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The Man and the Toad.

Anybody, not totally obfuscated by high
read to him the combination eulogy and
bid made by DR.. SETH Low last Friday
after he heard of the death of HENRY
GEORGE, has formed an irreversible opin-
ion Of the Mugwump fetish. What a pic
ture he makes of himself, this snug pre-
tender to superior virtue, as he stands by
the unburied body of a mar as much his
superior in m~agnanimity and moral hon
esty as in intellect. Read once more the
epitaph of SETH Low, sneak and humbug:
I'm view OF Mr.. GEORGES death. I wish. therefore.
to say to the people Of the city that l shal give my.
self to this contest In their behalf with a new and
higher resolve. US though I had received 1t as q last
charge from his dying lips"
"HENRY GEORGE is dead I am sorry,
for purposes of publication, but l get his
vote. don't II Coco gentlemen, I thought
very highly of Mr.. GEORGE. He reminded
Me of Me. But 1 get his vote, don II
Didn't he give it to me-, or wouldn't he have
given it to me if he had known what was
going to happen? Good gentlemen, kind
gentlemen, won't you please give me your
votes2 HENRY GEORGE was a nice man,
anu i am MS uatuThl SuCCcSSOT. uIh 81 SOIIy
that he is dead, but 1 am sure that it will
be a great happiness for his friends to vote
for me-. feel as though they had received
from his dying lips an order to vote for me.
Kind gentlemen, good gentlemen, won't
you please vote for met When Is the
funerall I may not have the time to go, but
want all the supporters of HENRY GEORGE
to remember that l give myself to this con.
test in their behalf with a new and higher
resolve, and that they ought to vote for me.
Good gentlemen, kind gentlemen,-I love
every Henry George man who has regis.
tered-don't forget to vote for Me-"
You can look through the s~atirists of the
Roman Empire, writers whose use of the
Latin language was beyond the profit of
the present President of Columbia Uni.
versity, but you will never find there a
legacy hunter, though legacy hunting was
common then. who awned and smirked as
odiously as SETH Low fawned and smirked
over the body of HENRY GEORGE. GOOD
gentlemen, kind gentlemen, l am the sue.
cessor and universal legatee of HENRY
GEORGE Please vote for me-"
HENRY GEORGE WAS q man with blood
and bowels, a man to be loved or hated,
But what is this squat figure hopping about
HENRY GEORGES death chamberl Is 1t O
toad2
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attempts to split the Bryanite forces by the
introduction of other candidates.
The platform upon which Mr.. GEORGE
was nominated finally declared first OF all
the adherence Of Its subscribers TO the
creed OF Democracy as set forth in the plat
form adopted by the National Convention
OF the Democratic party in Chicago on July
y, $780, And it denounced the "so'called
regulars for refusing to rcafirm the Chi
cago PLATFORM" Mr.. GEORGES speech of
acceptance was as follows:
men who voted last year for WILLIAM JENNINGS
BRYAN, I accept your nomination. 1t was because the
Chicago platform represented to me the coming to
the front OF the great common people and their cause
that l stood for 1t and voted for It. l was sorrier
than l ever had been before that It was dofeated-de.
fcated, Still hope. to rise again. And now for that
principle 1 stand"
MIR. GEORGE put into his canvass great
bitterness of personal attack upon the boss
who had guided Tammany to Its treatment
OF the Chicago principles but Mr.. Lows
endeavor to whittlc Mr.. GEORGE down to
his own petty measurements as a politician
whose only principle was his person, or
the person of the opposing candidate, Is
confronted by a record proving 1t either
a sly endeavor to enlist for himself the
forces of Organism or complete ignorance
Of the important ideas of the canvass.
When the campaign made by Mr.. SETH
Low and the man revealed by it are con-
sidered without p~artisanship after the cleo
ton, the picture will be amazing in its full
ness of what is repulsive to an honest mind.
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Low ns n Bose.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUS-Sfr: Being a resident
Of the Twenty first Assembly district l received one
Of the circulars OF William NJ. Bennett, the cit"
candidate for the Assembly. He wants our votes so
that he can support in the Legislature the admins
tration OF Mr.. Low" He points out how necessary a
friendly Legislature Is to a good municipal admins
tration. As q Republican without any "buts," my
vote for Assemblyman will go to the man who Is
pledged to support the party platform on State issues.
This, to my mind, is more important than to have the
legislature controlled from the Mayors ONCE in New
York. to borrow a form OF speech from Boss Low. ID
Mr.. Bennett pledged to do that? or course not, or he
wouldn't DO on the Cit ticket. His circular speaks of
the Republican candidate as being one OF his oppo-
nents. Mr.. Bennetts former politics are totally un.
known to me-. and, being a Cit, he presumably has
none at present.
This circular gives the whole snap away. Seth Low
and his admirers know that city. State. and national
politics are inseparable. Mr. Benefits way Of get
ting around the diniculty is to start with Seth Low In
the Mayors chair. He is the Indispensable. The
next steps are to construct Legislatures and Con
crosses to agree with the Mayor. MoRSINGsIpE.
NEW YORK, Oct, 20,
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From n Columbia Graduate.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS--Sir: Last year you
made votes for Mckinley by printing a picture OF
Bryan in your columns. Last Sunday the Herald
made ut least one vote for Tracy by printing his pic
ture by the side OF that OF Low. The man whose vote
IL made referred to them as Dignity and Impudence,
having in mind the wellknown picture OF this name.
May / suggest that II you were TO print in your col.
umns the pictures OF Tracy and Low side by side. the
dignity. manliness. and strength shown in the fca.
lures of the one compared with the smugness. perki.
ness. conc.it. and weakness OF the other. would be an
object lesson whose influence would be great and in
the right direction. may add that 1 am a Columbia
graduate OF some years standing. and II l had no
stronger reason for supporting the candidate of tho
Republican party, my sense OF the injury Mr.. Low has
done my college and tho dlscredit he has brought
upon It would make me most earnest in my opposl.
ton to him. And there are many other Columbia
men who look back to the times OF President Barnard,
Prof. Dwight. and Others, and who think and will
vote with me. COLUMBIAN"
NEW YORK, Oct. go.
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Will England Assent?

