The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-04
ALL WASCALS BUT Low.
CAMPAIGN DITECToR WEYNoLDs
NAYS HE ALONE rs FIT TO WULE.

Pwinciplea ana FwoEwess, ths Cts Fight for,
the wapnoious wosbNrs who Have En-
owoached Upon the WiEhts or the People
Must Ne Nyoutcd and the wsscaia Turned Out
Mr.. james d. Reynolds, Chairman Of tho
Executive Committee Of tho Citizens Union,
took his lisp over TO Brooklyn yesterday after.
noon and discoursed for over an hour to the
Brooklyn Philosophical Association in the
Long Island Business College on his brand of
good government. His address was entitled,
"Thc Present Struggle for Political Liberty and
Good Government" He told how all other
brands arc either last seasons goods done up
in new cans, or else poor limitations of tho real
Citizens Union article.
Mr.. Reynolds told the philosophers that no
"wealized" and Appreciated" the honor they
had done him in asking him to address them,
and said that he would 'twy to pwesent some
pwactical ideas for their onsidewation.
~ am not a campaign speaker" said Mr..
Reynolds, but wather is 1t my business to
diwect the campaign. / think you will all
agwee with mo when 1 say that the campaign
l am diwecting is one Of pwinciples. The
Mayor of Gweater New York will be called
upon to wule over thwee millions OF citizens.
f dt should nnd pc nj 6he IS ea fSs w al .ss ssw wohSs minded Sdsd
have hitherto encwoached upon the wights of
the people"
Euwope," continued Mr.. Reynolds, ~ discov.
cred that our Government was not considered
a wepwesentative demoowacy, but that the con.
"For, a long time an election in New York or
Bw,ooklyn has only meant, Turn the wascals out
campaign the Citizens Union, which / wepwe.
sent, ia working for pwinoiples, That's what 1t
our platform has nothing to- dc with fwoe
twade, or tawiff weform. Chawacter and
wecord are the standards by which we twy our
pwosent some Interesting details about our
nominations, which. however. 1 do not intend
~ w~eitewate," continued Mr.. Reynolds,
that the Citizens. Union platform looks after
saS s%pTieme Sill iB be nndss a % dif FL; nh seE E%sss
il we are successful"
Mr.. Reynolds bcsought his hearers not to be.
is sfh s : pPSo%Isss." q he 'h sai amer sw RhlF'% Iaswea.o
daily in geometwic watio until election"
me Ha,'F TF!s R &c 1aS sSs sSis that alG sSo %o Rsp %ss
s ssS %Sas y SeiiS o,G'f"'pdsG %o I class fssse q mem %%' had u
EE ssR sSs;m f f.. ;9s s9 PoSsSga e %''s NJ sai Rsy !"S5 1 Is
ing" jobs were apportioned as "patwonage''
among the Aldermen at the '.wate' of four
o MT. Rsyn 20 Hsf FOUND %if FAULT with the "wepubli.
can" platform for various. "weasons," among
which was the omission Of a plank .pyaisine
twation duwing the last thwee years" The
"~Democwatic" platform, Mr.. Reynolds, said.
that of the Citizens Union, but that all the
"weform' planks were omitted.
The, conclusion Mr.. Reynolds reached was
that "our candidate, a man whose chawacter
and wecord are iwwepwoachable, and Mr..
ing a campaign of pwinciple. and the choice
for Mayor lies between these. Tho others are
not in II. The people who vote for the Others
do so only because they want their bwotherin-
law to get a job or their sister-in.law appointed
as stcnographer. but votes for Mr.. Henwy
George and our man are for a 'pwinciple.'
That's what the Citizens Union stands.for,"
concluded Mr., Reynolds, ''for principles and