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THE SPIRIT OF THE EVENING 
 
THE 
 
 Legislative Correspondents' 
 
 Portraits and Biographies of Some Persons 
 More or Less Prominent in Public Life 
 
 Entirely Without Respect to the Libel Laws, in a Studious 
 Effort to Conceal Everything But the Truth; Some 
 Songs Built Upon the Same Principle, and Other 
 Important (?) Material Entirely Unfit to Print. 
 
 Compiled by 
 
 The Legislative Correspondents' Association 
 
 of the State of New York 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 WRITTEN 
 
 Albany 
 J. B. Lyon Company. Printers 
 19 13 
 
SOME OF OUR GUESTS 
 
 GOVERNOR SULZER 
 LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR GLYNN 
 SENATOR O'GORMAN 
 EX-SENATOR DEPEW 
 EX-GOVERNOR ODELL 
 EX-GOVERNOR DIX 
 WILLIAM F. McCOMBS 
 JOB E. HEDGES 
 TIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF 
 WILLIAM F. SHEEHAN 
 WILLIAM F. CONWAY 
 CONGRESSMAN E. A. MERRITT, JR. 
 CONGRESSMAN C. M. HAMILTON 
 
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 (Cnrktails Canape Arlequin 
 
 Wellfleets 
 
 (Olurnsn Tortue Verte Clair a la Fine Champagne 
 Celery Salted Nuts Pimolas 
 
 (Thatrait Paupiette of Halibut, Bella 
 
 Dillnu Sliced Cucumbers Pommes Persillade 
 
 Mignons of Spring Lamb, Ten Eyck 
 
 Sweetbreads bon Marche 
 
 (Xinarrttrri Sorbet, New Regime 
 
 Roast Squab Guinea, sur Canape 
 (DiauHiaiutr Salade Surprise 
 
 Bombe Montmorency 
 Mignardises 
 
 Gorgonzola Cheese 
 
 iflinrral S*atrr 
 
 (tiijars Cafe Noir 
 
SONGS 
 
1 
 
 Everybody's Gettin It Now — The Gate 
 
 Air, 44 Everybody's Doing It " 
 
 5ULZER says : " Now that I'm Boss, 
 I'll command the double-cross ; 
 Ward Man Hennessey, 
 Look around for me, 
 See who's who around here, John. 
 Verbeck's first, give him the air, 
 All his help, too, we can spare — 
 Just a little con, then soak it to them, John; 
 Somebody's doin 1 things now." 
 
 Chorus 
 
 Everybody's gettin' it, gettin' it, gettin' it, 
 Everybody's gettin' it, gettin' it, gettin' it ; 
 See that fat official over there? 
 One more word and he will get the air — 
 Our Plain Bill is kicking uo for fair. 
 He's a bear, he's a bear, he's a bear — bear! 
 Everybody's gettin' it, gettin' it, gettin' it, 
 Everybody's gettin' it, gettin' it, gettin' it ; 
 Each day more men knowing their fate, 
 Each day more men getting the gate — 
 You'll get yours if you just wait — 
 Everybody's gettin' it now. 
 
 Chorus 
 
 Everybody's gettin' it, gettin' it, gettin' it, 
 Everybody's gettin' it, gettin' it, gettin' it ; 
 Hoefer got three minutes to resign. 
 Reel fought hard and Sulzer gave him nine — 
 Scott said : " Rot, he'll never give me mine ;" 
 Would the drop in the slot wait for Scott? Not! 
 Everybody's gettin' it, gettin' it, gettin' it, 
 Everybody's gettin' it, gettin' it, gettin' it; 
 Clark said: 44 Bill, I'm working for you, 
 Nix on tricks to make me skidoo." 
 Hark! See Clark go up the flue — 
 Everybody's gettin' it now. 
 
The Sharing of the Green 
 
 O GATHER near and give your ear 
 To news that's goin' round, 
 They're fishin' with suspicion 
 For some things that must be found. 
 Every dollar that you've laid away 
 
 Is shivering in the bank 
 And sleuths have had you covered 
 
 Every time you ate or drank. 
 When you lay your head upon your bed 
 
 To sleep in sweet repose 
 Don't you dare to snore a bit before 
 
 You hide away your clothes ; 
 For it's sad to tell they're raisin' hell 
 
 And actin' small and mean, 
 With the click and kin that figures in 
 The sharing of the green. 
 
 Every morn and night we're filled with fright, 
 
 We dread the latest news, 
 Our blood runs cold when'er we're told 
 
 Of Norton's newest clues; 
 And we hare to smile for fear Carlisle 
 
 Has someone on our trail, 
 To give the tip when'er we nip 
 
 At lemonade or ale; 
 O it's danger here and danger there 
 
 And danger everywhere, 
 Every rumor cites a tumor of corruption and despair, 
 
 O it's tough that thugs among the bugs 
 Had Thaw kick up a scene 
 
 That made Bill Clark pull from the dark 
 The sharing of the green. 
 
 {Continued on next page) 
 
The Sharing of the Green — Continued 
 
 " O we should not sin." says Martin Glynn ; 
 
 " We should be fair and square, 
 To all our pals on the canals, 
 
 Now looking for their share. 
 But we must make Peck pull in his neck, 
 
 And Bensel must stay near, 
 To make the crew hold out a few 
 
 Stray dollars for next year. 
 Let the men who take the contracts make 
 
 Provision for all cares, 
 Let us have some routes of water chutes 
 
 Before the gang gets theirs; 
 There are still a few more millions left 
 
 The builders have not seen, 
 So it's not our fault if we must halt 
 
 The sharing of the green." 
 
3 
 
 John A. Dix's Revenge 
 
 A Ballad by the Former Governor, Entitled " Somebody Else 
 Is Get tin It Where I Got Mine " 
 
 I WAS Governor of this State, 
 Thought for a while that I was great ; 
 Saw that things were run serene, 
 Had no cause to quiz or clean. 
 But I lost my job one day, 
 Murphy said : " John, on your way ;" 
 Then they gave my job to Bill — 
 Now I'm laughing so I can't keep still. 
 
