The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-09
II sun, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1897.

r.s,s,ance 70 that assault should have been
most determined was New York, for the
menace 10 moro especially against the con.
seryatiye interests OF his great centre OF
American wealth and civilization. Last
wear. accordingly, they united In giving a
majority against Mr.. BRYAN and Tammany
Hail. his representative. This year, how.
ever. Mugwumpery interviewed with its
old tricks, 1t pretended that Organism
Ind nothing to do with the campaign,
and that the only issue was what
n called "bossism." In other words,
its objective was the party organization
Of the Republicans, the only party through
which any contest against Organism can
he waRed now or at any time hereafter
until IL has been crushed absolutely; for
nothing is more obvious than that the
Chicago platform is to be the continuing
standard of the Democratic party. As n con-
seouence of this Mugwump deviltry, Bryan
ism has won n great victory in this city
and State, where 1t was defeated so
roundly only a year ago.. The Mugwumps,
too. have gained q large force of recruits
from Republicans who had before remained
with their party. The NeW York Tribune
IA no longer Of political Importance, and
hence its complete surrender to Mugwump-
ery Is not a matter of much Significance (;
but the large reduction in the percentage OF
the Republican vote under the distraction
of the Low candidacy, whose prime and
obvious purpose was the effacement Of that
party and the disintegration Of its organi-
cation, Is a serious matter. Experience in
dicates that the Mugwump mania is pro-
| gressive and that those afflicted by 1t in its
more acute form become permanent politi.
cal perverts and apostates whose madness
leads them to strike most yiciously at the
party they lave deserted.
What does all this suggesti. Does 1t not
portend a sweeping triumph for Organism
next year and in 1900, another complete po-
litical topsy-turvy, more mercurial politics,
| renewed and increased danger to our bust
ness and financial interests, and the
strengthening of the foreign impression
that the American people are without po-
litical stability2 The sinister result of the
New York election, however, was the
work of the conservative element of the
community. 1t only was tickle. Tammany
held its Bryanite vote of last year substan,
TALLY intact, but the great majority of the
Mckinley vote turned square about and gave
the city and State to Organism, though as
the election returns proved, and as was
manifest from the first, it could have put
the Republican party in power and mani
tested to all the world the strength Of its
political principles.
These people are now perplexed and anx'
ious but they invited the trouble which
has come upon them, and they deserve it,
They have reaped the inevitable fruits
of their folly and madness. They had
the opportunity to put this great commu
nifty and this great State so emphatically
on the side of conservative stability that its
reputation for sobriety of judgment would
have been enhanced throughout tho world
but they set to work to strike down the onl.
party IN which they could depend as the
champion of their welfare.
How can they avoid the harvest of evil
consequences for which their folly sowet
the seed2 How can they prevent the dole
full returns of their wild investment in thu
Low e~nterprise3 They must resume ant
continue their allegiance to the part,
which saved them from ruin last year
They must repudiate thed devices of politi
cal guerrillas to divert them from it.