New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-15
ORATORY on TAP.
tom" GRADY'S USUAL ABUSE OF DIR.
PARKHURST.
THE rr-xrprA. MIR. GRAIN TELLS WHAT A
GOOD GOVERNMENT THE CITY HAs-cON-
sprCr-or.s ABSENCE OF COUNTY

sPICUOrs ABSENCE OF COUNTY
CLERK PtRRoY
The first meeting Of the Tammany Hi Genera
Committee in this campaign took pace IN me great
hal Of the Wigwarn last evening. Besides p'ing 'he
first meeting OF the campaign 1t was IN" hr'' ih'F
Ing OF the body OF the organization lnier Mayor
Grroy's leadership The Mayor sat IN "N-HosF
Croker's Oh seat In the front row on the extreme
right aud beamcd paronizngly on his faifh'ni To-
lowers as they Ned into their PAGES. AiS is'is '"
Peters whose imposing mustachios have areaay
gone into history. presided and made speech oil
four lines which he had carefu.,y committed to
memory Mr. Peters, swelling with emotion sa!d
that before proceeding with the business ,. me
evening h. fe.t impceI 80 utter a word o. We
come to this grand gathering. which was 'nt'rihg
on The coming campaign with determination 10
adj one more 10 the many victories Tor gram ou
Tammany iIa.."
The EFFORT SO exhausted Mr. Peters that he sank
back I'm his chair and laneudly famed his flushed
features while Secretary John y. McGodrck read
the call for the primaries ana conventions Inc
action of the Executive Committee and Committee
% Organization In fixing the primaries for october
J. the County Convention for October 10. the Con-
gress conventions FOR October 1. and the Assembly
and Adermen's conventions for October were rati-
ned.
Chairman Peters announced that the ch'etS war
riors and braves before him were 10 be rea'ei ~
"A feast OF oratory. unexpected treat. the me"'oh
o
20 hurry out 10 the numerous rumshops WHICH
decorate Eas, Fourteenth-st for a block or TWO
each side OF the Wigwam. ohen the noise crea'eu
By the departing crowd had subsided MI refers III
PRODUCED ~ Chamberlain Thomas c. T. Grain VINO
was nrrayci from head to foot In sombre p!acN DIS
~ IN mourning for Tammarys sins.
Mr. Grain began by solemniy expressing PAM
sadness and sorrow that anybody should be so
rash and uniformed 70 assail and speak harsh-
Is OF 'our local administration" Mr.. cram as
private secretary TO Mayor Grant ana Iy
through part OF Tammany's last years OF conrol
sions cnst upon the municipal government as n
some way rejecting upon his own immaIuiaIe, SCI,
Mayor the Finance Department, the brave police
men and the gallant hremen from ne mai
stor" commtt eS Then he scocd at foolish
rcformcrs who wanted 10 divorce STAG ana III
way he told how the depression from which tne
TTii Harrison signed the Mckinley bin. lie
ended with the same pretty srimlces at the oon-
su,utlonal Convention AZ Albany when was ma"e
up h. was sure. Of dctcstabe partisanr -
tn star orator - the evening WAS Police justice
Grady Tfo ~, '2Gf4 Ga' Rfor aN gong
into the meat Of his subject. Grady managed 10 Jug
~, bos.' and was rewarded with iumuuogs cheer
INK aiken up and repeated several t.m"s Ihen ~. Ne
roy and he friends q the new boss riol to r,yai
the demonstration which hal been gyen Nh LroKeE
a Dix boss who had LETT his legitimate calling ana
had undertaken 10 tell the peop.e or me great cry
- Xex YORK what kind OF a mayor they ought 10
esc But Or rarkhurs, he s'il ,had reacAei hIs
acter az Inc 1urest fudge that ever sat upon the
bench This reference 20 Dr. Parkhursts recent
criticism Of Recorder Smyth gave the Recorders
Timmany friends An opportunity 70 appeud him
which they dd In way that riya.ied the deinonsira-
80 ,'r croker AMI Glroy A few minutes before.
XII Grady made facetlous remarks about the
c,nchlers the q Bricns and other rival Demo
ora,in examinations and had many playful things
"a ssy about the efforts Of the reformers To change
the character Of the present city government ana
liz Of
o,her sneakers were Senator T. G. OSullivan.
Richard i. Connell ~ loughkeepse. ana state
Assns.nr " II Wood. Of the same city.
county clerk Henry u. Purroy, although he ar,
r,ved from hts European trip In the afternoon dld
NOT favor the meeting with his presence ana PDlCe
Commissioner James J. Martin sat In thc west gal
lerv lar from the governing cotere which clustered
about Mayor Groy.