 Chorus 
 
 Somebody else is gettin' it, gettin' it, 
 Right where his collar ought to be ; 
 Somebody else is gettin' it, gettin' it, 
 Right where the chicken got the A-X-E ; 
 Sulzer thinks he is in fine, 
 But he'll get his where I got mine; 
 Somebody else is gettin' it, gettin' it, 
 Right where they handed it to me. 
 
 They said: "John, you can't come back — 
 You're O. K., but you're too slack; 
 We want Sulzer ! " all hands cried, 
 (Murphy says a whole lot lied). 
 Now every day there's hell to pay 
 And Silas Wright and Henry Clay 
 Beam down on Bill and sadly say : 
 " We had less ' bunk ' in Dix's day." 
 
 (Repeat Chorus.) 
 
4 
 
 Tammany 
 
 HROW out your chest and sing your best 
 
 For years and years you'll hear the cheers 
 Hurray for Tammany ! 
 Throw in a few for Woodrow, too, 
 And some for Jim O'G., 
 Our Sen-a-tor who's looking for 
 The jobs for you and me. 
 
 Tammany, Tammany, 
 
 We put all the gang on deck, 
 
 Then we get it in the neck, 
 
 Tammany ! Tammany ! 
 
 First they use us, then abuse us, 
 
 Tammany ! 
 
 Since Wagner came from Holland 
 
 He has mastered English well 
 
 And men like Brown, sit down and frown, 
 
 When Bobbie starts to yell ; 
 
 He'll pout and shout and hit right out 
 
 And every word's a jab 
 
 And he has sec-re-taries there 
 
 To chronicle his gab. 
 
 Tammany, Tammany, 
 
 All the gang's parading great 
 
 On that famous street called Straight, 
 
 Tammany, Tammany, 
 
 Boys, remember, next November, 
 
 Tammany ! 
 
 For good old Tammany, 
 
 Chorus 
 
 Chorus 
 
 {Continued on next page) 
 
Tammany — Continued 
 
 McCabe says Doctor Wilson 
 
 Filled him up with fright and woe, 
 
 By wiring: "Pack., jump in your sack, 
 
 And start for Mexico." 
 
 But Pack, said : " No, not Mexico, 
 
 Not such a place for me, 
 
 I have a revolution of my own 
 
 In Albany." 
 
 Chorus 
 Tammany, Tammany, 
 Glynn has one good friend in Pack., 
 See them lose and then come back, 
 Tammany, Tammany, 
 Pack, says Martin's only startin', 
 Tammany ! 
 
 Al. Smith and all the little Smiths 
 Come straight from Tammany; 
 
 And every night they sit and* write 
 Their Pop in Albany: 
 " We've studied history over, 
 
 And we've looked men over, too, 
 And find that Old Joe Cannon 
 Was a shine compared with you." 
 
 Chorus 
 
 Tammany, Tammany, 
 
 Every man's the Speaker's pal — 
 
 " Order in the House," cries Al. 
 
 Tammany, Tammany, 
 
 High and lowly thank Tom Foley, 
 
 Tammany ! 
 
 Since Levy is the Boss of all 
 
 The pirates on the floor, 
 
 Mark Goldberg has much more to say 
 
 Than any year before; 
 
 But Walker says they're falling out 
 
 For Goldberg can't inspire, 
 
 His fireman chum, A. Levy, 
 
 To pull off another fire. 
 
 (Continued on next page) 
 
Tammany — Continued 
 
 Chorus 
 Tammany, Tammany, 
 Hinman can't win much renown, 
 Cuvillier shouts: "0 sit down;" 
 Tammany, Tammany, 
 They're the candy, fine and dandy, 
 Tammany ! 
 
o 
 
 Now He's In Dutch 
 
 Air: " // was the Dutch " 
 
 WHEN Sulzer came to Albany to rule or ruin with pride, 
 He canned the royal coachman and declared he 
 wouldn't ride. 
 Then Hackmen's Union 43 in secret conclave met 
 And took a vote to get his goat which it is seeking yet. 
 
 Now he's in Dutch, now he's in Dutch, 
 Is that the way for him to stay? It is — 
 Not much ! 
 
 Now he's in Dutch, now he's in Dutch, 
 Though he hikes it every day, 
 He's still in Dutch. 
 
 When Willie took the " People's House " he gave the help the 
 air, 
 
 He only left one sweeper-out to do the cleaning there. 
 " This guy who thinks he's Henry Clay, we'll nip him in the 
 bud," 
 
 The help all shouted as they left, " His name's not Clay but 
 Mud!" 
 
 Now he's in Dutch, now he's in Dutch, 
 
 Does this retrenchment make a hit? It does — 
 
 Not much ! 
 
 Now he's in Dutch, now he's in Dutch, 
 He may think that he's in right, 
 But he's in Dutch ! 
 
 " There's too much crookedness," said Bill, " we must have 
 better men 
 
 To do the people's business in an honest way," and then 
 He picked a fellow out named Clark to stand at Honor's door 
 Who smiled and thanked him for the cinch then tried to 
 pardon Thaw. 
 
 {Continued on next page) 
 
Now He's In Dutch — Continued 
 
 Now he's in Dutch, now he's in Dutch, 
 ]s everybody truthful in the case? 
 Not much ! 
 
 Now he's in Dutch, now he's in Dutch, 
 F< >r Thaw is still in jail 
 And he's in Dutch ! 
 
 Now Willie never went to sea, we often wonder why; 
 He had a sailor's instinct and could early say, aye (I), aye (I) 
 He chose the Ship of State instead and started to reform 
 But Charlie Murphy clipped his wings when things were 
 getting warm. 
 
 Now he's in Dutch, now he's in Dutch, 
 Will Tammany lose any jobs at all? 
 Not much ! 
 
 Now he's in Dutch, now he's in Dutch, 
 He'll have to make some more 
 Or he's in Dutch ! 
 
