenson, lluuler and high place in the management of af­ lie classed as a remarkable eventual­ is now .SO. aiid she has lived to see factory: for wouldn't. Patrick go to hearts beating politically for him. tions. The Atchison County Federa­ Jones; Massachusetts four. Sedgwick, fairs of his party in Brooklyn? First, ity. iu thai ho will not only bo a mem­ her son become politically famous in Albany and meet all the great, men of tion of Kansas passed a resolution to Vacuum. Winllicop and Banks; Ken- he is a Brooklyn boy of the old school. ber of longer service prior lo the lucky folic. Clay, While. Itoyil and his ward, in his city, in his state and the country there; wouldn't, he make have live holy masses offered up in There are thousands of families in old Catholic Federation Notes. event, but the oldest man ever chosen now in ,tlie nation. Wherever Demo­ speeches and wouldn't, his name be in thanksgiving for piist success. The Cnclisle: Indiana thceo. Davis, Colfax Williamsburg and in Brooklyn like Rt. Itev. S. G. Mossiner, D. D„ itisli- speaker of the house. Ho was first; cratic campfires are bright in this the papers? And just to think of go­ Federation of Galveston, Texas, had a and Kocc; South Carolina two, those in the old Greenwich Village of oj) of Green Bay, has just received a elected lo congress in November, IK72, Checves and James L. Orr: Maine land, there you will 'hear to-day the ing to Albany every week! Xow sure­ solemn requiem celebrated iu com­ New York city that do not move from cablegram from Cardinal Gotti. an­ the year that General Grant defeat­ name of Patrick Henry McCarren, the ly Patrick McCarren was to be a great memoration of those who lost their two. Blaine and Reed; Tennessee two. nounced that liis Holiness. Pope ed Crooloy for the presidency. When one house to another. Generation mail, according to those kindly hearted lives in the storm of 1900. Bell and Polk; New Jersey two, Day­ intrepid Democrat who did not lovo Pius has received the filial greeting after generation, the descendants oc­ neighbors. And you may be certain Mr. Rood resigned candidates for ton and Pennington, and Georgia two, his old leader, Hugh McLaughlin, less, of the American Federation of Cath­ The Xational ICxeoutivc Board ox- cupy the old spot, no matter how hum­ that, according to custom. McCarren speaker appeared in every quarter. Cobb anil Crisp. In the opening days but the organization of his party more. olic Societies and joyfully sends liis peels to hold its seini-annuMl meeting ble the home. Never for an instant knew every man. woman and child Perhaps Mr. Cannon would have boon of the memorable Fifty-first, congress When Patrick Henry was a little chap apostolic blessing. in Detroit next .lamiary. The mooting do they think of leaving it; and in this then chosen hud not Illinois declared Charles F. Crisp, tlie successor of Mr. in skirts, Hugh McLaughlin was the in the district by their "front" names. will be presided over by Walter G. way generations of neighbors grow Rt. Rev. S. G. Cotton. Bishop of for Hopkins. There never was the re­ Carlisle, was an obscure and compara­ sturdy and uncompromising leader of He was re-elected • in 18SU. Mrs. Smith. Ksq.. of Philadelphia. 1'a. either to love or to liate each other But)alo. X. Y.. writes: "I bless your motest chance for the latter, and Ids tively new member. He had arisen the Democrats in Brooklyn. Mc­ McCarren died in that year, and he prodigiously. Generally speaking, the Federation, its officers, its members candidacy only served lo kill off Can­ Laughlin was then 30 years old. For was left a widower without children. to tlie foremost position of the min­ feeling between the families is one of and their families." non. Babeock determined the matter ority on tllio Committee of Elections fifty years 'his sway has been absolute His father was dead, his brother (JonflrMatlon at Currle. intense kindness, and there is not the At the national executive conven­ Cnrrie. .Minn., Oct. 19.—On Tuesday for Ilenderson, whom he had original­ at: the critical juncture when Speaker and never questioned until McCarren Charles was dead, but his old mother same amount of gossip and twaddling, evening of last week Bishop Cotter ar­ ly helped lo make a congressman, and Reed startled the country with his refused to sanction McLaughlin's and Charles's children had a comfort­ tion of the Knights of (lie Kod Branch envy and malice which oftentimes rived here to coinmoncc the visitation the two were close personal anil po­ decision to count: a quorum when policy of non-support to candidates able home at 202 Xortli Fourth street, held at Troy. X. Y„ recently, the fol­ mar the social life of country villages. lowing resolution was adopted: "Wo of the parish anil to confirm the chil­ litical friends before Babeock left, enough members were present. This named by an overwhelming majority Patrick continuing to live with his There is in these city neighborhoods endorse the