The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-23
Low WAS NEVER POSSIBLE
AS REPUBIICIN CANDIDATE AFTER
NE BECAME n CTTS'.

Congressman QnigE shoots One or Two CITE
Chnnrds on thc wing-Thc Figures OF Their
Enroiimrnt uetrny Thrm-FIghiIng Low IL
the Only Way to Beat Tnnininmy Hail.
Congressman QuigG wishes to enter his denial
of the story printed yesterday that =" the RCpub-
licnns, Just before tho time for withdrawing
nominations expired, offered to Withdraw Gen.
Tracy's namo IL n deal could to made
with the Citizens Union" and that "ono
of tho conditions imposed by the Republicans
was that Mr., Low. il elected. must hold himself
responsible to the Republican party" Mr..
Quigg said that there was not tho slightest
justification Of this story, or OF any other OF tho
numerous ~fictions which had been printed from
time to time on the subject OF Gen. Tracy's pos
siblc withdrawal.
1T is quito true" said Mr.. QuiGg. that tho
Republican organization. so far as its influence
in the Republican Convention was concerned,
would have used that influence for the nomlna.
tion. in the event OF Mr.. Lowe retirement ab
that time. In favor OF any sterling Republican
whom the Brooklyn Citizens Committee OF Fifty
might have suggested. 1t is also true that
IL Mr.. Low had offered to withdraw in
favor of Cornelius y. Bliss, or Frederick
A. Schroeder, or in favor of any other
man whom these names illustrate, the
Republicans would gladly have come into q
union on that basis. and the very fact that Mr..
~ 'S N'N'f esAA 1NA bH S''A
vanity and ambitions rather than the interest Of
a harmonious and surely successful campaign
fo- the good government OF the city and against
Tammany Hall, is the prime reason Why no lte-
publican can support him in tho injurious
course he has pursued.
Butt no report is true which in any way sug-
gests that the Republican organization would
have entertained 'hc thought Of Mr.. Lows
nomination, in SO far as tho Republican
orunnizntino bai ;pnn,nco ~ that r,,,,,, af,,.
tho day on which he accepted a hostile
and injurious nomination from the Citi-
zens' Union. And 1t is equally false that
Gen. Tracy has at any time entertained
the thought Of retiring from the canvass in Mr..
Lows favor. II he would not have done 50
now. when he. believes, as the Republican or
ganization believes, that Tracy's vote will cx-
OF election.
We DO not believe that Mr.. Lows vote in
10000. The figures which the Citizens Union
give out Of their enrolment conclusivcly show
When S3fS met they as''eu talk = about ''pR having, over over
four thousand enrolled members in the
politician knows that they have not the ghost
of IL show to get as many. as 900 votes, they
taIE about 5nS n an STrolime or y 7.ooo T names in nn my
well Acquainted with my Assfmoly dis:
Tor congress. 1t is liable 10 give Mr., Low
from 1000 to 100 votes, two-thirdS OF
which will be Democratic. The claim of !. 500
votes in the Thirty.first district is simply silly.
They won't get 1000 votes in that district. In
the twelve Assembly districts below Fourteenth
street the Citizens Union claim an enrolment
OF nearly 10000 names. | will stake my polit-
ical reputation on the prediction that in that
territory they don't get 1000 votes.
Our enemies are attempting to make much
OF the fact that We are waging our fight directly
ut the Citizens Union. OF course we are, but
that does not in the least justify the charge that
we arc not fighting Tammany Hall. On the con-
| frary the most sffprtiyp wny for us 70 FIGHT Tnnl-
many Hall is to seek to prevent Republican votes
from going to Seth Low. For Seth Low is nothing
else in this campaign than Tammany's nlly.
Every Republican vote he gets is so much taken
Tammany can be defeated. This fight Ia
between BENJAMIN F.. Tracy and Robert
A. Van WICK. and it can DO won for
Tracy. by the consolidation of the nor
NAL Republican strength. We flgh: Low.
therefore. because he threatened by false pre-
fences to steal some Of our votes and in that
measure to give TO Tammany Hall The auvan-
tage over the Republican party: SO that every
vote which we hold as against Low is a vote
saved from being cast to the direct advantage
of the Tammany ticket"