The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-26
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lose nothing by keeping track OF ex-
Chief of Police Devery of the city OF
New York. Under the last Tammany
administration Devery was Crokers
right hand man and, by the fun use OF
his OPPORTUNITIES at~the head OF the po-
lice he amassed a fortune. His meth
DDS of getting wealth were the old IA
miliar ones of taxing vice. A ward cap
tain let so many dens of infamy run
in his district for so much cash Part
of this blood money he kept, part went
into the treasury of the Hall and the
rest was divided between Croker and
Devery, the latter getting the lion
share. And so it came about that when
reform legislated Devery out of his JOB
he turned up with a half-million dol
lars worth of property to his credit
Now he wants TO get control or MS
district with a view of mounting 10
Croker's old place later on. How he Is
doing it appears to best advantage IN
the verbatim reports of his speeches..
These not only reveal his mental quail
fications but, what is more important
yet, those of his audiences, the Tam
many electors of New York.
"I never done wrong act in the dis
trict or outer it. 1t is well known tnal
there man Goodwin is a man without a
word. He never done no one no good.
He has broke his word not only TO men
of standing, but to men in every walk
of life, It seems to be hereditary with
him We as Democrats amt agaoin'
fo follow him no farther. We are In
this fight to finish. BY the end o the
primaries in September, we will have
Mister Goodwin and his lootenant.
smith. beaten to a standstill. Then we
will also hunt the man from Buffalo
(Sheehan).
ssT1urin' the whole of thirty years in
this district the only kind actions
know of Mister Goodwin's dom are
those / aided him in. AS for Mister
Sheehan, with all the contracts ne AaH;
with the Long Island City contracts an
tha eoncourse contract, and the others
wherein he could have employed big
number of men in this very district
he didn't do it. Those clean, loyai,
braye-hearted young men VINO nelpeu
his to victory are sittin rouno the
Paouod Club. waitin' for their handout
to come, which it never will. He's mao
carts and laborerS and subway ana
street work to do, and he could nave
Dlacod many laborers and many men
as watchmen of street openings. HaS
he ever gave employment TO anypouy
of the Ninth Assembly District? 1 say
no No Every man Sheehan ever got
a lob was an Eyetalian without excep-
ton"
.aThis is no time for feather busters.
There was that man Shepherd he nao
a good chance, but he beat himself. Yes,
he beat himself. He went around this
town. with a feather buster, hitting
axvay at me and lot of other folks. SO
he was beat, and he might have known
that he would be- That was no time
for feather busters. But he went up
against Jerome and Golf and Roosevelt
and they were firing cannons and guns
and things like that I can admire a
man like them who goes out with
gun. Now I've been trying to get mar
mony in this district, but these fellows
won't have it-they just refuse 10
have it, I've done the best that cam
and it's their fault if we can't nave
harmony. But now 1 will be here every
evening to see how things are going.
I'm sorry that they don't want mar
.1'rn a live one and I'll beat Good
win out of his boots. I'll show these
tin-horn sports in this district what
I'm made Of
Now lust look at it. Goodwin was
leader when Tammany was in power.
Sheehan helped the reformers. and
they're in amt they? Well, what has
this district got? Where is our wreako
creation pier? Where IS our free bath
Where is our public park? We ain
got 'em. When 1 get to runnin. TINS
district I'll get 'en. l amt goln 10
sit down when l get to be leader an
play whist or Dom Pedro. Politicians
ought to be lookin' after the people,
whether they're poor or rich.
81 am here as an amateur politician
with you young men. When am
through bein' leader / want to see some
one of you young fellers iH my place
Some bright active young man Wna'
knows the district and the people into
1T We don't want no college-bred men
in politics in this district; the district
amt fitted for 'em. We want a man
who can 20 down to the biscuit factory
and places like that and give the voters
and citizens intelligent talk which they
can understand. That's what this dis
trict wants Stop foolin', now you
Young fellers and get down, as l say
and put your shoulders to the vince
and put these people outer business
Quit sittin' in the gutter or against e
. stack of lumber as you have to in TINS
district sparkin' your girl, and get ou'
an hustle. Get busy.
And now 1 want to say that If any
of you are dry there's plenty to drink
downstairs, and you are all welcome
Everybody have a drink"
But it is not all drinks with Devery
He is giving ice and provisions to the
poor, running free excursions, getting
discharged men reinstated and going
!. to dances. Consequently his boom Is
louder and his prospects brighter than
that of any other Tammany man, with
the chance by no means remote that
. the government Of the greatest Ameri-
, can city will one day reside in his
hands.
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Waldersea campaign in China, where
the German Field Marshal had COM
nand of the allied forces, no mention