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v-,thou, boa.tins, e. ~, We rsspscs tnss % othsu,
without fearing H. n Spain chooses 70 oonnider our
seif.dofencs against savage butohsry a. q oauss OF
war 70 her. We must meet her also in war. with re-
rrst but without fear, and we shall be happier to the
last moment TO repair with her 70 the tribunal Of
peace and reason
What q precedent the last Democratic
President could have found In dealing
with Spain on the Cuban question in this
~resolute action of J~EFTERsoN | Had It been
followed, there would have been at least
ono achievement worthy Of patriotic ro-
membrance in those long -four yearS Of
national disaster and political failure and
humiliation. President MCKINLEY 10 In
deed fortunate In having such . predecessor.
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Seth Low . wrecker.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sus-Sir: Now York heard
Senator Tillman speak last night. The credit OF de-
feating Tillman. Debs, Altgeld. and Sovereign in tho
late national campaign belongs to the Republican
party. True. loyal. patriotic Democrats united with
Republicans. and the victory was complete and the
sun of prosperity begins to light the land.
II Is directly contrary TO the workings Of human
nature to ask patriotic, partisan Republicans to aban.
don their organization. their principles. and their
party, which did so much for the country In 1895,
and go. with hat In hand, with Bonded knee, with
low crooked awning. TO the great Seth Low and tell
him that the local Republican party Is bad, vile, and
vicious. and not to be trusted.
The Hon Seth Low ia a wreckor; let him take the
responsibility OF electing q Tnmmany Mayor, of aid.
ing Organism. Tilmanism. Debsism, and Aitseldism
70 grab the power and patronage of Greater New
York.
Shall New Yors's reputation suffrr in the good
opinion OF the world because OF the petty spite of
tho Hon. s. tn Low, who could not say q word for
that wonderful. magnetic man. James q. Blaine
Skw YORK, Sept. /. REPUBLICAN,.
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Mulhall on Our Pacific States.

From time to time we have directed at
tention to the papers on the progress of the
United States which Mr.. MICHAEL G. Null
HALL, a well-known British authority on
statistics, has contributed to the North
american ReuieD. The September num-
Der of that periodical contains the fifth and
concluding article of the series, in which
the growth of the Pacific States, compar-
atively overlooked In Europe. is shown to
be more amazing than that of any other
portion of the Union.
1t is common to think of the wealth of
the Pacific States az due almost exclusively
to mining. This was true enough during
the ~ifties; down to 1857 the diggings
yielded gold to the annual value of $780,
600, 900, and but little heed had been paid
as yet to agriculture. Mr.. MULHALL esti-
mates that the value of the precious metals
extracted between 1s49 and 1894 was
nearly SO, 200, OOO, 900. The annual prod
uct of precious metals in the Pacific States
since 1890 has been upon the average
80 tons Of gold and 800 tons of silver, to.
gethcr worth 800, OOO, 900. Nevertheless,
the mines of the eleven Pacific States were
far from constituting in 1890 the principal
component of their wealth. The mines, in
deed, were only valued in that year at
sod. OO0. 600 out Of an aggregate wealth of
$6,S 600, 900. Farms in the same year
were credited with 81, 900 600. houses
with $2, 956, 900, 900, railways with 81 ,O7O,-
OOO,O 0 and sundries with 1928, 600, 900.
OF railways in 1895 the Pacific States had
23,SO0miles. Mr.. MULHALL points out that
no other part of the world nossessas an nuch
iron track in proportion to the population,
there being ten yards of railroad to each
inhabitant. There Is no parallel, either, to
the Increase of wealth which has taken
place in these States. Il twenty years
wealth has multiplied ninefold, and
whereas, during that interval, the annual
Increment OF wealth for the whole Union
did but average 500 per ~inhabitant, the nc.
emulation in the Pacific States was $l56.
or four times as much. Nobody thinks of the
Pacific States as manufacturing centres. AS
matter OF fact. however, in 1890 the mum.
Der OF operatives was $4,000. and the out
put was worth $3.50, 600, 900. The value of
the manufactures produced yearly is equal
to Tll9 per inhabitant, against $14l in the
iralrie States. As for foreign
the Tact is noted that the shipping entries
have doubled in twenty years at San Fran.
cisco, which, from the commercial view.
point, is now the fourth city in the Union.
taking rank next after PHILADELPHIA. In
population 1t has already outstripped New
Orleans and Cincinnati.
1t isin agriculture that the most surnr,s.
! ing progress has been made by the PacIhc
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To TnE EpIroR or THE sUN-Str: l have no Idea th,,
Seth Low will DO in the canvass when It become, bo,
noxt month. have known him since he w@ a youn,
man. and nothing could DO moro opposed to HI,
tastes, natural disposition. and the methods OF po,
ceeding instructive with him than the way he Ia,
boen forced into . nomination, or. perhaps. morn
ntly, q nomination has been forced on him.
Mr.. Low 10 by nature DELHI rate and cool.headd
like his father before him. He IL . man disposed "a
compose dificuitiea rather than to run stubborn,
into them. He IL not at all . radical. and rashnet,
IN far from him.
The citizens Union has driven Mr.. Low into a posi-
tion which must be uncomfortable for him TO the iat
degree. and I do not believe II possible that he viii
remain In II to be- q target for ridicule, contempt. ana
violent denunciation. lie Ia not used TO that sort n
thing. having always hitherto lived amid esteem an,
general approval, and why should he submit himsel
TO the ordeal imply TO be crushed by IL IN the end2
NEW YORK, Sept. 2. BROOKLYN
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No, Even r,s,t Could DO II.