6 
 
 "There Ain't No G. O. P." 
 
 Air: " Where the River Shannon Flows " 
 
 (Cribbed from the "Amen" dinner) 
 
 THERE was once a grand old party 
 That was fat and hale and hearty 
 With the nation in its pocket ; 
 The trusts tucked up its sleeve. 
 It ran city, town and hamlet, 
 It didn't give a damnlet 
 For a thing except the motto : 
 " It is blessed to receive." 
 
 But now Bill Barnes is raving 
 
 By a lonely, lonely grave ; 
 For the party is past saving, 
 
 There is nothing left to save. 
 And all Wall Street mourns and mutters 
 And Fierp. Morgan spouts and splutters, 
 And Bill Loeb this sad song utters 
 " Oh, there ain't no G. O. P." 
 
 Except for men like Merritt 
 Who's escaped down to D. C. 
 
 They will have to grin and bear it, 
 For the thing has got to be. 
 
 You can hear Sam Koenig crying, 
 
 You can feel Jim Wadsworth sighing, 
 
 While the echo is replying, 
 
 " Oh, there ain't no G. O. P." 
 
 From Montauk to Lake Erie, 
 
 From Elmira to the sea 
 You can hunt until you're weary, 
 
 You can look up every tree. 
 You can page it through the valley, 
 You can hunt through every alley, 
 But you'll never score a tally, 
 For there ain't no G. O. P. 
 
T 
 
 Down Where the Wuerzhurger Flows 
 
 NOW poets may sing of the dear Fatherland 
 And the soft-flowing, dreamy old Rhine, 
 Beside the Blue Danube in fancy they stand 
 And they rave of its beauties divine; 
 But there is a spot where the sun never shines, 
 
 Where mirth and goodfeliowship reign; 
 For dear old Bohemia my lonely heart pines, 
 And I long to be there once again. 
 
 Chorus 
 
 Take me down, down, down where the Wuerzburger flows, 
 flows, flows, 
 
 It will drown, drown, drown all your troubles and cares 
 and woes ; 
 
 Just order two seidels of lager, or three, 
 If I don't want to drink it please force it on me, 
 The Rhine may be fine, but a cold stein for mine, 
 Down where the Wuerzburger flows. 
 
 The Rhine by moonlight's a beautiful sight, 
 
 When the wind whispers low through the vines ; 
 But give me some good old Rathskeller at night, 
 
 Where the brilliant electric light shines. 
 The poets may think it's delightful to hear 
 
 The nightingale piping his lay — 
 Give me a piano, a cold stein of beer, 
 
 And a fellow who knows how to play. 
 
8 
 
 A Stein Song 
 
 IVE a rouse then in the May time, 
 
 For a life that knows no fear, 
 
 v - > ^ Turn night-time into daytime 
 
 With the sunlight of good cheer. 
 For it's always fair weather 
 When good fellows get together, 
 With a stein on the table 
 
 And a good song ringing clear. 
 
 For it's always fair weather 
 When good fellows get together 
 With a stein on the table 
 And a good song ringing clear. 
 
 O ! we're all frank and twenty 
 When the spring is in the air, 
 
 And we've faith and hope a plenty, 
 And we've life and love to spare. 
 
 And it's birds of a feather 
 
 When good fellows get together, 
 
 With a stein on the table 
 
 And a heart without a care. 
 
 And it's birds of a feather 
 When good fellows get together, 
 W T ith a stein on the table 
 And a heart without a care. 
 
 For we know the world is glorious 
 And the goal a golden thing, 
 
 And that God is not censorious 
 
 When his children have their fling. 
 
 And life slips its tether 
 
 When good fellows get together, 
 
 With a stein on the table 
 
 In the fellowship of spring. 
 
 Chorus 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 (Continued on next page) 
 
A Stein Song — Continued 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 And life slips its tether 
 When good fellows get together, 
 With a stein on the table 
 In the fellowship of spring. 
 
 When the wind comes up from Cuba, 
 And the birds are on the wing, 
 
 And our hearts are patting Juba 
 To the banjo of the spring. 
 
 Then life slips its tether 
 
 When good fellows get together, 
 
 With a stein on the table 
 
 In the fellowship of spring. 
 
 And life slips its tether 
 
 When good fellows get together, 
 
 With a stein on the table 
 
 In the fellowship of spring. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
9 
 
 Then He'll Blow, Blow, Blow! 
 
 (Air — " Then Hed Row, Row, Row.") 
 
 BILL gets the boys together three times a day, 
 He isn't modest when there's something to say; 
 He's right there with rare hot-air, 
 He " throws the bull " around for fair; 
 Never too dull for him to be interviewed — 
 " Send for the boys!" he'll yell, 
 So that his fame can be reviewed, 
 Then of his worth you'll hear him tell. 
 
 Chorus 
 
 And then he'll blow, blow, blow, 
 
 He'll blow a blizzard, 
 
 He will blow, blow, blow, 
 
 He'll bust his gizzard; 
 
 Every scribe must take the stuff, 
 
 Smile at every bluff, 
 
 But no one dares to holler " Bill, 
 
 You've given us enough!" 
 
 And still he'll blow, blow, blow, 
 
 A few more columns, 
 
 He will blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, 
 
 'Till our Editors wire: 
 
 M Can't you puncture Bill's tire?" 
 
 But still he'll blow, blow, blow. 
 
 Chorus 
 
 And still he'll blow, blow, blow, 
 
 To boost his capers, 
 
 He will blow, blow, blow 
 
 For all the papers, 
 
 'Till the people say: " Why, Bill, 
 
 You're givin' us a chill — 
 
 " We haint a gettin' nothin' now 
 
 But hot-air from the Hill " — 
 
 (Continued on next page) 
 
Then He'll Blow, Blow, Blow! — Continued 
 
 But still he'll blow, blow, blow, 
 
 To " bull " the people, 
 
 He will blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, — 
 
 O he had Henry Clay 
 
 Blown to atoms today, 
 
 But still he'll blow, blow, blow. 
 
