The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-31
CLOSE OF the CAMPAIGN.
Meetings Held by All the Candidate
-Pnrnde of RicycIisfa.


Parade of BicycIists.
NEW YORK, Oct SO.--The Commercial
Mems Tracy Club. which has been holding
meetings in the interest of the candidacy
of General Tracy, wound up the campaign
to-day with an all-day meeting. Among the
speakers were Mrs. j. Ellen Foster, ex-
Governor =. b.. S. Pichback, of Louisiana,
and Judge Lansing. of Michigan.
one OF the final Republican rallies was
held tonight at Carnegie Hail. The hall
was filled and large number of women
were present. General Tracy, when he en-
tered the hall, received probably the most
enthusiastic reception he has had given him
during the campaign. Chairman Quigg, of
the county committee, who presided, de-
clared that the most remarkable political
contest in which the citizens of New York
had ever engaged was drawing to a close.
lie ridiculed Mayor Strong and asserted
that he was campaigning against the party
that elected him. He said Tammany could
no longer run the elections under the pres
ent laws
The closing scenes, so far as the Wall
street district is concerned, of the cam
paign. We're enacted at the corner Of Broad
and Wall streets this afternoon. The meet
ing was a Seth Low function under the aus
pieces of the Downtown Business Men s
Club There was a large and enthusiastic
crowd present. Among the speakers We're
Seth Low, Joseph III. Choate James Z.
Carter and Charles S. Fairchild.
At Durlands Riding Academy, Boulevard
and Sixtieth streets, tonight 1900 persons
shouted themselves hoarse for Seth Low
and the downfall of bossism. Every person
who entered received a banner with the
word Low on it, and he or she wore his
or her banner until the meeting was over.
Speeches were made by Oscar Strauss, }.
Hansen Rhoades, Seth Low and others.
Mr.. Low entered the hail with Mayor
Strong and both were given an ovation
A mass meeting to indorse the Tammany
candidates in Greater New York was held
tonight in Cooper Union under the aus
pices of the Workingmen's League and In
dustrial Council of WOrkingmen of Greater
New York The hall was crowded and
there was great enthusiasm Harry O;
Cole, ex-president of the international
Bricklayers Union, presided. Among the
speakers were Congressman Sulzer and
Cummings and several labor leaders.
A meeting under the auspices of the Pro-
gressive Democracy League was held to-
night in Flanerys Hail. Leroy and Hud-
son streets. The hail was crowded. John
]. Donnelly, walking delegate of Bricklay,,
speeches were made.
With flags flying, bands playing ana great
crowds cheering, several hundred enthusiast
tic bieyclists of both sexes rode up and
down the boulevard tonight and proclaimed
Seth Low as their choice for mayor Each
rider carried silk banner with the name of
the candidate printed on it,
The Purroy Democracy held a mass meet
ing at Lyric Hall tonight. Speeches were
made by Henry Purroy, Seth Low and 9TH
ers.
Out of respect of the memory of Henry
George, there will be no campaign meetings
Tomorrow. Several memorial meetings Will
be held.
Secretary Miller, of the Henry George De-
mocracy, said tonight that Henry George
will not take his fathers place on the
stump. He offered 20 do whatever the cam
paign committee thought best, but after a
consultation the committee decided it I'M
wise for the new candidate to make any
speeches.