The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-02
TAMMANY'S new LEADER.
A Pen Picture of Thomas F. Gilroy,
Who Will Name the Next
Mayor Of Gotham.
How Talmage and Beecher Differ
1.-The Former q Talker, the
Latter Personality.
Theodore Cuyler the ri Q ;ident of the Ma
tional Temperance Association-How
TO Have Fun In New York.

Especial Correspondence Of The INDEpESDENT.]
New YORK, May q. = This man who
is hurrying along in the throng on
Park row is going to name the next
mayor Of New York City. He is the
now boss of Tammany Hall. Mayor Grant
will be deposed as soon as his term as
Mayor expires. Dick Croker is said to be
dying at the German baths. His successor,
the actual leader of the great army that
Tammany Hall controls, is this man who
attracts no attention to-day in the busy
throng. It is Thomas F. Gilroy. commits
sioner of public works at present. In ap-
pearance he is a little above the average
height, but his shoulders stoop and he
seems to have preoccupied air. His face
is clearly shayen, except for an iron gray
mustache. His cheeks are pinky, white.
He has laughing Irish blue eyes and sandy
hair. His hand grasp is warm, and there is
much of personal magnetism about him.
He is product of New York, about
fifty years of age, and comes of Irish
parentage. He has been in Tam
many Hall all his life. Like
in the ranks. He is a student Of sociology
and state craft. He has travelled much, is
an attentive reader, understands how to
manipulate men, plays politics not at hap
hazard, but as an exact science. And thus
it comes that he finds himself at the head
of the greatest political organization in the
whom he selects will be Tammany Halls
candidate for mayor, and be elected too,
for Tammany Hall controls the city of New
York to-day. Gilroy is good listener. He
seldom or never makes political! speech.
but he is thinking all the time. His friends
hot ~: ,r hon I'd
and above suspicion. His leap from the
ranks to the leadership within few months
and the vast power that goes with that
I leadership shows anew the wonderful
changes made by the whirligig of politics.
Gilroy will bear watching. He has future.
village of Gotham. When he does he comes
with his mouth shut. Whether we are too
angelic to benefit by Brooklyn counsellings,
\ or too far gone to be worth redemption, we
can only surmise. Beecher (whose statue
Il was really cast in bronze this week, only
5hree years and three months after his &C.
parture) used frequently to lift upon us the
Hight of his ever radiant countenance. Can
HID ever forget that last speech of his at
H Chickering hall three weeks before he died,
and the remark made to me by a lady as
Hive studied him after the meeting had
CLOSED, HE looks as if he would die OF apo
lIplexy any day." Beecher was a great per
N|ssonality, and Talmage is great talker.
n We want more of the former and less of the
latter element here in New York. But Tai
mage is talker to hear. and went.
III Never mind where, or what he talked
about. A good place and object, OF course.
A striking uniqueness about that head of
his. with its elongated strands dragged
over from the right side to the wrong in
hopeless effort to conceal honest badness
They shake loose when steam is ", and let
the cat out of the bag. But we all have our
little weaknesses, with this difference, his
inside. An grafton? Well, scarcely. The
N Talmage sermon is as much of stump
speech as his speeches are of the sermonic
stamp, which is saying good deal. There
YVES no creased lightning in it this time. 1t
n rumbled and jerked ont with the melli-
/, an unpaved country road. A reverend
doctor pointedly prayed that the meet
inc might be .senthpsed'' was the
word-but even Talmage failed to ''en-
thuse'' us or himself. The fireworks were
there was cause: Talmage was address
ing the National Temperance society at its
primly determined to tell them that they
had gone wrong in exchanging moral sua-
\ sion for legislative efforts. he told them
they had let the old-fashioned temperance
meeting die of delirium tremens through
letting 1t get into the hand of drunken lee
\ 5urers, but they would have to revive it if
The cause is to succeed. The candid friend
| should not be disappointed if his eloquenoe
! 8 sometimes received with thunderclaps of
| solemn silence.
One of the most juvenile of veterans is
tare old Theodore Cuyler, perennial presi-
| lent of the national organization sfore-
! named. He has retired from regular pulpit
! work that he may renew his eagle youth
With redoubled toll in general. Where are
he young men in our pulpits of the Cuyler--
Calmage- Beecher stamp Is the breed
he cushioned pulpit we have with US ever,
ike the poor, which of course includes poor
| PREACHERS as we'll as poor pocket-boOk bear
re-. Ia mustache culture really and truly
n article of faith as we'll as practice in the
modern ministry. Isn't it rather mean in a
ay fashion that the wayfaring sinner is
brown off his guard in ordering his con-
ersation all wrong, when, if he knew his
nan, he would sweat hard to order it Alright!
pulpit reply is in order.
When you honor this metropolis with
our presence you will want little fun of
ONE outlandish sort, to reconcile you to its
eafening rattle and ragged paving stones.
'ry this recipe: Take your stand at any
ONT where five hundred people will pass
on in every hour. There are five hundred
uch places. Now, stop them, one by one,
I q clear voice ana 6CeaOI66G eye, ASK eaCn
them this question, and carefully note
ne results. "Have you been to the Bronx"
hree hundred OF them will think you
aean some trading-station of SANKEY'S in
.id-Africa, and will resent the practical
oke severely. The next hundred will
link their eyes sheepishly for ten seconds
nd then reply, why. no. but my grand
iother used to tell me it's just lovely
inety-seven of the remaining hundred will
risky answer, swell, now, that's
range, I've been going to go there for
ears, and I guess l really will run over
EFT weeks The remaining three, two be-
10 artists whose business compels them to
SEX ont NATURES loveliest hooks, and the
,ird being born vagabond, whose bliss is
roam far from the madding crowd of
silor-made conyentionalities, viii! tell you:
What. been to the Bronx? Why, how
ould fellow exist if he hadn't its para
Use to compensate for New fork's pande-
lonium?''
Only an eleven-cent fare, or two hours
racing tramp, lands you in the exguisitely
'vely little valley of what the old knlcker-
ockers used to call ''the Brunks. This
its lrightful pronunciation to-day, but
never gets it. The scene is on minia-
ire scale for this great country, but its
sauty is enhanced by its gem-ike proper
ons. The gurRling stream splashes IN
le ravine formed by the two sloping banks