The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-06
rAMMANY PnODs THE POETS
And They spout Campaign Verso Like n
Pump mt Milking Time.

Campaigns in this city usually close on the
Saturday before election. but the issues In this
cam paign arc regarded as so important by the
Tammany chieftains that the order went out
on Saturday to keep up the work until the last
moment before the opening OF the polls.
The result was that yesterday all day the
''litterchurs committee" labored in the hall
preparing thunderbolts OF verse to nrs
at the wavering voters when they 20
to the polls to- morrow. The entire com mittse
was on duty. headed by the Hon. George b.
Mcclellan and including the Hon. Thomas F.
smith, the Hon. william ~ Penney. the Hon.
William J. X. Kenny. the Hon. Willis Holly and
the Hon. George +. Spinney. The Hon. Henry
Cay Sulzer was also called In to assist Mr..
sulzsr is a candidate for Speaker OF the next
House OF Representatives He has been work
ing hard In the present campaign. but for
some reason or other his work has not been OF
the sort that has attracted public attention al
though II has been very effective Mr. sulzer.
gather in the laurels that are the portion OF
the 'litterchure" workers. ,
Mr. Mcclellan presented ior the st1naard r IGT
by an unknown poet:
Shout their SANDER. DER the town:
Few will heed the words they say.
Failure viii their efforts crown.
Ruin star.s them in the face.
BIACk defeat will lay them low;
Ger the crushed and fallen foe.
1T is the desire OF our chief and honored
thus liked shail be maintained and l am cure
that al! OF You gentlemen viii strive not only 70
come up to his expectations. but TO exceed
them to the end that
Tammany shall march space
Ger the crushed and fallen foe.
The gentlemen bent to their work. The
Hon. William j. X. Kenny was the first to pro-
duce n completed effort and he read 1t thus
Brave loyal and true no stains ri. honor n dim
The Hon John +. Carroll. the censor Of lit;
OF tho sample and he predicted a,Ereat future
for Mr. Kenny 4 he kept at II. Mr. Holly was
The Hon. Robert Mazet had been assigned 70
him at the special request OF the Hon John :.
Sexton. Mr Holly Is u voter in MT. MaZots
district and for that reason he put all his heart
in the work. Here is the production as II was
given 10 THE SuS reporter:
Citizens who love New York will not forget
hcCullagh and his thugs and the vile MaZet.
The only way to ront the bIgot crew
IL vote the Democratic ticket through.
II was 5 o'clock in the afternoon before the
Hon. William Penney had completed his first
piece and tho chairman OF the committee Was
out OF patience with him until he saw what Mr.
Penney had done So pleased with II was nc
then that he said that he would recon amend
Mr.. Penney for a permanent place on the
ltterchure committee. Here Is what Mr.. PEN
ney wrote. ACCORDING 70 the report Vi the coIh-
mittse:
"In fne blaze Of glory well finish" they said:
But Croker came uown in his wrath;
In Pats lonslS graveyard their relic. are laid
While the Tiger proceeds on his path.
Whom Ma,et assaiied Richard Croker. our Chief.
=, And revlled him a, pl.tts nod and beck:
They got 1t right square in the neck!
The Hon. Henry Clay Sulzer insisted that
there was more in the election than a night
for Assem- blymen and for u county ticket. He
saw In II great national question. He saw
dom. and he wrote with all his heart to crush
the foe. 1t was the opinion OF the entire com
mittee when the piece wns fnis he'd that II was
time for Kiping and Austen to look after their
laurels. The mem bers OF the ommittee also
thought that II anything should happen to the
boom Of the Hon. Mr.. Su,zer forthe spsaE ership
Tammany would make u hit by booming him
for poet laureate OF the nation Here Is the pro-
duction charged to the Hon. Mr., Sulzcr:
by secret vicious treaty against the gallant Beers
Mckinley and Tom Plat have bound fair free
Columbia is doomed to pay old EnglAud's Scores
'dainst Trsn. .,.t Independence and ireiands
final blow we'll deal to Engiands go.bstweens
when Croker OF Tom Platts cohorts makes wretched
smithereens.
They'd doom our land to four years moro Of WOO
That England might Paul Kruger overthrow.
With Mckinley As pecler for John hull
Home Rule RS cup of bitterness ia full,
The force OF freeman wrath In Tuesday battle feel
The efforts OF the Hon. George f. Splnnsy
were. as usual. rejected.