New-York tribune., 1902-08-18
THEY'RE ALL A LOT OF CHEsTNUTs'
oEyERY AGAIN PAYS HIS COMPLIMENTS
TO M'LAUGHLIN AND HIS FRlENDS-
HAS MORE THINGS Up HIS SLEEVE

"old hasbcens like Boss Mclaughlin over there
in Brooklyn oughter take a extreme back seat
said Bill Devery he sat in . large WIN"
rocker the piazza of his summer NOME az
Arverne yesterday afternoon The Big 'hiei
WAS resting after his days fun Rockaway Beach
on Saturday. He had glanced over the morning
papers and noted that Hugh Mclaughlin the
veteran leader of the Kings County DemocraoS'
had bitterly bemoaned the fact that Deveryism hdd
been permitted to defeat the Democratic party 1t
the last election.
.rI ain. sgoin' to pay no more attention TO that
siIurfan politician hereafter. He can prattle away
IN his hearts content. an / don't Intend 70 take
M notice of him. But want to say just one word
before shutting up. l want to ask Mclaughlin
why he was defeated in Kings County last eIecuon
nv 100 majority, with home candydate:
mean Shepard the man that nghts with Iedthe[
busters When Van Wyck ran for Mayor ne car
ried the county by 1890. How does mclaughlin
exn1ain tbatq why didn't he give Shepard good
rnaioritxq He got majority in New-York County.
didn't he? Ask him that question. VIII you
..I don't know much about Brooklyn. exceptln
that it's the place you pass through asoiH 10
C,anarsie About thirty wears sso used 10 go
dou-, tn Canars,e whole lot. cn' just above the
~, 5---eoo5s stores lust above the City Hail. 1
believe that's Broadway an Fuiton-s1' tiele WaS
otLt-, r,,+ v-;Iderness Well, in them days Nc
IaughIin was at the head o the organization o'7.
there an he's been there ever since HIN On
Mccarthy. Shevnn an McCarren. with Shea an
yorL atratIfn' runs things over there now us
them six that's got the grip on the macnihe, an
nobody else fas a look in Mclaughlin aooN'
eighty an the rest runs from eighty down 10 hltE'
rhev:re a lot o chestnuts. an they oughter step
5ou., an, out an give the young men o. the bor-
oueh q chaogt AS said before. II they was aood-
twenty-five Deveryies over there in BROOKLYN lisii
old salts would have TO give way, an no hiiotaA-'
rsat,s all 7 got to say about Mclaughlin NO"
I,1 forgft If I'll show the people how much Dew
.ryis,, had IN do with the defeat of the Democratic
nartv last election by wnnin' out up IN the iAtn.
think I'll be elected leader by a large majority
an that'n be vndication enough for me-
a.Now the Sheehan people is dom some very
necuIiar things up in the district There's mouse II
1wAntv-sixth-st where they have thtrty-one men
transferred in from other districts 1heS nave
them crowded in other houses. too, out we Il get
after them before long Just wait mat mousse III
Trentv-sixth-st has been hired by a man VINO IS
oorractad with the District Attorneys office He's
one n Sheehan's Iootenants, an its very suahse
dofn's for that belongs TO the Dlstrlct AT
torneys office. The cellar o that house is III d uS
graceful condition The drain pipes has busted an
sba nell is sumethin' terrible. First thing you
Lo,s In tnere'u be smallpox in the place. an them
Eli 1regd by mhgh lhg dsssaa %sn ike The
tenement House Department an the Boarq bs
sbeehans man tried to put out couple s,- q r [9or
an the women folks came to teil me a9out m IT orsr
told Mrs. Anderson an Ms 1,, ar, o,t
not Il must be up for votes when he has
az, In,, believe that? show you st OF at least
eniv placeholders that has been tEansferred into
t"eitt - IN +he last few days They are mostly
the U.s. cot fohs through Sheshan under the pres
n" mr. administration. \ few are Goodwin men We
can,f do nothin about that O. course; They are
setin. within the Primary law. which allows people
a. .nove wherever they please But these place
,Ts ~ has votin' residence in the district, while
~. live somewhere else. Their votin' residence
inssiets of one room an sometimes good many
ennIe lives in the room or IS supposed to I'VE
thsre l dont believe they ever sleep In the dls-
trict or even eat there -, -. -. -, -
no. I amt got my progra1Ine iaid out & LoT the
III Ak things up tomorrow mornin. an maybe
there.u be some fun We try TO keep the pot
- Soiiin' YOU know. I got things up my
slseve-hut come mp in the district tomorrow night
an see