New-York tribune., 1921-10-25

opportunities Bill Devery missed
It's grotcsque"
Part of Mr.. Jcrome's speech follows
Honest john Feels Good
when | was in politics once the,
had saying. handed down from the
Iathers' that people do not squeal un
less they are hurt.
when l came to read Honest Iobn,s
iucubration Saturday night, it seemed
to me it must have got under his hide
1t was awfully unkind of him to forge,
to mention who it was that was roine
to deliver this $4,000. The other day
went up to headquarters, and I said
Henry Curran, where is that $4,000
that was to get for Saturda,
night?' and I did not get it, and it was
awfully unkind of him, when was sc
nice and gentle in my remarks abou,
hlm, not to tell me where | was going
to go to collect.
But l am going to go fast; I an
gong to get right down to brass tacks
am going to picture as near as car
one little chapter-later more-full oil
interest. | am going to tell you some
little stories by the way which will
illustrate how this plain business man
has conducted the affairs of the City
of New York since he was in.
81 see Mr.. Hylan was charged b,
The World that his conduct had beer
bad and that his record was foul anc
disreputable. Mr.. Hylan goes out ant
says Jerome was bad man. Jerome
betrayed the people. Well, l am moi
running for Mayor, and, wicked mar
as am, as | know myself to be, dc
not see why my being wicked shoulc
qualify Honest John Hylap to be
Mayor of the City of New York.
And, you know, I hate this honest
stuff. Because | always think of my
old won't say friend, for he was
not exactly that, but my old acquain
tance, Honest John Kelly, the notori.
Gus gambler in the City of New York
| raided his place and found falls,
front fifty threc-card faro box in 1t
Now, John Kelly was not original,
Honest John. He was poor boy
originally. But now am talking abou'
the gambler. He was originally a poor
boy, and when he was q poor boy, how
honest he was I do not know.
Honesty" Proved Snare
John Kelly was shrewd fellow, and
he said all the gamblers here arc
crooks. and if | can persuade the pub,
lie that | am an exception, that l an
an honest gambler, I will stand at the
receipts of the customs, ETC. John cir.
oulated industriously around the com.
munity in our Borough of Manhattan
We never had anything like that over
here. And after while you heard all
about Honest John Kelly, and lot OF
the Western come-ons and others were
attracted because he was Honest John
all fol q cL-
card faro box.
punctured the thing He said. There
is nothing honest about him but his
name and that puncturcd Mr. Kelly.
Now, | do not think this man Hylar
is so honest as he would have us believe
do not mean to charge that he has got
graft. But he does not think honestly
and he was not honest with the electors
of this city when he got our votes by
denying his knowledge of Goslin, wher
there is evidence in his own handwrit.
ing against him.
II do not think that quite its Hylar
for Mayor of the City of New York
because | am promised $4,000 night
Will he answer? No, he will not an
s"er, because in days gone by in Tam
many Hall they used to have what were
called fool killers, to go out and stor
these performances. People believed
that man should not squeal, becaus4
that was sure sign that he was hurt
They had one great witty sage anc
that was William Devery, and he gave
them the soundest piece of advice ii
what he said to the young cop that GO
into trouble. He said: Young man
when you are caught with the good
OH you you don't want to say nothing
And that is what think will be Mr.
Hylans answer to these specifi
charges.
Story of Police Doings
"My first little story, No. 1, con
Germs the police. There was fellow b,
the name of Tighe on the police force
He was found one night dead drum
three blocks off his post in the Borough
of Brooklyn right here in the Borough
of Brooklyn-at quarter of in tn
morning and he was so drum
that he was lying down; he couldn'
stand up even at the foot of the stair
of the west platform Of the subwa,
station at Flatbush Avenue and Nevin
| Street. He was found guilty and hi
sentence was a reprimand and the sen
tence was finally approved by Commits
sion Enright on the 18th of October
1918"
"Tighe has since gone to State
Prison for not less than two years an
not more than four years, sent ther
/ by q Tammany Hall judge, and it stand
! forever to the credit of Judge Crane o
General Sessions, in the County O
| New York, that he had the courage t.
send that fellow where he belonge
when no one knows better than Judg
Crane and Dick Enright and myself o
the influences behind that fellow.
He had been saved before. He wa
saved on the occasion after being foun
dead drunk. And on another occaso
he dubbed a poor colored fellow who1
he had arrested, and he clubbed hir
over the head after this being foun
drunk. He arrested this poor coore
fellow and he hit him several time
over the head with what the polio
records call the baton, but we ordinar
people call it the nightstick, but | wan
to tell you people that the effects ar