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work for Young Men.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUS-Sir: What o happy
thought It was on the part of Mr.. Quigg, Chairman of
the Republican City Committee. TO write a personal
letter to each and every one of the $4,000 enrolled
Republicans in this city! I know from my limited
means OF observation that these letters are doing q
great deal OF good. They are encouraging the faith
ful. and also the weaker ones who have recently
returned to the fold, having been drawn away tenn.
porarily by the oily tongues OF the Citizens Union
and papers that formerly supported the Republican
party. There may be a few who resent these letters.
but you may be assured that they have ceased to be
Republicans and are now full-nedged Mugwumps.
Ihave tried to do my duty. not only to my party.
but to my city and country. by personally appealing
to those who / knew were wavering, and desiring. a.
they said. to cast their ballots where they would do
the most good against Tammany. I believe I have
succeeded in some cases. and others am sure can do
the same.
How l wish that every young man could be brought
to realize that while this election is local, its ereota
Will be far-reaching. We fought last year to keen
our currency sound. and for a tAriff that would give
US good times. We won and are now on the thresh.
old OF prosperity. Are we to lie down now that vo
have won the victory and let the vanquishedr ride over
us' l d" not believe 1t. We young men want eveYy
chance that others have had to win their way, and
we should demand that We have those chances.
II Tammany should win, II would he heraldsd all
over the country as a Rrya an victory, and bring n III.
this snake which. though stunned. is very much alive.
y - ~ NJ" u thihklng that II you vote
the Citizens Union ticket you will vote against Tam.
many. for you will be aiding Tammapy. Mr.. Iow
hasn't any possible chance OF winning. His party
consists only OF the men whom you always and
against anything American, Mugwumps and dis.
gruntled Republicans, who. like Mr.. Choate. ncyer
raised their voices once in aid OF their country Iaaa
year, but who this year are aiding the Bry anites I'm
their EFFORT to beat the Republican party. so that we
shall be weak next year and In 1900, when we shall
have to stand again shoulder to shoulder to nehn
anarchy.
Let ali young men vote and work for BENJAMIN 4.
Tracy GEO. d. FREDENRURa.
NEW YORK. Oct. %.
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We should, unqucstionably, show them as
much consideration IA was shown to
Messrs. MASON and SLtDELL in England
and France. They would be in n position
to invite loans from foreign bankers, and
there is reason to believe that the o%vcrturcs
would not he fruitlcss. They would he
able to issue letters of marque, and, If
American citizens were captured on vessels
lying the Cuban flag, they would have TO
be treated, not ms pirates, but as prisoners
OF war. a bclligcrcnt, in a word, is an in.
choatc nation, possessing many oil the
rights thereof, and there is no doubt that
the achievement of the status of bclligcr.
cncy is n long step toward the attainment
of independence.
All this IL as we'll known In Madrid, as
it is in Washington. Consequently, we do
not believe that the Spanish Government
has any idea of asserting the right of
search, for this would be tantamount to the
very thing which 1t has ~strcnuously strivcn
to avert, namely, the acknowledgment that
the Cuhans are bclligcrcnts.
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Three More or the siguera.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Sir: As ono OF thu
hundred aud odd thousand o. who signed the peti.
'ion FOR tho "unifying force" let me explain how 10
came about. Tho fellow who had II W as a good sort
OF a fellow. AMI | sincerely trust he has collected the
tw" or three cents each for our names. but beg TO an.
sure the "~unifying forco that he Will never collect a
single ono Of the three votes. because two of them
have no votes. and !, the third. intend to cast mine
FOR benjamin +. Tracy. When / signed the sheet I
f"t mat Low might be the nominee of tho uepub-
lean convention and Of all parties opposed 10 Tam,
m'hsi'h. MS phrase OF "unifying force" was
catchy but subsequent events have proved that ID
sadly needs revision.
me army OF Republicans who believe in party or
gauization and who glory IN the past ~ their party
VIII stand together and see that BENJAMIN +, Tracy
Is elected Mayor. Tho true Democrats. who lay their
voices ana votes last year called upon the Republican
party to redeem their country from au untold fate.
now owe To that party a duty, aud upon them. as well
As upon all Republicans, viii rest the responsibility OF
sa'!n6 Greater New York from the claws OF the Tiger
BRoOKLYS, Oct. 20. wCu
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The silvcrn light of hope Glitters in the
eyes Of our esteemed contemporary, the DCnrcr
Times, as 1t views the political landscape DER.
