The news & observer., 1897-10-12
Many Phases of New York's
MayoraIty Contest.
FUSION HURTS GEORGE
agABORING MEN ANGRY BECAUSE
THEY WE'RE SHUT OUT.
EARlNG UNPOPULAR WITH THEM
Low Denounces Effort to Trade His Interests
Guggenheimer' Nomination the Cause
Of Trouble--lt Looks Like Van
WICK win Win.

OF le0uDie--U LOOKS Like Van
Wyck viii Win.
Especial to the Post.)
New York, Oct. 1o.-The battle royal
row being waged for political suprem-
acy and control of Greater New York
wakes warmer as the end draws near.
Regulations are being assailed, former
political deals exposed. and party secrets
revealed. In politics friendship must be
naelyed for future consideration. On all
sides promises to give better govern
ment are falling as thick as autumn
seaves Those disembarrassed by entang-
ling party alliances declare New York
Ss burdened with two classes of extrem-
Ets-the theoretical reformer and the
tyrannical boss.
Hundreds of reformers and independ-
ents have solemnly resolved never again
10 vote for a candidate not responsible
TO some party for his acts. Seventy per
cent of this class will support Tamma-
ny. They do not admire Lows Mug.
wump adherents. Pharaiseeism, they
say, permeates the candidates, is in
stilled in the platform, and is expected
to perforate and perfume the ballot
fine intellect, indomitable courage, and
undisputed integrity, but they consider
him unfortunate in being welded to a
pet theory and branded with innumera-
bic '@sms." consequently too impractical
goH rha raen0nsible office of Mayor Of
e9e sr .cH York.
J0I 4 POLITICAL DAREUM.
Tom L. Johnson, the political Bar
num, is today the best advertised man
in the city of New York As the man
ager Of the Henry George campaign he
seems to have been conducting a unique
sort Of deal. Just what effect the in
dorsement of the Citizens Union county
candidates in New York county and the
9egular Democratic candidates in the
ether counties which go to make up the
Greater New York territory will have
upon the political fortune of Messrs
Tracy. Low, George, and Van Wyck
it seems impossible to predict.
Ii the noise caused by the explosion
Is any criterion, Henry George, the nom
inee of the Democratic Party of Thorn
as Jefferson" has suffered most The la.
boring men were especially angry when
1t was announced that they would not
be allowed the privilege of having any
thing to say regarding local candidates
I'm the municipality Of Greater New
York. They thronged the headquarters
of Henry George at the Union Square
Hotel, and Mr.. Georges sons and his
brother were compelled to remind some
Of the more aggressive of those protest
ing that the headquarters belonged to
Mr.. George personally, and if they de-
sired to make speeches in opposition to
aim the better policy for them to adopt
would be to "go and hire hail."
Some of the workingmen who object
ed TO the deal with the Citizens Union
by which the local candidates of Seth
Lows organization were indorsed left
the Union Square headquarters vowing
vengeance upon all concerned. An eff
fort was made to hold the laboring men
m line by nominating Jerome O'Neill,
the presidet Of the Central Labor Union,
for the office Of president of the Munich
pal Council. Unfortunately, the cam
paign committee having this matter in
aand, picked upon Col George e. War
ing, Jr., at present ut the head of the
department OF street cleaning, as the
Georgite candidate for Comptroller. Col
Waring has made himself very unpopu-
lar with the workingmen in this city,
and though his nomination might have
proved a source of strength to a regu-
lar Democratic or regular Republican
ticket it is difficult to see how the Sc
lection will help the Democratic Party
Of Thomas jefferson" Jerome O'Neill.
candidate for President of the Munich
pal Council is personally unpopular in
Central Labor Union affairs, owing to
the belief that he courted nomination
at the hands of the Citizens Union first,
afterward turning to the Henry George
ties and making all sorts of combina-
tions and deals, trading off the interests
Of the workingmen simply and solely
for the purpose of securing a personal
nomination.
As for Col. Waring, even the employees
Of the street department under him will
not vote for him, for they have never
become reconciled to his ordering them
to wear the white uniforms while at
work in the street cleaning department,
merely, to their notion, putting upon
&nem the "badge of servitude," and
adopting old world military methods.
SUFFERING FROM FUSION.
But Henry George is not the only man
who apparently is suffering in conse-
quence of the fusion of the New York
county ticket between the Georgeites
and the Citizens Union. Seth Low is
said to have bitterly denounced this ap-
parent attempt of his followers to trade
off his individual interests by accepting
nomination at the hands of the
"Thomas Jefferson Democracy" At n
conference held with his manager, Mr..
Reynolds, he even went so far as to
threaten to withdraw in case the deal
was carried into execution. He was re-
minded, first of all, that he had repeat
edly announced that he himself would
take a nomination at the hands of any
existing political organization, even at
the hands of Tammany Hall itself.
Surely. it was urged. the other men on
the ticket could not be blamed for doing
what he had offered to do himself.
Mr. Lows personal pride and his de-
sire for the mayoralty did not permit
him to withdraw from the race. but he
frankly told his followers just what he
thought of the entire deal. Still. follow
ers of Henry George in their conferences