New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
TAMMANY USES BIBLE
SCRIPTURE FOR VOTERS.
Pamphleteer for the Tiger Also Caslls
FIoacers of Speech from Poets.

INSPIRED by the example 81 judge GA!nots IT'S
candidate for Mayor. Tammany Hall has started in
70 quote Scripture to the masses.
They're hurlin' the Bible into US 70 beat IN
hand" is the way big Tom" Foley put II yes
terday.
.'Gaynor is strong on the Bible but weak on
answers to WINS" is the judgment Of another dis
trict leader
The literary bureau at Tsmmany Hall, taking its
cue from Judge Gaynor. is injecting more Script
ural quotations into the campaign than the Tam
many spellbnders have encountered in all their
days.
Twenty pamphlets treating different phases of
city government have been printed by the hundred
thousand. ana every voter is 20 get a set
The title Of the pamphlet is given In bold type at
the top and underneath the caption is quotation
sometimes from the Bible and sometimes from the
classics. 40. is The Problem OF New Norks
Government" and TO get the doubling reader into
a serious thinking mood this quotation Is put IN
rnediRtey underneath:
Prove all things. hold fast that which good Thss-
saionians y. p,
Another pamphlet Is entitled Department Of
Street Cleaning" and the scriptural admoniuon
accompanying Il is:
,,-,.,.oe,er ,bv hand snseth to DO do IT thy
usght--Ecclesiastes.
In a general defence or explanation" of the mu-
nicipal situation. Shakespeare is rung in as FOL
lows:
done the state some service and they kno" It
A long CHAPTER is given to Incompatible Health
Conditions" and 70 sugar-coat the solid Ideas 'hat
follow IS this:
Be wise to-day: It's madness 70 defer-YounE
PLAIN ROAST FOR BINGHAM
There IS no scriptural quotation on the pamphlet
devoted 10 roasting General Bingham admlnls
trafion Of the Police Department The only theory
,t,o,,. SIS absence is that il wouldn't look well
alongside OF the fiery denunciation which the writer
visits upon Bingham.
The quotation man gets back on the job. how
No TTpvnN
Rule for New York City" He heads that diatribe
with:
codsmits Emu
his is not supposed to refer the fact that for
years Tamn,any Hall has levied on the friends
Of its candidates for the judiciary assess
rnente. amounting practically 10 purchase by the
candidates Of the place, the money going into the
campaign Golfers Of Tamrnany Hall
Finest School System in the World is the title
Of another dissertation. in which the large eX-
pend,tures ~ the Department OF Education are
defended. and Hamet's Let the CALLED jade vince;
our Withers unwrIng' is tossed in 10 convince
fhe voter that scholastic drilling has not been lost
upon the Wigwam
'EIlmane Work Of the Democratic Administra-
ton" does not, its title would indicate. refer
10 the nomination OF Jimmie Hagen and George
r. Roesch. but to the glorious administration OF
the charitable and correctional institutions by
Tanmany officials Just 20 show that the literary
brresu is equal exigencies this tract is sweet
ened by the following:
The primal duties shine aIoft. Ike stars
Tie charities, that soothe. and heal. and bless
The Excursion. Book TX
THE excurson-excuTsioni Say. I've been up e
College Point good many tines said Percy"
Maggie at the Wigwam Yesterday. as he looked al
this production, "and I'll buy for the crowd IL we
ever had those things on any Of them excursions
was on Why don't they say whose excursion II
was2"
To satisfy the ,dUelIer along Fo,rtt ~
Brooklyn. who is clamOring fer subways thai
something Will be doing under Gaynor nice, fat
pamphlet has been issued especially for him.. en-
titled, Rapid Transit and Public Service" and
il is trimmed with this ehusion:
Whatever skepte could inquire for
I FeT eve every ~ Nh" ny. he had a wherefore;
II the shine no.
when he got that on said Tom Smith yester
day. hut suppose he knows. Anyway the bill
is paid and it won't hurt anybody"
IT'S PRETTY THING. THIS
The pamphlet classification of the Budget an,
Corporate Debt" is supposed 10 be a salve for tn
angry taxpayer, and the quotation is a gem II is
hath indeed better stis' Sdo s1 z5sa Nothing
Il understand the much ado about nothing. be
cause never got anything from Mcclellan" sal,
Jack Murphy in commenting on the tract .'bu,
hang me. II I know about better bettered ex
pectation' guess the guy was drunk when h
framed that up"
Parks, Recreation Grounds and Streets is suit
ably trimmed with this:
The hoUerst Of the vale
The simplest that swelIs the gale
1ne common sun. the air. the skies,
70 MIN are opening paradise
Thomas Cray.
Z know WHO wrote that" said Battery Dan
Finn. 1T was Paradise Jimmy Oliver. He's al
ways injecting personalities into the campaign"
Pure Water and Plenty Of It" Is the title "a IN,
chapter on the defence of the CatskiIl aoueduc
expenditures and the quotation to make the citze,
feel better about Il IS:
Smooth the water where the brook is deem
King Henry VI.
Il guess that means that Rudolph Block wa
smooth when he HAD Judge Gaynor get him an
pointed 70 Of those Catskim condemnation jobs
said Fragley. who knows something about patron
age.
'Tarnmany Hall and What II Stands For" IS III,
last Of the list and the dash of sweet OIL 10 maxi
The swallowing easier Is this:
Careless their merits their faults to scan
His pity gave ere charity began.
Goldsmith.
This is OF the gems OF the collection tell
ing In detail how Tammany bleeds for the distressed
world. and attention is called the contribution,
the Wigwam has given 20 the California earth
quake sufferers. Parnel's Irish home the Russian
Eishinef massacre victims and the Messina earth
quake victims. Altogether Il is a great collection
OF essays. and the descendants the district lead
eTs viii be paying good dollars for them as curlo.
ffty years from now.