The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-10
"LOAD FOR HEARSE."
Boss" Devery Is Pleased at Hill's
Defeat


New York, Nov. 1O.-"Some time ago."
remarked big BiiF' Devery, in discuss
ing the election with an Evening World
reporter, I said that David B. Hill was
political bold-out man who wouldn't
go into the game unless he could feel
the marks on the cards through pair
of boxing gloves. He had the cards
marked this time all right, but one
night after he had been smoking politi-
cal dope and was shaking hands with
stole the deck from under his liver pad
and changed the marks.
Il amt playing no searchlights on
myself as a prophet. but Hills finish
paign as the Flatiron building is to
man in front of the Eiftr Avenue ho-
tel
He rung the bell at the front door of
the morgue the day he passed me along
in the convention at Saratoga.
After this his address is D. B. HILL
Dead House, Compartment No 13. Han
die with care
Ever since he has been in politics
Hill has been a red hand consisting of
four diamonds and heart. The Demo-
Gratis have thought all along that in
Hill they were holding five diamonds.
Sometimes they have carried off bluff
with it and sometimes they have stayed
out and let the other reiiows chip along,
but this year they had to show their
four-flush when Odell called them, and
the Republicans won with pair OF
mines.
on, "how a human refrigerator like Hill
has been able to make people think he
was a real live one for so many years
Ever shake hands with Hill? No? Ever
go into market on cold morning and
pick up a fish? Yes? Then you've
shaken hands with Hill
up there in Saratoga I stood out on
the platform and told Dave Hill that
demanded Justice from him. l looked
right at him when ] said it. Did he
look at me? 1t amt necessary to give
the answer. He looked into Tom Grady's
ear like a boy looking into a picture
machine. He couldn't look anybody in
the face.
when I said you couldn't elect a
bald headed man president 1 spoke the
truth, but 1 was talking particularly
about a bald-headed man like Hill.
Whenever you see a man get bald in
front first so his forehead looks like
half a football it's a bad sign. And
when you scramble that uD with pair
of eyes there's a combination to run
around a corner and hide behind a tree
! from
'Of course Hill won't stand pat and
admit that he lost. He is doing the old
stunt-hollering fire from under the bed
When Bryan was Tt in the Democratic
party Hill got into his cage up in Wolf
ert's Roost, locked the doors on the, in
side and the only time people knew he
was alive was when they heard him
snOre.
This year he thought there was a
chance to get busy. He gets his ! am
a Democrat sign out, puts some axle
grease on his peanut cart and goes up
and down the state telling people that
he sets a better table at his house than
Zen Odel1 sets. 1 don't think anybody
believed him at that. He looks like he
lived on crack ice and olives.
I amt growing over the finish of
Dave Hill He was making people be-
lieve he was a great man when 1 was
a common, ordinary policeman. I've had
it handed to me as hard as any man in
4 this state, I guess, but they had to ad-
nit that I was on the level, and there
amt a man can say that I ever made a
! promise that [ didn't make good if it
was possible to do it. When I said that
Dave had got into the selling-Dlater