The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-30
FOR TRACY, REPUBLICANS!
NO OTHER HoPE AGAINST IA W.
MANY, WITH Low LAID BARE.

Politics Has Rarely sees SO Astounding n
Spectacle AZ the Death OF One Candidate
for Great ONCE Followed by Another's In-
slant Public CIamor "I Am the Heir"
Tho citizens Of Greater New York witnessed
yesterday a political spectacle which Will be re-
memhered for many years as tho astounding
feature Of this campaign. Henry George had
been dead but u few hours when Seth Low ana
his campnigners began an organized movement
to appropriate tho George vote. The press
bureau at Seth Lows headquarters rushed
ahead at full ppced. grinding out statements
that Seth Low was Henry Georges natural po-
litical heir.
The statements woro handed TO representa-
tives of afternoon newspapers friendly TO Seth
Low. The Eucnino Post rushed to the rescue
and printed articles with the headings, Low,
Georges Heir, and Georges Last Words-His
Attitude Toward Seth Low" Tho Mail and
Express also took its cue from the Seth Low
press bureau and quoted Henry George as hav-
ing said. IF thought l could not win. l would
say, vote for Seth Low" Other evening news
papers friendly to Seth Low followed instruc-
tions In the same line.
While the Seth Low press bureau was grind
ing out these statements the gallant though
misguided soldiers in Henry Georges camp
were lifting young Henry George into the sad
die so lately occupied by his father. No cam
paigner had anything yesterday but the kindest
words for Henry George. While differing with
him on political and economical questions, all
spoke OF his gentlcncss and his probity. 1t was
left for the Seth Low boomers to attempt to
steal the mantle of Henry George for Low.
Seth Lows campaigners uttered a falsehood
when they declared that MIR. George desired his
followers 10 come to the rescue of Mr.. Low. In
the very last speech of Mr.. George he said:
The majority of men of the city have no
reason to know whether Cookers man. Van
Wyck. can talk or not. They don't know
whether he is a real man or a dummy man, and
this you are asked to vote for. 1t is an insult
TO Democracy and to American citizenship.
Then there is Mr.. Low. About Mr.. Low let me
clearly and most emphatically state that / do
not ask any man to vote for him. We are both
reformers, but there Is an imneasurablc dis
tance between us. He is an aristocratic reformer.
He would have reform Of his own ordering. I
am a Democratic reformer. l would have the
reform, and only the reform, that the people
order"
Compare the foregoing with the utterances OF
Seth Low:
I'm view of Mr.. Georges death I wish to
say to the people of the city that I shall give
myself to this contest in their behalf with n
new and higher resolve, a. though 1 had
received 1t as u last charge from his dying
lips.'
Seth Lows statement and his hungry bid for
support from Henry Georges followers is on al
fours with tho conduct of Jake Worth at the
Oriental Hotel last summer. Supreme Cour,
Justice Osborne was dead. Gov. Black, who
had the appointment of Justice Osborne's sue
cessor, was at the Oriental Hotel. This was or
a Saturday night. Justice Osborne was to bt
buried the following day. Jake Worth, Setl
Lows present champion in Brooklyn. got to
gether his friends and bombardcd Gov. Black n
the Oriental Hotel on that Saturday night. ask
ing the Governor to appoint Hugo Hirsch in the
unburied Justice Osborne's place. Gov. Black
was very angry. He waited until the proprie
ties permitted tho filling Of Justice Osborne's
place. and then appointed Jesse johnson.
Seth Lows conduct was also exactly like thai
OF another OF his boomers. Supreme Cour,
Justice Randolph Il. MARITIME died several years
ago one afternoon. ASUN representative wa
sitting beside Gov. Morton in the Executive
Chamber at Albany ut tho time. At 3 o'clock
Gov. Morton received word Of tho death OF Jus
tice MARITIME. Twenty minutes later Gov. Nor
ton receive by telegraph an application to bt
named as Justice Marines successor from on,
Of Seth Lows present boomers. Gov. Morton
showed this mans telegram to the representa-
tive of THE Sun in confidence or the man,
name would he prin ed.
Yet Seth Low and his campnigners, so they
declare. are in this movement for principle
When the nnti'snnp Democrats were at Syracuse
in May, 1897, every man present put his hant
on his heart and declared that he was in tha'
movement because he was actuated by prin
ciple. Yet those anti-snappcrs were the hun
griest oficeseekOrs the State Of New York ha.
ever seen.
TRACY MEN OFFER EVEN MONEY