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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-07
1Ss6-1807.

Mr.. HENRY GEORGE has run for Mayor
of New York before. The course of all
good citizens in the first campaign of the
Greater New York is indicated by the
record of the result.
In the memorable year of 1886 the Demo-
cratic candidate, Mr.. ADRIAN S. HEWITT,
was the choice of the reunited Democracy,
consisting of the County Democracy and
Tammany Hall. Mr.. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
was the Republican candidate. AS it be-
came apparent before election day that Mr..
GEORGES was a very serious movement, the
sober sentiment of New York, to make
GEORGES defeat certain, turned to the can
didate of the dominant party, the Democ-
racy, and elected him.
Yet with all the harmony Of the two Dem
ocratic factions and the support OF Mr..
HEWITT Nv a great number of Republicans,
Mr.. HEWITT received but 10000 votes to
5000 for MIR. GEORGE. The difference
between Mr.. RoosEvELr's vote Of 81 10000
and the Republican vote of 10000 for
Judge of the Court of Appeals shows how
heroic was the action thought necessary to
effect Mr.. GEORGES defeat. 1t showed also
that even back in 1856 If the Republicans
had voted solidly for their own party, its
ticket would have been elected.
This years canvass differs from that Of
1886 in w very important particulars.
In the first place, Mr.. GEORGE is vastly
stronger than he was eleven years ago,
owing to the tremendous energy devoted
since that time to the cultivation
of the socialistic spirit; and the politi-
cal party to which conservatism and
sanity must turn to defend their in
tercsts is the Republican party instead
of the Democracy.
In the second place, the Republican party
is the dominant party in New York. 1t
won a year ago by a majority Of 10000.
The Democratic party has been revo-
lutionized and changed into an incen-
diary organization SO rampant that the
leaders of it in their shame have en-.
deavored to hide its true character from
public sight. Organism was defeated by
the Republicans a year ago. and it can be
defeated only by the Republicans in the
election to come.
We ask any thoughtless voters who may
think that next election day they can in
vite their souls to go fishing or to go SUM
ming with Mr.. Low, to imagine the candi-
date of the st. Louis platform Inundated
and beaten, and HENRY GEORGE, the new
prophet of its enemies, Mayor of the
great metropolis of the country. Stand
by the Republican ticket, headed by BEN
AMI F. TRACY!
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after all, to square itself with Canada. Tho
interest Of London, the great centre of the
preparation OF the skins for market, is to
keep up the herd and make 1t prolific, as
of Did. The people Of the British Isles
are not the pelagic %sealers, and those Of
Victoria who do the actual hunting have
interests different from those of the Lon
don factories, from which last have come
some strong appeals to restrain pelagic
sealing. But even British Columbia must
see that for England to reject or ignore the
combined views of the other three great
countries interested in the preservation of
seal life would be a grave risk, and it
would not find fault with Lord SALISBURY
for yielding to those views.
The Paris rules provide for their revision
in five years, and the time is up next year..
Lord SALISBURY has been fighting all along
to get the use of this full period for the
Canadians, and where three countries are
to be dealt with there may be not only more
chance Of conflicting interests, but more
slowness in reaching conclusions.
Still, according to the London statement,
Canada fears being outvoted in such a con-
ference, while Lord SALISBURY thinks that
Russia and Japan, not being bound by the
Paris rules, ought not to take part in the
meeting. Thus orr country may find two
seal conferences on its hands, one being
that Of the British and Canadian experts
and the other the conference with Russia
and Japan.
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ante. Tammany's contemplate platform
and its fatally weak "yellow.dog ticket"
however, suddenly changed the mind OF
GEORGE, and he accepted nomination as the
regular Democratic, Chicago platform candi.
date. The result is that the Tammany ship
Ia scuttled. There remains TO the leaders
only a bcggarly crew Of followers, and all
the fire Of sincerity and passion OF the Dem
ocratic canvass has gone over to HENRY
GEORGE. He is prominently the Bryanite
leader, and he will conduct a Bryanite
campaign in New York by the side of which
that Of last year was feeble and ~lifeless.
What does that meant 1t means unmis-
takably that HENRY GEORGE will be the
first Mayor of the Greater New York, and
the social revolution will win its first great
victory in the chief centre Of American
civilization, unless every conservative vote
in the community Is concentrated on his
only logical opponent, Gen. TRACY, the only
candidate with whom there Is any posi-
bllity of beating him.