 Chorus 
 
 And still he'll blow, blow, blow, 
 
 For every reader, 
 
 He will blow, blow, blow, 
 
 That he's the leader, 
 
 That he now has Murphy's place, 
 
 You see it in his face, 
 
 While Charley merely chuckles and says Bill 
 Is off his base, 
 
 But still he'll blow, blow, blow, 
 For all the dailies, 
 
 He will blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, — 
 Now he has Silas Wright 
 Worse than Thaw is from fright, 
 But still he'll blow, blow, blow. 
 
lO 
 
 Mr. Murphy's Own Song 
 
 » 
 
 Everybody Can Join in the Chorus 
 Air: "Will Someone Kindly Tell Me Why I Picked a Lemon" etc. 
 
 (Sung by Mr. Murphy with apologies to Mr. Carl of the 
 " Spring Chicken," but none to Mr. Sulzer) 
 
 I HAVE seen some politicians 
 Who were mighty good magicians, 
 I've seen lots of them come and go; 
 I have picked good men a-plenty 
 And I've buried ten or twenty, 
 I think you'll agree that is so; 
 Now that Syracuse convention 
 Was a patented invention, 
 It worked mighty well, you'll agree, 
 But I'm deaf and dumb from wonder, 
 Will you tell me, how in thunder, 
 I picked Bill to bury me? 
 
 Chorus 
 Will someone kindly tell me, 
 Will someone answer why, 
 W r hy did I put Bill over 
 And why did he get by? 
 With a million booms about me, 
 I would like to know, 
 
 "Why I picked a lemon in the garden of love 
 "Where they say only peaches grow." 
 
 I knew his reputation 
 
 When he sought the nomination 
 
 And when he hung 'round me, before, 
 
 But he gave me good assurance 
 
 That his long wait and endurance 
 
 W T ouid make him a man I'd adore; 
 
 So I called nxyself a quorum 
 
 And I checked his baggage for him 
 
 And he landed in fair Albany; 
 
 But since the last election 
 
 There's been scandal and correction 
 
 But not a thing but hell for me. 
 
 (Chorus as above) 
 
11 
 
 Song of the Highway Men. 
 
 (Air: " Off to Philadelphia:') 
 
 WE are truly good contractors, we are most important factors 
 When the State has roads to build in all directions. 
 We can make them out of sand, fine crushed stone or 
 loamy land, 
 Our experts will never find the imperfections. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 With our contracts in our pocket, 
 
 O, just watch how we will sock it 
 To that little fifty millions just a-borning. 
 
 We were friends of Gordy Reel, 
 And we know just how he'd feel, 
 
 But we got that fifty millions in the morning. 
 
 Of patented material we know the kinds severial, 
 
 The Asphalt Trust, 'tis said, makes terms quite decent ; 
 
 With our little extras addel, and a pay roll maybe padded, 
 We are making lovely bills for work that's recent. 
 
 Chorus 
 
 Now a new administration tries to bring us consternation, 
 
 With investigators prying on our labors ; 
 But we feel secure and safe, though the waiting makes us chafe, 
 
 For the politicians know us to be neighbors. 
 
 Chorus 
 
STATE OFFICERS 
 
WILLIAM SULZER 
 
 VV/HEN Sulzer saw the light of day down in Elizabeth, N. J., 
 * ' the people shouted, " Hip, Hurray! Our troubles now are 
 past. The populace is all athrill in market, mine and 
 shop and mill, because in this young infant Bill we've got a 
 friend at last." 
 
 When Sulzer first began to cry, the first sound that he made 
 was " I," and then folks wondered, by and by, when from his 
 tiny throat there came a more connected sound, and with his 
 small ear to the ground, he bellowed loudly all around, " Boo- 
 hoo, I want to vote." 
 
 When Sulzer went to Albany he said, "There's just one job for 
 me, for though, as all men will agree, I am no office seeker, and 
 would not stoop to blow my horn the very place that I was 
 born, beyond my fellows to adorn, is that there job of Speaker." 
 
 So Sulzer spoke and spoke and spoke, and those who said he 
 was a joke before so very long awoke to realize that he more 
 solid attributes possessed than many a merry human jest, and 
 that is why he soon progressed to Washington, D. C. 
 
 They kept him busy there because he had to write the people's 
 laws, and soon the people's wild applause rang out from shore to 
 shore. Did he knock off and sit stock still? He didn't. No, 
 sir — not old Bill — he kept on his career until he was the 
 Governor. 
 
 And now we have him here tonight, not even that dead guy, 
 Si Wright, could fill us with such deep delight or give us such 
 a thrill. Or look so great and grand and grim, or make us say, 
 "That's him! That's him!" Or make the limelight look so dim 
 
 as does the People's Bill. 
 
MAJOR EDWARD G. SCHERMERHORN 
 
 FOR purposes of accuracy and with no desire to be uncompli- 
 mentary it must be stated that Major Schermerhorn is the 
 successor of Eckford Craven DeKay. The bulging effect 
 on the right arm of the major's coat is caused by the clock he 
 keeps concealed from the sight of the occupant of the People's 
 House. Major Schermerhorn 's uniform is as popular with 
 Governor Sulzer as a safety razor would be with the Major. 
 When the cruel war between Boss Murphy and Governor Sulzer 
 ends, Major Schermerhorn is going to embroider a plaque, to be 
 hung in the People's House, bearing the words, " God Bless Our 
 Happy Home." Being an expert photographer, Major Schermer- 
 horn's ambition is to take a snapshot of Governor Sulzer per- 
 mitting the State to pay the military secretary's expenses to 
 Washington. 
 
