New-York tribune., 1903-06-11
DEVERY TO FAITHFUL.
Bein' Crushed, But Vat
Till I'm Elected.

William 8 Devery with heart bleeding for the
,vronas of the oppressed. chief among Whom ne
considers Sam Parks. the walking deiegate
licensed of Matchmaking employers, and denun-
ciatorv voice, i'm keeping with his DUH neck
was in fine fettle last night at meeting adver-
tised as of business men of the lXth AssemFr
I,istr,ct at the Grand Opera House Hall Need
less to say his audience bowed down and wor-
shipped him as the fetch that is to bring them
IN Devervs promised land. As Mark Newman,
who was elected president of the organization
then and there formed called the Business
Mems Organization of the Ixth Assembly Dis
trfct. put IT:
..yben Devery was chief OF police he was
man who always performed his duties IL he
had been at the Waldorf drinking wine every
evening God knows where the city would have
been
Where would the Waldorf and the wine have
bsep might also be asked by grateful public.
George washington Gibbons, who is a seer. ts
ranid1v making the SibylIine oracle look Ike a
hundred ward sprfnter in two mile run. startef
the evenings propnesying by announcing that
q vote to-day would elect Devery Mayor bY
100000 majority.
..Our leader calls a spade spade" he de-
cIared He might have added, 'and Two Spot
a Two Spot"
Davarv was introduced by three cheers for ths
Next Mayor"
This" he announced. lis only a preliminary
scramble. Some gentlemen who give out green
naDer have been in Albany You've got meat
tr,,sts you've got oil trusts They send 1t up
+1ro ar three cents a gaIlOn-and the sas-L
don't know where that's gone
All. William, william! Not know where all the
gas is gone? Oh, fudge.
II met a lady on the avenue the other day, ana
she said her gas bill was - last Hlohth' ou1
she got next and this months bill was only -
continued the seeker after the hiding gas. what
the lady" got next to he omitted was IL tne
uetere There are so many others that would
like to get next
Then he sounded a warning
"The trusts controlled By half dozen po-
uticaI grafters. are crushing your mes oIood
out of YOU" Here he wiped his forehead with
an appropriately colored handkerchief LOOK
out for those political grafters- There are thT-
ty-four political grafters in that executive com
rnittee. and think I can lick the thirty-four OF
them BEFORE I am through with them the peo-
pe of the city of New-York will have all -
personal liberty they want
A fine ruction 'twould be; Devery and tne
thirty-four in a sixteen-foot ring.
..-Fhev arrested a man yesterday-a labor
1eaae-they arrested him AT nghtfaH Can
the cruelty of it-just at nightfaH9 TWO OF
three neop1e were refused as bail. and they
locked him up; dellcdte man WI" - 0'9
his feet Before we are done with them they
will 90 to the Marquis of Vantage. get some OF
the nluzzIes off his bulldogs and put them on
them ,-- -,
when 1 come to die 1 can say nave DeeLl
friends to all and care for nobody. But oeIol
90 hence I'll make some of these political graft
ers dance a Liverpool hOrnp1pe. .
As their imagination pictured WlIllanl ;, , De-
ery about to go hence while Rlchdrd CIOhet'
Charles F. Murphy and other members OF lain IdIllI
many Hall sweated in the throes OF a LlEeFpoCL
hornpipe the business of the L&th teoS
of the safety valve and let their enthusiasm
rock Devery. solid as he was
Resolutions adopted condemn1nS eHe
Tammanv Hall County Committee for barring
Devery and pledging support for him, the peo-
pies champion in his candidacy for Mayor
The champion shook with emotion, Wnlie
small bows outside shook with dice.