New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-25
LOWS FRIENDS ACTIVE.
HOW THE CAMPAIGN Is BEING CARRIED
on IL BROOKLYH.
ACQUISITIONS TO THE Kinks COMING ~ EVERY
pAr--A SURPRISE FOR vooDRrrT-BrTToNs

| "A
AND PICTURES TELLING THEIR STORY
gu, IN the Twenty-third Ward. in Brooklyn, ths
! increasing number Of pictures OF Seth 10" az
| nIayod IN the parlor windows OF private houses -
attracting much attention. 1. W. hHo"cS' VI ''
so Monroe-st.. said yesterday:
Fully 20 per cent OF the people | meet in ny
| neighborhood seem TO be for Low. PERSONALLY ],
am not connected IN any way with any pohtic''
organiza ton; just plain, independtn, No'e'' o.
ways glad to cast my vote for the best men Al"
measures that are offered by the various Par'''s
or ORGANIZATIONS and from wha, can sec there
are 4 large number OF Just like mine tnat
the political leaders were not counting on VIC"
they turned down such = man as Seth Low
yesterday" continued Mr.. Rhodes, Il TOOK win
NE about 3 hundred Low buttons and vIsH'h t"T
stores Of my friends on the West Side OF New
| York must have talked to about a hundred
| different men, members OF firms bookheeper@ ana
porters. ! found four or five outspokeh i'"'S
! men, ono FOR Van Wyck none for Ieorge IN"
some six or eight undecided. mostly Esruoicdh9'
The balance more than - per cent S'ln '"'S
| verc for Low first. last and all the time.
r,er,.nan,.r;overnor woodruff received shock
! , Aav az TWO ago when ne learned tina, friend o'
h.s Mr Marhowitz. OF No. 2fS South touflh-s''
had decided 10 vote for Seth Low. Mr.. MarkoVit%'
who IS 4 Republican. received letter from W.
woodruff begging him to recant hut Mt. 'ia .f
Wiz sent Mr. Woodruff word that not only hl-
seu hu. his four cons all Republicans would vote
for Low as they al regarded him az soon re
publican and the bos; candidate FOR Mayor. zen
iamin Franklin Markowtz, one az the family Ve''-
fed the story. and added.
''N- Woodruff tried 20 get rs ~ c1aige our
Views. but our mind. arc made NJ. Five Low votes
rror, ono family g good showing. isn't II We've
! slvavs heretofore voted tho straight ReplAhcan
ticket"
Answering Letter fro RE ,r Esy Dr. for EIqIyy Of
1aSE HS %n0 Of I'm 80 sxthsve BROOKLYN
we would gu ssy hat the people Of Brooklyn have
SUFFICIENT ability 20 govern themselves wltnou' Sy
tfts or S,h SsD have awsy voted The Re-
| usual custom and my ballot for Seth Low
LEONARD LEAVES TRACY.
vice-president W. A. Leonard OF the Twenty
! NTH Ward Republican Association. in Brooklyn.
who has been stanch Tracy man. announcer
Yesterday his Intention 10 vote for Mr.. Low.
That there should be no misunderstanding az to
| his position IN this campaign Mr.. Leonard has ac-
cPtss v to BrsS 10 s fai.on
S De ned ne , susp ees" OF The Ocean Hill
FAIRY %h Kn9 Tno past Si eom@atr H s
Post G. Jacob s Van Tyek Na Tha ST
I + smith and Robert Var Iderstine.
Bay Ridge ard the entire Thlrteth ward are
tive element which has heretofore kept on NJ, tn~
outskirts OF political campaigns Is no" III ne thiGh
Scoordanon g.ith this teeing rnaos-mcetIng will
30 held on Wednesday evening IN the Athenaun'
Townsend viii preside and p NJ. shepard Fred
tr!ck ". Hlnriohs. Judge Jacob Neu and William J.
