The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-31
Henry George and Seth Low,

The nomination of the son and namesake
OF HENRY GEORGE to replace his dead
father as the leader of the Jeffersonian
Democracy leaves their ticket with HENRY
GEORGE still at its head. 1t also intro
duces a pathetic element into their canvass
which may tend to give more fire Of senti-
ment to that already passionate movement.
1t can be said of the father who has
fallen on the field of political battle while
leading his columns that he was the single
opponent of Gen. TRACY who deserved and
received the respect of those who waged
so relentless war against him. He was an
open foe and fought squarely in the open
field. He was not firing from ambush as a
cowardly political bushwhacker. He did
not hide his %colors, but waved them
proudly. All men knew where he stood
and exactly for what he was fighting.
That is n tribute to the memory of HENRY
GEORGE which is his due, for truth compels
1t. He was a virile character, and he re-
spe ed the manliness of the American
citizenship. He was not as SETH Low is,
according to the true description of him by
BouRKE COCHRAN on Friday night, a de.
famer of that citizenship against whom the
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revolt. HENRY GEORGE was a man, not an
epicene Mugwump.
Admirable as were these qualities in
HENRY GEORGE, and made to seem all the
more admirable in this campaign because
of their contrast with the SNUG hypocrisy
which has been paraded throughout its
course with loathsome c~harlatanism, his
doctrines are not less detestable because he
is dead. And they still live, though the
teacher is dead. They are still in this can
vass as a foremost feature, and their domi
nance in this election still remains a dam
gerous possibility. The Organism of Tam
many Hall may be cloaked, but it is there,
all the same, and VAN WICK represents it.
As we have said, it is questionable il
the emotions aroused by the tragic death
of HENRY GEORGE, almost on the eve of
assured victory, as he honestly believed,
will not charge his movement with a pro-
polling force Of passion giving it a we'll
nigh hysterical impulse; whether his fol-
lowers will not he inflamed by the sight Of
his corpse to fight the more madly for the
doctrines he died in expounding, defend
ing, and representing.
Mr.. SETH Low rushed forward with in
decent haste to appropriate to himself the
political estate of HENRY GEORGE almost
before the breath was out of the fallen
leaders body. 1t was a shocking and an
odious manifestation of greed. against
which the sense of decency of the whole
community, barring only emasculated Mug.
wumpery, has revolted with disgust. The
political harlot would have torn away the
very grave clothes of the dead man to seize
the talisman on his breast and appropriate
it as an emblem of hope for his quest for
public office.
The political estate of HENRY GEORGE,
which Low sought to grab, has gone to the
rightful heir, his W son; and who shall
say that the living HENRY GEORGE will not
receive as his proper inheritance the full
vote which would have been cast for his
father2 To say that none of it will go to
the vulgar and despicable intruder into the
chamber of death who sought to grab it in
the confusion and distraction produced by
the sudden tragedy, is simply to say that
the spirit and instinct of manliness are in
the breasts of the followers of the dead
HENRY GEORGE.
This latest exhibition of the u%nprincipled
greed of SETH Low simply carries to a
shocking extreme the course he has pur.
sued throughout this campaign. He began
in June with a false pretence, and revealed
his greed for notoriety Mt any cost in Sep
TENDER. He had been made Mayor OF
Brooklyn in past years through the unself'
ish agency of Gen. TRACY but in the
early days of the campaign he flung at him
the false accusation that II Zen TRACY
were Mayor he would be only the tool OF
another man. This from SETH Low, who
neither morally nor Intellectually is fit tc
tie the shoes Of BENJAMIN +. TRACYl II
was the undetermined assault of a coward
and an migrate.
SETH Low Mayor Of the Greater New
York; Next Tuesday the sheer manlines.
Of the community will rise to crush and
abate a nuisance from which it has suffered
30 long and 80 intolerably.'