Whoever rebels against hat necessity
only kicks against the pricks. The first
Mayor Of the Greater New York will be
either BENJAMIN +. TRACY or HENRY
GEORGE. The men and the newspapers
engaged in an effort to give a fictitious i'm
portance to the Low candidacy, dangerous
diversion of the issue in this grave crisis,
are guilty Of a criminal assault on the well
fare Of New York and the security and
stability of all it's substantial interests.
SETH Low is making himself Infamous.
These are facts, inc eventually the con-
sentative public will wake up to a con-
seriousness Of the threatened danger. The
stolid ranks Of conservatism may not heed
the warning now, but they will get a warn
ing which they will be obliged to heed be-
fore the day Of election comes.
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First Days of Registration.

The first days of registration throughout
The territory included in the Greater New
York will be Tomorrow, hat is, Friday,
and Saturday.
Every citizen who would resist the va
rious movements to turn over New York to
Organism, whether by the Tammany, the
George. or the Low movements, should
avoid all danger of disqualification for vot-
ing by registering on one of those two
days. 1t is a short process, an easily per-
formed duty, and only absence from town
or physical inability to go to the place Of
registration will excuse any citizens neg.
lect of the obligation.
The best way is to make sure of your
qualification to vote by registering on the
first day, Friday. as the prime duty of
the day. The place of registry will be only
a few steps from your door, and it will be
prominently indicated as such.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-07
QUEER LAKE sALAHIK.
FITS waters Grow warm in winter ana Men
Can Fish There with Clubs.

VII ~
Irom the Republfque Of Le,cfston. Ne.
The rich placers of Klondike are not the only
curiosity Of tho country traversed by the Yu-
kon. Not far from Dawson there is in Alaska .
really extraordinary lake which was named
Salawik by its discoverer. the Rey. p. Tosi. .
missionary among the savagcs.
This lake, which is 80 miles long and about
Is miles wide. is perhaps the only one in all
that extreme northern region which does not
freeze over during the winter. No communities
ton has been discovered between 1t and the sea-
nevertheless, at high water upon the coasts OF
the northern ocean. the level OF the lake rises,
and it falls again at low tide.
This sympathy with the sea does not ex-
tend to the point of making Salawik a salt
lake; on the contrary. Its waters are good to
its temperature rises in winter and falls in
summer. When all the water courses of the
neighboring country arc completely frozen over,
Lake Salawik becomes so warm that 1t 10 really
pleasant to bathe in it. On the other han :, in
the summer time the water is extremely cold.
Mecca OF fishermen. The abundance of fish in
the lake is so great that a person can almost
catch them with the hand, and can kill largo
quantities with a club. Here for the miners is a
source Of food supply which they had not
tribute TO diminish the cost Of living. especially
during the winter, in that inhospitable region.
In AN hour a man can get enough fish to supply
himself for a month. and Of the very best quail
ity, including salmon ranging from 20 to . o
pounds in weight
1t will not be astonishing II some fine day We
may see, upon the shores Of Lake Salawik, one
of those fashionable hotels, which are the glory
of American watering places.
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WILLIAM AUGUSTUS STILES. a Commits
sioner Of the New York Parks, died yesterday.
leaving to men unnumbered the sense of a pre-
cious friendship broken and thu memories of q
delightful friend. He was a very modest man.
in life as strong as his love of the peace of ma
ture. but resolute as a backwoodsman in under
taking any duty which he regarded as his, or in
helping others when he thought he could be
useful. The public Of New York have known
Mr.. STILES chiefly as a Commissioner of Parks,
who endowed his post with q highly accom-
plished knowledge of all its distinctive func-
tons. profound sympathy with nature. great
practical sense for dealing with all questions
that could come before him. q trained officials
fitness for public office. and a respect for its re.
sponsibilities as incorruptible as his under
standing of them was clear. Mr.. STILES was a
public officer such as every citizen may well
honor. But his was n very marked individuality.
