The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-01
HENRY GEORGE AND SETH LOW.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The nomination of the son and name
sake or Henry George to replace his dead
rather as the leader of the Jeffersonian
democracy leaves their ticket with Henry
george still at It's head. 1t also intro
duces pathetic element into their can
Vass which may tend to give more fire of
sentiment to that already passionate
| movement. 1t can be said of the father
VINO has fallen on the field of political
battle while leading his columns that he
was the single opponent of General
Tracy who deserved and received the
respect of those who waged so relentless
war against him. He was an open foe
and fought squarely in the open field He
was not firing from ambush as cowardly
political bushwhacker tie did not hide
MS colors, but waved them proudly. All
men knew where he stood and exactly
for what he was fighting.
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That is tribute to the memory of
Henry George which is his due, for truth
compels II. He was a virile character,
and he respected the manlness of the
American citizenship. He was not, as
Seth Low is, defam-r of that citizen
snip against whom the spirit of true
American manliness rises in revolt, Henry
george was man, not an epicene Mug
wump. Admirable as were the qualities
the more admirable in this campaign be-
cause of their contrast with the SNUG
hypocrisy which has been pareded
throughout its course with loathsome
charlatanism, his doctrines are not less
detestable because he is dead. And they
sun live, though the teacher is dead. They
are still In this canvass as a foremost
feature, and their dominance in this cleo
tlon sun remains a dangerous possibility
The Bryanism of Tammany Hall may be
cloaked, but IL is there all the same, and
Van Wyck represents it.
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AS we have said. it is questionable if
the emotions aroused by the tragic death
OF Henry George, almost on the eve of as
sured victory, as he honestly believed.
Will not charge his movement with a pro-
pelling force of passion giving it a we'll
nigh hysterical impulse; whether his fol-
lowers Will not be inflamed by the sight
OF his corpse to fight the more madly for
the doctrines he died in expounding, de-
Tending, and representing. Mr.. Seth Low
rushed forward with indecent haste TO
appropriate to himself the political estates
of Henry George almost before the breath
was out of the fallen leaders body. 1t
was shocking and an odious manifesto
ton OF greed, against which the sense of
decency of the whole community, barring
only emasculated Mugwumpery has re-
Noiteu WIN ulsSuSl. Inc political harlOt
would have torn away the very grave
clothes of the dead man to seize the tails
man on his breast and appropriate it as
an emblem of hope for his quest for public
Office. The political estate of Henry
George, which Low sought to grab, has
gone to the rightful heir his own son;
and who shall say that the living Henry
George will not receive as his proper in
heritance the full vote which would have
been cast for his father? To saw that
none OF 1t will go to the vulgar and de-
spicable intruder into the chamber of
death who sought to grab it in the con-
fusion and distraction produced by The
sudden tragedy, is simply to say that the
spirit and instinct of manliness are in the
breasts of the followers of the dead
Henry George.
This latest exhibition of the unprIncipled
greed OF Seth Low simply carries to a
shocking extreme the course he has pur-
sued throughout this compaign He be-
gan in June with a false pretence, and
revealed his greed for notorietv al anv
cost in September. He had been made
mayor of Brooklyn in past years through
the unselhsh agency of General Tracv.
but in the early days of the campaign he |
flung at him the false accusation that If |
General Tracy were mayor he would be
only the tool of another man. This from
Seth Low, who neither morally nor in
tellectually is fit TO tie the shoes of BEN
Jamin +. Tracy! 1t was the underhanded
assault of coward and an migrate, Seth
Low mayor Of the Greater New York? |
Next Tuesday the sheer manliness of the
community will rise to crush and abate
nuisance from which 1t has suffered SO |