The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-31

HOW THE FORMER CHIEF OF PO-
LICE is PURCHASING POPULARITY.
Hires Steamers and Barges and Gives
n Water Picnic to Nearly 10000
Women and Children.

NEW YORK, July SO.-Between 1900 and
10000 women and children were the guests
of former Chief of Police William S.
Devery on water picnic to-day. Devery
is a candidate for the Democratic leadership
of the Ninth assembly district, and the
monster outing feature of the spec
tacular campaign he has been conducting.
Men were excluded, and the six shiploads
of excursionists consisted only of women
and children from the Ninth district.
1t was the biggest excursion
handled in this city. Two large steam
ers and four barges were required
to handle the crowd and Devery was
personally in charge. Ten physicians,
a corps of trained nurses. life savers, an
opera company, vaudeville troupe, and
four bands were taken along, and refresh
ments served in unlimited quantities.
The chief commissary of the expedition
had $50 assistants, and the list of supplies
was as follows: One thousand pounds of
roast beef. 1900 pounds of corned beef, 1900
pounds of ham, two barrels of sugar, four
tubs of butter, twenty barrels of potatoes.
twenty crates of timed tomatoes, ten
crates of raw tomatoes. 800 head of cab
bage. $50 pounds of coffee. $500 large loaves
Of bread, clam chOwder for $4,000 per-
sons, 1900 pounds of fancy cakes, 500 gall
Ions of ice cream, 5000 quarts of milk, go
boxes of soft drinks, ten barrels of birch
beer. 1.4OO bags of popcorn and candy.
Mr.. Devery's canvass is creating much in
terest. His speeches are as unique as his
methods. Last Monday evening, in an ad-
dress to followers in his district he said:
Il see young men belonging to the Pc
Il N1Yrh Lob ,v,s-x
tion) standin' around bitin' their finger
nails an waitin' for a job. tn be a case
o. bite an cry with them while Sheehan
is diStributin' the patronage Now if Shee-
han hadn't been mingIin with the e-Iight
at the Long Branch horse show, an had
been here attendin' TO the interests of this
district, he wouldn't have broke that leg.
He's been at Long Branch for month,
an Smith has been at Saratoga for two
weeks, an Goodwin comes on Wednesdays
| and goes away on Saturdays. The first
favor L asked of Goodwin he gave me his
! word he would do it. When l called on him
and asked him to do it he said:
on, I've changed my mind about that.
! My personal interests will not let me do
! as told you, and you'll have TO let me out.
l said to him: Well, if I've got to let you
out you won't get out. He's cold prop
/ II In the shake OF his hand He once worked
| down here takin' nickels out of bag.
/ don't see how his hand ever got warm
enough so that he let loose of the nickels
so they could get back into the bag. He's
! been froZe all summer. II you ask him
| to do you a favor his breath freezes while
! he's talkin 10 you, an his side partner,
Smith, Croker's val-it, is the slickest thing
] that ever came down the pike. They never
| gave loaf or bread to a solitary soul in
this assembly district. | got my education
minglln with the people along Eleventh
| and Twelfth avenues, and readin' papers.
| When l ought to have been in school / was
| down on the docks fishin for sinners.
! ILaughter.l l lived in this district when a
| man had 10 be tall-grass American to
| vote the Democratic ticket. II was all a
| mans life was worth thirty years ago in
| this district TO say he was a German, OF
an Irishman, or a Jew. II meant death
| 10 you almost 10 show your nose then.
/ senator Platt wants to know what I'm
after. Well, I'll tell him. I'm after helpin
the laborin' man of this district and the
| country. He, as senator of this State, with
Senator Depew, ought to take the bull by
the horns. They ought 10 go down tC
| oyster Bay and say TO Mr.. Roosevelt thai
he must say 10 his attorney general 10 take
hold OF those people that's maxim steal
cost 20 cents pond and coal $S.75 ton
That's what I'm after, helpin the under
man, and that's what Plat and Depep
ought TO do with the man at oyster Bay
make him take hold OF those people tina
are holdin' up things i'm the anthracit,
coal regions and make them pay the miners
ccrnerin wheat, an he's another one
He's wheat an corn an barley. an'
you've sot to pay for il later The,
buy the farmers crop in advance. Afte
coppin of five or six million he ought 4
be man enough TO throw out two million
OF 1t 10 the poor. But he amt built tina
way"