Tho seriousness OF life didn't rob him of his ap-
probation OF its curiosities. or education affect
the quaintness of tho fresh and genial spirit that
was born in him. No man was richer in his SYM
pathy. or kinder in his heart, or more genuine in
his love for his fellows. Broad in his informa-
ton, interested in very many things, and always
charming in his humor and in tho larger spirit
OF companionship, frank and sincere in every
impulse. Il friend Of Mr.. STILES always felt that
he really knew him, and knowing him. that he
was worthy of all the respect and affection
which he attracted. In Mr.. STILEs's death the
public has lost a truly admirable servant, and
he is mourned by the deeply stirred hearts of
hundreds OF personal friends.
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"Some time ago." says an insurance man. "a
had some things there to be insured. When We
arrived at his house he showed me 100 boxes of
cigars. which he wanted insured. There were
and were valued at 10 cents each, so l insured
the lot for 81 900. A few days ago the man
ance money. You've had no fire at your
house, replied. No, but I've smoked
them said he. and according TO the
paper. I am entitled to the money. as it reads
distinctly that If the goods are consumed by fire
money is paid on application As far as techni-
~calities were concerned he was all right, but I
knocked him cold about a minute later by say.
ing, in a very stern manner: All right, sir;
you'll get the money: but. according to your
own confession. l will proceed Mt once to make a
charge against you for incendiarism.' Well.
I'll be hanged! was all he said, and the room
shook violently after he banged the door!'
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ment. It declares that fully $4,000 fresh
troops would have to be sent to
Cuba in order to restore the army there
to its strength in January last, for, accord.
ing to military authority, the available
force there, Mt this time, numbers only
about 100000 men. In the opinion Of La
Correspondence, "the transportation Of
additional battalions from Spain to Cuba
would amount to a confession that WEy.
JER has been a complete failure"
Gen. PANDo has alleged that before pub.
fishing his protest in Ell Eercito Es.
panol he communicated the information
contained in it to Sefor SAGAsTA, now the
Premier in the Spanish Government. SeHor
SAGAsrA thus acquired an understanding
Of the situation In Cuba, which ought to
be of use to him as the head Of the Minis
try. His informant, Gen. PANDo, Is q SOL
der of experience, intimately acquainted
with Spanish military affairs, and anxious
to induce Spain to abandon the ruinous
course which she has so long followed in
Cuba. When he makes the statement,
founded upon official reports not open to
public inspection, that Spain has employed
the vast number of 800, 900 men in the war
against Cuba, and that Spain has gained
no advantage from her sacrifices there, and
that Gen. WEYLER has mismanaged, de.
moralized, and used up the army under his
command, SeHor SAaAsTA can hardly fail
to give heed to his protest, or to renounce
the unsuccessful and detrimental policy
pursued by his predecessors.
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There could not be a squarer contest of
fundamental principles than that which will alb
sorb the intensest interest of this community
during the next four weeks. Gen. TRACY and
HENRY GEORGE are the opposing champions.
and each represents his side with peculiar 1T
ness. GEORGE is the very embodiment of Bryan
ism, of the Democracy OF the Chicago platform,
and Gen. TRACY exemplites in his character and
career the conservative force ana the orderly
methods of social progress against which
GEORGE is fighting. Gen. TRACY is for ~civiliza-
ton. HENRY GEORGE is for social revolution.
Gen. TRACY appeals to the sober and reasonable
elements of society, GEORGE to the dissatisfied
and disconnected elements ready TO tear down
the social fabric in order to substitute for 1t an
experimental construction OF their own. which
experience has proved to be rotten in its founda-
tions, and wholly unstable and insecure.
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A NEW SPECTRE IN THE soUrH.
The Cylindrical Cotton nn,c.

From the Nec orleans Times. Democrat
Tho cylindrical bale OF cotton was on exhibit
tion ngain all day yesterday in tho Office Of Mr..
Parker, on Pcrdido street.
The bale was M BY n great many people
in the city. II got the marble heart.
There wcrc cotton factors, merchants, steam
ship men, cotton press men, cotton mill men,
cwmcn stevcdorcs, and many others inter.
cstcd in cotton who went in there to inspect IL,
and of the 500 people, at least, whom MIR. Par
kcr says saw the cotton. not one of them in his
presence gave II n favorable opinion.
