The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-09
Which of the Two Is the Genuine
Mugwump Moses?

Another candidate of marvellous qualif.
cations has been put on view, and all the
friends of municipal reform are invited to
inspect him and then to give him AN open,
unqualified, sincere, and earnest support
1t had been supposed that the Citizens
Union had found in the Hon. SETH Low
the perfect n matchless STANDARD bearer
of non-partisan reform, the incarnation of
all the romantic dreams of the Goo Coos
and of all the virtues of the Better Element.
1t would be painful to have to believe that
the Better Element could err in it's search
for perfection, or hat Mr.. Low was not the
very choicest representative of the princi-
pies and interests of the Citizens Union ;
but even beauty must yield to truth, and
the truth is that there is another and per-
haps a better in the field.
The Workingmen's Municipal Reform
League is at least as anxious for municipal
reform as ever the Citizens Union can be
in its most earnest and thinly attended
Labor" conferences in Cooper Union. The
Workingmen's Municipal League has
watched the Low boom with dry eyes.
Whatever Mr.. Low may be to the hallelu-
jah shouters of the Citizens Union. his
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the League. AS its Executive Committee
remarked in a preamble on Friday:
"No man has yet been named in connection with
this stupendously great ONCE who unites within his
mental and moral characteristics the indubitable
requisites absolutely needfui to bring about the CO.
alition preeminently Indispensable to successful en-.
deavor."
The Citizens Union has celebrated Mr..
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all the necessary and ornamental, plain and
fancy, mental and moral characteristics and
indubitable requisites. Great and stupen-
dously great as he may be, he is not great
enough for the Workingmen's Municipal
League. He Is eminent. but the League has
a supereminent candidate whom it thus
launches into the deeps of politics:
RESOLVED. That the W~orkingmen's Municipal Re.
form League places in nomination for the Mayoralty
OF the Greater New York u man who combines within
himself In a supereminentd degree all the qualities
necessary. firstly, to success in the coming cam.
paIgn. and, secondly, to an honest, courageous. and
efficient administration OF the duties OF the ONCE to
which the sunrages OF his fellow citizens, to whom no
IL well known and dearly beloved. will call him.
This man Is ADoLPBUs LEE DUNLAP"
A community which possesses two such
public characters as ADoLPHUs LEE DUN
LAP and SETH Low is both rich and lucky.
but the task of preferring one to the other
is both difficult and invidious. To be sure.
the Workingmen's Political League has no
difficulty in the matter. 1t has eyes only
for the well known and dearly beloved
ADoLPHUs LEE. 1t says confidently and
fervently that "ADoLPuUs LEE DuNLAp's
high character II standing in the COM
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an honest opposition to his candidacy" and
1t "unhesitatingly denounces as traitors to
the glorious cause of municipal reform all
who invite disunion and consequent defeat
by refusing to support our magnificent can.
didate." With what Innocent perplexity
and wonder must the Unions connoisseurs
in perfection read that utterance of the
League. Two magnificent candidates, two
honest, courageous, efficient, perfect,
and s~tupendously great candidates OF