Evening star., 1901-10-22

pamphlets, supposed TO emoody campaign
literature. At nearly every important
street corner one comes across a "cart-tair'
or codhsh-oox' meeting. presided over BY
queer-looking individuals. who appear 10
oe exceedingly uncomfortable In their
store Clothes" and addressed by orators
VINO employ the quadrupie negative in
every other phrase and whose profanity is
often absolutely startling.
Annoyed by HeeIers.
AT any hour Of the day or night dwellers
in fats are liable TO be summoned 10 the
door by the tinkling of the bell. to be
confronted by a grinning. tough-looking
more or less drunken chap. who Will tell
you that he's the precinct captain OF the
precinct. and that he's Just dropped
around, see, to find out "how you stan.
un stan on the issues Of the campaign"
and IL the district leader may count upon
your vote at the polls n you are in line
with the political principles and the po-
ilticai crowd of which this fellow is a rep
resentative, and you so inform him, he
evinces decided disposition to step into
your parlor or dining room and drink at
your expense while he relates unto you
the political news of the precinct If you
don't belong to his outfit, and have the
temerity to tell him In so many words
he Is more than likely TO become extremely
offensive and to volubly express an opin-
Of your neighbors. And betide the
fiat dweller who is discovered by his jani-
tor to be out of plumb with the Janitors
political ideals. The amount of insolpnce.
neglect, persecution that some New York
janitors habitually heap upon their ten
ants who have political convictions or .heir
own has long served the professional funny
men with material But there Is nothing
comic about IL to the victim. To that af-
fiicted individual the thing soon becomes
black, maddening tragedy.
Croker Reproves "a Leader.
Mr. Croker, the somewhat gloomy and
sharp-tongued squire Of Vantage. summon
ed one of the younger Tammany district
leaders to the Democratic Club the other
night. This leader is a sporty-looking
youth, who a very few years ago was a
plumbers apprentice, and is now worth
$4,000 at a moderate estimate, for the
purpose of administering up to him a -ak-
ing over the Goals for his drinking habits.
Whatever else may be said of the squire,
he doesn't drink, nor has he the slightest
patience with men who drink excessively
He is particularly severe upon men in the
Tammany organization who partake too
freely of the flowing bowl, and he has
driven many of them out Of the organiza-
ton for their drinking habits since he be-
came the successor of the equally alb
stemious John Kelly.
This young district leader has been 60
ing the pace for more than a year, and has
frequently appeared in public in a very
much intoxicated condition. He wasn't. as
matter of fact, particularly sober when
he received his little summons TO drop into
the squire at the club, but he did some very
hurried things in connection with the con-
sumption of aromatic spirits Of ammonia
and other SOLDERING connections, so that he
at least understood what the squire said to
him when he was confronted by the power
full person who lives In Berks, England.
See here, young man." the squire is re-
ported to have said, in an angry tone, TO
nf a a a31xr a CfriF
you are drinking too much It's got TO
be stopped. You stop"
The young leader began to protest rather
whimperingly that the great boss had been
misinformed.
Don't you give me thatr' the squire
came right back at him. THAT don't go
with met and the squire stamped his foot
on the floor loudly-a habit OF his-as a sig
nal that the conference was at an end
A number of the prominent Tammany
men were close by when the incident oc-
Cured.
Say" remarked one of them, who. oddly
enough, has had Tammany push his for
tunes solely because of his wit-"say, look
at the boss, whom Seth Low calls the mod
ern George III, putting through another
stamp actr'
Mean Trick on a Foreigner.
One of the humors Of the campaign, as
such things are so indulgently termed, oc-
CURED over in the Polish district on the
East Side last week. A poor wretch of q
Polish saloonkeeper, man who had only
been in the United States for two months,
was waited upon by a committee of about
fifteen young Irish chaps, fellows well
known to the police as men who contriyed
to live pretty well, after their fashion and
desires. on nothing a year. These graft
ers'' solemnly Informed the Polack saloon
keeper that they represented the leader OF
his assembly district and that they had CALI
ed upon him for the purpose of announcing
to him that he was to be the choice of the
district to represent II on the board OF
aldermen. The highly fattered Polack al
most fell down in his tracks with surprise
and delight, and invited them to take pos
session of his place as his campaign head
quarters. The cheerful workers bled him
each in turn of sums ranging from 81 to
S25 and consumed everything he had in his
saloon of a drinkable nature during the
four days and nights of the Polack's purely
fanciful candidature, and then he found
out how he had been duped and promptly
proceeded to run amuck. He went raving
mad and wound up in a straight jacket in
city hospital while his ''nominators,"
without any interference whatever on the
part of the police, proceeded to finish loot
ing his plant. C.LC.