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Re Carmine De Sapio [Aug. 22]: Do you honestly think that the Tammany Tiger under De Sapio has changed stripes, or that the people think so ? For all the whitewashing . . . the black stripes are still there, even though De Sapio has a new technique. He says Tammany is honest, and...
George Washington Plunkitt died a millionaire. But he sadly sensed the changing times that were to plague Tammany in the post-Murphy era. "Sad indeed," said he, "is the change that has come over the young men . . . They don't care no more for firecrackers on the Fourth of...
"We've got some orators in Tammany Hall," said Plunkitt, "but they're chiefly ornamental . . . The men who rule have practiced keepin' their tongues still, not exercisin' them."
But Tammany had its full share of silver-tongued orators, and the greatest of them was William Bourke Cockran ("the Mulligan Guard Demosthenes"), who in 1895 befriended young Sandhurstman Winston Churchill. Through later years Churchill mentioned "the great American orator Bourke Cockran" so often that Lady Churchill threatened to walk...
For fluency, at the opposite extreme were Croker and Murphy. At a Fourth of July celebration, a reporter noted that Murphy did not join in the singing of The Star-Spangled Banner. The newsman turned to a Tammany official and asked why. "Perhaps," came the reply, "he didn't...