Salt Lake Herald | 1893-12-10 | Page 11 | "Boss" Mclaughlin

Bois McLaughlin Boss McLaughlin who is the principal victim of the revolution has dominated the political affairs of Brooklin for more than thirty years He is an old man now having passed threescore years He is a fine type of the political leader and has a genius for organizing and disciplining his followers He has held two or three important im-portant offices but is much more at home in directing the efforts of others He is very wealthy and politics Is more of a fad with him than a business Personally he is esteemed for business sagacity and fair dealing it everything but Inpolltics As the political leader of Brooklin which next to New York usually returns the largest Democratic majority of any city in the state he enjoys the greatest power tc re being I a member of Senator Hills cabinet His shrewdness is manifest by his advice to Senator Hill not to force Maynard the state machine candidate for the court of appeals on the votes He predicted defeat de-feat but at the same time was not sufficiently suffi-ciently cautious to save himself form the worst drubbing he ever received He takes the defeat of his ring philosophical ly but scornes to treat with the element of his party which brought about his downfall and Is now preparing for a reorganization re-organization of the partyExchange