New-York tribune., 1901-10-16
THE DEVERY CLUB.

Evidently Devery's estimate of social or
| ganization is that of the street crossing on the
West Side where he hangs out o nights. To
the Devery intellect the idea that there should
exist any kind of a bar to his entrance to the
inner circles is simply inconceivable. He can
not understand why any Tammany politician
should object 70 his doings. He did not wait
for the fOrmalty of admission to membership
in the SOdality of which Mr.. Croker is the
patron saint. He walked into the home of the
Democratic Club with the same easy affability
which marks his cOndeScending patronage of
the Tim" Sullivan dives. He was not a MEM
ber but he was sure he welcome.
Our Vantage deSpOt appears to have chained
himself TO Devery with links of steel, and is
seemingly determined that no innocent man
shall escape. Red light Devery, obscene Dew
cry, vulgar, coarse and common Devery, the
! ruffian who beches out vile language at police
! trals-there is the typical Tammany cam
| pagner And the red light is the blazing
meteor of Tammany in this campaign. Croker
! tough and violent as he is hard hitter and
! brutal bruser in politics as he is knocker out
and stamper down he is in these city fights
lacks the nerve to cast aside Devery and Tim"
! Sullivan and their gangs. Devery and Tim"
! know too much
! Croker, who up TO that time did not know the
! difference between a great racehorse and an
/ Asturan mule, established prodgiOusly cost
! ly stable, paying ridiculOusly excessive prices
! for horses. He was a gTeenhorn on the turf
! then and he is n turf greenhOm now. Horses
! have cost him immense amounts He really
! knows little about them, and he has been
! cheated over and over again by men who have
delighted in bOaSting that they were smart
enough TO swindle the Boss of Tammany Hail.
and 10 separate him from his money" That Is
a favorite phrase among turf rascals. whose
chief occupation is the playing Of dirty tricks
! No matter what crooked things Mr.. Croker has
done in politics at one time or another, he has
tried fairly and squarely to win the biggest
hOnOrs of the turf. 1t would not have been
safe for him to risk any other policy. He has
raced much in England The stewards of the
English Jockey Club are honorable gentlemen
who strive at all times to keep the British turf
clean and honest And those stewards have no
fervent predictions in favor of Tammany
boss. If Mr.. Croker'S horses had not been run
discreeuy on the far side of the Atlantic he
would have been ruled off the English courses
long ago and that ruling would have barred his
entries from every decent track in this cOun-
try and all others. What pity IL is that his
political record is not unsOiled as his turf
record, But on the turf he has been n dupe
Almost everybody has played hob with him.
Racing has been mighty expensive luxury
to him.
Devery and Scannell, Tim Sullivan and
Frank Farrell know full well the methods
adopted 10 pay Mr.. Crokers losses on the turf
They may never tell 1t is not probable they will.
Every one of them boasts in season and out OF
season that he is not a 'squealer." But Mr..
Croker. hardy and "chesty" as he is, does not
dare 10 'gO back" on Devery or Scannell or
! Sullivan or Farrell And therefore the Demo
cratic Club on Murray Hill, in Fifth-ave., is
not only a Croker club. but also a Devery
| club, Tim" Sullivan club and Frank Far
rell club. And this campaign will be n cam
paign against red lights, against dives. against
blackmail and crime. and, above ALL against
Croker. Devery, Sullivan and Farrell.