The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-27
DEYERYRUNY VILLADOGBITE?
WILL IF HE'S KICKED, SAYS BIG
.. BILL-OR, ~ HE'S MAD.

At Present Hes Just a!Thinkin'. bss the
Ninth District Indhns Arc "a the
warpath-Devery Getting Jobs Ter
Them WIthsut the esep-lAddes 0sg.
Big Bill Devery, who was nominated for
Mayor at dinner TO tbs Devery Association
on Saturday night, won't over yesterday to
Eleventh avenue, 20 that section OF the
Ninth district known a. the Dump, and
umpired baseball game. A committee Of
members Of cigamakers' union had some
dificulty in reaching him. They told him
that they had called TO learn whether II
was true that ne intended to run for Mayor.
Il was elected leader Of the Ninth As
sembly district and am entitled to q seat
In Tammany Hail. he said. -Tammany
Hall is all right, but some Of those fellows
who are trying to run II have the idea that
the people OF the Ninth Assembly district
should be shut out. These leaders are en-
deavoring to disfranchise several thousand
citizens. These citizens are hot stuff
They are not the sort that will stand still
and be knocked down by lot Of buffers.
sThey are born fighters, like their ore
fathers who threw that tea into Boston
Harbor. They. just disguised themselves
as Ninth district Indians and refused to
accept the tea offered to them by Mr.. Muir
ply. Now they are ready to take the war
path.
.Wel.- said the chairman Of the cigar
makers, we want TO know whom tho Indians
get to work. We're with them
you'll And me q friend Of the people
at all times. replied Big Bill.
do you really intend to run for Mayor.
You might as well ask me II a dog will
bite ans wered Bill. when dog Is mad
and runs amuck take to the ladder. He's
liable to chew the leg of the fellow that
is nearest TO him: But il he's not mad.
why, then. he won't bite unless he gets,
kick. But II any time I can be Of service
TO the cigarmaker / want them to call
on me.
sIve succeeded in getting favors for folks
over here where other leaders have been
from the fammany board. We have no
men out Of work In this district. Can other
leaders say as much for their distIfctsf
Why, many OF them give the applicant the
step-iadder gag for theirs. -,
1T is a case OF Well, Mr.. So-and-so, you'll
have TO wait q few weeks more because
there are more men on the civil service
list ahead Of you. The same old step
ladder gag: Don't g up that ladder.
Pete, till Mike dumps his hod.' We don't
Of EN-: we just 60 With 'em and put them
TO work In factory or on contrsctin' job.
and when Saturday night oomes the wife
can 60 over to Paddys Market with long
green in her kick
THE kids soon learn where the old man
got his Job, and when l 20 down around
any Of the public &C hools them kids Just
gather round and cheer. II had any
say there d be no civil service examinations
for laboring men. Some guy who knows
how to read may be able TO recite on the
geology Of Central Park rocks. but the
experienced blaster who has chipped OF
rocks, in layers for twenty or thirty years
can give Old Man Geology cards and spades
and beat him in the blasting game, II he
did spell rocks with two ks. Cops and
6remen ought TO 60 through the civil ser
vice, out iaborers, never
When asked what his friends In the Ninth
int ended to do. Devcry answered:
Il don't know, but they are certainly
dead sore over the way Tammany 10 treat
ing them, and II Ia probably too late to try
to hold them back. People all over town
OF all parties. keep telling me that I'd stand
a chance with the best Of 'em In race for
the Mayorsity. and many q man who thinks
Personally. I'm not particularly stuck
on politics, but II some young fellow who
has the laboring people back Of him started
out he'd como near winning. So far a.
running for Mayor 10 concerned whv.
had a bunch Of FUN running for leader up
here, and. bein' as have nothin' much to
do during the summer. probably the news
paper boys would like nothing better than
a hot campaign. 80 I'm Just a-thinkin'
to-day and that the situations