The suggestion OF this style OF cotton bale
taking the place of the square has, OF course,
created IA great deal of interest among local cot.
ton people. IL 1t ever becomes thG sty,G IN ms
said yesterday. it will not only do away with
local cotton factories. local buyers, local com.
country congresses, obviate tho necessity of hay.
ing country buyers-in fact. revolutionize the
M9G , so indicat SSi'n Above. an # Is pl proposed ' tSas
the hackers and promoters OF tho round hAlS
IN the snG Held I0t tR@s doinE away HS!y With ali middle
men. The cotton men here say that the system
would result eventually IN the trust people dic.
might give probably a better price than any one
else for q year or two, but as s9o9 as they goe
control of the staple they would dictate prices
and terms TO the farmer.
Mr.. Vincent of the firm Of Vincent e. Hayne,
who was present. said that the adoption of thai
kind OF cotton baiing would throw out Of bust:
ness all the 200 congresses OF the south, and
would mean q revOIut10n-n0t only aTcVolutlOn
in a business sense-but one in which the peo-
pie OF the country will rise up In arms against
the closing up OF a oT MoreiSe tp peop nV" V CHI
The bale is not well pressed..nothing like the
square bale. II adopted, 1t would do away with
the compress, the cotton factors, screwmen. &c:
The cotton men have not made any plans yet
for a concerted action against the invader OF the
South's greatest interests, but will do SO. There
Is plenty Of time,.they say, but something must
and shall be done to avert the threatened ruin TO
Southern planters and the people whose inter
ests are identical with them.
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SUNBEIMS.

with cruel neglect of their own statesmen tho
authorities Of the Kansas University dismissed all
the natural history classes on circus day recently to
enable the students to study the animals.
Charity is to profit from profanity in owinesvfile.
KY. where a society has been formed whose mem-
beers. with the intention of checking their profano
tendencies, covenant to pay into the treasury I've
cents for every oath uttered by them.
-one man with money enough to buy his mortuary
monument ahead Of time who is not ashamed OF his
vocation is John Lyman OF LooSootee. Ind. who has
had carved in stone a barrel with q key on top OF it,
the barrel inscribed: "a Cooper by Trade"
President Alfred Coolidge of the Second National
Bank OF Colfax. wash has raised an immense guam
THY of wheat this season and sold IL at o rate equal
ling e34. go an acre. while the land itself could NOS
have been sold at any time these past three years 40
$40 an acre.
There is likely to be an Improvement soon on the
adagc regarding the man who II an inch be given
him will take an ell. out in the State of Washington.
where the danger OF allowing Populism to gain an en-
trance is known and appreciated. One L W. Mason OF
Aberdeen, in that State. has patented an anger tina
in some way expands in operation SO that a hole
bored by 1t is of greater diameter at the bottom than
at the beginning, and the people have dubbed It q
Popuiist auger.
"A sleeping car passenger on q train running into
Portland. Or. strolled into the smoking car and took
q seat just ahead OF a squaw. He was pufnnE vtEor.
ously ut a cigar and the Indian woman got more OF
the smoke than she liked. She protested in panto-
mime to the conductor. who, being something OF q
wag. indicated that she should make use OF an inn
mense umbrella she had by bringing it down on the
mans head. She naturally presumed that the con-
ductor's authority was all.sunicient and forthwith
acted on his suggestion with native vigor. The mans
hat was knocked down over his eyes and all but
ruined. and tho cigar W as sent spinning galley west.
When he got out OF his hat he turned with not mex.
piicable ferocity upon his assailant. but the squaw
merely looked at him with aboriginal immobnity OF
countenance and wouldn't understand either English
or sign language. and while tho other passengers
were convulsed with merriment he had to retreat 70
another car.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-07
MUGHUMP OR REPUBLICAN,
A Connecticut Voters Pertinent Letter to the
Hartford Courant.

hhFtioro eOurant-
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir. A lesson
in logic from the Hartford Courantf Think of
it! Dear old Mother Goose, what Mugwump
camp meeting have you been attending this
summer that you should become so completeIv
saturated with political sanctimoniousness !
Such state OF soul. dear old Mother, is rare.
unique, and even glorious in you; but a voter
who has read your studied philippe against the
semble Republicans and their platform in
the Greater New York election wants to know
why you preach one gospel to the Republicans
OF Greater New York but practice another kind
OF doctrine every time you strive at slate making
and bossing the municipal elections in the civ
OF Hartford.
We understand it now. dear old creature.
