New-York tribune., 1901-10-13
0HARA'S NOON TALK.
ROSS AND HIS VACATION IN AMER,
CA-SELFMADB MEN-POLITICAL
WEATHERCOCKS.

,,o,gan I always thought viz wer Dimocrat
ore shure It's Mkt dure Z DimOcratic tray
.on = spak as viz do. about tn he'd an front Dody
-, soUl ov Tammany Hail..
a.n Iany III less a Dimocrat bekase o me plain
,sich / dunno?
h an., snatch is a Dimocratic. characteristic
a,,scsvsbin-purvided viz don't belong Z tn or
sor,zsvshin or TO tn poleece force.
no- 7 niver could any good ratson [
.,ong :, what Viz call tn organizayshin fr tn
e, that couldn't afford Z pay out good money
Ias sson aroarb,n' or somebody that brought me in
,swthin' in return
aqviz are half right. Mangan G'wan wid yer plain
- -bsn an some day maybe they'll make an
Alderman ov viz L make viz how'd yer tongue
".b sure viz are laughn AT me now
.Tro+h I'm not. I'm now spaikin IN pialn
= roesslf T. explain L viz whot I'm driVin
a.. ,ool at III prisint nominayshin fr Mayor
sra,s a. not a city or town in tn country that
=, 1anghin' roight out at tn attimpts that peIh
-ode = fool tn people. Bethune yourselves man
son 'twon't work this thrip
aA-rah whot d'yiZ main?
Mu v,z see that liver sense ovid Croker wint
.,.r :, live in England an race horses there
-, oo5 ov his health, he's bin losln ms ho"lu
~ III gang here. Loike all great seil"lAue iHi'i'
as as ~ ,,-.. .,.,z mali,
How'd on minnit - nara "i'O '
4- a self-rnade MANI"
"a man that makes himself indepindint oV otner
min an circumstances ginerally; man that aOIe
:, ge+ enough money together | ehapIe MN ouS
kvsss abroad race horses an pick up bull daWgs
-, = hig front wild; a man wild plinty o gawi
:, -. good his bluff a silent tongue In his head
=, way ov his own equal I any Emergency IN
-. NAV o. gettin min around him who'll do his
.1,a,r, bekase it's bread an butther I thfm-wid
ometbin' betther tn side if the BOSS Is lucky
Tbat,s what ! call selfmade man
.F3spor a man O. that koind must have plinty oV
,bIitv an the divils own cheek an push"
.Tbrue fr viz Bill Tweed had all thin quail
soovshins Whin he reigned supralm IN this cry
P ybin he had sich liftinants Slippery DICK
Connolly. an min loike him Z back him up. Why
there isn't wan O. tn gang that binds their knee
:, croker firm Johnnie Carroll down L Andy
Freedman that could begin to howld candle
any ov thin fellows that Tweed had about him.
But what bekaim ov thin in tn IND? IN truDple
wild Tweed ws that he spint money 100 loOseiS'
hut he spint II ct home
sT reminder tn ould Boss well, whin he use { so
an = Greenwich an how'd high jinks at m Annerl-
Gus Club"
.rytz see where Tweed made his graft mistake
VS. in not blyfn' bit o property abroad an'
settin' I'D an establishment ov his own IN some
fsrrn couuthry loike England. Thin whfn IN
storm ov disasther an reform fell he'd have had
haven oy refuge fr his camp followers, an III
min that lived in tn sunshine Ov his graitness
when he w's tn rail thing. Why. " Tweed had
had q little plaice IN England somewhere an left
his gang in New-York. he could have robb'd tn
done to HIM
'sthop! whot d'yez main whin yez say. robb'd
th city rich. et?"
'Tu be afther tellin' viz. Twas ovid Bill Tweed's
thrick not Z take iverythin in soght; or saize on
sr that he could lay his hands He gave tn
people a good run fr their money. He built grand
coorthouses laid out foine parks boulevards an
driving avenues. Ov course they came high an "
III public want'd thin they had I pay spot cash.
All thin things bniited tn CROWN city. The
people were so we'll plaised at tn tonne that, pom
me conshinse / think they'd have taken more at
III same price, only for wave ov reform settin'
in. an'-God save us-we all know how i'd inded-
Now d viz see. iv Tweed had had a little plaice
his own in England he could have laid on his
oars over there until tn tide reform swept by,
an afther 1t wint down he could have anteed up
wild tn reformers made PAIGE at his own price wild
who iver he had L make PAIGE wild. an live tn life
foine ovid English-Amerikin gintleman-wan
tn rare ovid stuff
why, in III name all that's wunderful. didn't
he do id?"
Min. an ispeshIly successful politishlns. hardly
iyer DO IN roight thing at tn roight tonne. They
think their little reign is goin L last friVer, an
that III great. big, aisey goin' public viii shtand
"Bedad. it looks loke it, this thrip.' ,.
Widdn tin years Dick Croker has, by wan way or
other; made snug hlt ov money in this country; @
what 90 wild ID they want 1--we an Z adsey ti,S as
an spind money abroad Well, sur, no sooner old
horses bull tarriers. In tn natchuril coorse ov
iyints he sthruck out fr England an hattered him,
I'm England through tn Atlantic cable u%nohep %
IN m ocean an sthrong pull %id tn gang at nome
"Arrah what are viz talkin about? Dyiz forgit
yer c,.1l1 Amerikin hist'ry?"
Don't viz know that that w's somethin' loke
thry in It's young days before indepindince ws
won by tn people wid Washington at their neaG2 Sy
long shot but tn principle ov forrin governmlhIt I
purity much @ III same am IN there's too
much this bossin' bizness goin, on. an, an,,, lts
about tonne tn min who have votes cast ralizea 1
that fact. I'm as good a DmOcrat as fVer put a
ballot in tn box hut. be tn piper that played pc
shin. I'm goin' t record me say at tn polls. +
YiZ are not m only wan that's goin 90 list mas as
ginrsi am naicefnl revniushin is in tn air. "
I'm not mistakin' there'H be hot tonne IN IN IN
ovid town elecshn night an tn Demicra'c
'Begor that's IN way it looks. iv wan kin judge
ny N, way min are spaikin- -. -, man that's
at n he'd IN ticket Misther Shepard his name Ia me
Ters Us he Is dayent hd E ngm arP Rab II IN m political snse
he's somehn' loike Paddys hea-yiz nVer id Nh
bug thin he transmogrihed himself into silverite
and bow'd IN Bryan horn I bait III hana- @ bus
Ssts Tin ,t G5oksT % yum % 9STH & didnt Msther shep-
a5 ,te Bobby van WKeA & al Tium reaysbin an de-
bounce Tammany Han in lang~idge saeFe1 fttad a fr
Misther Seth Low. tn he'd school masther ov Co
lumba College?"
That's whot he did an mistake; an shure
that's what is botherin tn people this thrip
=, They'll do than that before IN campaalgn
IS over. 'Tis foight to a finish this toiTne say;
look ahere this is IN way tn people argue Wei
vote ff any good. daycint honist man TT Mayor.
" he's Dimocrat much th' bether an " ne 8
Republican an we've got take our med SIN
Well there's no use kickin'. But [ have a pohtikll
eeihercock on IN top tn ticket a man who S
van thing to-day. another thing to-morrow; goid
pug. silver man, a Bryanite an Republican IN
-! ,stS!ns man who they say; wuz as ready 10 go on
~ fusion ticket. iv he could get there as ne was
. take Dick Croker's nominayshin whin twas Of
leree 10 him. sthands hut poor show wild inde-
mkt" - ~ 49,