The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-06
S. Y. WHITE IN TAMMANY HALL
HE WASN'T THERE TO STAY
ONLY ON A VISIT.
Mrs. White Had Interested Tammany
soclety Again In Prison ship Martyrs
A Check for MI 900 for the Monll-
mont and an Invitation 10 Mr.. white.

WHs' WnVe HaU mtcrcsteU TamWamy
society Again In Prison ship Martyrs
| A Check for @l 900 for the Monu-
mont and an Invitation TO MIR. white.
An echo Of surprise has been heard in
| Republican quarters since Tammany So
cietys Hath annual celebration on Satur-
day. 1t was telegraphed all over the
| country that Stephen v. White OF Brooklyn
| was one Of the speakers at the function,
and, as matter Of fact, Mr. White was
present and did make a neat speech. He
was surrounded by former Bryan men like
Joseph W. Bailey Of Texas Charles A.
Towne, formerly Republican Congress-
man from Minnesota. then Pop" then
| a candidate for Vice-President with Bryan
| on the 1900 ticket, then a Democratic
United States Senator for thirty days
by appointment. and finally and more
| effectively, a Wall Street promoter of
Texas oil gushers Mr.. White, as he
sat beside Judge O'Gorman, Tammany's
Grand Sachem, also listened to Grover
Cleveland's letter on Democracy, David
b. Hills letter denouncing President
Roosevelt. as a Spectacular demagogue,"
and he was greeted by Representative
William Sulzer of the Eleventh district,
former Senator John A. Ahearn, Repre-
sentative Timothy ID. Sullivan. Senator
Victor j. Bowling, Senator Thomas Francis
Grady and Leader Charles +. Murphy and
other Tammany moguls
Senator Platt asked at the Oriental
Hotel. Coney Island. yesterday: What's
the matter with my old friend Mr.. White?"
No one could answer. Mr. White was
| a Republican Congressman from Brooklyn
and was treasurer Of the Republican State
Committee eight years ago, was the per-
sonal friend Of Mckinley In 1895 and 1900
and is and always has been warm adj
mirer of President Roosevelt. Yet here
he was a speechmaker at a Tammany cele-
bration and he has for years told how he
detested Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Clevelsnd's
tariff policy. AS for MIR. Hill-well, he
doesn't like Mr.. HILL. When Henry Ward
Beecher In 1884, came out for Cleveland
and took the stump for Cleveland, Mr..
White said at the time, the end OF the
world is certainly at hand"
That satisfactory answer TO Senator
Platt's question as TO what was he matter
with Mr.. White might be obtained, Sun
| reporter called on Mr.. White last evening
at his summer home in Closter, ". J. Mr..
White had gone to bed. He keeps Brook
lyn customs, even when away from home,
| apparently, and had retired at half past g.
Hut Mrs. White said she knew all about
! that Tammany Hall speech.
/ Mr. White, she explained. IA the president
Of the society which Is endea voring to have
| proper monument erected TO the British
| prison ship martyrs Of a hundred years ago
! Mrs White. who has taken great interest
. in the sooiety's work, discovered that
| ninety years ago the Tammany Society,
! or Columbian Order, had appropriated
| q 900 for the better preservation of the
graves Of the prison ship martyrs When
! she was endeavoring To raise money for
! the present memorial project, she felt that
| the Tammnny Society's members were
, very good people to go to for subscriptions
! She accordingly wrote to every Tammany
| man OF prominence abe knew.
As result few days ago Mr.. White re-
| ceived, besides smaller contributions from
! individual members OF the Tammany So
| cety, check for 81 900 as subscription
| from the treasury Of the society. This
check was sent by Patrick j. Keenan,, the
| handsomest representative OF the younger
blood in Tammany Hall, with letter asking
Mr.. White To be kind enough to address the
| July meeting Of the Columbian Order on
| the subject OF the prison ship martyrs and
the proposed memorial.
AT this point In Mrs. Whites explain
alton Mr.. White came down stairs. The
partitions in his summer home are thin,
| and he had heard what the discussion
| below was about. He took up the thread
| from Mrs. White:
knowing, as all New Workers ought
| 10 know :" he said. that the Tammany
Society is a patriotic order and was nom
political in its origin, however much il may
have been used for political purposes by
the speakers at some of these annual meet
ings, accepted with the greatest Of pleas
ure.
Il have found that the very first move
ment to do proper honor to the bones OF
the prison ship martyrs came from the
Tammany Society or Columbian Order
in 1904, and that In 1908 John Romano,
then the Grand Sachem of the order. bought
the SPOT on which the bones were buried,
to protect them from dissertation In
order to protect them still better he had
the spot made his own family burying
ground and after his death his coffin lay
For many years with those OF the victims
of British cruelty and oppression.
In later years in Congress the best sup
port for movements for a national appro-
| priation for proper memorial came from
| representatives OF Tammany Hall as
| Cummings fought harder for the cause
| than any one else in Congress. In fact, he
came very near to a duel with Mr.. kilgore
| of Texas because Mr. Kilgore blocked the
appropriation by filibustering.
| mo, young man, no., Mr. White CON
| flnueQ, earnestly, III JusN dS Huoh VI a
true blue Republican "a l ever was If
| my friends who suspected me of changing
my colors had given less consideration to
! their unkind suspicious and more to the
| history of their country and its societies
they would have known better than to think
| that had turned Democrat, | haven't.
| am not going to. 1 am right where l
| always was"
The fund for the memorial has now
reached 100000 and Mrs White said that
she had the assurance of influential Con-
gressmen long ago that as soon AZ the friends
Of the memorial showed their zeal and
interest by raising 9lOO, 900 Congress would
appropriate like SUM.