1t secs tho Democrats OF Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts happily situated so far as their
own following is concerned" How can tho Key
stone Democrats be happy when they remember
with what a cruel vehcmence the Hon. WILLIAM
FRANCIS HARRITY was thrown down and danced
upon at the Reading Conycntioni How can the
Massachusetts Democrats, when the Hon. Jo-
sIAH QUINCY Is muiilcd in mist and silence,
while swarms OF nrchwologists are tapping
with hammers Mt his Eracilc legs and trying to
find out whether those pillars of Boston arc
made of gold or silver or mixed metnl1 Still.
tho silvcrn light s~parklrs. There Is a fighting
chance Of success in lao h States" There Is,
there always is. In the language of politics "a
fighting chance means "a chance to fight when
you know you're going 10 be licked The Penn
~sylYnnia and Massachusetts Democrats, like tho
Low folks here. have this lighting chance and
certainty Of being licked.
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| .c,,V,,v OF business, which began when Mckinley
was elected and the Republican party asain placed In
mower. The people r Hlgc that the defeat % the Re-
publcan pnrty In New York VIII givc AID aud com.
fort TO the advocates OF free silver aHd vicious gov.
eminent, and all who aid in hringinE about such .
condition must hear the responsibility for tho die.
,.,ors surc TO follow. All can imasluo what would
r,l,o,y should Tammany Hall obtain control. Should
tho advocates Of single tax. free silver aud free trade
rrcy,u chaos and socialism would stand n good
chance of gaining a firm foUthold In the greatest city
I'm IN, country. should Seth Low succeed II would
lie many n long day before the Republican party
would no placed IN power In the city OF New York,
nnd possibly in tho state.
No man who claims to believe In tho principles Of
tho Republican party, and who hclirvcs that thu VOL.
fare of his country. state. nni city is host served
when that party Is in power, Is loyal e. himself or
country &c he falls TO do all In his power to defeat
those W no are opposed I, II. within or without. No
party eau succeed without unity. 80 party can sio-
crcd without thorough organization and strict dis
ciplinc. No party can succeed without a leader.
II seems to be fashionable. usprc!a ~ among certain
Rruublicnns In New York. NO matter who the party
dominates. FOR the candidates nominated to be imme-
diatcIy denounced rs belonging, body ami soul, to tho
leader. IT George Washington ar Abraham Lincoln
were alive and were nominated by regularly APP
pointed conventions, these men OF the Seth Low
stripe would raise a hue ami cry that they were
"Platt's' men.
No greater insult could be offered to such a man AZ
Gen. Tracy than to charge him with being n man who
would gtoop to such conditions. Coming from men
mean enough to make snch a charge II amounts
simply to insolencc, and coming from sucallrd Re-
publicanS IL Il base insrdtitudc 10 n man who has
! served the Republican party 50 Loyalty and so well
from the very beginning. and who deserves the sup
port Of every Republican. w. 5. MANNING.
pITTsBuRU, Pa. Oct. 20.
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The Foremost Man of All This World.

The visit Of the Hon. WILLIAM JENNINGS
BRYAN to Kentucky has raised an inter
csting question. At Elizabethtown, where
Mr.. BRYAN spoke ut the Fair Grounds for
silver and half the gate money, our es-
tcemcd contemporary, the E1i%Gbcthto,rn
NetCs, described him as "the greatest citi-
zen Of the United States" At Lebanon
the Hon. j. PRoCToR KNOTT. the ~pancgyrist
of Duluth, introduced Mr.. BRYAN rs "thc
foremost man in all the world phrase
which is evidently a Knottish reading Of n
~wcll.known passage in Julius Caesar"
Now, IL is inevitable that the greatest citi.
zen of the United States should be the fore.
most man of all this world, but great and
forward as the head Of the peripatctic sill.
yer school is, is he the greatest and fore
most citizen of the worldi
Before the musinE eye Of the student of
comparative greatness and forcmostncss,
many illustrious figures will parade when
this question is considered. Mr.. BRYAN is
great, but let us not forget in Kentucky
the Hon. HEz LUNG and the Hon. SqUINCI
CURD; in New York, the Hon. J. Is. REY-
NoLDs aud the Hon. SETH Low.
We should like to see the subject referred
to a committee with DIR. Low as chairman,
he, Of course, to rave the privilege of
voting for himself.
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Tho whole Union Anxious.

