New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-05

monometasm when his eyes meet Grover Cleve
lands; the Hon. Benton McMillin, of Tennessee,
who has red hair and of the quickest and
most alert tcmpcrs on record, which, together
with the Democratic majority, he expects TO
lead i'll the next Congress; the Hon. Champ
Clark, who Is not, one might think, OF the
brotherhood of IIoke Smith and Dink Bolts and
Pod Dismukc, but who comes from Missouri, and
who says he has learned good deal of what he
knows from the nicgers' 1t is safe to say that
they have still a good deal to tell him before what
he knows will do him any hurt
In the company that followed these IGNORED
guests were some eminent Tammany statesmen
There were the Hon. John X. Fellows and the
Hon. w Bourke Cochran, the Hon. Johd De-
Witt Warner, who has any amount of deadly
wisdom on the subject of finance There We're
the Hon. Amos j. Cummings, the Hon Franklin
Bartlett and the Hon. Ashbcl p. Fitch. All these
Tammany Congressman engaged In the bust
ness Of providing Civil Liberty for the people
Then there were Police Judge Barney" Martin
and his greater brother, Police Commissioner
Jimmy Martin. There the new Demo-
cratic Postmaster, Mr.. Dayton, who comes out in
a daily interview saying on one dly that lie
doesn't know "A thing about the postolicc bust
ness and cannot imagine why under heaven he
got the Office, and the gives out plans for
sweeping reforms, and tells all the startling
things he is going to do to improve the service"
There was the learned Recorder, always a sub
dued figure in Tammany crowd, if occupied
in an internal Inquiry to account for his being
there. There were the County Clerk, Mr. PuIroy.
the Register, Mr.. Levy, who gave out speech
to the reporters abusing the Union League Club
which he not invited to deliver. There were
Corporation Counsel Clark and Speaker Sulzer,
whose ambition is divided between two forms of
possible greatness, and who doesn't know whether
TO go back 20 Albany and be Speaker again
to take seat i'll the State Senate. There was
great raft of smaller fry, who hung on TO the
edges of the procession and devoted themselves
TO the stern business of looking great
THE ONE GREAT CENTRAL FIGURE.
But there was a figure in the procession and
neither at the head at the tail of it. in which
the Tiger seemed 10 be peculiarly ncarnatcd, and
TO which all tie rest paid especial homage |;
was ordinary in height, but heavy and solid.
II good clothes with Of TIE cewgaws
them, none of the red blue collars. tie
rosettes or badges with which 80 many We're
decorated. 1t ostentatiou>ly plain. 1t had
black hair, slightly touched with gray. and
closely cut black beard. 1t the figure of tie
Hon. Richard Croker, the Boss Of Tammany
Hall, in the hollow of whose amph hanl this
imperial metropolis uncomfOrtably rests. The
guests from other States looked at him curiously.
Tho Tammany braves sachems and things looked
at him anyousy, much as the Office boy IN the
drygoods district looks at the odd man. ana
the Tammany multitude looked at him III humble
admiration. He took it all as if it all belonged
TO him, and as if he didn't think much Of it, any
how. When the Congressman and Judges ana
Senators and Asemblymen and high city officials
put OH their blandest smiles and bowed at 0ln.
meekly defercntial. he would give little. shor,
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for salutations, and had to cut EN- all down
in order to get through his days WORK time
What hope ana inspiration 70 American youth
are to be found in the career Df this great man.
Coming here from foreign parts wlle still
boy beginning life a railroad laborer. enter
ing politics through the medium of the barroom,
he has risen Grandly from on" stage TO another
until he is the supreme ruler of the proudc't
city the American Continent. He levles the
taxes ne spends the public money. Those who
hold Office hold il by his grace. As he mods they
vote: as he thinks they speak as he dircc's
they do And here he is in his own hall, crle
brating the birth of the Republic he 50 oddly
ornaments, and proclaiming under MS own hand
and seal that, Civil Liberty is the Glory of
Mani"
When Mr.. Croker seated himself the incantation
began. Grand Sachem GllrOy. wearing his EN-
blematic black sill, hat. which the Tammnny
Grand Sachem always ut meetings Of the
council. and the accidental loss of which would
stop the proceedings, and wearing also his red
collar. embematic doubtless Of the obedience
which is the first principle of Tammany mem
hership; wearing score or TWO of badges and
amiablc smile addressed the assembly and in |
formed them that it the Fourth Of July. They
may have understood what he meant, or they may |
not, hut cynical bystander was heard 70 remark
that if he didn't know he was celebrating lndepend
ence DAY in Tammany Hall he should think he wa, |
doing so in the mountains Sicily. Then MIR. |
Gilroy said that everybody heartily wei |
come. and the Tammany Glee Club sang Co |
iumbia, / Love You," truly expressive of the
sentiment which filled the bosom of the Tiger /
Then Maurice +. IToahan, a lincal descendant !
of one of the ssners of the Declaration, but
which one the programme did not state, ad-
vanced and read that immortal Instrument II |
was frequently noted by the crowd that il en- |
pressed excellent and useful sentiments, though !
there was general appearance of justification |
in their faces if they didn't quite see how |
it bore on the Collcctoishp other issues Of |
the hour. But when that paragraph came wherein !
it was announced that these United States de /
cared themselves then and forever free of all ale
glance TO the British Crown the full sense
and importance of the document burst upon the
multitude. and they shouted and Yelled stamped
and capped their hands in noble ecstacy.
WHAT SPEAKER CRISP SAID AND DIDN'T SAY.
Then the Tammany Glcc Club sang Columbia
Forever" implying through the verses that the
Tiger was ready TO die in her defence. Having
made that plain the Grand Sachem introduced
Speaker Crisp. Mr.. Crisp warmly greeted.
He has just come here from Washington, where
Secretary Carlisle has been giving him directions
how he shall constitute the committees in the next
House lie did not quote frcm his interview
with Mr. Carlisle but ne spoke with great freedom
about Thomas Jefferson He thought well OF
Jefferson and also Of Liberty, which, however, he
feared to be in great peril owing TO the Ropubli-
can party He seemed 10 think that if all the
Republicans could be got out OF the Offices ana