The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-28
Ono Thing at q limo.

While some impatient politicians arc
busying themselves with schemes for I'M
ming the political campaign next autumn,
the rest Of the people are thinking Of mat
tiers nearer at hand n Of greater conse-
quence at the moment. Sufficient unto the
day 10 the evil thereof 10 an admonition
they are needing, 80 far as concerns the
political developments which will come
with the end of the summer
A more hopeful feeling now prevails in
the financial, business, and industrial COM
munity than at any time during the past
four years, n one Of the most potent
causes Of 1t Ia the cessation of political
strife. Never before has there been q tariff
measure before Congress regarding which
purely partisan disagreement has been
so little as that now provoked by
the Dingley bill. Practically the en-
tire business community Of this city
and Union Is united in the desire
for the passage of that measure. Every
where there is rejoicing that the time when
It is to become law Is now so near at hand.
So far as the tariff is concerned, there is an
era Of political good feeling, the like of
which we have not had for q generation.
All hands, Democrats and Republicans
alike, are anxious to have the question
set aside, so that trade and industry may
no longer be disturbed by such wholly
proftless wrangling over 1t as has been
going on steadily for so many years past.
The expectation that the Tariff bill will
have been signed by President MCKINLEY
in the course of q few weeks is the main
cause of the more sanguine feeling now pre-
vailing in Wall street. Tariff disputes,
once 80 violent, nave ceased; all polit-
ical disputes lave ceased among the
people. They are taking q rest from the
debating of fictitious issues, having set
tied last November the one really seri-
GUS and genuine political issue since the
war. The issue before them now is the
issue Of their own substantial welfare.
In plain words, they want to make a little
money, and they see a better chance of max
ing it than they have had for four years.
They are no longer fascinated by academic
economic theories, however beautiful. They
want practical business just now.
Congress will adjourn somewhere about
the middle of July, according to present
appearances, n thereafter there will be
no excuse for any other political diversion
until September Is well advanced, or until
October. Meantime the people do not want
to be bothered with politics. They are not
afraid that they will not have q good can
didate for Mayor to vote for, and they are in
M hurry to have him put up.
OF course, there is no individual who
stands out all by himself in his singular and
absolute fitness to be the first Mayor of the
Greater New York. In that vast commu-
rStv ~ mora than thraa po;Il;o- roo,Jn 800
many men qualified for the place, and
no n Of them is solitary in his
prominence. Taking straw votes in June
In the interest of any particular candidate
for nomination for an election which does
not occur until November, is mere child's
play. 1t amounts to nothing, signifies
nothing, n only produces the impress
sion of a hustling for the place be-
meath the dignity of any man entitled
to its honor. The clique of busybodies
who are advertising themselves by tri-
fling with the dignity and consequence
of Mr.. SETH Low by plastering the town
with appeals for straw votes in behalf of
his candidacy for nomination are doing
him grievous injury. They are making him
ridiculous in the eyes of the people. The
right man will be found and nominated at
the right time, and sensible citizens do not
intend to waste in June zeal and discretion
which will not be required until November.
One thing at a time; and just now that
thing is not politics; neither Washington
politics nor New York politics. The extra
session of Congress will last only o few days
moro. The municipal election is more than
four months off, and it presents no prob.
lens requiring solution so far in advance.
The issue on which it will turn is already
settled, and the people do not need long
preparatory instruction as to it, for already
they understand 1t thoroughly.