The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-04
POINTERS FROM TON ROCK.
VOTE EARLY or SOMEBODY WILL
no IT FOR IOT.
Candidate Who Has Made Isis Lemon IA
mOus Amuscs Audiences With stories
OF COnners. the son OF Toll Boom.
boom and Bum. Bum on the Other Side.


Ton Rock. the father of the Eight Hour
bill. I" candidate for the Senate in the Four
teenth district, made another flying auto
mobile trip last night and got in seven
speeches where they would do the most
good PEOPLE fairly hung to his coattails
or he would have made many more. SO
! many men gras7ed his hand that his right
side was lame. Rock grew n trltte husky.
but this seemed only 10 sharpen his wit.
The very sight OF his good naturcd face
brought a cheer.
Rock sta rted the ball rolling by taking a
fall out Of State Chairman Corners at the
arst meeting of tho evening. OF a carttail
AZ Fiftieth street and First avenue.
"Ycl hear such q hullabolo about this
alleged laboring man union m~an-Fingy
Corners. Well. he's not so many. He ran
a pedrone system in Buffalo-that's all.
he has q million plunlts or so now, but that's
nothing to get gay About. Fingy is a four
flasher, a false alarm, like Murph and
-icar5e. Laughter
10 give you an idea Of the unsettled
condition in my district let me tell you this
true story. A man that has five gro wn
sons and ia himself a Tammany office
ucld"r. an enrolled member of the organiza-
tor lesides.
Boys he said the other night, how
veg goin' to voter
Hughes for ours they shouted in a
chorus.
s. MY God, We ungrateful wre tches, an
l hev jobs fer three OF yez as Tammany
election clerks
Can't help that, pa said one. It's
Hughes, d., man .nDo.rsd angry then he
smiled quizically.
"Wen, boys, keep this under your vests,
but, sh-sh, your voting the same as your
old man" auChter and cheerS.l
You're hardpan Rock, all right shouted
a listener, waving a dinner pail.
Just then a Hearst campaign wagon with
a noisy fife and drum corps passed.
Boom, boom-bum, bum-principally the
latter, that's all there IL to that fellows
campaign. cried Rock, laughing heartily.
The crowd roared. Two thousand people
packed Camp Hughes, in 125th street, near
Eighth avenue. Rock was recognized by a
cop as he entered and soon every one was
up and cheering.
Lemons! Lemons cried some one.
Hearst ia the greatest Quack in the
try!" shouted Rock-"a pink pill journal
faker. Look at his right hand mar Fingy
Conners the a that drove the grain
shovellers out Of Buffalo. That's a Hearst
man pointing to HIMSELF. and if you don't
believe it. here's my PAYERS Union card
ILaughterI and it's paid up. too [-You
wouldn't rave any other kind, Tommy
shouted a shrill voice. As for Murph
lGroans from the audience after that
what's the use of talking about that gas
balloon, anyway" Laughter.
Many Of the audience followed Rock to the
street after his speech at Camp Hughes
and il looked as il he would have to take
the people with him. Red fire was burned
and a handy drum corps got into action.
Rock! Rock! Rockl" was the cry raised
When the speaker arrived at the next
meeting OF the schedule, at 244 West For
ty-fourth street. the crowd went wild.
When Chairman William Halpin said, with
a ringing voice:
Look who's here, It's Rock!"
Laughter and cheers followed at such
length that the newspaper reporters glanced
nervousIy at their watches.
Hold the edition, boys!" shouted Rock.
Hold the edition. Give me a chance to
land just one more on Patent Medicine
Hearst and Murph and their turnkey Ffngy.
Cheers and laughter Also counterfeit
Silver Dollar Gas Grady. Don't forget him
or slippery Ihmsen Laughter and APP
plause.
why, good people, only do one thing
get out and vote early for Hughes. Don't
fiddle around, but vote before the Ga House
gang votes for you Laughter
hen he made more funny remaTks about
Corners. ~ ny, he had a line of gin mills
along the river front in Buffalo. II dock
hands didn't loose in Fingy's saloons, why,
a rang outside would soak them with
blackiacks and lay the fellows up for re-
pairs. That's what anybody got that
monkeyed with the busines end OG Fingy.
laughter. That laboring man here the
speaker burst out laughing 80 hard he had
TO pausel the laboring man Of the Murphy
Hearst crowd Is the Democratic State
chairman hr runs the whole shootin'
matoh,n Now when you're mp against that
bunch Of lilies where do you fit in, anyway
Laughter and applause.l
AS ! say, vote ~early-or somebody will
swipe your vote. Vote for Hughes-for
Gods sake. Hughes"
A reception committee greeted Rock when
he landed AZ Cooper Union and asked him
to address an overflow meeting in Aston
place until Mr.. Hughes finished speaking
inside.
IL was found that a crowd Of hoodlums was
in possession Of the stand and the speaker
was unable 10 mount Il.