The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-04
DEVERY MAKES His PLATFORM
>OT FOR MEN "WITH THE faint
Ot H4IIN' BEEN REFORMERS."
CLONE Rule" says Big Bill, "and Municl.
nal ownership, WOrkin' or City TIN.
ties and No square Top Plug Hat
Coycr'ment'--But Sunday beer for All

Cover ment"--B Sunday beer for All
Here's Big Bill Devery's platform in his
inavoralty campaign:
we want home rule, municipal owner
shjp, workin Of city utilities, liberal
form Of government proper construction
ON th" laws and no square plug hat gover'
llent for lis any more"
Devery defined his attitude last night
IN n speech made between the acts at Phil
lips I.yceum in Williamsburg. Mr.. Phil
Ijps, the owner of the theatre has a dance
nail and pier down at X, way where
Devery lives in the summer. He offered
10 let the Big Chief talk to the people Of
Williamsburg between the acts of his show
30 that's how it all happened.
Word was passed all through Williams
nIrg that Devery was to come, and special
,ietail Of police was on hand. The theatre
was full. but the audienc. was composed
mostly of girls and women, just as it was
whon Devery spoke in Woodhaven last
week. Deverys friends said that the men
folks had been warned by their political
organizations not to attend.
The Big Chief directed his talk to the
women, and called on them to influence
their husbands and sweethearts toward
rs way of thinking He said in part:
We're here tonight to see a performance
+ The Streets Of New York But them
that saw in my boyhood. or what. you boys
IL the gallery would like to see. You know.
H HoT 6aseea I no M more. nor Tie girls can't
Way ring-around-a-rosy in front OF their
In the old days Williamsburg used to have
bands that went around and gave music
to them that couldn't pay fer IT, Why don't
nyad IN NAV ill q O'Clock after slDUnr stead
Of !. They don't do no one no hurt and gives
music 70 them that's too poor ter pay fer it,
bail and football You got no parks. no
nIaysroupds, and you've got no , one ~, to pick
You're here without parks and without any
air to breathe, II you live in the contested
districts, and YOU got nndert nas woTkin
Your sewerage must be bad to make your
death rate e. greater ate here than in al nny other
the poor is ground under foot and unable to
make their demands heard
You've got royal family in Willonshby
g.. see by last SUNDAYS, papers that
9okn at the 5G in his
HcfsHshlin i payin NJ Jun. jn%pin '' Jack WIFE
Hes Got pipe line hl.ched with Vantage
England so he won't be short.
hours. for little beer. and it takes us ali we
men 90 oye me me in New YORK o You had tts
dance halls over here where you could drink
he h ss havs fa at ou S"sy 1 sss
Why They're , after the money all tn. the time
play. That's the whole thing,,lnoney. Why,
they tell me that Mel .augh!in has more gold
hSn hene + in the Assay o Ha H
houaht Of s sttn Ff IN bar "S Ssh plug
hat on PM, wh a stick and iranin, up Jobs
beneat Of wilioushby Street. That's what
tis-MoI .alshln; Phelps 4 ca; Of Albany.
man that has the faint Of havin' been a re-
95per We dO19t want no more b readn
to us and hold up hat we're entitled to.
I'd like to know who Of you here has got
man who had 10000 to spend would go 70
the deyn. Il We seen 1t we'd have good
e 81, VIA. sss on ,a has .ar Of ter
With $4,000 you'd only be workin' a little
while when along comes Mr.. Trust with a
nag and drops it all over you and drives you
In the four years that wa. at the head of
hard things about me. but never was dis-
missed and , ! never resigned: Il TOOK the
FepeS to make mae ep @ and
When was there seen to it that you people
Of the Eastern district had your rights. You
best detectives the Police Department ever
seen. and he seen that the people got their
p0aF aIter gOln 10 CnllTCn OH SuHuAy. lou
had another good captain over here, and
them two fer years give the people all the
liberty In their power.
people over here wouldn't listen ter me.
don't see where Mclaughlin comes In ter
talk about me. lie never seen me and don't
know nOthin about me.
The only trouble ever had with him was
when ordered his cousin to drill three reg-
nents OF policemen at the Twenty-third
Regiment armory. He came there on a
horse in riding breeches and little whip In
Then !. ordered him to drill some mounted
e renr au nd HIM and enforced dscpne
in the force the old man went over to the
Democratic Club and tried to put crmp
inter me with the Squire. He went and
saw the Marquis Of Vantage to have me
resign. but ] was a policeman and l never
resign.
Devery wound up by promising reorea-
don piers and parks and fair pay and
short hours and several other things. He
got plenty of applause.