The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-27
WYE JOHN FREE C. MONT!
MAYOR STRONG MAKES a 0LoRi-
Gus SPEECH

In support Not Only OF NE J" ~
Original Republican but OF HI" own Adj
ministratlon 40 Mayor, and He Preo'''S
That Seth Low would nc such Another A. ho
There was a hot time in the old town last
night, aud il tho Cts Union could only make IL
as hot again, all New York would turn out 10
sec the show. There was never anything llKeit
in New York before.
Talk about your Republican mass meetings or
your George mass meetings or your Tamnany
Hall assemblagesi They couldn't hold a candle
to the meeting OF the Cts Union In the ITO
cadero Music Hall In West Twenty-third street.
In tho first place Seth Low didn't come. AT
g o'clock about q hundred colored men had as
| scmbled In tho hall and sat in the front seats.
There were only four lights burning In the nall
of the time, for the owner OF the building BE-
lievcd the meeting would DO a failure, as mono
OF the speakers advertised had turned up.
The committeeman resolved to go on with the
show or burst. So they hired q band OF negro
musicians and turned them loose on Seventh
avenue. follow cd by ten colorcd men. who car
ricd transparCncics.
While the procession was out scouting for an
audience a man with n stercopticon amused tho
crowd left in the hall. Then the band camo
back. followed by several hundred persons,
black and white. Somewhere the procession LAD
picked up Mayor Strong, and he marched into
the hall supported on either side by a colorcdCit.
The Mayor looked happy. His face was a.
rosy as the fingers of the dawn, and he marked
time to the music with his head. He was escort
ed up to the stage door, and helped up the
wooden steps to the stage, going behind the
stereopticon mans sheet, SO that tho audience
could not SEQ him until the property man gave
orders to raise the curtain.
The Mayor was then seen sitting alone in the
middle OF The stage. with one hand on a chair on
either sidc of him. The crowd cheered. The
Mayor smiled and waved one of his hands.
A minute later a dozen colored Cts walked
upon the stage and sat down in chairs that were
arranged in a scmi-circle; Mayor Strong &C.
cupie1 the interlocutor's chair.
The enaindcr OF the stage setting included
two tables down near tho 70 tiishts: WIN iva a
drinking glasses on the other.
James D.. Carr. The negro LAYER acted c5oa,s as
"Hurrahi' he shouted. "Hurrah for Seth
Seth Lowi Hurrah!"
Fellow CITIZENS" said tho Mayor. I'm
This year. with $4,000 citizens voting
to wipe a% oat al mash i" We have alFfsadsy
don't want Mr.. Low to, emaneipato usi We're
emancip1tcd now, I've seen a good de4I
Of things since I've been IN the Mayor
now. A Tamnany man came to the office the
other day and said he wanted me TO do him a
favor. lie said: You're n non-partlsan Mayor
elected on n non-partisan platform--you're a,
much my Mayor as any one else,s. You're al
not sorry. That's the kind Of Republican. boys
who gels into the Mayors chair; That's tn.
0 That's the reason I'm going to vote for him. be
cause l know he hos the courage Of his copvic
t t &c IN III, IT. ]ass s%ssStss' P ass Ts Of mo- my sp lis a IT
o I'm only n common dry goods man. and ! novr
a phSls. a and spffs : hose sn I ou u! EG't e iH,e to eh huy Mn mSd,
S Snsipi gss n NARY m ana ; Sbn s"1 WIZ S09 Im h 1aif Sm,
y .RutIt cll yer fellow citizens, it takes a ma
s of bes 3, sfS oGl Gin siiaer' s,o II must ,o t0 b
) fun during this caMrslsn: i WIS the r,9Ess
$ machine man in the city OF New YORK; and tn
man how to vote, that would make m,
n to one Of the most beautiful addressc
OF this campaign delivered by your Chairman
s Whi,S he fo was na s2 too' NE 8 Tod ! Tishfs b 1a ha:
a Hes only a little Ne Too He feels almost a
h large !9Trh as the aoS Original Md s1s M So T9S; The ReDub,ico,
eff was one q the men who nominated nj @d job n,
the 1st of January next bids will be or9ned a
y the City Hall for a new school. l said ever
d Monday. beginning next, Monday, bids will h
opened for ne building Of a new schoolhouse."
~ "What's the matter with 1O4th street
yelled a man in the audience.
Hoard OF Education decides that" said tn
Mayor. Board OF Education selects sites. BIZ
I'm not going to tell what a good Governmel
ID was. Embodiment OF publication.
is B want TO say the newspapers will col
h tradict that Dock Board story to-mo row morl
ing. The Secretary has made m affidavit shov
h. ing the truth OF tie matter. But l v ant you
"a continue the reform government by eleetin
Seth Low"
Then the Mayor returned TO tho intcrlocntor
"a chair. The audience cheered him to the echo.
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