The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-19
BLAINE MEN REMEMBER Low.
Tho Prophetic Action In 1889 and Again In tho
Harrison Campaign Cited.

Tho Prophetic Action In lsss and Again in tho
Harrison Campaign Cited.
In the great national contest between Harri-
son and Cleveland in 1883 an organization
known as tho Homo and Country Protection
Club" with branches oil through the Eastern
States and a membership Of over 10000, was
started in Brooklyn. James l.. Blaine paid Il
visit to Brooklyn in that memorable campaign.
and spoke under the direction Of the Home and
Country Protection Club 10 the largest audi.
encc ever assembled in the Claremont Avenue
Rink. All the surviving members of the pa
triotic organization who are citizens Of the
Greater New York are just as enthusiastic for
Gen. Tracy this year as they were for Gen. Har-
rison in 1898. Capt. w. II. Grace. who was
no National President OF the club, made a state
mcnt yesterday touching the issues OF the
present campaign OF which this is n part:
THE present contest for the Mayoralty OF
this grand muniCipality Of Greater New York is
son. II for no other, i consider II the imperative
duty of every citizen having the best interests
earnestly and actively in the canvass: for tho
result OF the election, either, good or bad. will
East and West. Whoever is elected, if he
makes no grave mistakes, can be. II he so de-
sircs, the next governor Of our great state:
who called to order his meeting at the Acadc;
that the Presidency OF Columbia College was
interchangeable with that OF the Presidency of
the United stetess; No one, who KNOWS S~ u Mr. r = Low w
dent student and follower OF that other free
trader. Grover Cleveland; will for a moment
doubt this as being the prime objective point OF
Mr.. Seth Low. in the present, contest, 10 wit;
the GovcrnorshIp. and then tho Presidency or
the Mayors office here in Brooklyn in 1883
when his private secretary gave 1t out openly TO
all the Newspaper reporters that Mr. Low had
but two political roads to travel. one to inc
Goycrnorship and the other to the Presidency.
N"Cievcland's success badly turned Lows head.
land, who was thon Governor in Albany, and, no
doubt, while there resolved to knife Blaine in tho
back quietly himself. and to get ~ his close
Presidency against the leader. head. and fore:
front OF the Republican PARTY, tho greatest OF
His lreacherous undcr:covcr opposition defeat.
cd Blaine for the Presidency in 1884 by n few
hundred hnr,t Ser votes te h lSst to 's bS SNf r' Low lSSp %nd his
friends, Had Mr.. Low come out openly md
m~anfully and honestly against, Mr.. Blaine while
Mr.. Blaine one twentieth the. harm he did. for
he would have been effectively and cruShingiy
answered, as he was answered by some of us In
iisss. when he crawlcd out Of his Cleveland,
Mugwunp, frcctradc shell and opposed the
election Of that sterling liepnblican, Gen. Ben
jamin Harrison and declared himself an out
The donation which Mr.; Low has, given out
makes it almost impossible for tho Board Of
Trustees to remove him from Its Presidency.
Is 1t not naniicstlv bln enough. W nave tnls
| Glaring cgotisl at the head OF that time hon
orcd, institution. as nm un,Amcrican educator
of tho straightforward, manly youth Of our
country without the twenty free trades. dudes.
| and Mugwumps who nominated him this year
protruding him into the political arcnai ]
think so. He is utterly, out Of plnce there. and
no American patriot should send his sons to
Columbia while Mr., Low is at its head. Mr.,
Low bad better take the mamnEenrnt Of a
and pattern, all through. Why, he and his
meeting at the Cooper institute less than, u yeaI
ngo and. pass resolutions siro, gly indorsinl
by Lord Salisbury; tho greatest h@tcr of oG u
that meeting, and in his speech he earnestly ap
pealed to tho. great American Senate to ratii.
that. pro- English and n'Anerican treaty
which had been sent 10 thG senate by his iTienc
President Cleveland. with his approval; WhcI
Mr.. Low did this he knew well thai the ratin
cation OF that treaty would abrogaio The grcn.
stigmatizc, the farewell w%arningt'ot Wnshingtol
and tho cherished teachings of the fathers and
the fondest traditions of, our republic, M
happily, the Senate rejected OVERWHELMINGLY mi
English treaty, as tho people or Greater New
York will reject Mr.. Low on Nov. g