acts of the Catholic Fed­ dren. On Wednesday afternoon His Iowa. He brought the Wisconsin dele- brought Crisp prominently to the in a regularly constituted Democratic dead wife's mother at 10!) Wythe ave­ a keen interest in each other's con­ eration of America and offer that or­ Lordship personally examined the chil­ gallon solidly to the support of Hen­ front. He immediately pushed into convention. He had been taught nue. cerns without the backbiting so fre­ ganization our hearty support in tin; dren. both boys and girls, and expres­ derson. thus deciding the contest. In the van of his parly associates and Democratic regularity and consistency He didn't go back to the Assembly, quent in country villages, and there work in which it is engaged." sed himself completely satisfied with tenure prior to his elevation to tlie joined in battle against: tilio issue by his old chieftain and he declined but studied law, and has been prac­ are pleasure and pride over the ad­ the thorough knowledge tliey display­ chair, 10 years, Mr. Henderson had led created with a force, audacity and to unlearn the lesson. As the situa­ tising his profession ever since. You The Catholic societies of Halifax, vancement of a neighbor. It is the ed of the Calechisin. On Thursday all the speakers in leugt.li of service as ability, which stamped him as the tion stands to-day, McCarren has cap­ can easily see that he was always Xova Scotia, are considering the ad­ nearest approach to a really, neigh­ morning tlie bishop prouchcd alter congressman. Linn Boyd served H natural loader of the minority, even tured the great Democratic organiza­ taking another up rung in the ladder; visability of organizing a Federation borly spirit that can be imagined. mass and delivered an eloquent and years, Randall 13, Reed 12, Macon, at: the time when Roger Q. Mills, of tion in Brooklyn, which, standing by not that he ever forgot Ills homely old and have written to tlie A. F. of C. Little Tat McCarren had good heart­ powerful discourse on tlie Sacrament, Vanillin and Grow 10, Colfax and Texas, and Win. M. Springer, of Il­ itself, is the fourth city in the Union, days as a cooper, but he has a keen, S. for a copy of its Constitution and ed. neighborly parents, and they in of Confirmation -the renewal of the Crisp S, Blaine and Carlisle 0, Steven­ linois, were the veterans and acknowl­ und has dethroned the veteran leader. analytical mind, and the law gave him By-laws. turn had neighborly neighbors, who miracle of Pentecost. His Lordship son I and Trumbull, Hunter anil edged leaders of tlie house on the Yet not a man or any set of men who wider opportunities of thought and ex­ In a letter sent to the national sec­ patted young Pat when lie graduated then proceeded to administer the Banks only 2 before reaching; the Democratic side. All of tliem opposed now proclaim McCarren "Boss" and perience. retary, Cardinal Richard, Archbishop from Public School 17 in the old Four­ sacrament of confirmation to fifty- speaker's chair. Tlie youngest speak­ Reed's innovation with (lie most stren­ speak of him as "our new leader" will In 1888 McCarren was elected to the of Paris, sincerely thanks the Ameri­ teenth ward. lie was 1(1 then, and he seven children. As the children ap­ er the house ever had was R. M. T. lie permitted to add one unhappy Senate from his district, and he has ca n Federation of Catholic Societies uous voice. Tliey protested and urged wanted to be a cooper. The great su­ proached the altar their modest and Hunter, of Virginia, who was only .'10 thought to Mr. McLaughlin if McCar­ been there ever since, save for one for the expression of sympathy it lias and gesticulated and vociferated, and gar refineries were in full blast on devout appearance well expressed the and in ids second term when chosen. ren can prevent it. Mr. McLaughlin term, 1893, when he was beaten by kindly seen fit to bestow upon the a particularly strenuous member of Speakers Henry Clay and Howell the East River front, and young Mc­ George A. Owens, who accepted the Catholics of France, now being tried earnest and firm faith iu tlie sacra­ Texas even kicked open the door of lias Sit id lie lias lived beyond liis time. Cobb were .'S4, the former of the Thir­ Carren served his apprenticeship in nomination against McCarren as a by persecution. ment and will long be reinonibored the house in protest against the rul­ It is not so, say MeCarren's friends, teenth congress, iu 1S11, the latter of Heath's old cooper shop, at North joke, and even on election day, al­ The Young Men's Catholic Union, both by the Catholics and non-Cath­ ings of Reed, who kept tlie even tenor and they add that the minor chief­ the Thirty-first, in 18-19; Dayton and Sixth street and Wythe avenue. He though a Republican, wore MeCarren's at their convention recently held in olics who were present at the cere­ of his way. while the storm raged tains upon whom Mr. McLaughlin re­ Orr :tl, Barbour, Winthrop ami (Jrow was a journeyman cooper, at JO, and badge on Ills coat. Yet when the Boston, passed the following resolu­ mony. The confirmation of such a against: him like a tempest-tossed sea, lied for wise counsel in the snowy ;!X. Miihlonburg. Banks and Blaine .'