To the EDITOR OF THE suS-Sir: Tho papers which
assume that II rests with Mr.. Plat alone to decide
whether the Republican City Convention shall I'm.
dorse" tn nomination OF Seth Low do not know the
Republican party. Neither Mr.. Plat nor Mr.. ouigs.
no leader and no follower. could drive the Republi.
cans into repaying insults heaped upon their Party by
accepting the candi ate OF their bitterest foes and
most pers stent defamers.
Republicans believe In their party; they ore proud
or It's hisioTy. Sid they are jealous of Its honor. First
OF all. It is because Nj Plat; shares and represents
mat unb 'nding ,oyaity that he Is their honorpd leader.
they should lie down in the dust OF hunliiiat on under
the Get OF a pack OF spitefui Mugwumps. and that 10
NEW York, Sept, z.
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A FORMER Tannany Man On the situation

a FormoF Tnmmauy HAnn On the bitunton.
To TIE EDITOR OF THE sUH-Sfr: The article by
Manhattan" in to-dsys Sun. "The Dreadful Cit.
gems Union - In very comprehensive and logical. be-
sides being true.
Has 1t not occurred to those who have looked over
the names Of the Citizens Union List that they are
the same familiar names that We have seen idolizing
Cleveland I have seen no mention Of that fact,
and it Is Q fact. since the Citizens Union really got
started. As Clevelandism has proved the WORT thing
tho country has ever suffered from. 30 will the citi-
gems Union people prove themselves 70 be the worst
NV nsme Wss once : enrolled BY . friend in this
cause. and when they came to me 70 have the enroll,
have now written. that these people. many OF them
from good but mistaken motives. are doing the ooun-
fny % ass 70 h enneen aaa w, s ! re Tss r eer woTss sHsm, ssid T.
May ask whom you propose to supporta" said;
enough known, and who has demonstrated his hon.
Then you are a Plat man" be said. MOI replied.
Hall in recent years, but this year l must support .
sound.money candidate. Now let me predict that tho
That it would be suicidal for the Republicans to in.
tics in = Very case Except When Mayor Strong was
elected Mayor. II the Republicans will only nominate
1.4oo OF these people. while to the ticket will come
many Tammany men. In a quiet way, far more than
enough to Offset this paltry number. -
II the Republicans continue to emphasize the gold
issue. Tammany will have to take q stand on the
pie viii put T. separate ticket IL, n a. zen aeid. VII, b viii
poll twenty times the votes Of the Citizens Union.
han Tamn any takes the silver issue az its own. the
gold Democrats viii go. as they did last year-some
mostly to the Republicans direct.
From every point of view. then. the Republicans
by putting into the neid a q Straight Repubiicass. and Il
such a man IL nominated there ID little doubt Of his
election by q big majority. Xxx.
| NEW YORK. Sent. 1.
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THE PEOPLE AND rHE Low MOVE
MENT.


