The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-07
WASHINGTON CITY, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1858
THE T4RRY7OWN FARCE.
From the New York Ilorald.l

lfrom the New York Hera!dl
On Thursday there meeting in the village Of
Iarytown for the purpose of bosterng up Mr. John b
Hasin who is anxious to be returned the representa-
tive OF the Westchester district In Congress Consider
ing the peculiar position that Mr. askn holds with the
party that first sent him to Washington the selection Of
eminentiy appropriate But 1t is rather with the
meeting than Mr. Haskn that to deal. He is not
OF sufficient consequence In political point of view, TO
merit more than passing remark.
The meeting as has been already by the accounts
of the reporters, failure in point OF numbers Tho
people OF Westcheste earnestly requested to
with Tremendous rush but hardly two hundred friends
countrynen, and lovers Of the candidate responded to
the appeal III was likewise terrible break in its
oratorical display The grand high buger and rumpeter
the occasion John Forncy of Pennsylvania who
apparently came oarytown to tell the people how much
he used To love Mr. Buchanan how Mr. Buchanan treated
HIM, ana what an ill-used man he (Forney) He
pathetic and lachrymoso over his early relations
with the President enlarged at length upon his
vices at several nominating conventions and claimed the
honor of having fought at Cincinnati the battle which
suited IN tie nomination Of Mr. Buchanan 1t certainly
great shame that this king maker this modern Warwick
should not have his way about everything and
hence this TaTrytown TRADE. Mr. Forney's speech all
egotism and trash He talks like bootblack who has
been discharged from service, and who collects together
number of sympathizing bootbacks to tell them how
badly he has been used because his master preferred
his boots blacked after his own taste The whole
speech Is only TRADE of personalities, which none but
Fornoy simply says, II waiter, attendant, an
humble follower of the President; "A servant
out Of situation, and without character from my
last place pity me, good people, and detest my cruel
employer"
Mr. Forneys former career Is familiar to all who
acquainted with political affairs In the days of Pierce
he attached hangeron at the White House. He
had the of the kitchen, and fatened in it for two
years and He turned from the flesh of Pierce
because he hoped for better sops in the pan from Mr. Bu
chanan Finding nothing but cold shoulder, he has
turred against the President and consors with bro
ken-dowa politicians, who have no more real influence
with this people than with those Of 1hmbuctoo Disap
pointed at his defeat he rails like discarded soul
lion at the whose shoe strings he would be proud to
unloose
Singular enough in all this Tanytown meeting there
is very little said about the candidate for whom it
called. The speeches abound in abuse of tho admins
taton which has not been under the control of Forney
& Co.; but, beyond that, there is nothing. The ques
tons Of the day only incidentally alluded to- and the
affair seems to have been gotten up in order to give Mr.
Forney opportunity to air his private grefs 1t
altogether terrible fasco and will act warning to
the opposition in Westohester If they hope to win
they must unite upon some respectable Ia point
of capabty the Chevaer Webb is worth ten of Forney
and Hashin put together,
The miserable failure at the Thursday meeting must
convince every that hybrid politicians of the Forney
stamp rusty renegades and discarded servants have no
strength in Westchester They sunk far In the
sea of political oblivion that submarine apparatus
will ever raise them.