!!), years of his life are alone responsible all the neighbors said he was a good votes were counted Owens had beaten tion: "Resolved, That we heartily ell- large class at Cnrrie speaks well for until finally, in subsequent sessions, lad and smart. Polk and Colfax 10, Stevenson Ma­ for the political humiliation—if such McCarren by 800 votes. dorse the .\. F. of C. S. and hope all Rev. Charles Cavanagli. the zealous tlie justice of his course was acknowl­ pastor. con -I I, Keifer -1.1, Crisp -10, Vanillin, it turns out to be—of one of the most Later on. when lie became an oil That was the year when the Brook - delegates will use their best, efforts edged by the sincere flattery of imita­ Kerr, Randall anil Carlisle 48. Rood tion by the Democrats when they astute thinkers and loaders the Demo­ inspector with Archer & Co.. at 04 l.vnites rose in their might against to have tlyir societies hccomc affiliat­ .".0, Boyd and Trumbull 01, Sedgewick came into power in the house. In all cratic party has ever had. But who Beaver street, in the great city of Xew what they called "Trolleyizing Brook­ ed with the county branches in their II may be of interest to the reader <12. William Pennington chosen in this hubbub and conflict Crisp clearly is this man McCarren? Some call him York, tlie neighbors declared that Pat­ lyn." David A. Boody, the Democratic respective localities." to Lnow something of tlie extent of IS.1!!. and Cannon »S8 years. Penning­ rose above his Democratic colleagues, Senator (he's the Democratic State rick Henry McCarren was an honor to Mayor, had signed the resolutions of Rt. Rev. P.. .1. Koiley. D. D.. Bishop the educational facilities offered by ton was chosen after a deadlock of two as evidenced in liis speech in reply to Senator for the Seventh district): some his people. Why. he'd become a scien­ the Board of Aldermen for the trol­ of Savannah. Ga.. assures us that the Catholic Church iu the United months, when John Sherman, then .'ili William McKiniey. then the floor lead­ others Pat, and a few intimates "Long tific expert. Did Pat MeCarren have leys. the Brookl.vnites didn't want any Georgia will soon have a State Federa­ Stalis. The following statistics are years old and serving a third term, er of the majority, in which lie quoted Pat," because he's (i foet 2 in his to know ail about the testing of kero­ trolleys then, and they elected Charles tion. The bishop is taking an active appended for that purpose. was the choice of the Republicans, from speeches by Blaine and other Re­ socks and slender as a lath. Features? sene?—very few spoke of the oil as A. Schieren, the Republican candidate interest in promoting Federation in In the United States are: who lacked a clear majority of the publican leaders, and closed with a Wlmt can you gather from MeCarren's petroleum in those days—and weren't for Mayor, by the unheard-of plurality the South. Seven Catholic universities; 71 house. Sherman peremptorily with­ quotation of groat power and earnest­ face in the picture? Little or nothing. the great Standard Oil Company's re­ of .">2.000. and MoCarren went down Cardinal Moran. presiding at a meet­ Catholic seminaries: KI2 Catholic ool- drew at the expiration of two mouths, ness from a former speech of Spealce • In reality it. is expressionless by no fineries being built on old Newtown in the flood. ing held recently in Sydney. Xew leges for boys: til.'! Catholic acade­ although he was within three or four Rood, while he was at (lie head of th • manner of means; yet to some it seems Creek? Patrick McCarren might own But the Brookl.vnites quickly got South Wales, urged the formation of mies for girls: .'{,978 parochial schools. votes of the necessary majority most Republican minority, ending with th» unsympathetic, cold, even cheerless. "em some day. over their resentment against tlie trol­ a Catholic Federation. "Such all asso­ There are :i..".H2 students in attendai of the time. Clay anil Pennington couplet: In appearance a sort of combination So talked the old men and women, leys. McCarren oarri.-d his old district, ciation." lie said, "will have a very at the universities and seminaries, and have the distinction of being the only "I appeal from Philip drunk to of Kellar the magician, and the late and the lads and lassies of the old again and has continued to ever since. great effect, independent of any politi­ JMKS.iiSS children in attendance at other men ever chosen speaker in their first Philip sober." Rill Nye. McCarren is considered the 1-!th ward. By that time young Pat- j Only a political revolution can unseat cal party, by looking after Catholic institutions. terms ill the house. The oldest speak­ T I This peroration set the ~> mnvnits w J