TO TIE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: II any Republican
doubts the deep and anxious interest the Republicans
OF other States are taking in the result OF the coming
election In New York city let him travel anywhere
ana lie VIII he swiftly convinced Of his error. More
over they regard the contest In New York as vital to
I'll" wrlfaro OF the party. for should the Republican
party II" defeated by the combined forces Of seth Low
and his allies, which would result IN the return of
Tammany Hall to power aud with ter. fold greater
strength than heretofore, they know that 1t would
CIV" new life to Bryanism ani all that that name
implies
Loyal Republicans, not only In New York, but
cannot understand how any consi icrAtlo
number OF men claiming to belong 10 the RcI uhlicar
party ana who believe IN the principles promulgated
by that party at 81, Louis. can array thous"lyr as
against IA" party and It's regularly nonI' lteI caudi.
dates th"r'hy endangcring the Icrprtuity Of ihcir
party aud the principles IT represents,
IMhln 10 the Hon II. clay Evans, Commissioner
OF Pensions, a few days ago IN Washington on this
subject Ii" said; ~ am opposed to boilers and rene.
gHd">. \ true man will support his party all tho time.
aud n there are any differences to s,.,lr. or reforms
t"tr 'ha!"' they should be srttleI within the Iarty
and II hy defeating 1t at thu polls."
lh.w r. much anxiety al Washington among the
Lr'pll'cdn leaders. AMI IT Is not guing a,iray to say
thHt from ihc President down all condemn tho
"ln"u MS "t 1hr Republican party AMI a]rirIily hone
for ta" election ~ Gen. Tracy and all tic l.e,Uullran
candidate. ih" feeling rEau5i tlru-r wHu claim Il,
lrI,",."l. vrs an. arr supporting "a fo9IuwIns Of so.
called 'ni'ptnlent Republicans. specially The uomi.
rcr ~ that no'cInent who 10 anything but a KepuUIi.
can, is very bitter.
The doubt as 10 the result OF the New York cleo.
lion las already caused an spprecIabIe check In tbs
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Is Low Running as n Democrat?


No outsider has been permitted to inspect
the signatures attached to the petition re-
Questing Mr.. Low to become a candidate
for the Mayoralty. 1t is. therefore, impos-
sible to determine how many of the sigma
lures are genuine, but there is another and
no less important point, as to which we arc
left In the dark. How many of such sigma
lures as are really genuine are those Of
Democrats, whose obvious interest it is to
split the Republican partyl There are sew
eral indisputable facts, which throw light
on this interesting question.
1t is certain, in the first place, that Mr..
Low is not the candidate of any Republican
organization within the limits of the new
municipality. Such profcssed Republicans
as openly support him are persons long
known MS disnfrcctcd, for the reason thai
their political ambition has been ungrati-
fed. They are willing to promote the ruin
of the Republican party in the hope that,
amid the ensuing confusion, they may
come to the top. TIL only organized bodies
which have indorscd SETH Low are, and
always have been, Democratic. These are
the so-called Ship Democracy, the CARGO
Democracy, the Purroy Democracy, and the
Manhattan or Stcckler Democracy. How
were these Democratic organizations to be
Compensated The willingness of Mr.. Low
torender n quid pro quo for Democratic votes
is brought out plainly by the fact that the
Citizens Union has nominated candidates
for all the seats in the Assembly pertaining
to the county of New York. Many of these
candidates are pretended Republicans and
they can nave been named for no other
purpose than to divide the Republican
votes in the Assembly districts. The cul.
minating proof of Mr.. Lows cooperation
with Democrats is the just announced de-
cision of the Citizens Union to support
Judge ALTON h. PARKER, the Democratic
candidate for Chief Justice of the Court
of Appeals. BY this decision and by the
nomination of candidates for the Assem-
bly,, Mr.. Low and his friends have made it
evident that they wish to beat the Repub.
lican party, not only in the city, but
throughout the State.
1t is no longer possible to disguise the
aim of the Low movement. So far as Re
publicans are concerned, it is, and was
meant to be, a descriptive and disintegrat-
Ing force. 1t is a unifying force only in the
sense that it combines all those, whether
avowe Democrats or treacherous Republic.
cans, who desire to witness the overthrow
of the Republican party, even though it be
the rock on which rest the principles of the
st. Louis platform.
1t is not possible that any loyal and clear
headed Republican can be deluded longer
respecting the meaning of the Low cam.
paign.
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urged all citizens to remember also how de.
sirable II is thai, with Organism contend.
ing furiously for victory IN every State
about TO hold an election, the battle in the
Greater New York, by far the most impor.
tant Of all the political fields In the Union,
should be won by the friends and cham.
pions of the st. Louis platform.
