The age-herald., 1897-10-14
TRACEYS HOUSING CROWD
The Republican Nominee For
 Mayor of New York
HAD KNIGHT ON "DE BOW'RY"
Roasted the Citizens Union, Saying They Had lnSulted the Republican Party-Seth Made
 It Ttree straights on East Side.

New York, October 13.-General Benjamin F. Tracey, the republl- can nominee for mayor, received a rous- ing welcome from the residents of the lower East Side, when he made his ap- pearance tonight at ratification meet ing which was held in the Windsor thea ter on the Bowery. Congressman John Murray Mitchell presided. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, the republican woman organizer, who was on the stand, was enthusiasti- cally cheered. General Tracey, after describing the onerous duties which will fall on the shoulders of the coming ex- ecutive of the consolidated city, said in part:
 "A modern school of doctrine has sprung among you. College professors who declare that political parties must not have anything to do cannot be per- mitted to participate in the election in Greater New York, and therefore a self appointed Citizens union has risen in your midst, to divide the vote and throw the electon to Tammany Hall, if possi- ble. They have said: We, (these 25O delegates) we will nominate your can- didate and you must elect him at the risk of being accused of throwing the election to Tammany'
 "They have insulted the republican party, through it's leaders over and over again, sought conferences and were turned aside with contempt. The re- publicans have therefore nominated finish. The unorganized Citizens union cannot succeed, cannot even control a considerable number of votes. Orgai- zation is as necessary in politics as in the army. The history of independent movements have proven this. Discip- line is essential in all great move ments"
 Senator John M. Thulston of Nebras ka, and District Attorney Olcott also spoke.
 Seth Low spoke at three meetings on the east side tonight. At each he was vocfferously cheered. His speeches were much the same in words and in the sub- jects discussed. He said the republicans ought to feel free and happy to support the cause for which he stood. Some men had changed their minds since last elec- tion, and if changes did not occur, elec- dions would turn out all the same. He said the people this year were engaged in great struggle in the interest of Greater New York. They who cast a thoughtful vote served their party best. Last summer, he said, 12500O people had expressed their desire for his nonl- nation and election. These were some of the reasons why some good republicans should indorse the Citizens union move ment.
 Mir. Low denounced bosses and said that the hands of machine candidates would be tied by promises made to fur ther their respective organia tions in the event of their election.
 Gone to Guessing.
 New York, Oct. 13.--The Evening Tel egram has made a careful canvass of fifty-two representative election districts in twenty-nine of the thirty-five assem- bly districts in the territory which con- stftutes the present city of New York. Of S,6SO votes 1,1S6 declared that they would cast their ballots for Van Wyck. the Tammany candidate for mayo. Seth Low, Citizens union, was the choice of 928; Gen. Tracy. republican, of S75, and Henry George, Jeersonian democrat, of 661. The same districts last year gave the republican candidate for governor a plurality of 1,490. In the Telegtam's canvass about one-third of all the vet eyH were boiled.