MARTIN H. GLYNN 
 
 \ li ARTIN GLYNN is the man who signs letters when Gover- 
 * * * nor Sulzer is out of the State. He is also the man who 
 says, " Sh-h!" when anyone breathes heavily in the Senate 
 Chamber. Once Tammany Boss Murphy said, " Sh-h!" and 
 Mr. Glynn defied him by appointing fourteen Tammany men 
 and one independent Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. 
 Mr. Glynn owns a newspaper which sometimes contains articles 
 which, in part, read: "Mr. Glynn spoke as follows." Mr. 
 Glynn's idea of happiness is to wake up some morning and 
 see in a newspaper: " Governor Sulzer resigned last night." 
 Mr. Glynn made several speeches for Governor Sulzer during 
 the last campaign, none of which were taken seriously by the 
 newspaper correspondents. If he doesn't quit talking about a 
 hydro-electric plant to supply Albany and vicinity, Anthony 
 N. Brady is likely to cut down his campaign contribution next 
 time. 
 
THOMAS CARMODY 
 
 MR. CARMODY is attorney-general for the State, and gen- 
 eral attorney for Governor Sulzer, who puts up to him all 
 the legal matters which the Executive office finds too 
 troublesome. He is the man who has kept Harry K. Thaw in jail, 
 and many people mentioned by the prison investigators out. 
 This was due to Mr. Carmody's unfailing politeness, which pre- 
 vents his thinking of anything in connection with court action 
 that is not civil. He is kept busy at present by the Sulzer 
 Committee of Inquiry which has developed the habit of passing 
 the buck to him on every possible occasion. Mr. Carmody's 
 dislike of notoriety keeps him from issuing more than four 
 statements a day. He comes from Penn Yan, which is one of 
 the finest places in the State to come from. Mr. Carmody was 
 once almost a candidate for Governor. 
 
JOHN A. BENSEL 
 
 JOHN A. BENSEL engineers things. If he is personally in- 
 terested he will even engineer a boom, but he is at his best 
 digging canals. The Panama Canal would have been finished 
 long ere this with Bensel on the job. Ask HIM, if you don't 
 believe it. 
 
 It really seems too bad to keep the State Engineer on the 
 little ditch in New York. Still, what it lacks in breadth and 
 thickness, it makes up in length and the contracts. Well, say, 
 some contracts. Fine, rich, fat. Lieutenant-Governor Glynn 
 knows all about that. 
 
 Several folks have tried to hand Mr. Bensel the take-the- 
 count wallop during the last three years but nobody yet, not 
 even with the help of engineers from the U. S. A., ever got 
 through his guard. 
 
 He is suspected of ambition. It is whispered that he wants 
 to be Governor. But Charley Murphy says: "Nix. He knows 
 too much. He might turn out worse than Bill." 
 
THE SENATE 
 
ROBERT F. WAGNER 
 
 D OBERT FIREPROOF WAGNER was made in Germany 
 *■ ^ at an early age. He decided to be President of the Senate 
 
 when he grew up, and at once, with typical German dogged- 
 ness, began preparing for the task. He studied Die Warheit and 
 soon learned of the low rates of fare to Hoboken. Arriving, he 
 was apprenticed to the City College and graduated with the 
 degree of B. S. (not the vulgar kind). Later, he partook of a 
 course of law and so entered politics. Living near Hell Gate, he 
 was naturally interested in conflagrations, and became one of the 
 best-known advocates of solid concrete or hollow tile construction 
 as an insurance against destruction in the future. This gave him 
 the nickname of " Rob the Rock." After learning the ropes in 
 the Assembly, he climbed into the Senate and soon made a dent in 
 the ranks of the Old Guard. His method was to use a sledge 
 hammer instead of a sword, and he has found it very successful. 
 Wagner, like George Washington, never tells a lie. He doesn't 
 have to. He has Murphy back of him in everything he says. 
 That, some folks say, is where he has it on George, who had no 
 Tammany Hall to help him murder the English. Wagner's 
 greatest claim to fame is his Factory Investigating Commission, 
 which is going to do either one of two things : Make it a felony 
 to employ children and women ; or else make it a felony to run 
 a business in anything but a fireproof vault. 
 
 Wagner is now investigating the police situation. His 
 method is to call all the reformers and let 'em talk. That pleases 
 the reformers and doesn't hurt Wagner any. Also he is said to 
 pull the strings for Murph. He is the In-Ter-Med-I-Ary in the 
 awful war between Murph. and the Governor. He calls 'em both 
 by their first names ; but otherwise is intensely serious. He is 
 said to work twenty-four hours a day since he had his appendix 
 cut out. If he passes his own laws, he will soon be able to sue 
 Murph. for overtime. Incidentally, The Pcepul seem to think 
 he is the goods. 
 
PATRICK E. McCABE 
 
 PATRICK E. McCABE is the leading independent Demo- 
 crat in the State of New York. He is an unassuming man 
 and if the title doesn't stick, he won't mind it. He won it 
 at the Democratic State Convention in Syracuse last fall when 
 he engineered the landslide that gave the Gubernatorial nomi- 
 nation to William Sulzer on the fourth ballot. McCabe knew 
 when the psychological moment for an irresistible Sulzer tide to 
 sweep the Convention, was at hand. He had consulted Tam- 
 many leader Charles F. Murphy, and Mr. Murphy had seen to 
 it that there should be no slip-up on Sulzer by directing all the 
 other delegates to watch what McCabe was doing and to do like- 
 wise. 
 
 Patrick E. McCabe has a good face, a good heart, a good 
 head and a better scent. He can smell a political job long before 
 it is created. He has shown a knack for being present at the 
 birth to receive the little stranger, hug it to his heart, and never 
 let it go again. 
 
 The time is long past when Patrick E. McCabe as a politician 
 could qualify in the amateur class. He is serving his second 
 term as Clerk of the Senate, and that dignified body doesn't 
 seem to mind it a bit. 
 
ELON R. BROWN 
 
 C LON R. BROWN who represents the Thirty-fifth Senate 
 District, is the Republican leader in the Senate. His de- 
 bates with Robert F. Wagner, the majority leader, are 
 characterized by the mild temper and shrinking modesty of a 
 violet. Senator Brown sits in the third pew on the right as one 
 enters the Senate by the middle door; and he can frequently be 
 seen leading the mighty forces of the Republicans in their irre- 
 sistible course of futility. 
 