"Of course, l do not claim" said Mr..
Low, "that the Republicans in the State
Convention meant to imply that the Re.
publican party should not make its own
nominations and take independent part in
the decisions of the municipal contests that
were to come"
That does not cover the ground. No
matter how intense n desire had been ex.
pressed by former Republican bodies to
split the interests of national, State
and city, If the Republicans had this
wear failed to proclaim the st. Louis plat.
form In the face of the Bryanite forces ar.
raycd on every side, they would have been
false. hearted traitors to the greatest inter.
ests of the United States and of New York
city.
Lucky Is the voter in New York who,
about to choose u Mayor, can vote for an
honorcd, able, and experienced statesman
like BENJAMIN +. TRACY. Doubly lucky
Is he this year when the best candidate for
Mayor is the direct representative of the
endangered principles of public credit and
social order.
TRACY is the man.
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The Meeting OF dis.

To THE EDITOR or THE srS-Sir: When Daniel
Webster tried for tho Wing nomination for the Presi.
dency he had no nrmer supporter than Rufus Choate.
Choate was a disappointed man when Webster failed
to receive the nomination. He felt that the VIII;
party. IN rejecting Webster as \ candidate. had for
feited all allegiance which he tChoate) owed to that
party. Nathan Crosby, q college friend Of Choate,
once asked The latter: "Mr. Choate. what becomes OF
your long-cherishcd Wing principles ? " "Whig prin.
ciplcs |" was tn" reply, ~ go to the Democratic party
to find them" n" was further asked "Whut becomes
OF your long-chorished Whis anti.slavery opinions?"
81 have settled that matter said he, ~ am bound
to seek the greatest amount OF moral good for the
human race lie followed buchanan.
Every one remembers Joseph II. Choatc's attempt
to enter the United States Senate. when he was tho
candidate opposed to Thomas c. Plat. Plat has
always been a worker for the Republican party and
deserved the election. Joseph Il. Choate had per-
formed no active service for the party. bat posed as Q
candidate. And Plat got tho votes"
read with disgust Joseph II. Choatc's speech de-
livered In Carnegie Han on oct. 81. II was the speech
OF a disappointed man. He evidently borrowed his
political ideas from the New York World. Like his
famous relative, he Is Kicking over the traces" II
Mr.. Plat had resigned as a candidate for the Senate
In favor OF Mr. Choate, no doubt the latter would
have exclaimed. "Wcll done. thou good and faithful
servant" We should hav. heard nothing from Mr..
Choate dcnunciatory Of Plat. / heard Mr.. Choate
deliver an address In Cooper Union a few years ago,
and from his mouth there escaped no word OF dis.
respect FOR Mr.. Plat. Ills cry then was. "whoop II
up for the Republican party; It is your only saliva.
ton The Republican party was good enough for
him then. even II Mr.. Plat was its leader. Now, how.
ever. he Is supporting Seth Low, a man who would
not subscribe to the principal tenet OF the Republican
party, tho protective tarin. ! consider that Samuel
J. Randall. a protcctionist Democrat. was more OF q
Republican tlun Seth Low now is. Yet Joe Choate
says that Low IA a Republican.
elected as Mayor Of Greater New York Will pay no
attention to the utteranccs Of Choate. Root. ct al. A
"sorehcad " ia not n desirable member OF any party.
One would think that these men were the moral
sponsors of tho Republican party. Choate feels sore
over Ills defeat Seth Low Is welcome to this famous
t~TinIty-Choatc the disgrunticd; ltovt, the Mug.
wnmp. and Strong. the migrate.
257 BROADWAY, Oct. 30. DAVID q. NcCoysrI,-
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The Three Dissertations of Jefferson.
ian Democracy.

HENRY GEORGES assumption of the hon
orcd title Of Jetfersonian Democracy as the
political designation of his communistiC,
rent-copflscating followers, is the most
shameless PROCLAMATION of the system of gov
ernmental philosophy of the third Prcsi-
dent that has ever been perpetrated in our
party history.
CALHoUN's memorable effort to torture
the teachings of the founder of the old
Democracy into n defence of the hercsy of
Notification, which was the first notable
attempt at the pcrversion of genuine Jeffcr-
sonian principles, had a slender shadow of
justification in the conflicting theories of
construction at that time in debate; but it
was swept away in the luminous and mas
sive presentation Of the question by JACK
SON in his celebrated and unanswcrable
naturalization proclamation.
