New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-08
MONIES OF "DOWNTROD. 4"
DeUery Says He Is Leading Great
InSUrrectiOn.
DISCOVERS A NEW JOHN MITCHELL

DISCOVERS A NEW JOHN MITCHELL
Big BIZ Devery says that the present
movement in which organized labor and anti
Murphy Tammeny Democrats have united.
with Devery at the front will go down in pO-
litical history the Great Insurrection Of the
Downtrod in the year 1903
Devery has discovered a new John Mitchell
He lives at No. 81 West Thirty frst-st., and Is
the vice-president Of the United Building Ma
terial Drivers Union. Equipped with the nee
essary "sinews OF war; and fired with the
ambition to duplicate among the teamsters Of
this city the record Of the Indiana coal miner.
Mitchell has begun on a large scale TO organize
the teamsters of this city. The Devery men
are making arrangements for mass meeting
of the teamsters in Cooper Union, TO be ad-
dressed by the president and ex-president Of
the Central Union that made much trouble
in Chicago.
Mr.. Devery was feeling happy last night at
the headquarters of the Devery Association. in
Eighth-ave. The room partly filed with
red-shirted union men who called to become
personally acquainted with the new labor
champion. Assemblyman Richard Butler was
there. too. and introduced several men to the
chief.
Say. chief" said Butler. there's an old Teller
over there that's got new job and he wants to
go to work in the morning. and he amt got any
overaIs. He wants to touch you for the price
Of a pair
My motors allus been Give the labCrin man
his overaIls for sake an be quick about It."
said BILL and suitinE the action to the word
he went down into his pOc6et and brought up
handful of bills. from which he extracted 81
and passed il 10 Butler.
LAS I sayin' when that man without over
alls butted in resumed the distinguished Tam
many rebel. this amt mere movement It's
an instruction Of the downtrod-an insurrection
Of tie downtrod and it's CROWN bigger every
minute. The papers have been lsmbastin' me
for few days. and to-day did some lambast-
in. I'm not sore on papers as a whole. but if
what l said at the stand fits any Of EN- let 'em
put it on
Say. Chief" again interrupted Assemblyman
Butler. here's a woman outside that's had a
death in her family. Here's the death certifi-
cate, an she wants to know if you can bury the
old man"
Look it over an if there's no cake about IT,
fix it up with the undertaken" said Devery,
who had meanwhile taken out a mass Of crum-
pied bills and began to straighten and sort the
currency.
Coming early and often. amt they?'' sug-
gested the reporter.
Yes. pretty early ar pretty often" was the
reply. But I've got some left The Lords
been mighty good to me I somehow make
money as fast as | spend II. It's a good thing
TO exercise it. Referrin' to the situation again.
the papers used to take delight in cartooning
Dr. McGlynn. just because he took the side Of
the people. They had him logged out as an
anarchist sowing anarchy and riot. T notice
that DIT McGynn held be "A
good man before he died. 10 you're goin'
to amount to anything i'm fight you've
got to Iambaste things so the spots will
come of. don't care particularly for
the love an respect Of my enemies. This is a
fight. and I'm a knoCkdOWn-and -drag-Out fight
with the poor people on one side and the trust
makers and legalized grafters on the other
you needn't he very careful about lungin' out
I'm goin to win. mind that. This is an insur-
rection. don't know how many votes I'll get
but I'll get enough 20 win. Those gentlemen
down I'm FOurteenth-st. were pretty sick to
day. 7 guess. when they the size OF that
parade There was easy thiIty-hve thousand
in line. and they'll be heard from later on
What about Murphy. YOU ask? say. Charlie
Murphy reminds M OF one Of them amuse-
ments they've got down to R0ckawav-a
crooked cylinder dark as pocket inside and
That's what it'll be fOr Murphy on election dav
down and out
If you organize your new party IN ALI the
borOughs. you plan. what becomes or vour
night for recognition as a district leader in Tam
many Hail."
the checker board. III let Tammary Go the
guessin'
Inc PoHtical slEhinCance OF TIA showing made
by Devery and Parks Yesterday is causing ur-
essiness in Tammany Hail. IL is conceded that
the nine thousand men in line represented A
fighting element in the labor ranks that will
stand almost a man for Devery on election
day All around Washington Square was a
dense thrOng that Cheered Devery and
followed him about An Informal poll OF
the IXth District indicates that Devery viii
get 1000 votes there. In Long Island City
he seems 10 have a following that is as en-
thusiastic the one in the IXth His men
are going ahead theoretically among the io-al
labor unions organizing Devery clubs. They
seem to have plenty OF money and enthusiasm.
Devery seems to have appealed 20 the
radical elements among the local unions az the
psychological minute for himself mayor
altv candidate. Apparently he has his eye on
something bigger than merely carrying the
IXth District az the primaries week from to-
day. He regards himself political Moses.
charged with the mission OF leading labOrtn<
mems crusade against the corporations The
indications are that the fusionfsts viii
indirr t political benefit from his ef
fnrfs