New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-23
"WEB" RESCUES LIBERTY.
Murphy Escapes IN Time to Save
His Life.

Charles ? Murphy. the boss Of Tamrany
Hall who is playing shout the worst politics
these DAYS thar the Bowery ever talked about,
added rel feather 10 his cap last night by
having the Honorable Web" DAVIS Of Ma
shonalsnd and Kansas City. the doubly roasted
apostle OF liberty from the Sunfower State.
speak 10 the refined braves at the Democratic
Club last night Immediately after the speech
& was semi-ofBcially announced that Mr..
Murphy would leave town for Atlantic City to-
day 70 recuperate. IIe heard only a part al
the speech. r was suggested after Ny. Davis
had finished an apostrophe 10 liberty that II the
leader of Tammany had heard al the speech he
would not have been able % leave town at all.
A searching investigation viii at once be made
30 discover II possible why Mr.. Murphy had
Mr. Davis speak. Nobody seemed to know last
night.
The platform on which Nr. Webster stood was
two feet high and covered with red velvet. OPP
posite was a marble statue representing fright
ened Liberty scared By the below % a bull in
q brush fence, according 70 the Interpretation
OF the Honorable Tom" Dunn who knows a
good deal The subject ~ the speech seemed 10
be Liberty. and the Way She's Been DID Up"
Mr. Davis seemed to get a heap Of inspiration
from the marble girl she stood il q little bet
ter than the rest. but she looked a good deal
older after listening 10 the way things had been
going wrong under President Roosevelt with
out telling q the contract that he took from
Richard Croker 70 cali of the Boer war when
4 was half way through. the speaker sailed into
the Republicans. and declared:
Not IN quarter Of a century have the Demo-
Gratis had such an opportunity TO elect Presi-
dent. II they don't make asses Of themselves"
'Brevs'" yelled man whose teeth were
cienched across the butt of a cigar.
Shutting his ewes tight TO emphasize the cruel
wrong the speaker said:
This Infamous Republican protective tarir
GENES fn the darks0meness Of the night, strips
the clothes from the backs OF little children ana
rObs the hungry Of bread"
Then Web looked across the aisle 30 the
marble LADY. who winked and said Great
Encouraged by this unusual tribute. he de-
clared that Secretary Hay was miserable pal
troon. licking the feet of kings and monarchs:
that the PHILIPPINES had been oVerrun with a
lot OF uscrea uts who had crushed the life out ot
every man who dared 10 speak for liberty. and
inanoinE tho instant annihilaton Of all the
trusts as proof that President Roosevelt was
not prosecuting the Northern Securities cas-
merely az a codge 10 get votes. The big pin
wheel OF the fireworks was Mr.. Dayis's con-
eccration o. himself 10 the cause Of liberty
The eagle 1yiuC from crag 20 crag is exor.
cieiuc hfs t-ol-Elvep liberty" said tie ora or
who .hea sgread before his snraptlred s,-Gftors
an IRE various brands grades and samples 81
liberty shat the world has ever known endinr
with a declaration that our f0rcfathcrs shouted
liberty from cr1g TO CraE. This was WORKING
tile cTac 10 cr1g business double time and !,
was taken s a hint by the crowd. which in1r,e.
6iately made a raid on the free luncheon. Gen.
tlenlen, = thank .cU.' said tie orator. viii
ahruptress.
welcome, Breva, Breva," saa the mar
with the frsye6 cigar and Il was all over fol
fhe might