The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-26
Read, Think, and Vote.

As the canvass is about to close, we invite
attention to Mr.. SETH Lows own repudi-
alton of his followers meanest and most
baseless attack on the Republican party,
namely, the effort tospread the idea that, in
nominatingGen. TRACY, his party have been
false to their principles in a way to make
the followers of Low the real Republicans.
All Citizens Union orators and newspapers
point to the Statement" of the Republic
cans in the Constitutional Convention of
1894, expressing the desire to separate
30 far as might be well municipal elections
from State and national elections, and
then say that the Republicans forfeited
their moral right to partisan support when
they refused to forego the customary party
candidate and to adopt the man chosen on
a non-partisan platform. In the shallow
and sophiStical discourscs uttered by Mr..
SETH Low during his shameful campaign,
there is one passage which is a monument
of logic and truth, found in the recent adj
dress at Carnegie Hall, where the on-pa
tisRn denunciatio% Of the"New York Re-
publicans for nominating their own candi-
date was heard with tremendous volume:
"of course l do not claim. and l suppose that no.
bouy tlhlIus III tctlpl OF tne Republicans OF the
State Convention meant in any way to imply that
the Republican party should not make Its own nomi.
nation and take Independent part In the decision Of
the municipal contests that were to come. | assume
shat tho Republican party was expected to continue
20 make It's nominations"
These few words, very crcditable to Mr..
Low when taken alone, notified the Citi.
Unno' Vfntnn that fila nttnn1- ,--- II
Republicans for putting n Republican can.
didatc in the field was without justification.
Evidently Mr.. Low vcnturcd upon this
humiliation of his friends chief argu-
ment on the expectation that it would lose
Its weight with his hearers if accompanied
with this comment:
81 do not think 1t could have been assumed that at
the very nrst occasion when this principle OF separa.
ton of State ana national issues was to lie put In
operation On a great scale. the party would Jump tho
track mud 60 right back to those outside issues which
II had been the purpose OF these amendments to set to
one side"
Remember that this surprised and
panied critic of Republicans for doing,
under the stress of unforeseen national
issues Of overwhelming moment, some,
thing that to his mind com,lictcd with
- preference 'NlltSSHN previously III very
general terms, Is the same candidate who
in September rcpudiatcd his own pub,
lie pledge Of june to be n "unifying force
with the apology that he did rot undertake
to "say IN June what he would do in Sep.
TENDER"
Mr.. Low is bitter against the Republi.
cans, only because they did not nominate
him; him the candidate of an organization
that invited members of "any national
par Y whatever, without regard to coinage
or national or State politics in any form p
Thank heaven the New York organiza.
ton that represents the st. Louis platform
was a better Republican than SETH Low!
In Gen. TRACY, Comptroller FITCH, and
District Attorney OICoTT the Republicans
provide the highest evidence within hu
man power of their earnest determination
TO give New Horl; city the best gov,
possible 10 obtain. Like wise
Statesmen and loyal Americans they have