The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-19
Two Weeks from To-Day.

Two Weeks from To-Day.
The election takes place in the Greater
New York two weeks from to-day. Mean.
time the canvass Of the various candidates
will proceed with great vigor, and violent
attempts will be made to destroy the hal.
ance OF judgment of the citizens Ivy arous.
ing passions and melting personal preju.
dices favorable and unfsvorable 10 the re-
s~pective candidates, according to the parti-
sanship OF the canvassers.
This, however, is a campaign will an issue
which appeals so directly and so forcibly to
the calm judgment OF all reasoning men
that such efforts to disturb and pervert
their minds must prove unavailing. 1t is a
maxim of business men that business and
sentiment have no relationship. and 1t is
true so far as concerns swaying OF the judg.
ment by merely emotional influences, but
It is not true as touching the sentiments and
principle of honor and integrity. Nor does
business exclude from even its prudent con-
duct humane considerations and the obli-
cation of fricndliness and fraternity. a
considerate course in the treatment of an
honest debtor who is hard pressed, may,
for instance, be as wise practically as it is
generous sentimentally.
In this campaign the question at issue is,
first of all, q business question, though
there also enters into it the altruistic ele-
ment of the obligations of good citizenship.
raising 1t to a far loftier plane. The cleo
tion is TO decide the reputation. the charac-
ter which New York is to have in the eyes
of the world, whether it is a community of
stable principle, recognized by the sobriety
of the world as essential to social security
and as q condition justifying confidence, or
is tickle in Judgment and under the sway of
caprice and fantasy.
1t can neither be denied nor doubted by
any intelligent man that nothing would 80
surely commend New York to the conf.
dcuce of the world. and rebound conse-
quently 20 its substantial progress and
prosperity, as an unmistakable and en-
phatic declaration in the result of the cleo
tion that this great commercial community
stands ~unchangeably where It stood last
November, for financial integrity and tho
national honor and credit. II 1t thus plain
~ publishes to all civilization that Its con-
servatism is unconquerable by forces of
social discomfort and revolution, now so
numerous and so menacing in every great
centre of population in the civilized world,
1t will demonstrate hat popular govern
ment in America is amply able to sustain
the ~severest strain that can be put upon 1t,
which is in the self-sovernment Of o great
and crowded municipality, the second city
OF the world in magnitude.
Nor can that decision be made thus EN-.
phatic and convincing except by the posi-
tive reafirmation of the decision rendered
last year, the consequences of which, so
beneficial to every American interest, arc
now only checked in their s~alutary opera
tion by doubt and anxiety as to the result
CT the coming election. whether 1t shall be
r~eactionary in spirit and effect, equivocal
only, or positive and emphatic in favor of
sound social, financial, and political princi-
pie and policy.
The election of VAN WICK would be
equivoca!. 1t would be q cowardly evasion
OF the question vital to the interests of
New York. The election of Low would be
a distinct refusal Of the community to con.
slider and settle that great and pivotal
question. The election of GEORGE would
publish to the world that this city was to
begin its new and larger career by expert
menting with social and economical the.
cries and fantasies rejected by the sanity
of all civilization.
II VI Sch. 4uA j Ao"SNCI Will
be a positive and affirmative announcement
that, squarely facing the issue Of sound
government. social conservatism, and f1nan-
cial principle and integrity, the citizens of
New York, waving aside all past political
differences, endered their verdict delibe-
rately for the stability of civilization and
the security of property.
Is it necessary for US to defend these prop
ositions to any intelligent and reasonable
mind not enlisted on the side OF which
BRYAN was the leader last yeari Is there
man whose Judgment does not assent to
them when its balance is not disturbed by
passion or prejudicc9
Gen. TRACY's election two weeks from
to-day will establish New York in the re.
npect and confidence of the world more
firmly than ever before in its history. 1t
will also do more to keep straight and
sound our national policy in the future than
any political event which will occur be.
tween this time and the election Of a Presi.
dent in 1900.
Wherever else there may be evasion,
equivocation, dallying, there must be none
in the capital of American civilization.
The Socialists and the Prohibitionists