The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-16
THE A R BACK 0FTRACY.
"FoR MAN TO REFUSE TO 10 Hrs
UTMosT NOW WOULD BE TREASON"

pliss-A vote for low IL n Vote TO intrench
Tnmmany IN the second city or the world.
The echoes from Secretary Bliss ringing let
Ter indorsing Gen. Benjamin +. Tracy and In
yoking the forces OF good government had not
died away yesterday before the Republican
managers received q telegraphic message from
Gov. Black which told exactly where the Re-
= publican Executive Ofthe Empire State stood In
this. battle. He had been asked 10 mako u
speech in Lenox Lyceum on next Wednesday
evening. where Secretary Bliss is to preside.
Back came this message from Albany:
"For any man to refuse to do his utmost now
would DO treason. i will come.
FRAN S. BLACK"
Tho Republican campaigncrs at head quarters
=, sent up a cheer when President QuiGg read Gov.
Blacks telegram. II had the true ring. 1t had
fire and vim in it. and every Republican cam
paignef was made glad. The next instant came
a telegram from Secretary Bliss in response TO
one inviting him to preside at the Lonox Lyceum
demonstration. Secretary Bliss wired:
~ shall be happy to comply with your re-
quest to preside at the meeting at Lonox Ly.
"CoRNELIUs N. BLISS"
So there will be three great Republican guns
at the Lenox Lyceum
Tracy, Secretary Bliss, and Gov. Black. Follow
ing quick after Secretary Bliss telegram came
one from the Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, Pres
ident Mckinley's Commissioner of Patents at
Washington. Mr.. Butterworth said that he
would DO happy to speak with Gen. Tracy on
Monday night in tho Clcrnont Avenue Rink,
Brooklyn.
Republicans who have been friendly to Mayor
Strong were inclined to ~criticise his Honor yes
terday. The Mayor in his speech the night be.
fore referred to what he said was an interference
on the part OF the Mckinley Administration in
the battle for a Mayor OF Greater New York.
and cited the Folger episode of 1889 to warrant
his assertion that only disaster for Gen. Tracy
could follow. Gen. Arson G. McCook, Seth
Lows right.hand man and business partner of
Richard Croker, James J. Martin, Bernard
Martin. and other Tammany chieftains, echoed
Mayor Strong's sentiments. The Republicans
declared that Mayor Strong and Gen. McCook
referred to the Folger episode only in a
desperate effort to Offset tho beneficial effects
Of Secretary Bliss letter. The Republican
chiettains said that Mayor Strong and Gen. Nc
Cook were politically dishonest in adopting any
such line of argument. 1t was very aptly stated
that the Mckinley Administration was elected
to preserve the principles for which Gen. Tracy
stands, and that through Secretary Bliss the
Mckinley Administrator has let 1t be known
that Mr.. Lows candidacy is inimlcal to tho
party which represents sound money and good
government in the State, nation. and the city.
1t was agreed that the Administration per.
formed 4 sterling act Of duty in thus reminding
Z the voters of Greater New York OF the great
( issue involved in this campaign.
Every schoolboy is aware tina the Folger cpl.
sode had no relation whatever to national inter.
ests. The interference there was with the party's
nominating convention. The Republicans said
that something better was expected from Mayor
Strong. Amy old thing, it was added, may be OK.
pected from Gen. McCook. who has been a poll.
tician for revenue only. II was declared, first on
one side Of the political fence and then on tho
other. meantime hand in glove always in bust
ness affairs with Tammany Hall chiettains.
This remark was made concerning both Mayor
Strong and Gen. McCook:
1T is more honorable to interfere in behalf Of
your party candidates than 10 stand I'D and
stab them in the back with the hypocri,ical
weapon which Mayor Strong and Gen. McCook
used on Thursday night"
Representative John Murray Mitchell has
visited every Assembly district in Greater New
York. For a week or more he has been in close
communication with the Republican leaders of
these districts and with the Republican cam.
paiRn managers. Representative Mitchell, as a
result OF his labors, gave tho following views on
the situation:
ct has got fairly down to this. There are three
Democratic tickets in the field, the Van Wyck,
Low and George tickets. The number OF Tam,
many Hall Democrats VINO will vote for George
Will outnumbcr ten to one the so-called Rcpub
licans who will vote for Low. AS election day
draws near the Republicans who have
been standing apathetic are coming up strong
and fast 10 the defence OF their party and
tho national honor. They sec now that a vote
for Low is a vote for Tammany Hall, and realiz,
the utter sclfshness and unscrupulousness Of
the college President. Now that the issue ha'
been narrowed down to Tracy. representing
honest Republican government, on the one hand
and Van Wyck, George, and Low on the othel
hand. representing Tammany's corruption anc
anarchy. the Republicans of the Greater New
York are ~rallying to a man."
The Republican campaigners continue to re-
ceive the most encouraging reports from ever.
Assembly district. The Republicans and thei
sound-money Democratic allies are closinI
ranks and standing shoulder to shoulder for tn
only candidate In the field, Gen. Tracy, VIII,
represents the principles demanded by the vas
business interests OF Greater New York and b.
the thousands OF wage earners In the creates
metropolis on the Western hemisphere. Tn
same forces which rescued tho nation iron
Organism last year are now solidihed for Gen
Tracy.
IL has been observed in The Sun that Sell
Low and his Tammany agent, Gen. Arson @
McCook, hope to cajole the young Republican
OF Greater New York into supporting Low
special Efforts are being made in that direction
Inc Republican caInpaigners are keeping an ey
on this feature OF the situation, and 1t was thei
opinion yesterday that tho young Republican
on election day will sadly disappoint the expe,
tations OF Seth Low and his Tammany campaig
manager, Gen. McCook. The young Rcpubl
cans for a short time were rather pa
tial to Mr.. Low. mainly because h
Is comparatively n young man himself
But they have been brought to see that Set
Low stands only upon a platform of whlms all
idiosyncracies, and that practically Seth Lo,
himself is the platform. They see that as q fire.,
, trader he is diametricolly opposed to the prime
pies which have built up the Itepu blican party
the nation. Moreover. the young Republican
IN the vast majority OF instances are employe
by business houses, many OF which were rookie
totheir foundations by Grover Cleveland's fire.
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