The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-05
tom ROCK TRIES A FORECAST.
HUGHES rs GOING TO BE
ELECTED" ~ THE SIZE or IT.
He started Out Yesterday en- - House TO
House Quest OF Votes. Disturbing sum
day Maps and kissing Babies He
Met District Captains and said Things.

Tom Rock, candidate for the Senate
in the Fourteenth district, was OF the job
Yesterday morning making a house TO
house canvass.
He called so early that al many place .
his constituents were not out of bed.
-Old Tin Horn Dollar Gas Grady is beat
to a FRAGILE" said the candidate to a re-
porter, after the trip. He'd better kiss
himself good-by, because no one else will.
Grady don't stand any more show than a
snowflake in July"
All day long Rocks headquarters at the
Republican club of the Sixteenth ASSEM-
bly, district. 81 East Forty-ninth street.
was filed with workers making active
preparations for the campaign windup.
A meeting was called Of h captains
and watchers for final instructions, but
Rock was so busy iollying parents and kiss
ing babies in the neighborh God that he
didn't get there until shortly before6 o'clock.
A battery of newspaper cameras awaited
him on h stoop Of the clubhouse.
IT'S Sunday. boys. and we dom want to
break the Sabbath-but Tom says If you'll
be nice and quiet he'll give you a little
missionary talk, said the chairman inside,
when he could make himself heard.
Boys" said Rock. "it o haven any
other engagements for Thursday night
come around here. We're going to have a
wake for Pewter Dollar Grady with candles
for Pink Pill Willie. Murph and Fingy on the
side. ILaughter.l Your part in the fest wi
ties is TO get your people out TO vote early.
IL we didn't nave the fakirs on the run
do you suppose that Pin Pill Willie and
Gas Grady would have hiked up here last
night and made a speech right under my
very window. Joe Buchanan was also
there. He had tho nerve TO persist in say ing
Hearst made me. Why, | was in the Henry
George movement in 80, when Hearst was
in his cradle, getting his first view of the
Chinks sprouting lemons. Buchanan also
said l was a professional laboring man.
Him! A fellow that makes his living work
ing for Wille's patent medicine sheetsl
II aughter.l Anyway. what right has
Buchanan 10 butt in? He hasn't even a
vote-his residence ia in New Jersey. What
union does he belong to?
Not PAYERS No. H. cried one auditor.
Right you are. He sweAyens up the
labor column Of the Pink Pill Journal with
sugar, tickles you under the chin with
one hand and reaches pack TO little Willie
for his dough with the other. He works,
but he amt a laboring a tCheers.l
an conclusion, boys. the situation for
us looks rosy as a red apple. Hearst il
40 itchy over it that he DARTS about like
a crazy little ant. l~Laughter.l He's even
forgotten to be ~silly-iike the day he called
Mr.. Hughes an animated feather buster.
TheneD he some dustin done all right
after election day, but Mr.. Hughes will
be in charge of the business end of the
buster. Grady and Murphy will be waited
skyward on a cloud of gas. Hearst will
quack along a couple Of days bowling for
a ecount and then replenish his red fire
supply for the next national Democratic
convention. Fingy will simply splutter,
sizzle and go out. That will be the end
OF the sideshow freaks-because. boys,
Hughes is going to be- elected" Cheers.
And 80 are you. Tommy. old boy, so
are you, cried = man behind a white clay
pipe in the rear of the hall.