Men must have faith that things contradic-
tory are logically the same" This is a sample
OF the fallac!es in your lessons in logic. dear old
Courdnt. You want to get higher on the house
tops. where you can be heard, but not seen. and
then you might charm more completely the
voters Of Connecticut with your Cleveland Mug.
wump strain: or, to stir up moro commot,on.
you would do well to call on the other Mug.
wumps. such as the Times. Tribune, and Post.
to help beat the tom-tons and swell n Salvation
Army chorus.
her apron Strings and running away. crying 10
the Republican party in the conservative state
OIL connecticut, Come of the field, children!
The fight is all over! Sound money and the re-
public are secure!' when all the while she has
q~uivcred with holy horror of social commotion
and disordered finance.
With the Chicago tenets "adroitly" brushed
aside by the CourdRt. 1t becon .es interesting to
know on what issues Senator HAY wiley is coming
up to the Judgment Of tho people for a rGelec-
by the coattail or the General will get clean
over into Mugwumpia.
Not sound money and alaw-abiding people some
Of the time! But sound money and liberty under
the law forever! Don't whisper 1t. dear Mother,
but proclaim 1t. If you love" the Republican
party.
The music OF reviving industry swelling along
these hills of the Naugatuck Valley. hills
crowned with goldenrOd, answers the courage,
genius and patriotism of Senator Thomas G.
Platt at st. Louis in 90 and In New York in '97.
Yours truly, YANKEE.
DERBY, Conn.,, Oct. b.
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To All Believers in tho St. Louis
Platform.

The dclusion that Organism wasn't pow
erful In New York has been dispelled by
It's breaking through the iron bars Of
the regular Democratic organization, Tam
many Hall, and defiantly nominating its
own ticket with the extreme champion
of radicalism, HENRY GEORGE, at the
head. To-day Mr.. GEORGE has behind
him the bulk Of the Democratic strength.
His election would give q tremendous shock
to the credit Of this city, and 1t would par
alyze the power of the police. There would be
no power left which could keep the peace.
How long the forces Of law and order in the
United States could sustain themselves
with this great citadel captured, we shrink
from imagining.
And how do a certain number Of citizens,
clothed in respectability and protesting
their goodness, propose to meet this threat
Of disorder and misfortune, this frantic
determination to have the battle of 1896
over again7 By ignoring the issue; by at
tempting to replace it with the shallow
humbug of non-partisanship ; by declaring
neutrality between the platforms of Chicago
and St. Louis. and by substituting the Snug
personality of Mr.. SETH Low sanctimoni-
ously promising not to violate the Mayors
oath, for the inspiring political sentiment
of the st. Louis platform.
"I esteem 1t an inestimable privilege"
said Judge WALLACE in accepting the
nomination to lead the Republican cam.
paign in the Empire State, "to have
been associated with the Republican
party through those recent perilous days
when the rights of property and the
interests of honest labor, the just
claims of public and private creditors, the
supremacy of law and the foundations of
social order, found it their bulwark of
defence" To-day is as perilous as the days
remembered by Judge WALLACE. The bull.
wark of defence of public and private credit,
of law and of social order is the party of
the st. Louis platform.
How much longer is the mixture of ia
naticism, folly, childishness, spite. and
selfshness known as the Citizens Union,
led by Mr.. SETH Low, to continue it's alli-
ance with the spirit of Organism and its
hostility to the party that would keep the
public credit and the public peacca
Believers in the principles enunciated at
St. Louis cannot be occupied with this dis
tasteful question. Their energies must be
used in full measure in insuring the success
of the candidate named to represent them,
BENJAMIN F. TRACY. Leave Mr.. Low to
his own confusion, and strain your backs
for TRACY.
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The Citizens Union invited everybody to
help elect a non.partisan Mayor, but the candi.
date, Mr.. SETH Low. thought best to say that
he was n Republican.
The Union invited into itself members OF any
national party whatever. gold or silver. but it
took good care to sec that tho Democrat whom
it nominated for Comptroller OF tho city's
finances, Mr.. CHARLES s.. FAIRCHILD. should be
known rs a gold man.
The Union said that 1t was for municipal
issues only, but it proposes to take a hand in
electing members of the State Legislature and
Of the States bench.
For people who like crookedness OF this sort
that is about the sort Of crookedness they like.