New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-11
CIRCUIT IN THE 'STENCH."
TO VOTE FOR MCCLELLAN
Mclaughlin Men, absent from NOti-
fcati0n Meeting, Send Protest.

UCUJtOH W ttitHS, DtHI fOttob'
Political theatricals reached their climax yes
terdav afternoon at the Hoffman House, when
Controller Grout, the man who was disloyal 70
Mayor Low went over to Tammany-went over
boots and breeches went over to the joyous ac-
claim of the assembled braves. They were all
there-the sturdy old Croker guard, the CO.
partners of bill" Devery. the men who have
tasted for two years and whose very ribs yearn
for the fairness incident 10 a return of protect
ed vice Iandclaps from 'Florrie' Sullivan:
hoarse srunts of approval from Jimmy"
Oliver of Paradise Park, counsel for the policy
men: chuclSles from Ike" Fromme. the ex-
emplar Of decorum and modulated outlaws from
Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner, the distinguished
altruist who yelled ITO hell with reform! And
Grout pronounced It good. Aye, more than good!
He declared it superabundantly excellent. and
he looked as If he had annexed the anteroom
OF heaven itself
1t all happened in the Tenderlon where the
stage folks do their varied stunts" and it
not a bad piece of stage work in itself. There
were Mr.. Grout and the vice crushers of Tam
many Hall. There was the chief "notifer.' the
sanity looking T. c. T.. etc. Grain; there
Long Pat McCarren, tied so tight to Tim
Sullivan that he had TO desert his old chief
Boss Mclaughlin. Back in the rear Of the bali
loom Of the Hoffman House, where the notifca-
ton took place was gray haired henchman Of
McCarren's with burning question or his lips.
Hardly had the ambitious Grout started on his
speech of acceptance when Arthur J. Higgins
Saung his arm. struck attitude and yelled:
WOULD he SUPPORT MCCLELLAN.
Mr. Grout, before you go further win you
say if you're going to support Mcclellan"
Thinking this an outrage propriety, some
Tammany men made a rush for Higgins and
might have thrown him out of the window if
they had not been tipped off, to the game
The game went on.
The Controller, who two years ago went up
and down the town saying that Tammany was
stencil In the nostrils Of himself and other
decent men, went on with his little speech The
same men that represented the old stencil
were there Tired around the Cont oller six deep.
MANY Of them grating men, who have regu-
larly violated the election laws since they voted
the first time. men who three years ago had
their arms in the city treasury and whose deeds
once shocked the Controller-there they were.
unabashed and unafraid, intent watching the
latest somersault. The stencil" must have
been there If ever there was one hut Mr. Grout
had different nose lie was wearing his Tam
! many nose. and to him and his the
air was laden with rose and jasmine.
Colonel Mcclellan had been forgotten. He had
had his say 1t all GrOUt. It Grout and
the answer 20 Hggins's question that the crowd
wanted. Was he regular? That was the issue
And this the answer:
HOW HE TURNED ABOUT FACE.
did not intend to say any more at this time,
but a question has been asked me. l thank my
friend for putting the question sqUareIy. If
there be any man, woman or child in the city
of New-York who does not know from what
have said what my answer TO that question will
be I will give him that answer now.
Three weeks ago 1 should have answered that
question by saying that would have supported
Seth Low for Mayor. Let me be entirely frank
with YOU. AS a member of that administra-
ton believing I did that the issue TO be met
in this campaign was to be honestly met upon
purely municipal questions. and upon the record
of that administration. l could do nothing less
than support Mr.. Low. But the events of the
faet few weeks have shown to everybody in this
CamnaiCn that the Republican idea has mas
tered the Citizens Union. while on the other
hand the Citizens Union is insidiously and de-
iberately destroying the Republican organiza-
Seth Low can no longer pretend to be any
,Ling but a partisan Republican. And be-
t-aan hin, and a clean and manly candidate Of
- ,ortv which in the last two years has con-
cededlv done so much 10 clear itself of the evils
o. hitch I and others criticised IT, / say that
will support in every way i'm which fairly
can. George b. Mcclellan for Mayor
CIRCUIT A FIREBRAND.
How they yelled, Here was the man whom
MI .urr1in branded cold blooded traitor
+rsnsforned into a veritable Tammany frebrand.
Tho old guard rushed TO him and caught him
~, the hand Billy" Sulzer stroked him the
sbo,,Ider and told him he would be President.
larry" MuIligan asked him if he would join
tho Eagles and the fine young and old phan-
+bropIsts of Tammany Han, the men who have
oo,e So much TO this town ard done it 50 fire.
ouentlv showed and rammed 70 get close to the
man whose dazzling whir from the top Of the
civic tower to the dark red pool in the shadows
below left him with smiling face and lips that
spparently prayed for the success Of Tammany.
IT certainly a great piece OF business.
Nc Fornes was there. too. But Mr. Fornes ac-
cording 10 the latest bulletin from Tammany
HsH. was just emerging from the star dust left
nv Grout In his aerial flight
In a few unctuous words. which Mr. Grain has
charged up to Murphy at 500 apiece Congress
man Mcclellan was informed OF his nomination.
He would have been the feature Of the occasion
if Mr. Grout had been run over by an automo-
bile on the way up town. As II was he was "A
second rater Being first in order however he
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