 Senator Brown was born some time ago and is now a lawyer 
 in Watertown. Once he was an insurgent, but he is now the 
 leader of the Bill Barnes Progressives. As such he is a staunch 
 defender of the Constitution and the persecuted water-power 
 interests. He is very modest about appearing in print, and his 
 refusal to furnish data for this sketch compels us to cut it short. 
 
JAMES J. FRAWLEY 
 
 JAMES J. FRAWLEY, Democrat, who represents the Twen- 
 tieth Senate District, is either President, Vice-President or 
 Corresponding Member of every Athletic Club this side 
 of the Mississippi river. The date of his birth is not known, 
 but it will not be needed for some time, for Senator Frawley, 
 though one of the pillars of the Senate, has not aged under 
 the load. 
 
 There are younger Senators than he, but few who can make 
 a more vigorous speech. He was the author of that ringing 
 question: " They have been investigating Tammany now for over 
 a hundred years, but whom did they ever put in jail ? I ask you ! " 
 
 The punch in his talk is due to the interest he has taken in 
 prize-fight legislation. He fathered the boxing law in the Legis- 
 lature and is proud of his child. 
 
 He has been re-elected so many times that historians have 
 lost count. He is chairman of the Finance Committee, and no 
 better proof is needed of the fidelity with which he discharges 
 his duties and the sensitiveness of his conscience than the fact 
 that he courageously held up the nomination of Milton E. 
 Gibbs. The objections to Gibbs were so slight that a man with 
 less conscience than Frawley could have swept them aside and 
 put Gibbs through. 
 
JOHN F. MURTAUGH 
 
 JOHN F. MURTAUGH, Democrat, who represents the Forty- 
 first Senate District, opened his eyes on this world in 
 Elmira, and found that city so well worth looking at that 
 he has continued to live there ever since, with the exception of a 
 short period when he was compelled to live in Ithaca in order 
 to captain the Cornell baseball team. 
 
 He is understood to have done a good job as baseball captain, 
 and his work in the upper house at Albany has been on the 
 same order. He was the first Democrat ever elected from his 
 district, which is normally Republican by 4,000. But at least 
 2,001 of those Republicans are baseball fans. 
 
 Senator Murtaugh is a friend of Col. Joseph F. Scott, the recent 
 State Superintendent of Prisons. This is one of the best things 
 known about Colonel Scott. 
 
 As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Murtaugh 
 has had a few things to do this session. He also introduced the 
 labor people's Workmen's Compensation bill, but he has been 
 doing his best to live that down. He is a highway expert, which 
 does not mean a highwayman, and the Sulzer bill for the re- 
 organization of the Highways Djpartment bears his name. 
 
SETH G. HEACOCK 
 
 5ETH GROSVEXOR HEACOCK, Republican, who repre- 
 sents the Thirty-second Senate District, saw his first dollar 
 in the city of Buffalo on March i, 1857. None have es- 
 caped his notice since. 
 
 He succeeded in making his way through Hamilton College 
 and went out to face the world at the age of 23. His abilities 
 were recognized by the President of the United States, who 
 appointed him a postmaster. His handsome features made an 
 impression as they shone through the stamp window. But there 
 was too little profit in stamps, and he resigned to go into the 
 oil-producing business. 
 
 The Republican party, after watching his success in this ven- 
 ture for a time, saw that he was the very person to nominate 
 for State Senator, with the inevitable result that he was elected. 
 This was in 1906, and he has been three times re-elected. 
 
 Mr. Heacock is reorganizing the Republican party against 
 William Barnes and is keeping the new machinery well fed 
 with oil. 
 
JAMES A. EMERSON 
 
 JAMES A. EMERSON, Republican, represents the Thirty-third 
 Senate District, particularly the hotels and railroads in 
 remote sections of the Adirondack^, which otherwise must 
 suffer from lack of proper consideration at the hands of the 
 State's lawmakers. He represents all the interests of his district 
 so faithfully that when the Republican party is not in power he 
 votes with the Democrats in order that his constituents may have 
 a friend at court. He engineered a highway through the Adiron- 
 dacks which didn't miss a hotel or lumber camp in which a 
 single politician of either party was concerned. Senator Emerson 
 and Brother Lou exploit most of the Adirondack^ which the 
 Paper Trust hasn't gobbled. He has a tender heart, and when 
 cruel Governor Hughes wanted to drive the beautiful thorough- 
 bred from the State, Senator Emerson nobly came to its rescue 
 and voted for improving the breed of horses. In spite of a load 
 of too, too solid flesh, Senator Jim is the most active man in 
 the Senate, and whenever a roll-call is announced, he shoots 
 through the Senate doors with such momentum that he almost 
 meets himself coming back. 
 
STEPHEN J. STILWELL 
 
 C TEPHEN J. STILWELL represents the Twenty-first Sena- 
 torial District. That isn't all he represents. When he is not 
 at Albany he can always be seen at his office in New York. 
 Legislating is not Mr. Sti! well's only business. He finds time to 
 draw a will occasionally. Mr. Stilwell is taking a keen 
 interest in the Wall Street bills, and the brokers are natur- 
 ally taking a keen interest in Senator Stilwell. He recently 
 introduced a bill to compel automobiles to carry safety lights in 
 the rear, the advantage to be derived from which should be 
 patent to all who know the Senator — or the light. A year ago 
 he demanded the County of the Bronx from Murphy, and 
 Murphy gave it to him — with a string on it. Senator Stilwell 
 is not a rich man but he hopes to be able to serve several more 
 terms in the Legislature. 
 
