Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-07
LOW AT COOPER UNION
Citizens Union Candidate for Mayor Opens
His Campaign.
Has n Large Audience md Makes a
Strong Plea for Good Cow
eminent.

The Citizens onion opened their cam
mass meeting at Cooper Union. The au-
dienee were admitted by ticket and the hall
was crowded. The feature of the evening
was Mr.. Lows speech. Other speeches
were made erdthere was a great display
CT enthusiasm. Speeches were made by
Charles Stewart Smith, who presided over
the Eseeting; 10y Joseph Larocque, by Carl
Schurz. by State Senator Charles Guy, and
by Mr.. Charles S. Fairchild, ex-secretary
of the trsasury.4,-s
Mr.. Low said that from the point of view
OF the Citizens Union the only object of
the campaign was to secure good govern
merit.
There are -four tickets in the field. ne
said. Two of them, tac ticket headed by
General Tracy and the ticket headed by
Henry George, openly proclaim the doc
trine that in the solution of this t-emen-
dous municipal problem that confronts the
city OF New York national issues and not
the local issues ought to dominate in the
minds of the voters. General Tracy is
against Organism and Henry George is for
1t: Roth Of those asn,,..,,sn nro,o.. 30,
tain things for the city. Nevertheless,
they say, both of them, that the city's in
tercsts are not the paramount issue and
that the voter ought to cast his ballot
No nan can serve two masters, and If
the people of the city elect mayor be-
cause of the views he entertains on the
free coinage of silver and all the rest,
they must not be surprised il the mayor
they elect subordrates the interests of
the city to the eXigencies Of the party TO
which he belongs. This means that ap-
pointments will be made to strengthen the
party. and that the patronage of the city,
wherever possible. will be used for the same
purpose. Every intelligent citizen of New
York knows what this means, for he has
seen the effect Of it with his own eyes.
CAUTIOUSLY enough in this campaign
Tammany Hall in its platform has confined
itself as strictly to local issues as the Cit
izens Union. But everybody understands
that Tammany Hall has done this only be-
Cause it has not dared to come out either
for the Chicago platform Of its party or
against it.
THE sincerity of Tammany's platform
utterance is easily tested. 1t is fairly elo
quent on the subject of home lule. 1 ask
You, therefore. to consider the illustration
of home rule which Tammany is affordinS
at tins juncture. Its whole ticket has been
named by man nominally out of politics.
who has spent most of his time in Eng
land during the hast three years racing
horses.
Il cannot believe that many people who
have high ideals of city government will
look to Tammany for their realization I'M
der its present management. That organi-
cation is too intimately associated with our
municipal dishonor in the past to be de-
liberately intrusted by the people of the
city with the solution of the great problem
involved in the installation of the new
government of the city of New York.
Further he said:
There IS one point as to which Tam
many. the republican organization and the
adherents of Henry George are all agreed.
With one voice they proclaim that the adj
ministration of the city ought TO be re-
spcnsible to some party. they put IL.
and not directly to the people themselves.
bility on the part of the city officials to
:he people themselves. l know of nothing
more important to the safe conduct of
great affairs than that the man who is IN
a position where he must take the nominal
responsibility should also be obliged to
take the actual responsibility
Mrs. Lease is in New York, and it is
said that she intends to work for Henry
George.