The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14
DEVERY TORUN, If NECESSARY
If IT'S NECESSARY TO BEAT MUIR
PLY, HE EXPLAINS.
He'll he Nominated for Mayor by All the
Orst ors At an ODep.Air Meeting on
The Farm-People Are Sick or Fusion.
Says He - Slang wtanEing Tnmmany.

Says He - slang WnanSlnB IHmmahy.
az necessary III run for Mayor" cried
Big Bill Devery last night as the climax
of a speech at an indignation meeting OF
the General Committee Of the Ninth, held
at 2ol Eighth avenue. The former Chief
has been edging around to this for some
weeks, and when the Ninth heard 1t from
his lips last night crash of applause made
joyous reply
IL can't hold these fellows any longer, .
said Big Bill afterward, when he was asked
Just what his declaration meant They're
tired of bein' regular, tired of bein' down
trodden and my hands Is off them. If the
people want me for their candidate III
run. If it's necessary. TO beat Charley
Murphy, III run
Then he added, with wise dropping of
the lid Of the left eye, AN say. Don't
hold me too cheap"
Devery had previously expressed the
opinion that fusion couldn't win, no matt er
who the candidate might be.
Il wish the newspaper edit rs would get
together and pick out candidate for us, v
he said Some Of the papers don't seem
to think I'm gon' to win my fight in Tam
many Well, at my cottage at Arverne
I've got one of them things on the door
that YOU use instead Of door bells-what
do you call emp
Knockers" cried the chorus.
That's it," said Bill. well, l always
expect to find them around, but with the
right candidate / can guarantee 1000 OF the
S. 100 votes OF this district.
"The people are sick of fusion. They
want to float it out to sea. No matter who
the fusionists nominate he'll be beaten.
Look at Perez Stewart. He was an
honest man, and when Jake Cantor found
it out he gave him the boots That's fusion
for you A. , - 49,.
Tammany and then put me to sleep with a
lullaby | have that sung to me every
night down at the Pump by genial gentle
man, and it never works.
I'm always the last to leave the Pump
every night and III be the last to leave this
fight The pin-headed Murphy never can
put me to sleep. His health is too poor.
He has to go to Atlantic City and Mount
Clemens and Hot Springs.
Devery said he was going to have an open
air meeting at Tire Farm, foot OF West
Twenty-eighth street, and he offered reso-
luton that banner 100 feet long he hung
across Eighth avenue ann ouncing that
the meeting would be held and calling on
the Mayor, the Dock Commissioner and
the Dist riot Attorney to see that the docks
which had been given away by the old Tam
many board be restored to the people.
A committee was named to make ar
ran gements for the mass meeting.
In the course OF his two speeches OF the
evening Devery mixed up in contradictory
fashion advice to his followers to stay
re gular" and his own intention to run for
Mayor -if necessary" Between his talks
most of the Devery Association orators
managed to get the floor. George Wash
ington Gibbons pronounced these three
consecutive sentences:
-We are all patriots here.
I'VE are not looking for any patronage,
ISw s ee Philips Said: Il went down
to Tammany Hall with the rest of the boys
and saw that gang of millet headed, red
nosed dubs trample on our rights. ] UNDER
stood Murphy was to have lot OF fine gen.
temen in his reorganization of the Hall
but they couldn't get past The chloride-of-
lime barrel. We looked up in the gallery
down on the floor and saw the ten-centers.
The only good thing there was Tom Grady
save the mark He did his little bit. and he
did it well, and if he don't get his, he's being
cheated.
the goods that's marked Made in Eng
land
what about Tom Smith" asked voice.
Hes part Of the furniture of The hall,
said Phillips. "iou might as well criticise
the chairs and curtains
He said tina, Devcry was to be to New
York what sam Jones is TO Toledo, Tom
johnson to Cleveland and Carter Harrison
TO Chicago. Devery couldn't swallow the
grin that this remark brought to his face.
of 1ammany, of which he was once the
secretary, said that Croker. the Marquis
of Vantage, had told John G. Sheehan:
Johnny McGoldrick is no good and never
was any good
1T took him thirteen years to find that
Frank Terrell. the colored leader of the
winds and run Devery for Mayor, promis--
ing him the solid vote of the "downtrod'
and such.
$40 YOU want Devery to sink so low hat
he will associate in TamInany with Muir
ply. who stole the city's docks?' asked
Ferrell.
mol MOI" cried the virtuous voices Of
the Ninth.
that the open-air meeting which Devery
will arrange at the foot of Twenty-eighth
street will be the occasion for his nominal
ton for Mayor by all he orators, and that
Devery will then positively announce his
purpose; .o. .;u,.
he u nave I" DiS ','"u ,''"' ''S"'' ~
he is going to hire bands and have parade,
and there's always the possibility OF free
refreshmsnt
The Tammany leaders don't believe that
Devery will run. They think he's bluffing.
1T would cost him too much money. said
ono leader last night. Hes no fool he
knows he wouldn't get but couple OF
thousand votes and that he couldn't beat
the Tammany ticket
On the other hand, all Of Devery's lieu-
tenants are certain that he's going to run
and will make a midsummer campaign too,
even If the other people stand 1t on until
September