The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-28

and habits, a thorough bostler ord
man who knows his nlace W., 80 80 a
Set no better, and the man who writa-
ms ms knows Patrick Maloney better
than anyone else" Oe''el
The signature was that of po+r;o,,
Maloney. "' u IdIrlck
a., zen. booth will land in America on
tne anniversary of the death of his
VIE When he was here in 1898 the
scheIdl tod Commander Booth-Tuck-
e.. ms son-in-law, that he never had
put one quarrel with his wife. and
IL occurred in this manner" he said
one OF my early beliefs was that a
woman had fiber more in her heart
anu cell less in her brain than man
-, an unguarded moment l so express
Gu myself to Mrs. Booth, She granted
me the first part of my dogma. When
trled to reason with her about the
second part she told me l was talking
nonsense, and then our relations were
somewhat strained. But it wasn't long
neIore l had to give in and give up
the latter half of my belief"
Gen. Booth met his wife under rather
romantic circumstances. When he was
an evangelist he was invited to spend
an evening in the home of a rich
hnsllsh merchant. After dinner he was
asked to sing an American song that
mad great vogue in religious circles at
the time, entitled THE Grog Sellers
Dream" Because wine had been serv-
ed at dinner the young evangelist hes
ltated, but the host joined in the gen.
eral request and the song was sung.
After he had finished a young woman.
one OF the guests, sought out the sing
er and told him that the song had
deRnlV cd
later this young woman became Mrs.
William Booth.
A street incident led Gen. Booth to
put religious hymns to the popular
tunes of the day. One Sunday he was
Trying TO attract attention to his mis-
sion by means of a choir stationed on
the sidewalk, but the people flocked
across the street to where a hand or
gan was grinding out catchy tunes.
All, have it," exclaimed the general,
III catch them with catchy music
and along with it I'll give them the
message of salvation"
1t is the belief of those who are in
position to know that Charles F.
Murphy, the new leader of Tammany
Hall, has ambitions higher even than
Richard Croker had. Croker's only de-
Democratic organization. At almost
any time during his control of New
York city he might have held high Of
flee in the city itself, gone to Congress.
or won for himself many other posi-
ton of public Importance. But Richard
Croker had no ambitions of that sort.
The writer asked him about this mat
ter once. The Tammany chieftain took
long and thoughtful Whit on his ci-
gar, leaned over the ships side, spat
reflectively into the ocean (the con-
versation occurred on the steamship
Paris), and delivered himself about as
follows:
at amt always the man who wears
the finest clothes that has the greatest
respect of the community. 1t amt
always the husbands and wives that
are forever billing and cooling that are
really the happiest. 1t amt always
the bank that occupies the finest build
ing that has the most money in its
vaults. 1t amt always the man who
is most talked about before election
that goes to the White House. I'd
be an idiot if 1 went, even if 1 was
dead certain that 1 could be elected
and no man can always be certain
that he'll be elected to a place like
that.
But spose l went. I'd be a mighty
small toad in a mighty big puddle,
and - New York I'm pretty nearly
the whole thing. I'd have to try to do
a lot of things that 1 don't know how
to do. 1 couldn't make a decent
speech to save my life. I know how
to keep my mouth shut; but I don't
know how to talk, and a man who
can't talk wouldn't be ace high in
Washington. They'd laugh at me
down there"
A moment later he added slowly, be-
tween whiffs, And in New York they
don t-laugh-at-me. Not exactly"
If Murphy's ambition is what many
men who know him we'll think 1t is,
he has his eye first on Congress and
then on the Senate. He is a better
educated man, so far as school learn
ing goes, than is Mr.. Croker, and he
is a much more impressive man in
appearance than Mr.. Croker. But he
has not the reputation among the rank
and file of absolute loyalty to the
workers in politics that was Richard
Cookers tower of strength. Neither
Murphy nor Croker could ever have
carried on such campaign as the
now famous big Bill' Devery car
ried on and won in "de mint" Dew
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