Patronage

Life's biggest moment came for Ed McCarthy last year before the television cameras at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. As a longtime Republican, a hard-working precinct worker, an alternate delegate to the convention--and a member in good standing of the United Steelworkers--Ed was picked out of the crowd to second the nomination of Dwight Eisenhower for President.

McCarthy was a hero of sorts when he got back home to Providence. At the station was a happy welcoming crowd of Republicans. Then he looked again. There was also a second welcoming committee made up of steelworkers carrying Democratic placards condemning Unionman McCarthy for his Republican stand. Ikeman McCarthy followed through, stumped for Ike for five weeks. After the election he settled down once again to his job as an electric-furnace-control man in the Dart Union Co. pipefitting factory, cherished a personal note of thanks from the President of the U.S., laughed off continued razzing from fellow union members.

Last spring McCarthy heard that there was an opening in Providence for the job of U.S. marshal. He filled out a lengthy application and shipped it out. Sure enough, party men at the state level as well as those in Washington, D.C. remembered Steelworker McCarthy. This week, upon appointment by the President, Ed McCarthy, 47, quit his $5,000-a-year job at the plant and was sworn in as the $7,500-a-year Marshal of the Federal District Court, Rhode Island.

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