The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-16
An Attempt to Get RID OF Mr.. Low

The Neto York Times is urging the Citi-
Gems Union to nominate Mr.. SETH Low on
q platform ~denouncing the Raines law.
That volunteer collection of reformers, says
the Times, can properly condemn 1t as n
gross and mischievous violation Of the prin-
ciple Of home rule, for which, above all
other things, the Union stands.
or course, it can properly condemn" the
Raines law. 1t can properly condemn any.
thing which 1t takes the fancy to condemn.
1t Is an absolute free agent, and Is at liberty
to do whatever it wants to do. Not being
representative Of any party, but being
simply q ~self.appointed committee, nobody
has any right to find fault II 1t exercises it's
own sweet will and pleases itself In every
way gratifying to it.
The Raines law, Of course, does not inter
fere with home rule as 1t was demanded by
the Democratic party when that party rep
resented two.thirds of the voters of New
York. For a long series Of years Democratic
State Conventions have demanded hat
liquor legislation shall be general for the
State. But, passing by that matter, will
Mr.. Low consent to run as n candidate
against the Raines law2 The Citizens
Union, as we have said, can make any plat
form Its bosses please, denounce or commend
anything they dislike or like. But so. too,
Mr.. Low can and will decide for himself
whether his likes and dislikes agree or dis
agree with theirs.
Is Mr.. Low opposed to the Raines law7
Is he in favor of going back to the Excise
Board system, and the prominence Of 1.-THE
saloon in politicsi" Does not the enor-
nous revenue now obtained by the city and
the State from the liquor tax commend it
to his APPROVAL
II the Citizens Union denounces the
Raines law, and then proceeds to nominate
Mr.. Low, the people will get from him
decided nswers to these questions but, of
course, II he agrees in the denunciation, his
election as Mayor of New York will be i'm
possible, for he cannot get the Republican
nomination.
1t is hard to see, therefore, how the Times
can be after anything else except the elimi-
nation of Mr.. Low from the list of the
Citizens Unions possible candidates for
Mayor. He has said inferentially, but no
less Enthusiastically, that he is only willing
to run for Mayor IL he is m the candidate
Of the Republican party as well as Of the
Citizens Union. The Times is striving in.
dustriously to prevent his nomination by
the Republicans by e%ndeavoring to put
him in direct opposition to the Republican
legislative policy. Its declared friendship
for Mr.. Low and desire to see him Mayor
must be a mere pretence, covering a real
purpose to get rid of him as a candidate.
Herr OrrENDoRFER Of the German news.
paper, the Staats-Z eitung. is assisting the
Times in this effort to worry Mr.. Low
by requiring that the candidate for
Mayor shall enter under Climbing obliga.
tions," in advance of the election, to per.
lure himself when he takes the oath OF
Office, with regard to the Enforcement OF
the Raines law. Mr.. Low having said that
he should be bound strictly by the oath, OF
ourse he is not eligible under Herr Or.
TENDoRFER's criminal condition.
Mr.. Low having thus been showed aside
by the Times and Herr OrTENDoRFER as q
possible candidate for the Citizens Union,
the place is left open for one or the other Of
these anti-Raines law editors themselves
Mr.. CHARLES r. MILLER of the yernaculal
Times or Herr OTTENDoRFER of the German
Staats-Zcitung would be made eligible fol
the very reason that Mr.. Low was disquali
fed by a platform de%nouncing the Raines
law and requiring that the candidate entel
into binding obligations" to forswear him
self II he should ever be called upon to take
the oath of Office.