Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-07-10
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
SPECIAL CoRRESPoNDENCE.

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Senator Platt seems bent upon DEM
onstrating to Seth Low that the lat
ter's candidacy for mayor of Greater
New York cannot be a unifying force
among the friends of good government,
assuring, as Senat r Platt does, that
Mr.. Low included him as one of the
friends. 1t will be interesting to
watch tAe development of the plaA by
which the senator expects to prove his
proposition. He has been hard Mt
work upon it for many days, and a
list of possible mayoralty candidates
has been under his scrutiny. 1t
is said that he has at last hit
upon his man, but his name is
as yet state secret The Situation"
has yet to be developed for him. If
matters move along the lines rs
at present laid out the new candidate
will be sprung about the time that the
Citizens union is ready to ask Mr..
Low for his acceptance of its nomi-
nation, and it is expected that the
appearance of this new Richmond in
the field will cause the Columbia
college president to retire in
dismay and leave the poor
old Citizens union shorn of its great
est hope. 1t remains to be seen how
we'll this scheme will work, but it is
being pushed with all the energy and
resource which the gentleman from
Tioga possesses, aud there is not the
slightest doubt that it will
be attempted. If the reports
that come to the Citizens union
are any true indication of the
strength of the Seth Low candidacy,
neither Mr. Platt nor any candidate he
can name can stem the current now
running toward Mr.. Low. 1t has
seemed to many that Mayor Strong is
the logical candidate, because the
work he has done must neces-
sarily be the basis of the appeal to the
people this fall in behalf of good govern
ment. No candidate can succeed who
does not point to the accomplishments
of the Strong administration rs an
earnest of what he will endeavor to
continue himself. Many people, rea-
soning in that way, have regarded
Mayor Strong as the proper candidate,
but his reiterated refusals have
strengthened the candidacy of Seth
Low. Signatures in favor of
Lows nomination are pouring into the
Citizens union headquarters in over
helming numbers, though the dis
trict organizations identified with the
Union have not yet begun any system
attic work. Nor is there any evidence
that the fact that Senator Platt OPP
poses Low is having the slightest ef-
feet in deterring Republicans from
signing the Low pledge. Those in
charge of this work for the Citizens
union declare that by the middle of
July they will have an enrolment of
startling proportions.
The New York Tribune has been
laying down the law and gospel to
Capt. Chapman apropos of his whole
sale arrests of women on the streets
of New York a. ter dark. Thousands
of women, it says, are in the streets of
New York at night on errands ofneces-
sity or pleasure. Most of them are
good women, but the law does not
care whether they are good or bad, so
long as they obey it. Moreover, obe-
dience to the law does not include the
highest degree either of good taste or
prudence. Women have absolutely
all the rights that men have. They
are not bound to proceed silently,
looking neither to the right nor left,
as If their lives depended on reaching
certain point as soon rs possible.
They are at perfect liberty to talk and
laugh, to take any route they like, to
stop when they please, and in general
to enjoy the freedom of the open air
and all the sights and sounds of
leisure.
The overcrowding of cable cars and
elevated trains seems to have reached
q crisis at last. The report that the
health board proposes to grapple with
the subject is welcome one. APP
parelty it only remains to be settled
how remedy is to he effected. If
the health board undertakes to order
the common council to pass an ordi-
nance limiting passengers to seating
capacity, the latter will probably feel
that it's dignity has been affronted, and
decline. Then it will be guilty
of having neglected to perform
its duty, which includes precaution
against danger to the life and detri
ment to the health of the public and
the question will probably reach the
courts with the board of health as
plaintiff. Whatever the outcome, the
agitation of this matter at this time
should be beneficial.
1t has long been the custom here to
re-elect without opposition the judges
of the higher courts whose terms ex-
pire, but it appears that Tammany
wants to make politics, and put tools
of its own into the places of Judges
Van Brunt and Andrews of the appel
late division of the supreme court.
Merely to publish this fact is enough
to defeat the Tammany scheme, one
would say. But it is surprising-the
fear that decent citizens still have of
Tammany.
The statue of the great god Pan is
making as much trouble here as the
Bacchante made in Be- ston. Public
sentiment appears to he about equally
divided on the wisdom of the park
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