The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-09-16
Grand Theatrical Display-Opening Night of
Tnmnany Hall Combination Troupe, Lead
Ing Star Horace Greeley Second Walking
Gentleman, Gratz Brown; Heavy Villain,
VIM, M Tweed

Grand theatrical Display-Opening Night of
Tnmmany Hall Combination Troupe, Lead
Ing Star Horace Greeley Second Walking
Gentleman, Gratz Brown; Heavy Villain.
VIM. M. Tweed.
On Thursday night, September 10Th,
Tammany Hall was opened by the great
Combination Mongrel Troupe, whose pecu-
liar talents is capable of (mis) representing
any character, and of playing any part in a
certain degree, or of playing the devil in all
degrees. The troupe comprises boilers,
copperheads, soreheads, blockheads, rebels,
Greeley and Brown discontents and mall
contents, the Republican outs, and theDem-
ocratic found outs, those who have stolen,
and those who are willing to steal. The
boss liar of America DANA personally
harangued the supes (dupes), hopeful that
through their want of common sense they
might help him in his tableaux of revenge
on the man who would not give him the
New York custom-house.
The five-act farce was played outside on
five platforms, each having platform of
its own, made up of resolutions varied and
promising, in order to catch any stray gud-
geon who might be bobbing around loose.
What a beautiful illustration of the rival
showmen did these platforms afford.
" Here they are, gentlemen, five on 'em.
Choose one for yourself, or swallow the
whole lot il you want to be one of us.
There's the grand Tammany Steal ALPS;
for their characters, apply to our head
manager, Horace Greeley! Here's the
Liberal Republicans called liberal cause
they wanted the Tammany thieves to give
'em fair share of the plumber, and they
wouldn't do it. And they wanted the
Republicans to put them in places of trust,
and they wouldn't do it. And so they got
honestly mad and went for honest old EIor-
ace to lead them with the cry Of reform,
and the poor old deformed reformer has
been reforming them ever since! Next,
gentlemen, you see the German Kirschen-
wasen, beer drinking, Kimmel soaking,
tobacco smoking reformers holding forth
behind their hollow 6gure-head QIorace) in
the name of temperance and anti-tobacco
apostles, and that, too, with their cigar
cases full of counterfeit Havanas, made
in the factory of Greeley & Co.
Next, gentlemen, you have the O'Conor-
its. He of whom it is said, ''he can catch
the Irish cote" A rare curiosity, gentle-
mel., This man who has not only denied
being Irish in any form or feeling, and who
said that having an Irish sounding name
was great drawback to him in his progress
through life, and yet able to catch the Irish
vote. If true, it is another of those mystic
feats which makes simple people exclaim:
"We don't know how they do it, but they
dol? 1t is a mongrel platform, gentlemen,
on which may be seen all the office hunting
lazzaroni of the clubs and associations.
Those who assemble in dens at one mans
beck or call; and hundreds of them are
led by the nose either to the whiskey shop
or ballot box as their driver directs.
There is a fraternal feeling in them for any
degraded specimen of humanity who may
declare himself against the well-being Of
his country and in favor of its demorali-
zers.
Here gentlemen you have the regular
"Straight Outs" The mother that spawn
ed all the rest and whose wings are now
spread to gather in all her chickens while the
old ROSTERS who have so long been cock
Of the walk are still clucking with the old
hens and young chickens in one united chirp.
Anything to beat GrantW Here they
are gentlemen five platforms, choose which
you please you pays your vote and you
takes your choice!" The first platform
opened service with the following hymn
with ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS on the nasal organ.
What did they do with all our fellows,
Way down in Maine ai
The MOBILES of our Greeley bellows, .G-
That blew SO hard IN Maine?
Haggerty and Banks those renegadoes,
Mouth-pieces of the desperadoes,
Have they emigrated to Barbados, tg|
From the State of MaineH 7ca..Hf
The old Philosopher, Horace Greeley,
Way down in Name,
Can have his tombstone cut genteelly,
BY telegram to Blaine.
The Sap-head Sage of Chappaqua,
Who swallowed 'isms on the raw,
And rolled them off with much slack jaw,
To fellers down in Maine.
Finding the missing ones were amongst
them, and getting the stereotyped text
from the Boss Liar, (Sua,) the heavy work
commenced in good earnest.
The End Platform opens the dawl with
There's honest old Horace s.
Owns the crowd before us, .f
The same as cat owns mouse;
And with his partner Crafty,
German Hans and Irish Patsy,
Will send them kiting into the White House