The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-04
lHE CAMPAIGN IN new YORK
IT is NOW ON THE EVE OF CONCLU-
SION AFTER A MOST sPIR-
TIED CANVASS.
PADDY GLEASON THE COMEDIAN
With 80. 900 Registered Voters the
New Gotham Approaches Election
LAY with the Validating
steps Of an Infant Giant.

New York, Oct. 31.-The first municipal
election of Greater New York. the great
est that ever occurred in amy city in thu
world, takes place next Tuesday. 1t il
destined to be recorded in history as thu
most epoch making election outside of 1
national ballot. As the contest stands
today, no man eau say with positive as
surancc how it will end. 1t will be thu
Gettysburg of three out Of the four fol
l0wiHgs now contcsting for the su
premJcy.
At least $4,000 men will vote election
day. The total registry figures mp il
round numbers 567,0OG. Estimating tina
n 600 Of those registered will not vote
and that il giving more than the custo
mary Z per cent to the stay-ut-hOines-tht
total ballot roster will show the greatest
number of votes ever east by one munich
patty. -Four men lead the parties and
factions thereof around which the com
batants in this political conflict are gath
cred, much as in the Stock Exchange the
partisans Of various securities rally about
their places of Capitalization in the pit
II is really struggle between the Tam
manyitcs and the anti-ranlmanyites The
former are not divided and are led by
Judge Van Wyck.
Seth Low, president Of Columbia col
lego. is the leader of the good govern
Incnt movement, bipartisan and aiming
its shafts ut Tammany. Benjamin IL.
Tracy best known M II member of OK
President Clcvcland's cabinet, is the re-
publican standard bearer. Henry George,
the disciple Of land theory that has
made him famous, lead an element com
posed very largely of the workingmen to
whom his theories have appealed
Then there is a candidate whose claim
- n,.n, tn. I lola Il tt,s
they call him Paddy Gleason. His
emblem of the battle axe and his huge
personality have made him known almost
everywhere. Sure" says he. "and why
shouldn't ! be mayor? Don't We know,
me boy, that there's twice as many Irish
men in this Greater New York of ours
ms there is in Dublin? Faith, then, let's
the old country that some one from the
old isle can get somewhere else but on
the police force" Nobody takes Paddy
seriously. Undoubtedly he will get some
votes, for the balwick Of which he holds
the mayoralty and from whence he gives
MI the school children annual excursions.
thinks his the only name to conjure by
In the hurry burly Of the canvass.
amidst the thousand and one utterunces
that are heard on all sides regarding the
candidates il is in a measure difficult to
silt the true from the false and learn
what basis the men who are in the race
for mayor stand ON. Beginning with
Judge Van Wyck. because he represents
the element that has with the exception
OF the present city government ruled New
York for many years, according to his
own statement of the platform on which
he stands. he is Bryanitc He states
that he voted for Bryan at the last ma
tional election and is in entire sympathy
with the democratic platform. He VOWS
that il elected he will fulfill the duties
of mayor without regard TO party and
consulting only principle; that none but
Ut mtn shall be- placed in office; that the
franchises granted to various corpora
tons ara tending to serve the public for
pay, shall be made source of
remuneration: that gas shall - be-
sold at not more than 81 per
thousand feet. And, Inst of all Judge
van Wyck declares that this coming ad.
ministration, if he be it's head, shall be
conducted on the basis of n great busi.
ness establishment. and that the interests
OF the people shall he looked after with
that same keen regard rs to finances that
characterizes the conduct of a private
CORPORATION.
Benjamin +. Tracy stands for the prin-
ciplcs Of the republican party, he says,
iirst, last and all the time. In part he
athrms much that his democratic rival.
Van Wyck. declares He frankly avows
that he believes in party organization
and party conduct of municipal matters.
Again, he reiterates that old principle
that il should be government for the
people, of the people and by the people.
lie further states that he is what is
known as o Sound money" man and that
that principle will actuatc him in all
that he does. He is for upholdinS that
famous piece of legislation known us
h. nj la
new era into saloon affairs in New York.
Seth Low stands on the platform on
which he ran for mayor of Brooklyn
some years ago. 1t has been twisted
about some in order to make it suitable
to the enlarged scope Of territory fos
which II is supposed TO answer. Yet the
good government planks are still the
most numerous, for Seth Low has made
that his hobby for long years. He is n
rabid foe of Tammany, and his doe
trines are radically opposed to anything
that in the least savors of that organi-
zation. Perhaps his cardinal principle
is well expressed by The inscription one
sees on the placarts i'll the New York
street cars: Have you a pull? If you
vote for Seth Low you won't need one.
Mr.. Low says that he will attend to the
duties of mayor, if he has an opplr-
tunity, Just as he has done to the tasks
which dcvolvc upon the presidency OF
Columbia university. He declares that
he is rs much n republican "a he ever
was and in accepting the nomination con
ferred upon him by the Citizens union
the organization which placed him in
the field, he is merely conforming to what
he regards as the true principles of re-
publicanism. His administration. II
he has one, he says, will he that of Il
business man who believes in progress.
BY the sudden death of Henry George
the national democracy, better known as
the irregulars, is virtually without can
didate, though the nomination has been
transferred to the shoulders of the son
OF the great single taXer, Young George
OF course stands upon the same platform
upon which his father stood. The lat
ter believed that every employer should
he made to pay the highest rate OF wages
which the city pays and tacitly declared
that organized labor has il III its power
to bring this state of affairs. He openly
alleged that an investigation of the city's
books would open mp scandal like that
of the Tweed and Jake Sharp affairs
His war upon Tammany was the feature
of his campaign. and he was the only
candidate who utilized violent personali-
ties rs weapons
Such are. in brief. the principles which
the candidates for mayor OF Greater
New York advocate. While they are
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