To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Aftor four
years OF hardship, caused by incompetent gov
eminent, the country once more awakens to the
fact that II Is on tho eve Of prosperity, and 1t 70
to tho policy OF tho Republican party that the
hundreds Of thousands who are once moro en-
ployed in the factories and mills that are start
ing on full time over the entire country ought to
DO grateful and in every local and national L.
sue give 1t its support.
We hear 30 much from the reform party OF the
tax imposed by the Republican party on the
poor man.
II the poor man would ponder over the fact
that the hardship Of q high rate OF duties. as on
imported clothes, undergarments, hats, for him.
self, imported dresses for his wife. imported
clothes FOR his children, is a myth. after all, ho
wage earncrs. Every man working for q. llv.
policy, Which has BEEN in erect only a few
weeks. opens almost every factory IN the United
form policy for years, and once more brings hope
and Joy to the ~fresides of the unfortunate that
have starred aT, and despairssd n under reform T., A.,
so-called e reform threatens to put into power
wage earners that blessing, tariG reform. and last
election was willing to give them free silver.
n fPa ss even VIM NV 1 il yi sIsss e {! give sist ssem 4 fss sAr "a,
formers may. say. and fools may believe. that
local politics has no bearing on national %affairsi
but such is far from tho truth. If any misguided
individual believes that the party In power docs
not contribute great strength In a Presidential
election and 10 not q great assistance as far as
Is justified In the course he pursues.
But those that do think can sec that the Re-
| publican party, now In power, ia honest and cfl-
cient; they also know that prosperity has been
given by tho same party to tho country, and
why should they not support it,
Its selfrespect ought not to allow It TO accept
the dictation of any self-constituted reform par
ty, no matter under what namo. Ii 1t will wait
and the Republican party sees Mt to nominate
Seth Low. II ought to have tho support of every
body. not because 1t 10 Seth Low, but because
But II a lot Of inalcontonts, who In most cases
are old political hacks, to further their own ends
try to force O candidate on them as the Citizen
Roformors are doing. then it Is the duty Of the
Republican party to ignore them completely and
lot the people decide on the day of election
whether q straight Republican ticket will win
the day or whether the voters banker after
moro reform. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.
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Seth Lew. C~andidate-A Friend,s Advice.
From the Bachelor Of Arts.

" -
Mr.. Low has certain characteristics Of greatness
power. sedateness, calm. poise-and pose. Had no
done something great his pose would be the more ae
oeptabie. He has done very little to take him out Of
the common. except to have " good things" thrust
upon him. II 10 his character which has told. and his
position derived from his enormous wealth.
To be q pious son. Q man Of upright conduct, one
who in all personal relations is . p~attern-accom.
panied by so much wealth-has caused the eyes Of
citizens to open In admiration. DR.. Low Is deserving
Of honor by what he has not done.
But viii he make the best Mayora Is there none
other equally Qualined2 Certain Citizens Union
men go scurrying about shouting DR.. Lowe name as
II there were no other pious soma or college gradu.
ateS In Greater New York.
Be wary. c~autioua. tar.seeinE. ~vtsilant. and circum.
spect, oh 70 clever citizens who would have your Or.
Low or ruin! Most of you are college men-ho;.
headed and eager with your honest reforms. Some
OF after fat salaries. keform.rs or
wolvss-you will never succeed by crying up a man.
and not . platform Go slow. Remember your Mug
wump mistakes Of the past. This Is the advice Of
your friend. TIE "BAcHELoR"
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President Robson of the Cleveland
Baseball Club is quoted In the Chicago Times.
herald as being in favor Of a meeting In Phile-
deiphia between the 'umpires, managers, and
field captains" to discuss the "discredit of tho
game" and methods of preventing n repetition
of the same next year."
Why does not President RoDIsoN by himself,
II no must act singly. enforce upon his own club
at once the certain remedy that is in his hands I
Lot him forbid his captain or any OF his players
to sneak to the umpire. and from the day that
he issues the order the Cleveland nine will be.
come a factor In the needed reform.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sir: Do you think II
has occurred to many of the gentlemen who have
permitted the use OF their names in support of the
movement to nominate Seth Low for Mayor that II
he SHOULD be. elected he would be compelled to put
headed squirts who are running the Citizens Unioni
Is not such a thought enough TO give US pause? Do
we not want men or the very hiGhest Character. ca.
pacity. and ability TO take hold of the important
work of formulating and initiating the q .ministra.
ton OF the Affairs Of the new municipality
NEW YoRK. Aug. 81. JosEsnY,
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member composing the committees OF IN. ,o-o.r..
CitiTens' Union incap lbie OF understanding ~nhhee
everybody knows, that the nomination Of an Trnna
pendent candidate by them must inevitably a m, lay.
the total number Of honest votes conrrntrs,ssss
aeninst mma and divert n contInuou, W
broken, and Irresistible current, until It breass , IN.
two weak, paltry, powerless strcamlcts? ~"
I repeat, Mr.. Editor. can you, can any one. ou,,,r.
the policy Of the Citizens Union party Shall 10y ~
leave Il to the people TO decide whether they AZ
set OF ambitious, inexperienced. ~foolhArdy noyic..
or q CLIQUE OF designing, demagoglc, selnsh, gra,ninsN
political ~villains, prepared TO Stay their GretSrsss'
while, like the tyrant OF Athens. they point to th.,I.
nelf.innicted wounds2 A DISTRICT OF voTEhs
NEW YoRK, Sent. 1,
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81 am for the candidate who Is nominated
by tho Republican Convention" said Sheriff
BUTTIINa. Mr.. JACOB WoRTH's first lieutenant
in Brooklyn. That is a very praiseworthy
sentiment. but Sheriff BUTrLING would have
been far moro admirable II he had not joined
Mr.. WORTH in promoting the Low candidacy
OF direct and implacablc ~antagonism to tho Re-
publican candidate and to Republicanism.
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A Heavy Smoker Deaa at nv.

