Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-22
RIH YORK B|)T CHAMPAIGN.
Great Meetings Held by ALI the Mayor
atty Candidates.

u4Sos mCVtluSc Lulu Ny AL tH0 Mo VI
| atty Candidates.
! Seth Low and Mayor Strong At
/ fractions for a Big Anti-Piatt Re-
| publican Meeting - Tremendous
Enthusiasm Displayed = Henry
| George Addresses a Good Meet
| ing Everybody Fighting Tam
many, But Tammany Has the
Lead--Latest Summary of the
| Situation.
! New York, October 21.-The fine lin
ing up for the first municipal election
| in Greater New York is almost COM
| plete. After some hesitancy the United
| Democracy, sometimes called the
O'Brien Democracy, has decided that its
| place is with Henry George. More in
| 1uential because more numerous is the
| Manhattan Democracy, which has
elected to support Seth Low. The po-
tency Of the 10000 votes which the
Steckler brothers claim to have organ
| lied and controlled was recognized I'M
der the Gilroy-T ammany regime by the
| appointment of one of the Stecklers to
city judgeship. A point upon which
! the Stecklerites-largely drawn from
| the German element in New York
| find themselves at one with the Citi-
zens' Union is the issue of sumptuary
I legislation, for his letter Of acceptance
which has stood as tee platform of the
Citizens Union in this campaign, Mr..
Low said of the existing excise statute:
,, Where the Raines lay fails as applied
to New York, it fails because it does
not take into account the public SEN
timent of the city. New York, while
Enthusiastically an American city, is
also, as the Germans say, a world city,
Men of every sort of upbringing must
be able to live in such a city happily
and naturally, Of course, with due re-
gard to the rights and convictions of
Others"
In the circumstances it is to be ex-
pected that Tammany will suffer by the
decision in the Stecklerite councils to
stand by Low. To what extent the ac-
! ton the United Democracy will affect
the result is subject to much wider con-
| lecture. It's membership and the 10y
atty to its leaders of that membership
are comparatively unknown quantities.
Latterly the organization has taken
| sides with the free silver element in the
party and it was foremost in the de-
mand that Henry George declare him
| self uneQuivocally in sympathy with
! the platform adopted at Chicago last
year.
The announcement that Mayor Harri-
son, of Chicago, is coming to speak in
behalf of Judge Van Wyck, the Tam
many nominee for mayor, is not re-
| ceived with favor even by the Tammany
sachems. From the outset the Republic
cans have been criticised by the DEM
ocratic managers and the leaders and
newspaper supporters of the Citizens
Union movement, for importing cam
paign speakers, notable among whom
were Senator'S Foraker and Thurston.
The acceptance of Mayor Harrison's
tender Of services is regarded as a
qualification of the Democratic posi-
ton On this subject.
COL VIM. l.. Brown gave voice to the
dissenting sentiment to-day when he
said: II wrote to Mr. Sheehan some
little time ago, protesting against any
scheme of this kind. / have received
letter from Mr.. Sheehan, in which
he said that he entirely agreed with
me in the stand I had taken. If 1t is
bad politics, unnecessary and ill-timed
to bring Mayor Harrison to New York"
Who, then" Col. Brown was asked,
us responsible for Carter Harrison's
visit if Mr.. Sheehan did not favor it?''
That he replied, 81 leave you to
conjecture. 1t is believed that Henry
George has declined the services of
scores Of POpulist and silver orators,
among them Jerry Simpson and former
Senator PETER, who volunteered to
speak for him.
George has nearly 300 spakers, resi-
dents of Greater New York
A great demonstration in favor of
Seth Lows candidacy for Mayor took
place in Carnegie hall tonight. A ire
mendous throng filled every seat in the
pit, crowded the boxes and from thence
swept up to the topmost row of the big
gallery, was present. Even the stage
was uncomfortably crowded, the
benches that rose tier-like from the
lectern being damned.
The most remarkable feature of the
meeting was the fact that it was not
billed as a Citizens but as a Repub-
lican meeting, being held under the
auspices of the Republican organiza-
ton (anti-PlatD of the city of New
York.
About one-third of the audience was
composed of women. Enthusiasm fair
ly dubbed over, and when the famil-
lar features of Mayor Strong appeared
at the bottom of the stairway leading
to the stage, the whole house stood
up and cheered
Immediately behind the Mayor came
the familiar features of Seth Low. The
first glimpse CT the candidate set the
house wild. The women scrambled I'D
into their seats and waved their hand
kerchiefs and fairly shrieked with de-
light. The enthusiasm verged close
to the point of the indescribable when
the Mayor, the candidate, General
Wager Swayne, Joseph H. Choate,
Elihu Root and Gen. Arson G. Nc
Cook stood in the centre of the stage.
The Mayor was absolutely delighted
and waved his handkerchief back at
| the crowd, which cheered him. Even
Seth Low Joined in the cheering for
the Mayor-for the time being it was
the Mayors meeting, not Mr. Lows
Tho, he