The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13
MT. Worth.

Mr.. JACOB WORTH Of Brooklyn, a reput-
ed supporter of Mr.. SETH Lows candidacy
for Mayor, was reported in the Brooklyn
Eagle of Wednesday as holding views on
politics ludicrously inconsistent with his
advocacy of Mr.. Low. The Eagle quotes
MIR. WORTH as follows:
lido not aspire to be a leader In tho States politics.
only rs they AFFECT Kings county. Now the Dem.
ocrats are divided. and there would be no har.
mony In their holding n State Convention. but tho
Republicans are united and the platform they would
indorse. l think. would tend to strengthen the vote in
Greater New York. II we can hold the Mckinley
votes along this same platform for the Mayoralty
election. It will bring victory not only to Greater New
York, but. OF course, to Kings county. whose interest
is my interest,""
Only a dullard would waste time In ask
ing himself THAT the Low movement has
to do with the platform which a Republic
can State Committee or convention would
reaffirm, or what practical relation the Nc
Kinley vote of 1896 could have to a
New York canvass in which Mr.. Low was
the candidate for Mayor.
Mr.. Low has been brought into notice as
a Mayoralty candidate by the Citizens
Union, and is being kept before the public
eye through the activity of canvassers paid
to get signatures to a petition in his be-
half. The Citizens Union makes the repu.
diation of the issue in which Mr.. WORTH
pretends to be interested the first idea of
it's existence. 1t invites every citizen to
enroll in its organization without regard
to his opinion as a Republican, a gold
Democrat, a silver Democrat or as n mem.
Der Of any national party whatever" 1.-THE
Ttttra,1' IFr;Nr ~ ga-a a., 1r..-, x-..:
fcsto, "has no concern with coinage and
free trade nor protection, or with national
or State politics in any form. Enrolment
as a member of the Union does not mean
that n voter gives up his party or his indi.
vidual opinion on national issues" The
effort to nominate Mr.. Low is a determined
and even angry retirement of the issue on
which the Republican candidate last year
| carried the Greater New York district by a
plurality of more than 10000, even the
present New York city contributing a share.
Mr.. Low personally has shown himself to
be in favor of suppressing the sentiment
that carried the Greater New York for Nc
KINLEY in every portion of it's future
boroughs. through his letter putting off the
nomination rendered to him by the Citizens
Union. until it could be shown that he was
n "unifying force among the friends of good
government" 81 am heartily in sympathy
with the purposes of the Citizens Union
as / understand them" said he. and his he
emphasized Immediately with the state
ment that, in any event. he must be en-
tirely free to serve New York accord
ing to my hest judgment" He would
accept no obligation, express or i'm
piled. other han that of his official
oath as Mayor. That is to say, he
virtually enrolled as a member Of the Citi-
zens' Union, scorning the idea of party and
of party responsibility. He would be an
autocrat. lie turned his back on the par
tisanship which Mr.. WORTH, his advo-
cate, talks of reviving as the main reliance
for success.
Consequently the Low movement is first
and foremost hostile to the Republican
party, and, beyond that, to the national
ideas which the Republican party repre-
sents. 1t pretends to be Indifferent to
the issue between Organism and anti.
Organism, but having been largely asso-
ciated with the latter, 1t Is in effect hostile
to Organism. Practically it is an
ally of Organism at large and of Tammany
Hall in the city of New York.
Under the circumstances with which Mr..
WORTH has surrounded himself, for him
to talk of the Mckinley vote and OF
the Republican platform shows that he
is either a thoroughly insincere politician
or a very foolish man. Whichever he be,
his connection with Mr.. Lows ambition
has been injurious to the Republican cause
to an extent corresponding precisely with
his own partisan influence.