The sun., 1897-11-16
All Honor to tho 1Oe,OoOi

Mr.. PLATT's analysis and exposition of
the causes of the last Republican defeat in
this city and State will command the re-
spect Of the Republican party throughout
the Union and of all honest and straight
forward political partisans, whatever their
party allegiance.
The Republicans in the city of New York
who clung with steadfast loyalty to their
political principles and their party organi.
cation in the late campaign rendered q SER
vice to the entire Republican party, which
entities them to its unbounded honor and
gratitude. In spite of treachery in their
camp, which was all the more odious be-
cause 1t sought to disguise itself with
hypocritical pretence, LOG, 900 Republicans
In the Greater New York remained faithful
to the last, fighting against great odds
battle for the preservation of the Republi-
can party with a courage which never fall
tered. 1t was a contest In which they were
defeated by that treachery, 30 far as con-
Germs the election of their candidates, but
they won q victory for the integrity
of the Republican party, for which here
after they will receive the need of
praise that is their due, though it be de-
MED them now by political shortsighted-
ness or phariseeism. Their party through
out the Union can rely upon these 1O6, 900
New York Republicans always. They are
solid phalanx, invincible in their loyalty
to their party. The unprincipled desertion
OF men and newspapers, before trusted by
them, only made this host of stalwart Re-
publicans the more determined In their
fn fhafr
sailed by the fire of enemies in the front
and In the rear, in cowardly ambush and in
the open field, but they did not surrender;
they fought to the last and went down with
their colors flying proudly.
II Republicans everywhere do not regard
with pride this exhibition of indomita-
BILE courage and steadfast devotion by their
New York brethren, the manliness of the
party has departed from 1t and the day of
Its decadence has come. These 1O6,OO
New York Republicans were the advance
guard of the Republican army of the ma
tion. holding for the party q position
whereof the loss would have brought dis
organization to the whole force.
The Citizens Union movement was
nothing short Of a conspiracy to break up
the Republican organization in New York,
and indirectly to destroy the party organi-
cation generally. Its leaders refused to en-.
ter into harmonious relations with the rep
resentatives of organized Republicanism
for the reason that from the first its special
objective was the Republican party. They
were determined to rule or to ruin. If Low
had been elected, the disorganizing and dis
integrating movement would have been
carried further; the Republican party
would have had a Cleveland on its hands,
permanent cause of discord and disrup.
tion; for Low Is man of an Unsuitable
political ambition, selfish and wholly alb.
sorbed in schemes for his own advance.
ment. He would have been an intol.
cradle nuisance for the party, a disinte-
grating influence everywhere. Nor would
the Republican party alone have been
the sufferer. The interests of all business
and society would have been disturbed by
the political confusion produced by the
man and the gang of renegades and mar.
plots led by him. Economic questions now
settled would have been reopened, to the
great damage of all industry. Here in New
York the JOY Of existence would have been
blighted by sckening Mugwump posing
in the City Hall, and the Republican party
generally would have been torn asunder by
the same spirit of malignant and spiteful
enmity of which the Low enterprise was
the expression. Disorganizing and disin-
tegrating Citizens Union movements
would have sprung up in all large cities
and towns, and Low would have figured
and postured as their hero and leader. 1t
would have been dreadful calamity. A
healthy imagination recoils from the
thought of such a possibility.
From the Mayors office in New York
Low would have kept his gaze steadily on
the White House, and he would have laid
out his path thither over the ruins of the
Republican party. A mediocre man, of
narrow and selfish views, he would have
posed as the political MOSES leading the
people to lofty political elevation. OF
course, the common sense of the country
would have thrown him down and cast him
aside. but he would have carried down the
Republican party with him.
The first great duty OF the Republicans Of
New York, therefore, was to squelch SETH
Low and his gang; and they did 1t. They
abated that nuisance for the Republican
party, and proved to their brethren
throughout the Union that there are in
New York 100000 Republicans who can
be trusted always to stand unflinchingly
by their party, no matter how strenuous
may be the efforts of treachery, humbug,
and artful malignity to divert them from
their political duty.
They are not a small number; they arc
nearly as many as the whole vote cast in
MIR. DINGLEY's State of Maine at the excit.
ing election of 1896, and they all stood by
their guns to the last, fighting for the pres.
ervation of the Republican party, though
they were the target against which Repub-
licans here and even elsewhere Mera direct