Hom the Philadelphia Press.
SCRANTON. Aug. Sl.-Martin Moran died here to-day
at the age OF lit. he landed in Philadelphia from
Ireland ao years ago and walked with two compan'
ions to Carbonate. where he lived for several years
before coming to this locality. He was q saloon
keeper the greater part OF his life. and was tho
heaviest smoker at the NOTCH the local name Of
the suburb in which he lived. Up to two years ago
he could road his prayer book " as good IS the priest
as no put It. and he had but one eye at that.
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Once more has the Hon. WARNER MIL
LER of Herkimer fallen before tho Hon. TITUS
SHEARp. once his dearest and nearest political
friend. TITUS has carried Little Falls and
ffteen out Of twenty towns. Tho Hon. WAR
NER MILLER is Of comely aspect. but, like the
Hon. FRANK HIscocK OF Syracuse, he has n re-
marknble gift for falling into the rear rank of
the political procession.
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Some idea of the fine point to which platinum
ran b. drawn VIII be- realized from the fact that
tlrrais nave been drawn, two OF which can be twist
human hair'-NeW Orleans Times. Democrat.
Yet diminish the thinness OF these threads
a million times. and then abstract and make
a pure idea OF 1t, and. compared with the
tenuity of tho new-fangled moonshine about
municipal non'partisanship. 1t will bc as GRO
Z CLEVELAND to q hair line with the hair and
limo both cut OF. In the matter of thinness
platinum must yield TO brasa
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Tho sI~Ischievoua Low Moy,meu,.

To THE EDrroR or The suS-sir; Can you kindly
inform the people OF this Greater New York what
the policy and motives OF the Citizens Union party
are? Their Svowed principles. a. trumpeted forth,
are the promotion OF home rule and honest govern.
ment for our great metropolis, Passing over the
fact that home rule 10 secured by the very funda-
mental articles OF the charter of Incorporation. how
can that band provide honest governmentl Are the
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Republicans Won't stand Low.

To THE EDITOR or THE suS-Sir: In connection
with the nomination OF Mr.. Seth Low for Mayor of
Greater New York by the Citizens' Association. 1
wish to say there are three persons In the store where
! am employed who signed the petition for his MONT.
nation who VIII NOT vote for him unles his candida.
cy IL Endorsed by the regular Republican Organization.
presume this Is only one case In a Thousand,
They would rather see Mr.. Low beaten than to die.
tate to the party which has fought the succeasful bat.
ties the past few years. 6EsuIRE REPuBIICAS.
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There arc other able and high-minded
Republicans besides District Attorney oLooTT.
but. II no should DO eventually his party's can
didato for Mayor Of New York, there will DO
made to cleo: hIT one. Of -tha moet- inspired and
determined campaigns over known In this city.
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state saved BY Cow. aud Fowls