WILLIAM LAURENCE ORMROD 
 
 ]V /IR. ORMROD is the man who once startled the Senate by 
 * majestically arising in his seat and saying: "Mr. Pres- 
 President, I-I-I ask that the-ah the-ah b-b-b-bill h-h-have 
 a second " — (loud applause accompanied by remarks of "Bill's 
 actually made a speech"). Next to George W. Aldridge, Mr. 
 Ormrod's best friend is Theodore Roosevelt, who by putting a 
 candidate into the field in the 46th senatorial district last fall, 
 enabled Mr. Ormrod to continue this year at Albany. Mr. 
 Ormrod has been successively a school boy, an iron moulder, a 
 telegraph operator, a hotel keeper, a millionaire and a friend of 
 Seth Heacock. Mr. Ormrod was ill during the early part of the 
 session and Seth Keacock nearly died of thirst. 
 
THE ASSEMBLY 
 
ALFRED E. SMITH. 
 
 LFRED ELECTRIC SMITH, Democrat. First spark of 
 
 life in New York City. Been getting up high voltage ever 
 since. Great wire-puller. Dangerous when charged with 
 heavy current. Has shocked many an old maid. Showered 
 sparks all over old Dan Frisbie, and now has his place as Speaker. 
 In early years, an actor. Sometimes still referred to as an actor, 
 with the prefix " raw." Can bawl out even Louis Cuvillier. 
 Noted for ability to coerce; coax, bully, wheedle, persuade and 
 win. In other words, gets his own way. Used to tell Governor 
 Dix his proper place in the scheme of things and get away with 
 it. Hasn't yet had a chance with Sulzer because he couldn't 
 get a word in. Works with Wagner — Not "I. W. W.," but 
 " W. W. W." Same methods used by both organizations. 
 Saws wood, saws the air, sings songs, belongs to the Collector's 
 and Affixer's Union. One of Murphy's Boys — his Gold Dust 
 Twins — "Let Smith and Wagner do Murph's work." Man- 
 ages to support a large family, but owns no touring cars. How- 
 ever, 'e 'as 'opes. 
 
AARON J. LEVY 
 
 AARON J. LEVY, who represents the Fourth Assembly Dis- 
 trict of New York county, began his political career as a 
 district leader for the Citizens' Union, because the Tam- 
 many leader who knew Aaron best wanted to have somebody he 
 could trust in charge of the reform movement in his territory. 
 Now Aaron is majority leader of the lower branch of the Legisla- 
 ture, and is in charge of more reforms than his clerks can keep 
 track of. He is reforming everything, from the New York City 
 police force to news-stands and the legislative procedure. He 
 hasn't yet succeeded in reforming Cuvillier. Mr. Levy's monu- 
 mental achievement in politics, though, was the Levy Election 
 Law. When Aaron put this through the Legislature it was a 
 beautiful edifice. When the Court of Appeals got through with it, 
 it was a crumbling ruin, and Murphy has never felt quite the 
 same toward Aaron since. Neither have the up-state Democrats. 
 When Mr. Levy has ended his legislative cares, he devotes some 
 attention to the legal necessities of gunmen and nighthawk 
 chauffeurs. Mr. Levy is an eloquent speaker, and on occasion 
 has set the Capitol ablaze — with enthusiasm. 
 
HAROLD J. HINMAN 
 
 TV7ITH0UT any intention of being unkind, the figure that 
 W Hinman brings to mind, is a lean and starved old 
 G. 0. P., that has been licked to the last degree. He's 
 generally said to be the voice of the man who prevented "The 
 People's Choice" from riding the symbolic pachyderm in his 
 recent race for the first Third Term. That T. R. was balked, 
 and the country's free, was due to Billy Barnes and he. So 
 Hinman's liked by Democracy. He leads a few of heroes true 
 who fight the Tiger like Merritt used to do. All he can do is kick 
 and holler; when it comes to roll-calls very few " f oiler." To 
 hear him shouting about graft, you'd never think the good old 
 craft " State of N. Y." had ever been manned by a lot of Barnes' 
 men. 
 
LOUIS A. CUVILLIER 
 
 MR. CUVILLIER is not the author of a bill to suppress 
 nuisances. He doesn't father measures in which his 
 personal interest might be at stake. He was one year old 
 when he first lisped the words, " Mr. Speaker;" every time he 
 has uttered them since, J. B. Lyon raises his hands in gratitude 
 and exclaims: " Here's where we make another hundred printing 
 the Assembly minutes." Mr. Cuvillier holds the record for long- 
 distance bill introducing. He has fathered more bills than Gover- 
 nor Sulzer did when in Congress, but has passed fewer. Mr. 
 Cuvillier doesn't believe in the recall but the suffragists do — as 
 applied to him. Color was lent to his legislative record when he 
 presented a bill to establish a negro regiment. Mr. Cuvillier 
 is an independent Democrat with Percy Nagle leanings. 
 
MARTIN G. McCUE 
 
 ASIDE from a tendency to plug for the highbrow reform- 
 ing element in Albany, ,; Marty " McCue, who represents 
 the Sixteenth New York District, is all right. 
 " Marty" can't resist that inborn disposition to reform things. 
 He would make the world better; a more comfortable place for 
 people to live in. For example, some of the Excise laws in this 
 State are really unjust. Mr. McCue ever since he took his seat 
 in the Assembly has striven manfully to improve them. With 
 the assistance of the Reverend O. U. Miller he may yet succeed. 
 
 McCue is a born orator. Few can resist his eloquence when 
 he really uncorks. But, really, "Marty" is at his best in 
 private life. There, if he doesn't win you by his logic he'll get 
 you with that sunny smile. 
 
 P. S. — Some say Mr. McCue has considerable steam in his 
 punch even now and there was a time when — . But that's 
 getting pretty far back into the dim and distant past. 
 
 It is only just to McCue to say that despite his close 
 affiliations with certain prominent members of the Prohibition 
 party he is really a member of the Democratic party. If he 
 didn't vote right Al. Smith would knock his block off. 
 
JOHN R. YALE 
 
 JACK YALE has been in the Assembly so long that even the 
 oldest inhabitant has forgotten when he came or how. 
 Everybody knows whence he comes, however. Putnam is 
 his county and down there he is credited with controlling the 
 county organization of the'Republican, the Democratic and the 
 Progressive parties. 
 
