The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-17
BATTLE FOR LEADERSHIP.
The Methods of Two Adroit Tam
many Politicians.

many Politicians.
New York World.)
Down under the shadow of the big
Brooklyn bridge even the woman ana
the babies are taking a hand in the
most picturesque political battle fought
in New York in many years. L is the
contest for the Tammany leadership
o. the Second assembly district be
tween Paddy Diver and .BiS Tom
Foley. Both are famous throughout
I the United States as typical politicians
OF the type peculiar to New York. Day
and night the two principals and their
followers are working to secure con-
Verts to their respective causes. At
every street corner, in every saloon.
on the roof Of every tenement with its
teeming horde Of cosmopolitan deni-
zens, the quest for votes goes on.
Inc picturesque and vigorous Div
VertteS follow close on the trail Of big
Tom and his lieutenants. they carry
| their hunt for converts into sick rooms.
1t is considered q great victory for a
DiVverite to appear first at a funeral,
or christening, or the celebration of
nuptial contract of the various ard
varied forms embraced within the re-
hgiouS faiths that find devOtees among
/ the most complex mixture of humans
to be found in any one district in the
American metropolis.
II the Divverite sleuthS find a new
! born baby and present its fond parents
/ with silver cup, appropriately en-
graV6C, the DiVVeTiteS reward them
selves with a frOthy flowing bealzer Of
I beer and Jeer at the tardy FOjeyites
| There is a titantiC struggle between the
/ two houses to pay the funeral expenses
/ OF anybody clever enough to take ad-
/ vantage Of the opportunity 10 save
/ funeral expenses by dying while the
/ contest for votes is raging. All Cher
/ ~ HILL reminiscent with the memo
Fries Of the days when Ted-shirted fire
/ men wed with each Other-clubs fire
/ hooks and stiff glazed helmets being
| used to help along the argument-for
| supremacy and the favor of the dis
trlct, is excited as it has not been in
/ twenty years.
For the time being the hundreds OF
/ homeless humans that annually graVi-
! tate to Chatham square find them
! selves fed, clothed and allotted unlim-
/ tied schooner and three fingers of
/ the best scent whisky" at the barrel
/ houses. Among the knights of the
| road, from Maine to the Texas oil
] fields. the word has passed that there s
something doing in the square" In
! response there daily arrives per every
I freight train a wonderful assortment
Of homeless and happy blackguards
| bound for the square," with keenlv
/ developed thiTsts and appetites whet-
ted by visions Of bOunteOus future.
Not a single man who is entitled To
]
! by the Divverites or the Foleyites
whether he be a permanent household
eT or a transient of the hobo type
Both sides are supplied with money
/ collected from sources that the avera 81
man knows nothing about, and it is BE-
ing spent with a disregard for its in
| trinsic worth that chaTacterizes a New
York political fight
q q Q
| Among the big leaders of Tammans
hall there is more interest over tbs
! outcome OF the battle in the Second
ward than over the approaching mu.
nicipal contest Even Croker is deeply
| concerned about the row between Il,
Divverites and the Foleyites. becaus,
the result may be a direct strike at hi
/ own influence.
/ Back of Diver there are many n,er
/ OF TOWer in the councils Of Tammanv
Some Of the biggest leaders are heiDfns
him. Carroll is believed TO be plug
ging for him., as they pictures0uef-
put it in the Second The wirv anc
active Johnny" Ahearn is Diver
chief lieutenant Jimmy Diver. tn
son of Paddy" is sleeping with hi
shoes on. sam" Wolf, 'Diamon,
Dan O'ROurke. "Louey" Gordon. tn.
leader Of fashion in Cherry hill, an