From the Report orthe Secretary OF the Kansas Boars
Of Agriculture.
Added together. the years product from Kansas
cows and fowls amounted In value to sa.0la,973 or
q sum %suficient to pay the entire State, county, ana
city taxes OF 1898. with all the used appropriations
made by the Legislature for that year. and still leave
u balance which would build 200 very respettao's
achoolhouAea.
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Columbia University is in an astounding
situation. Will she continue to be served by
the President whom she has honored, or, after
having been used to further his political am
bition. is she to be cast of like a drabi
And pending Mr.. Lows decision Of this ques-
ton. what is the effect, upon Colunbia's stu
dents. of Mr.. Lows apparent desertion of the
vital principles championed by the Republicans,
at the invitation of q half crazy socialistic band
who want him to be their candidate for Mayori
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The misconduct of the Park Board in
other directions must not DO permitted to OBJ
scure the fact that. In Its defence OF Battery
Park against injuries from that subterranoan
absurdity. the rapid transit tunnel. It Is wise,
public spirited. and entitled to the thanks of
New York.
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Mr.. Low has been a party to a shameful
Mugwump disturbance of the campaign against
Bryanism. He can still mako partial repara-
ton BY q prompt retirement from the movement
and by Q refusal Of the Citizens Union nomina-
tinn
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The old oracles were in verse, and much
oil and Greekish wine the temple poets must
have spent In polishing them. In the CornhlI
Magazine Mr.. EDMUND GossE has a poem In
which occurs this stanza. seemingly prophetic
of the issue of the political campaign in this
town, and only not oracular because clear:
"Perchance amid the roar and crack
OF starting beams we yet shall stand;
Perchance our idols shall not lack
Deep burial In the shifting sand"
The crack and smash of the MuRwump shrine
seem here to be prefgured. You hear the mad
Mollahs Of tho G. U. bowling very piteously.
Through the sand is visible but a fragment OF
what seems the vesture of q little god or q tat
tered college gown.
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The Dexrada,ioa or Baseball.


From the Providence Journal.
Scarcely q day passes without . disgraceful scene d
some sort being enacted on the professional baseball
field. Either q vile epithet, +" as the reporters cali 1t.
IL nunG BY an irate player At the umpire. or he is muir
derously assaulted by the crowd a. he leaves the
grounds after tho game. or the oontesting teams en-.
gage in . free fight and have to be separated by the
police. II has sunk to . deplorable condition. when.
a. in the case OF baseball. It becomes not only a purely
professional AFFAIR, but breeds abuse and disorder.
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For President. MRS. Josephine n. Henri

From The Blue Grass. Ky, B!ddr,
nominate Mrs. Josephine X. Henry ~ Nrr'a''''
for President. In all that constitutes the trle'' ava
greatest greatness Mrs. Josephine X. Henry IS"
greatest human being In America. nor do | Dsn'"
thero 10 . greater person In the world.
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Twins Celebrate Thelr osd birthday.


from inc Indianapolis journal
PORTLAND. Ind, Aug. Boat Ridgeville to moro"
John aud Richard McGrIn. the oldest twins h'''
United States probably In the word-wi celebrate
their ninety third birthday. They are the SONS T."
John aud NtIlie McGrin. aud were born IN what ]"
now Derke county. Ohio, Aug. 81, 1904.
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From ths Journal. q promoter Of u.
Mr.. Low has already forfeited the confidence At
many Democrats who arc willing to sacrifice the IN
terests OF their own party to what they regard as the
good Of the country.
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A distinguished literary man of Kentucky has
invented q windmill. out OF which he expects to
make q for~tune'-Roehe'te Unfont advertiser.
Who is this distinguished literary man Is it
not the Hon. JOSEPH CLAY STILES BLACKBURN 7
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That urgent necessity for reform exiats. II the No
tional game IL TO be saved from degenerating 10 tie
level OF tho cockpit and the prize ring. cannot 10
denied by any one who has observed the recent ten
dency OF professional baseball.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-03

A curious case Of chronic Mugwumperv is
rapidly developing in the Hartford Courant.
The Hon. JOSEPH r. HAwLEy may not edit the
paper, but we advise him to prescribe.
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ON PARTY LINES
Even the MuEwump Secs tho True Issue.

From the Stddts. Bettunp.
We believe that Mr.. Low will not ana the situatoa
according to his taste. and that, sooner or later. b
will refuse the nomination. Under the circumstance
all signs show that tho nrst Greater New York cleo
ton will DO fought upon party lines, whereby the
Democrats can only throw away their victory II they
believe this victory Is certain and that they can orea
any candidate to tho voters.
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At no time during these thirteen. years have
THE SUN's attacks on Mr.. CLEVELAND taken the form
OF attacking him for hts ~faults.-Boston Daily AdUer>
ttser.
will our esteemed contemporary kindly specify
and catalogue the faults which TIE SUN has
been so negligent or 80 short-sighted as to over
link