The Saint Paul globe., 1897-11-02
FOUR SENSATIONAL INCIDENTS
They Have rlarked the Epochs in the Memoir
able Municipal Campaign.
Excepting Among His Friends George Is Not Re-
garded Serious Factor.

Special to the Globe.
/ NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-The first mu-
nicipal election Of Greater New York,
| the greatest that ever occurred in any
| city in the world, takes place tomor-
row. 1t is destined to be recorded in
history as the most epoch making cleo
tion outside of a national ballot. AS
| the contest stands today, no man can
! say with positive assurance how 1T Will
end 1t Will be the Gettysburg of three
out of the four followings now contest
ing for the supremacy.
At least $4,000 men will vote election
! day. The total registry figures up in
round numbers 56S 900. Estimating that
AZ, 900 of those registered will not vote
and that Is giving more than the custo-
mary per cent to the stay-at-homes-
the total ballot roster will show the
greatest number of votes ever cast by
one municipality. -Four men lead the
parties and factions thereof around
which the combatants in this political
conflict are gathered, much as in the
stock exchange the partisans of Var1-
Gus securities rally about their places
ly a struggle between the Tammany-
ties and the anti iTammanyites. The
former are not divided and are led by
Judge Van Wyck.
Seth Low, president of Columbia col
lege, is the leader of the good govern
ment movement, non-partisan and aim
ing it's shafts at Tammany. Benjamin
F. Tracy, best known as member OF
ex-PreSident Harrison's cabinet, is the
Republican standard bearer. Henry
George, the disciple of a land theory
that made him famous, is dead, but his
son leads an element composed very
largely of the Workingmen to whom his
fathers theories have appealed. These
are the serious candidates, the men
whom the public eye is scanning day
by day. and whose virtues and faults
are bruited about from the Westches-
ter limits to the surging seas at the
Battery.
Then there is a candidate whose
claim is not serious. Over in Long
Island City they call him Paddy
Gleason. His emblem the battle ak
and his huge personality have made
him known almost everywhere. Sure"
he says, ''and why shouldn't 1 be
mayor? Don't We know, me boy, that
there's twice as many Irishmen in this
Greater New York of ours as there is
in Dublin? Faith, then, let's have an
Irishman for mayor and show the old
country that some one from the old
ilse can get somewhere else but on the
police force. Nobody takes Paddy
seriously. Undoubtedly he will get
some votes, for the bailiwick of which
he holds the mayoralty and from
whence he gives all the school children
annual excursions, thinks his the only
name to conjure by.
In the hurly burly of the canvass,
amidst the thousand and one utter
ances that are heard on all sides re-
garding the candidates, 1t is in a meas
ure difficult to sift the true from the
false and learn what basis the men
who are in the race for mayor stand
upon. Beginning with Judge Van
Wyck, because he represents the ele-
ment 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 a Bryanite. He