The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-25
TAMMANYITES NOT
LEAGUE BOOSTERS
Governors Appeal Fails to
Arouse Enthusiasm in
= Big Wigwam.
NOTHING DOING IN CLUBS
New York Democrats Ignore
Plea to Study Covenant
No Meetings.

All extremely Renidi man whose DERBY
hat was minus band, was standing in
the doorway Of the Tammany Club. at
619 Ninth avenue. He was a large, able
looking citizen and he wore neither coat
had deserted that side Of the street and
the late afternoon chill had set in.
did you have a league of nations
meeting here to-day?' he was asked.
The genial large man looked a hit
mystfled for moment ana then re-
Piled:
Guess you're IN wrong. son. This is
social club or something in the next block
that has something to do with immi-
grants, and
you don't get me-" interrupted the re-
porter. S'.'You remember that Al Smith
set to-day as the day for all good citi-
zens 70 study the covenant OF the League
of Nations don't you? Didn't they hold
any meetings here to-day or are they GO
ing to meet tonight
ooh, that" said the big fellow Wait
a minute
He poked his head into the vestlbule
and roared for Philip" Philip. small
and unbeievably thin man OF 40 or so,
wanted to know "what in hell was the
matter?" The reporter explained.
WELL" replied Philip, slowly, 'as to
that couldn't say. A lot of the boys
was in this morning and one of them
was reading something about Al Smith
being In town tonight. but l been
here all day and there amt been any
body here that l don't know. and guess
you'll have TO call UP Fourteenth street.
What Is it you want? A copy of the
League of Nations? If it Is. we amt
got any and you'd better call up Four
teenth street anyway, because everybody
here's out in the country to-day, and
even IL they weren't they wouldn't know
any more about it than do"
Nothing i'm Big Wigwam.
IL was obvious that Philip would keep
on talking as long as he had an audi
ence. Therefore, the reporter set forth
for Tammany Hall carrying with him q
clear suspicion that the League of Ma
tons was not one of the big issues at
819 Ninth avenue.
mo. don't go saying that we amt
strong for Al Smith," explained pros
porous looking man at the big wigwam
in Fourteenth street. Were with Al
like heavy cold. and believe me we're
going 10 put him over on November 2.
DuJ YOU IcppINtkS Ob6ht W 10 NAnN
enough that you can't get n bunch OF
guys together on a day like this and
shoot lot of league bull into EN-. No.
we didn't have no league meeting and
we amt going to. Now. you might just
as well go home and take off your shoes
and coat and take II easy and telephone
all the Tammany and Democratic clubs
in town, and then call up your boss
and tell him that you've been every
H. -, t..sr 1tIrn nr
going on today, because there, amt and
besides, we don't need lot of bull about
the league too make us Democrats. be-
cause we're Democrats already and be-
lieve me, that's that"
So the reporter telephoned Tom Foiey's
downtown Tammany Club in Madison
street.
''Huh?" came tho answer from the
man on the other end OF the line. "Yeh,
this is Foley's Club. Huh? Gwan.
G-w-a-a-a-a-n. HUM N-a-a-a-a-h.
G-w-a-a-a-a-a-n.
There was nobody home at Charlie
Murphy's Anawanda Club. Under those
conditions Il seemed probable that there
was no league meeting under way there.
Same Mt National Club.
And az the National Democratic Club.
GIT Fifth avenue, no one held forth rpou
/. the burning topic OF tho day. There was
no meeting 20 explain away the league
NJ the Monongahela Democratic Club,
2e2 Manhattan avenue, either. and the
caretaker at 1913 West 156th street 1.-THE
Tammany Hall county committee) said
';No, there amt no meeting here, or
ANYBODY hero to attend no meeting II
they do have one. There amt even any
meetings here on Sunday, and, besides,
whenever anybody comes here talking
about the League of Nations OF some
thing. they've got 20 give notice In adj
vance SOS we can get the hall ready
and the chairs in from Nicolas. so IL you
heard anybody say that there's going to
be meeting here tonight he's given
you steer.
There was something going on at the
Tammany Club at 81 st. Marks place.
II had something TO do with the funeral
Of a member who. as far as II was pos
sible for stranger TO ascertain. had
come to some sort of sudden death. But
there was no observance there OF the
terms of the Tammany Governors proc
lamation.
To come to a conclusion the man at
Tammany Hall was correct. II was
League of Nations Sunday. Everybody
affirmed his admiration and love for Al
Smith. but In all the PRINCIPAL Demo-
cratic clubs there was no one TO weep.
because nobody read the covenant of the
IN .r,,a ~ Naffona