The second mOmcntous endeavor to dis.
tort and wrench the tcncts of the Jeffcr-
sonian creed from their true meaning was
made by the leaders of the slave power.
That parricidal assault eliminated in the
closing days of the Buchanan Administra-
ton, when DAVIS, TooMBs and their
fe llow.conspirators violated their oaths to
support the Union and sought to find
n warrant for their treason in the
teachings of JEFFERSON, who would
nave given his life to save and
cement It,. Their Misrepresentation of the
father of Democracy on the paramount
question of the inyiolability of the Union,
and on the secondary question of the per-
petuation of slavery, was fagitious in its
turpitude. In the campaign that preceded
the open treason the people pronounced
Judgment on this political infdelity.
They had branded them at the polls as
pirates sailing under n flag they had no
just right TO Haunt Tho real banner of
Jeffersonian Democracy was borne by
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. lie stood forth in
that crucial contest as the true jefferson
Ian leader on the noblest platform ever
framed by any party, in any age, or in any
nation. OF that platform the ~subjoincd
was one of the planks:
"The maintenance Of the principles promulgated
In the Declaration Uf Independence and embodied in
the Federal Constitution, That all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unallcnable rights; that among these are life,
liberty. and the pursuit or hapuinessi that to secure
these rights, governments are Instituted among men.
deriving t'cir Just powers from the consent Of the
go'crned,' is essential to the preservation Of our ro
publican Institutions and that the Federal Constitu.
ton. the rights OF the States, and the Union of the
States must and shall be preserved"
The continent shook with the tread Of the
millions of men who went to battle Mt the
call of the Republican party under LINCOLN
to defend these principles of JEFFERSON
the world stood appalled, at the magnitude
OF the conllif, and freedom Won n OF
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Look out for HENRY GEORGE! He Is stir
ring up the deepest feeling among the null
titudes of people to whom he appeals, and
is making n red.hot canvass. Before this
week is ended the ranks of conservatism
will wake to consciousness of the fact and
the possibilities of danger involved in it.
And with this warning goes the earnest
admonition to vote for BENJAMIN F. Tracy,
for this practical reason, not to speak Of
others: Vote for TRACY rs the one candi-
date from whom GEORGE draws no votes.
The George vote will be made up Of vision.
airy cranks scduccd at first by the dcmagog-
ism sOf SETH Low and the believers in
Organism who naturally associate with
Tammany Hall. Tammany and Low will
lose votes to GEORGE in proportion to their
original number of followers.
Rally about TRACY!
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less fiery. Kisses, shouts. and cries of Lynch
hint" aroso. and a body guard protected him ms
he loft the chamber. Lynch him!" Is the motto
Of tho Chicago rcformcrs Of the John MAYNARD
Harlan school when they wish to express their
dislike for somebody who has tho wicked
ness to be in tho street railroad busi-
ness. II seems to bo tho motto of some
Of the Cleveland corporation hunters. II trans.
lated into fact in a few cases, It might
deter the opponents Of thrcc.ccnt fares. To be
sure, Il has a somewhat violent sound, but now.
crful minds must DO powerful in their cyprcs.
sions; and n catalogue of the powerful minds
now engaged in bowling for thrce.ccnt fares
would I'LL several cars.
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Mr.. JONAS NJ. BANKS of Fast New York
nsks us this rather hinlcult annsiiun.

~ have promised to read n paper lcCorc n literary
society here ON The Leading Chprarto %rlstI,s " Srrn
Low would you mind giving your own notion OF
tho subject? shall be grateful Tor any suggestions,
whether they agree or disagree with my own i'm.
pressiOns."
Mr.. Low is n leading character, and, Consc.
Q%ucntlv. five may trust his admircrs.a ALI his char.
actcristics arc leading. II the process OF sclcc.
ton may 10 used in the case of II person so cS.
ceptionally gifted, according to the best OF his in.
formation ana belief. his Leading characteristics
are in the order named: Modcsty, wisdom. un-
sclilshncss, aversion to UfticCholiius. l|ut there
can be little comfort in giving an opinion as To
50 vast n subject. The Hon. joins UNYAN PINE.
one Of the most gigantic intcllCCts in thr citizens
Union, says that tho essential quality of this
remarkable public mar is his sense OF indis.
pCnsability. You feel. in contemplating him.
that no is as vital and necessary MS tho air. -
To be sure. some air is bad, but let no vulgar
chipping of n smile distract the gaze of our
friend in East New York from tho leading char
actoristics of the leading straw candidate.