New-York tribune., 1894-04-06
rAMMANY'S LOST CHANCE.
xvuEN A COXEY ARMY" STARTED
WHERE WERE THE BRAVES?
rup spoIs OF THE CAPITAL MAY BE LOST TO
.r. r.1GlNAM-WHAT FINE LEADERs OF TIE

,r,r vIGWAM-WHAT FINE LEADERS OF THE
..uosT'' IT MIGHT HAVE FURNISHED,
r.umany Hall has lost golden opportunity.
oxov,s army Of Hungry Joes is coming out Of the
So. .Tob" Finnegan. OF "Bawston" hes been
4. town coaxinC Bowery "bums" to join Coxey IN
near Washington he swoopcd down on Steve
r,.oda,s barroom Bowery, near Grand-st a week
ano and established his recruiting headquarters
80 Since then he has been industrousy chasing
~. "bums" through all parts of the town, and
sos visited Danbury and other manufacturing
,-es drumming up unemployed hatters and
.hor idlers as recruits. He has vainGloriously
soasted Of his beloved "Beantown": that he is a
,natrot of John J.. Sullivan, ard that his 'Is the
sand that shook sulllvans" before "Pompadour
Tim" made Poor John LIS" teeth rattle like a
,oose shutter In a Western cyclone.
WELL SUPPLIED WITH "sINEws OF WAR"
Bob seemed to be plentifully supplied with this
asinews Of war" He asked Mr.. Brode to cash a
check for 500 for him the other day The check
,uss drawn the Hanover National Bank. and
nnrported TO have been signed by one Charles H.
Wheeler of Lynn. Mass. Mr.. Brodie has learned
nv experience that money and caution are both
y,Iuable He had the "coin," but wouldn't give
~ up" before investigation. so he took Bob"
no,ens volens to the bank and the check turned
out TO be 20. K" Then Mr. Brodie pulled out his
nlethoric "wad" and "plunked down" cool hum
dred 'bones." whereupon Bob" straightway "set
mn the drinks to the qualification and emolument
~ Mr. Brodie THAT man Bob " said Mr.. Brodie
"a n Tribune reporter. lis more mysterious than
boarding house hash He's got plenty of sugar
but where he gets II from, the Lord only knows
and He won't tell"
''BOB' FINNEGAN. RECRUITING OFFICER.
According to Mr.. Brodie. Bob" came and went
q, all hours of the day and night. appearing
.,nectedy as a thunderbolt out of clear sky. and
vanishing with greater mystery than a new-fangled
disappearing gun-carriage. "Bobs" battle-cry was
.,d is "On TO Washington" and his plan was to
rat at midnight Tuesday. He wanted 10 form
Me ragged brigade in the Bowery. and march away
With the "pomp and circumstance of war" but
Police superintendent Byrnes refused to grant
,ermit Bob" however said he didn't care
ran" for the "byes" could go as they pleased TIL
,bev got into Jersey when they would be formed
.4n thrue military stole, three by the couple"
WHAT TAMMANY MIGHT HAVE DONE.
Right here is where Tammany Halls golden op-
nortuni,y was lost The society should at once have
held grand powwOw in its tempest-tossed Wig
vam and have promptly issued peremptory mani
festo somewhat as follows:
Whereas. We have done the things we ought not
to have done, and left undone the things we ought
to have done and have lost control OF the rePeaters
and ballot box suffers and OF ourselves and II hath
come to our knowledge. on information and belief
that brigade Of bummers and settlers is being, or
has been. organized in this city FOR the purpose OF
seeking spolaton at the Nations capital; there
iGRe Resolved That the Society of Tammany Hall do
snd hereby does summarily assume control of said
organizing organized brigade OF bummers ana
settlers. and consolidate therewlth. forming resI-
nent to be Oiicered as follows, except as 10 cap
NAMES and regmental color-bearers. who Will here
after be duly designated; field and stan ofcers 10
be mOunted-On hobbies:
Colonel Richard Croker. ex-City Chamberlain and
present breeder Of political disturbances ana pro.
Diver, ex-barroom keeper and present police in.
Justice, major. Mike Callahan, "eX-bouncer OF
hVman; adimfant Sieve" Brode. ex-newsboy. ex-
bridge jumper, and present prosperous B0wery
Nolan. "barrister." the Lazarus Of the courts in
"the house that Tweed built; quartermas'ter
present State Senator: surgeon. DR.. John b. Cosby.
surgeon Of the City Prison and most OF the Jam
ex-Tombs Warden and present dockmaster; chap
lain, Hugh Freel, pawnbroker and persistent stu
eens Gn 9ner ee 8 rbcnnd %nf
man and present eloquent" Alderman drum major.
turer.in-chef on Good Government and Munic-
pai Reform" president of the state LIQUOR Deal
opening. Band-Bass drummer John B. Sexton, eX-
sndhern and present Sheriff aeS
Tax cOmmissoner; tin-whistle player, Billy" Ellis;
s1:Assembly clerk and present newly appointed
private secretary TO the Mayor
SOLEMN MIDNIGHT START
Line might have been formed in Fourteenth-st.,
With the tired right resting the marble steps OF
Tammany Hall. Some difficulty OF evolution might,
G first have been encountered and It would have
been doubtful If the regiment would have gone two
BY two as did 1.-THE elephant and the kangaroo the
baboon and the polar bear" when the animals went
into the Ark 49,
The band would probably have played the
"Rogue's March" Shades of Fernando Wood ana
Captain Rynders "Od Chief Matsell and Bill
Poole John Morrissey and Lew Baker, when that
band began 70 play and the procession got "a move
pn itself' down Third-ave. and jhe Bowery what a
motley array would there have BEEN And when the
brigade organized as a regiment should proudly nave
entered the capital. what acclaim there would have
arisen. and what shouts OF
Hak hark dogs bark. the beggars have come TO
town,
Some in rags all with Tags" but without leather
gown
Tammany may never again have such golden
opportunity. Bob Finnegan announced that as
he could not a permit from the police to marcn
In solid phalanx HIS cohorts would depart In tens
and twenties They did so last night, two tens
one twenty, forty in all But, before they went, one
OF them. who watched in a Bowery lodging house
over Bob while he slept, surreputously deprived
him Of a 81 bill. which caused Bob" much wall
Ing and gnashing Of teeth. though 1t did not deter
the "bummer' brigade. at the "witchng hour from
folding their tents. ike the Arabs and silently
stealing away