The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-16
Insult to American Sentiment.

Tho selfish, disintcgrating, un-American
sentiment hat inmate the Low move
ment was exuded copiously in the extraor.
binary words of Mr.. Low at his Brooklyn
meeting on Thursday night. With the en-
tire American people watching the New
York election intently us the most i'm.
p~ortant of the year to the nation at
large, with the Hon. JOHN NJ. THURsToN
of Nebraska, Chairman of the National
Republican Committee; JOSEPH b. FOR
AKER, Senator from Ohio, and CoRNE.
LIUs n. Bliss, a Cabinet officer in Wash
ington, respectfully and earnestly report
ing to the New York electorate the vast in.
terest felt in their decision this fall by Re.
publicans outside of New York's borders,
Mr.. Low sneers at these statesmen, and
thus describes their conduct:
Now. II you think OF It for one moment. tho
American colonies revolted from Great Britain In
1870 substantially for this reason. because Great
Britain was administering the colonies from An out.
side point OF view, with reference to English and
British interests. and not with reference to the inter.
ests of the colonies themselves.
Now. when the people OF the cities elect their
officers with reference to doing something somewhere
else. with reference to strengthening an organization
for national purposes. they arc doing for themselves
precisely what Great Britain did when It tried to
govern the American colonies, not in their own in.
terests, but In the interest OF Great Britain, and pre-
cisely what Spain has done for centuries in governing
Cuba for the benefit OF Spain, instead OF for the ben.
eft OF the people OF Cuba"
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, that hot.
headed rcvolutionist who in the bitterness
of his fanaticism gave to the eastern end
of the United States the name of 1.-THE
cnemy's country" has now a companion in
disloyalty-SETH Low. Between BRYAN
and Low, worshipping BRYAN and flatter.
ing Low as his second choice for Mayor,
standing on the Bryan platform and in.
dorsing Low candidates, Is the politician
who once said: LAS for this sham rcpub-
lie, / care not how soon it is overthrown,"
HENRY GEORGE.
Consider the Mugwump Lows shameful
likening of the interest of other States in
the election in New York city to England's
tyranny over the American colonies, and
Senator THURsToN in behalf of the Repub.
lican ticket in the Bowery last Wednesday:
~ read in the paper this morning that l was
an interloper. l regret this. have been in the habit
OF making my country reach from sea to sea. Ihave
been In the habit OF believing that every American,
no matter where he was, was my brother. Fellow
citizens, l have a right to be here tonight to speak for
the Republican party. Only last fall out in the great
West where | live they said to me: This is the West.
This country Is great. We OF the West arc great
enough to stand by ourselves. We should be indie
pendent OF New York. I come hero to New York now
and / ind q class of citizens saying This Is New
York; this Is the metropolis; this is the greatest city
in the land; this city is able to stand by itself. This
city should DO free from the West. We should cut
loose from IT. say to these people, as I said to my
own people In my State last year: by State has one
star in the nag. New York has one star In the flag. and
wo are bound in an inseparable union. Your country
is my country"
Upon the year succeeding every Presi-
dental election. said Senator THURsTON
further, the enemy of the victorious party
seeks to retstablish its national strength
by retrieving itself in the several minor
contests, and "always upon the proposition
that there is no politics in a municipal
election"
The national sentiment holds the United
States, in spite of it's enormous territory
and multiplied governments, together in
one powerful and everywhere loyal union.
In a country like this questions of national
importance cannot be wholly driven out or
suppressed In any election, however in.
significant. If they are particularly
grave, they can be ignored under ex.
traordinary circumstances only, and al
ways with the clement of peril. Sneercd
ut and even viliiicd as it has been by
Mr.. SETH Low, for his comparison of its
manifestation in New York to foreign
dcspotism was nothing less than disloyal
utilization, the national interest in law
and order demands the fcrvent reafirma'
ton and support of every patriotic citizen
of the Greater New York.
AS between Mr.. Low and the Republi
cans of other States who have discussed
the immense Importance of the New Yorl
election, the true Americans arc these citi
zcns of Nebraska and Ohio, and the for
cigner, the Britisher, is SETH Low.
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