The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-26
FOOLS PARADISE FOR GIFTS.
BossES DEAFTHEN DISTRICT LEAD
ERS err "TE,RE LoSING,U

..Briug No MAD News Hero or woe TO tho
Messenger" IL Their M~otto-uere,s tho
Eminent Reynolds Answering PIntt seth
Low shakes Hands with tho RIdderbund.
Although Boss McCook has issued orders to
his brother Cit bosses that they shall give out
no estimates concerning the vote Of next Tues
day, practically all the Cts about headquarters
are doing is to I'LL sheet after sheet OF paper with
figures. each man wing with the next to figure
out the largest majority for Low. 1t IL majority
now, not plurality. But as noted in THE SUN
the other day, this confidence in the success OF
their ticket extends no further than tho bosses
and those Immediately around them. The dis
trict leaders and the district workers who two
weeks ago were going to elect Low now talk
about beating George.
Two or three Of them came to headquarters
Yesterday afternoon and tried to tell a fow
things to Clark, Pine. and Reynolds, but those
astuto politicians refused to listen to them whom
they began to talk Of a possible defeat. All Of
the visitors received the Same reply. they wero
mistaken, they were n bit nervous, the hcad-
quarters had much better means of finding out
what the sentiment of the people was than the
district leaders. from straw votes, multitude
nous letters. &C., &c. Ono OF tho leaders, from
a west side district, was fairly in despair after
he had had a talk with Clark.
"What are you going to do with folks like
these o. he asked. "Over in my district wo had
a fair chance tc poll a good vote two weeks ago,
and I mado a corresponding report to head
quarters. 1t was in that district that a great
many names were secured for the Low petition,
not all OF them genuine nor all Of them sincere.
I'll admit, but l couldn't convince these folks of
1t. AS soon as / made a favorable report, two
weeks ago, they cut down my supplies, and all
the satisfaction l got was that the money was
needed more in other parts, OF tho city, and, as
everything. was going well in my district. 1
could afford to give up some.
what do YOU think, OF that Within three
weeks OF election aud the Republicans nghtlng
fact that we have lost heaps OF ground since
then Tss5 nnd every oey i inGh we We. l0 %iil T poii on seifii dn Of
the vote we would have polled two weeks ago.
Mine is not tho only district where this change
is taking place. but We can't convince the poo
Here l came up to-day and told them plainly
that we were losing ground. lmmedietely they
heart; that I'm imagining all these things, and
H nvSn n about th my ge district iS 'e than m' / q do. Now, mind
Isn't my game, But if i ever get mixed up
Jeems Weynolds undertook, the Job of answer;
ever, until he had talked the, matter over with
back room and said lots OF things. He said it
was absurd. nneonvincing; that Low was az
good AS elected; that Gcn. Tracy Woulo pc o pad
fourth: but he didn't explain how all these
things were to happen.
Seth Low put in an appearance at head
quarters yesterday afternoon for the first time
since Thursday. So pressing w re his ENGAGE
ments upstairs that he was unable to meet any
of the faithful who had been waiting. He
went directly to his desk in the, front room
upstairs and a guard was set a. tho door.
All the time he wns there the upper hall
was filed with an eager throng OF sup
plants who wanted to get at him, but no one
under a boss got in save one very good-looking
young woman who said that she wanted to ex-
had shed In Brooklyn on Friday afternoon.
At 5 Mr.. Low went up to the CARGO head
quarters, where he was to mako o ten-minute
speech to the CARGO Campaign and
allow the members thereof to shake his right
hand. He was met by August kleinau. tho
Chairman of the Campaign Committee. and led
to the rostrunl, where the eighty men present
passed in review before him and shook his
hand and saw his smile. Then he told them
that his position was fully outlined in his letter
OF acceptance, and that there were two ways in
which u man could be placed in nomination.
Other speeches were made by A. Is. Amend,
Paul Goepel. Herman Rider. and Damsen.
They all used German to talk In, but one OF tho
men present said that tho burden of their
speeches was that Low. II elected. would not
enforce the excise law. After the meeting was
over one of the Germans exclaimed enthusiast
cnlly: We Germans will cast half of the Low
vote
How many will that be T. was asked.
We'll. We hat twenty-dree tousand."
When Jeems Weynolds hears that the Garoos
predict a total vote of 10000 for Low he will
throw a fit.