New-York tribune., 1901-11-07
CROKER BURNED IN EFFIGY
POLICE CHARGE CROWD N BROADWAY
CHEERS FOR MARK TWAIN
AVERT 4 RIOT.


GO Way Back and Sit Down" played the
band at the opening OF the jubilee meeting OF
the Order of Acorns, at No. $50 Broadway at
noon yesterday.
I'VE dedicate this to Tamrnany on this glori-
Gus occasion said the chairman to a large
audience Mark Twain presided and made the
principal speech
a string of brooms hung in a line across
Broadway IN front of the building. The plat
form was lined with broons, and the men on the
platform wore miniature brooms in their coats
President Johnson read letter from Mayor
elect Low, in which the latter expressed his re-
grets at not being able to be present and con-
graduate the Acorns their work in the cam
paign- The victory not victory OF any
man, but of the cause the closing SEN
tence Of our next Mayors letter. Mark 'IWaln
spoke in part follows:
1t is a victory as suggested in the letter y94
have read. a success IN part prophetlc me 9'T
gang has been defeated all along the line; ana a.,
next time the polls so there one nu.i- u
superb majority We had; what surprises me is that
Tammany got single vote, with the entire pull PiI
and almost the entire press against il Blt WtrtIe @
thirty thousand majority was not nearIy fo1T th M
enough we VII not quarr&e & with nj daiaS N my use 10
quarrel with a corpse .-, TON
many Tammany is dead and there is waiing in
the land We shall miss so many familiar Ia 1aees IS
80 Cents ner hITndred is gone Ike Froume-we
SHAH never see FroInme again He is gone. His
name isn't German. but I suppose he took II from
the Germans. We shall never see his gentle race
is a German name also In the original il had an
in it Yes, Unger is gone, with his great "a 9p
shadow; that political spectre Farewell to MI M9r
ply: He is gone 10 the unsohdihed space OF "flcn
And Deyery, That indsscribabe. He has gone TO
that even Egyptian darkness would make white
spot on it,
In the same vein the humorist carried on his
mock funeral speech, paying his respects to
number of the leading lights in Tammany the
dear Departed as he called them, while the
audience most Of the time shouted in laughter
And there is Asa Bird Gardiner. who said
TO hell with reform he continued. We'll his
reform has been started in the way indicated,
and we do not care how soon he goes the same
way. And at last but not least. there is Croker
Croker. He can now go back TO England. we
can spare him here. Yes, farewell to Croker
forever the Baron Of Vantage. the last, and
dare say the last desirable, addition to English
nobility"
Mr. Clemens read a letter from Bishop Pot
ter in which he congra tulated the Acorns on
their work and its results.
The President-elect of the Board OF Aldermen
followed in a speech in which he congratulated
the Acorns on their work and thanked them for
Greater New-York Democracy, and Otto Kemp
ner also spoke.
After the meeting the members OF the or
ganizatlon formed parade and started up
Broadway. Leading the procession was the
band Of the Old Guard. and following the band
was carriage in which were seated Marx
Twain, and beside him Charles II. Webb. treas
urer of the Acorns while the front seat was
occupied by President Joseph Johnson, jr-, and
Secretary BuchagannL
The route was up Broadway to Fourteenth
ST. thence east to Third-ave., passing Tammany
Hall, which was quite deserted. except for
few attendants and Secretary Of the Executive
Committee Thomas r. Smith. Mr.. Smith oc-
cupied a retired position a little way back from
one OF the windows, and listened TO the band
Of the old Guard as It rendered Go Way Back
and Sit Down" which was played as the parade
Tp Third-ave. TO F1fteenth-st. and west to
Irving Place the procession proceeded. and then
up Irving Place 10 Niueteenth-st- 10 Broadway
and UP Broadway to Forty-second-st- Just be-
fore reaching Forty-second-st. the band again
struck up GO Way Back and Sit Down, PROB
men who might remain in the Rossmore Hotel
the headquarters OF Ike Fronme and henry
w Unger.
riage in which ne had ridden and reviewed the
parade. which had grown little by little as II
proceeded uptown, until fully three thousand
enthusiasm prevailed the procession swept
by, and the emblem carried by Chief Marshal
Fred Smith. consisting Of an immense horse
shoe Of oak leaves and acorns, was wildly
cheered. Many of those in the procession car
ried flags with roosters painted on them, ban
ners of all descriptions and tin horns aplenty
After Mark Twain had reviewed the parade It
turned and went downtown as far as the Met
ropolitan Opera House
There the effigy Of Richard Croker was burned
in the presence Of over five thousand people.
The burning image raised high While
the band played the Battle Cry Of Freedom"
The voices of the crowd joined in with the
words TO the song, and just as 1t was being
finished the police broke through the dense
crowd and struck down the long pole which sup
ported the figure. Immediately there was
wild yell, and for a moment riot threat
ened. This averted by a quick witted en-
thusiast who started cheer for Mark Twain.
and the crowd remembering the picture OF the
white haired humorist who in a carriage had
headed the parade. and who but a minute be-
fore had revi ewed them, Cheered with Will
When II had subsided the burning figure which
had been stamped TO the earth was still smouId-
ering, but the desire for a riot had gone