 Jack's friends say he has put over some hot ones in his time. 
 But he never makes unnecessary noise about it. As " Plain 
 Bill" says: "Results speak louder than words." Yale gets 
 results. In a pinch he can deliver a score or so of votes in the 
 Assembly. 
 
 The best way to get a line on Jack is to sit in a game with 
 him. But be careful, it might prove expensive. 
 
THE PROBERS 
 
JOHN G. CARLISLE 
 
 (By Governor Sulzer) 
 
 « JOHN GRAFTHUNTER CARLISLE is an old friend of 
 J mine. He is one Democrat who admits I am The State 
 Leader. There are no flies on John, even if he does come 
 fromWatertown. Selected by Governor Hughes, my predecessor — ■ 
 for whom I have the highest regard because I believe he always 
 did the best he could according to his lights, just as I do the 
 best I can according to the light that is given me — Mr. Carlisle 
 served on the Public Service Commission with distinction, and I 
 speak advisedly. Owing to the fact that he wanted to gee back 
 on the Commission, and was such a good friend of mine, I made 
 him my Chief Head Hunter. He has served me well. Any time 
 I wanted to 'get' anybody, I sent John after him. Any time I 
 wanted anybody appointed Secretary to the Commssion, or to 
 any other place, he put 'cm on. I stand ready to make John 
 Public Service Commissioner, Superintendent of Prisons, Super- 
 intendent of Highways, or anything else that happens to have 
 been vacated recently. Step up, John, and receive your re- 
 ward." 
 
JOHN H. DELANEY 
 
 JOHN HUSTLE DELANEY comes from Brooklyn. That is 
 the worst thing that can be said about him. He " might 
 have been" Public Service Commissioner instead of McCall, 
 but that Willie Regretful Hearst printed the appointment so 
 many times in his newspapers before it was made. Delaney is 
 the most popular man with the office-holding ring in Albany. 
 As loyal servants of the people, they all appreciate his efforts at 
 discovering what in the world they were paid for, and why. 
 Delaney can spot an officeholder at sight. The officeholder 
 always gives himself away by running around the block when 
 John approaches. They do say that Delaney is a friend of 
 Charlie Murphy. Well, it hasn't made him a Commissioner, yet. 
 And soon, it is rumored, he will go back to his own newspaper 
 job, receiving the cordial thanks of the Chief Executive, with- 
 out compensation other than the sense of duty well done. 
 
ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE 
 
 Frank A. Tierney, Albany Times-Union, Chairman 
 
 Franz Richter New York Staats Zeitung 
 
 Patrick T. Rellihan New York Press 
 
 Louis McH. Howe New York Evening Telegram 
 
 Frederick W. Crone New York Tribune 
 
 Louis J. Lang New York American 
 
 Joseph J. Early Brooklyn Standard Union 
 
 Charles F. Kerrigan. . . . Brooklyn Eagle 
 
 George M. Janvrin Brooklyn Citizen 
 
 George Franklin Troy Record 
 
 Frederick T. Cardoze National News Association 
 
 Charles S. Hand New York World 
 
 John F. Tremain Associated Press 
 
 John D. Whish United Press 
 
 Joseph L. McEntee New York Sun 
 
 Albert E. Dale Albany Knickerbocker-Press 
 
 Stevenson H. Evans Buffalo Express 
 
 Willard A. Marakle Rochester Democrat and Chronicle 
 
 Walter S. Green Rochester Times 
 
 Jay Dwight Whitney New York Evening Post 
 
 George Henry Payne. . . . New York Evening Mail 
 
 RECEPTION COMMITTEE 
 
 Joseph J. Early, Brooklyn Standard-Union, Chairman 
 
 Harry W. Smith Albany Argus 
 
 William H. Brainerd Albany Evening Journal 
 
 John M. Elliott Brooklyn Times 
 
 Franz Richter New York Staats Zeitung 
 
 Jacob Knauber Syracuse Journal 
 
 James Malcolm Albany Knickerbocker-Press 
 
 Samuel J. T. Coe National News Association 
 
 Joseph T. McNally Albany Argus 
 
 William M. Conway New York Evening Sun 
 
 William B. Osborne National News Association 
 
 Jacob Grammer New York Staats Zeitung 
 
 Albert G. Preston Buffalo Courier 
 
 Thomas B. Peck Albany Knickerbocker-Press 
 
 Gustave Miller Brooklyn Freie Presse 
 
 James McH. Stuart Albany Times-Union 
 
 Victor T. Holland Svracuse Herald 
 
DINNER COMMITTEE 
 
 Frederick W. Crone, 
 
 Edward R. Anker 
 
 Stevenson H. Evans 
 
 William H. Owen 
 
 Charles H. Armitage. . . . 
 
 John H. Elliott 
 
 Royal K. Fuller 
 
 Fred. W. Wose 
 
 William H. Braixerd 
 
 George R. Cozzens 
 
 Joseph J. Judd 
 
 John C. Crary 
 
 New York Tribune, Chairman 
 Associated Press 
 Buffalo Express 
 Albany Evening Journal 
 Buffalo News 
 Brooklyn Times 
 New York Herald 
 New York World 
 Albany Evening Journal 
 Associated Press 
 Binghamton Press 
 Albany E vening Journal 
 
 INVITATION COMMITTEE 
 
 Charles K. Armitage, Buffalo Evening News, Chairman 
 
 John H. Elliott Brooklyn Times 
 
 Victor T. Holland Syracuse Herald 
 
 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE 
 
 Louis McH. Howe, New York Evening Telegram, Chairman 
 
 Frank A. Tierney Albany Times-Union 
 
 Stevenson H. Evans Buffalo Express 
 
 Joseph J. Early Brooklyn Standard-Union 
 
 Frederick W. Crone New York Tribune 
 
 Charles H. Armitage. . . . Buffalo News