4 late lm IMP, addition 70 seth. Lows ad-
heren,s are the Polish resident: o, br Sl y.
| Indeaenden, candidate for Mayor and Todore Ko--
nob publisher OF tire POLISH Tstk The
| sharp.hoorars vii tax. the stump Tor Mr. Low
| end Judge Jacob EeG
The WAR or ITTHOCRAPHs
Tho display O, Low Autographs in the windows
~ BROOKLYN houses Is hardly less femcrksole tnan
| the wonderful exhibition OF nags which a year ago
| made the Mckinley campaign memorable. In sew
eral parts OF tho city entire block, have blossomed
| on, with campaign pictures. and IN nearly every
| district the Low pictures outnumher the Tracy
| more than nve 70 one
! Tn. u,horrsnh war Nrs, started IN ths seventh
| and Twenty-th.rd wards but II has nov spread N
other Wards and Is al the present time herce,t In
the First wh,r. s,,h Low and General Tracy
| lived when they were citizens OF Brooklyn The
Tracy people II there are any IN the ward. sppar-
| enty think that tinle would be wasted In adveE-
| .isng their Napoleon. For few minutes yester-
| day Tracy picture vas accompanied by smalI
Van WICK picture In tho front window ~ Henry
~, house. bu; in other windows were nine Low
/ pictures Finally the Tracy and Van WICK com
binaton di'arpeared IN compeeny with orc Lex ,S:
block In Henry-st from Jcralemon TO state St, the
| record vaa. Low riv'een houses. with Tracy, IAN
! wick and George without window.
| In Reinsen-st. there were TWENTY-FIVE Low plct-
ures yesterday afternoon ara no 9shets II rte,re
| 'hree houses. all that had put themselves on rec
THO Third Ward where Low -entimen. has no.
| been accounted worthy OF consideration 10y the
| machine combination j. catching the epidemic
! In the block In Monroe-st.. between stuyvs,ant
In state-st. running through Theodore r Wiliss
4.a.1 nh
| Ward tho record from Henry-st TO Third.ave yes
tcrday was. Low. 3; Tracy 10 Van Wyc Ho T. -.
! Twenty-third Ward. whore there IS open rivalry
between. the Low and Tracy men. stlmula ted 20,
tho newspap ers IN the block IN Punam-ave be
tween Lewis and suyy'.a"t ave re Fer?ra is.
| ave between Franklin and clas-on aHcs, shows
- g Merithew known throughou, tho Twenty
! .hrd Ward as the proprietor OF big dairy store,
saId Saturday that his milk reIler. found in go
| inc their rounds that the Low autographs were
hloss ominr out all over the rweuy-tnlrd ana n
I%s@g ri rho ~S' frbn on Triy showing tia.
Low pictures outnunb1red those 9f Ir@cy by
nearly two TO one. and that too without any -Ss,
| ternatic EFFORT the part Of the Low MANAGERS
TO p'aco n large number OF tho candidates Dict.
ures MY tell me ihat they md about SIX or
eight Low picture, TO every ono Of Tracy said
MI Mcrithew Yesterday. "TIe seems TO have the
| Tn view Of tho house-to-house canvass made b.!
the Republican district leaders IA order to per-
colors in this way. It is safe TO assume thst the
number of n nozrapha display TOR Low ana tracy
correspond quite accurately to tho proportion OF
votes that each Will receive. Tribune reporter
Yesterday took a walk OF several miles and care
fujiv counted the Autographs OF candidates for
Mayor that we're TO b. seen from the street S,a.l
ing at Dc Kslb and Ghroop ayes. he went down
Throop 10 Monroe to Marcy: to Hancock To
Nostrand 10 Herkimcr TO Bedford. 70 Dean. t.
Vanderbilt 10 Atlantic. 10 Clinton, - Greene and
through Greene as far Fulton. In this line OF
s,reots there were displayed l52 Low lthographs
e Tracy and % Van Wyck. This would hardly be
a fair test FOR Van Wyck. az the wards traNersed
were Rcpubcan The test was absolutely lar
| However as far Low and Tracy were concerned
and 1t will be noticed that for every Tracy ntho-
graph there were four Low pictures
FOR TRUE RIkpU BLICANISM
JOHN W. TAYLOR VIII. REMAIN LOYAL TO HIS