Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
BOYS ON THE STUMP
Tammany Has Only Youthful
Spellbinders.
STORY OF LONG SHOT
A LADY WHIP WHO CAME TO
GRIEF.
Troubles Of Prominent Marrying
Couples With Mobs Which Attend
Church Weddings.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.


NEW YORK, October 30. 1908.
Tammany's east side cart-tail SPELL
binders are, for the most part, mere
boys. The east side Tammany hosts don't
want elderly or even middle-aged SPELL
binders, especially those with "wiskers."
The "wiskered" spellbinder is inevitably
and frreverently greeted on the east side
with cries intended to initiate those of
the billygoat.
The young fellers" talk out of corner
Of their mouths. and for gesture they
usually confine themselves to banging on
the sides Of the cart with the emphasiz-
ing lath or stick which most of them
carry. When the cart draws alongside
the curb at the chosen corner the young
Teller gets his audience quickly enough
by pounding on the cart with his club
and bawling to the passers-by. No at
tention. except an occasional word of
scorn, is paid to interrupters. The young
fellers of the truck-ends do not expatiate
upon issues. well aware, they are, that
their auditors care nothing for such cam
pa1gn1ng SuperfuitfeS.
Tammany's Horse Racing Tips.
Even amid the clatter and clangor of
campaign the rank and file Of Tammany-
ties do not neglect those mysterious
horse-racing tips which sift and perco-
late throughout the organZat ion from
end to end every once in while.
One Of these Tammany good things had
the outfit by the ears one day last week,
while the racing was still on at Brighton
Beach. The good thing was a mare
named Athlana, owned by a Tammany
man. Athlana hadn't raced for a long
while. but, all the same, on the night that
she was entered for race on the follow
Ing day at Brighton the word got around
among the faithful of Tammany that
they had a sure thing. Never did the
pawnshops of the Bowery do such lively
business as they did on the day Of that
Athlana race.
Athlana ran like a spawned burro. The
moan that went up all the way from White
hall to 14th street when that result was
announced would have moved a stone to
compassion. But that moan wasn't a
| marker to the howl of savage misery that
swept the precincts of Tammany like a
typhoon when. just two days later, this
same Athlana, at the Aqueduct race track,
with not single Tammanyite "on''-for
the Tammanyites never again play a horse
that has been tipped and failed once-won
her next race in a common canter. with
as high as 300 to 1 against her chance and
| an average price of 80 to l. The sad
dest feature of it to the Tammanyites was
the fact that sport who was formerly
identified with the wigWam. but who is
now associated with the fusion forces, had
$50 on Athlana.
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Sam Parks, coarse and squalid, a type of
the modern Machiaveln he has been
proven, presents rather pitifuI figure at
his second extortion trial. The hand of
death is upon the man. He is in the final
| stages of consumption, and nothing but his
nerve and his diablerie are keeping him
alive A long time ago his walking dele
gate associates begged him to go to the
southwest, but Parks wouldn't listen to
Is a in he an <
nostrils, and he could not relnquish it. 1t
is not too much to say that. until his vic
tins began to tire and then to revolt I'M
der his strangely braZen eXactionS, Parks
was one of the most potential personalities
in New York. Men of millions permitted
themselves to hang upon his nod. He
could, and did. make or break.
1t would be the sheereSt nonsense to deny
that the fellow is able If he were an edu-
Gated man, and had the opportunities he
would long ago have been captain of
industry He is a man of utterly reck-
less, undirected and unbridIed force, and
If that force had been trained and fitted
with conscience there is no telling how
high the Parks convict-for he is only out
of Sing Sing on bail and an appeal-wouId
have landed. In the teeth of death he
maintains his demeanor of sneering con-
tempt. Parks. as a man, no less than
as the typical New York walking delegate
is a good deal of a study, if only for the
reason that under the storm of misfortune
that has latterly beaten upon him, and with
the life in his veins becoming a very
Pickering flame indeed, he has resolutely
refused to exhibit the yellow streak
"Perfec' Lydy" Comes to Grief
A perfec' lydy with unique method of
exhibiting her attitude of revolt against
the tenets of conventionality was arrested
after considerable chase-the other
afternoon. She driving hanson cab.
not to turn an honest dollar so. but just
for fun. and perhaps to show that she
was a-weary of the social limitations thrust
upon her sex. After dining with what
must, obviously, have been great elabora-