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Show CHOATE DESCRIBES A BOSS Former Embassador Pays Respects to I Genius In Politics NEW YORK. Nov. 1 Joseph H Choate wus the principal speaker tonight it i mass meeting In 'arneg. hull, managed man-aged by members of the bar of New York, in support of the candidacy ol District Attorney William Tracers Jerome, Je-rome, n wa Mr. Choate1 a first appearance appear-ance on a public platform In the united States sine- ins appointment a Embassador Embas-sador st the court of St. James seven ears ago. In the ourse of his remarks Mr Cpoate paid his respects to th political boss. He said: His Idea of the Boss. "We used to have great leaders whom w l were proud to follow, tuji h men BS Soward, Greeley and Evarts, men ol great mains, of high character, ol patrlotl) honor, who only could he compared as giants to pigmies With these little p, ,-dlorn ,-dlorn or ward politics, these boss, s, in they are called 1 wish 1 could get up ,i good definition of tht word bos h Is S v.-lgar WOltl, hut there is no other word id express the meaning to which it applied. A creature. I should call him, without scruple or conscience, who fills his capacious maw with gruff, who feeds his greedy followers upon political gui -huge gathered from the offlclul flesh-pots and swill palls, who now dictates who shall be the candidates of the respective) parties for the greut offices that the people peo-ple ire to fill. And the members of the party at large have no more to do with th making of the nominations for thr-at municipal offices than have the children J mi find playing the Btreetl ' ' |