The Behring Sea conference at Washing
ton has gone through it's work and reached
its conclusions with remarkable despatch,
and the conclusions themselves are, accord
ing to the summary of them announced,
creditable and gratifying.
The delegates hold, says the account. that
pelagic scaling ought to be absolutely sus-
pended or else restricted within very mar
row limits. This is substantially the
American position, which our country has
for years been urging upon England. As
soon a 1t became clear from actual trial
that the Paris rules were inadequate, and
that the seals were not properly protected,
our Government asked Great Britain to join
it in suspending pelagic scaling in Behring
Sea until those rules could be properly re,
vised by the two countries in conference.
The British Government refused to do this,
but consented to end experts to Behring
Sea to study the question; and during these
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One of the noteworthy sights Of the sea-
son at Creedmoor has been that OF United States
marines engaged nt target practice. The range
is, In fact. a short ride from the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, and, of course, well fitted for the use Of
the marines. Accordingly. though some years
ago their presence at tho Creedmoor butts
was unusual. 1t will not be surprising to find
them henceforth faithful attendants there.
Why should not the marines, after such prac-
ticc. send q team annually to Sea Grit The
Hilton Trophy and other matches are open to
them precisely as to tho army and 10 the Ma
tional Guard. Ever since the army established
Its own annual contests it has naturally had
little to do with the National Rife Associations
matches at Crcedmoor and its successor. Sea
Girt. save when nm occasional team from the
New York garrisons attends. But the marines
have no such prize competitions of their own.
and hence might well, it would seem, get the
advantage that comes from the Sea Grit meeting.
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Consumption Conveyed from Cattle
to Man.

A striking article in the current number
of the Nineteenth Century discusses the
conditions under which tuberculosis or con-
sumption may be conveyed from cattle to
man. The writer, Mr.. JAMES LONG, who is
an authority upon the subject, does not
hesitate to express the opinion that. in the
United Kingdom, more lives annually are
lost through drinking t%uberculous milk
than would be sacrificed in war with a first.
class power.
1t is an u~ndisputed fact that the cattle
disease, the technical name of which Is
tuberculosis, is identical with consumption
In man. The malady Is caused by the or.
ganism known as KoCH's bacillus, and Is
communicable through the medium of this
organism from animal to animal and from
animal to man. When the bacilli estab.
lish themselves in the body of a cow or of a
human being, the formation of nodular
growths or tuberrlcs follows. 1t Is com.
puted by the leading veterinarians of Eng.
land that 20 per cent. of the cattle in their
country are affected with the disease, a
much higher proportion being shown by
milking cows which are housed In thickly
populated places. 1t used to be supposed.
however, that KocH's bacillus was pres.
Snt only in milk drawn from All infected
udder, and, consequently, that there was
no actual danger to the consumer of the
milk of a COW affected with the malady
In any other part OF the body. Mr.. LONG,
however, asserts that there may be tubercle
In an apparently healthy udder. One of the
experiments upon which this assertion is
based was made In the United States by
Prof. ERNST, who selected thirty-six cows
for examination. There was no perceptible
disease of the udder in any one case, yet in
the milk OF twelve the tubercle bacillus
was discovered. Prof. THEoBALp SMITH of
the United States Department of Agrl-
culture has expressed the opinion that
milk Is free from tubercle bacilli in
the earlier stages of the disease, If the
udder is healthy, but he adds that, in
more advanced stages, even though the nd.
dor DO normal. the milk may contain the
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A mistorIcnl PRECEDENT.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sfr: Does not tho fol-
lowing passage from Froude's Cesar apply to Can
didate Low? unfortunately he (Pompey) had DC.
CURED a position by his negative virtues which was
above his natural level. and misled him into over.
rating his capabilities. So long as he stood by Cesar,
he had maintained his honor and his authority. HI
allowed men more cunning than himself to play upon
his vanity. and Pompey feIl-fell amid the ruins OF a
Constitution which had been undermined by the VIII
lainles OF its representatives. His end was piteous,
hut scarcely tragic, for the cause to which he was
sacrificed was too slightly removed from being ig-
nominious. He was no PhHhus Apollo. sinking into
the ocean surrounded with glory. He was not even a
brilliant meteor. He was a weak. good man, whom
accident had thrust into 4 place to which no was UNI
equal; and ignorant OF himself and unwilling to part
with his imaginary greatness. he was flung down
with careless cruelty by the forces which were divid.
ing the world" DANIEL u. THOMSON.
RRnoKIYS Oct %
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Two sets of cranks are reported as exist
Ing, one being Republicans who will vote
for Low in order to beat Tammany, and
another Republicans who will vote for
Tammany in order to beat Low, the traitor
and egotist being more hateful to them
than the disguised agent of Organism.
All of these gentlemen are laboring under
q delusion. The man to vote for in order
to beat Tammany, and in order to beat
Low, and in order to exhibit to the
country the strength of the party Of con-
scrvatism n prosperity is BENJAMIN +.
TRACY. Fix your mind upon him as the
goal of your hopes, and don take it off
until you vote for him is in the ballot boz.
The political strength of the candidate of
the st. Louis platform is such that only
folly can throw success away. Don't throw
1t away. Keep it. 1t is yours by right.
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efforts for relief the present conference OF
Russia. japan. and the United States was
secured, in which Great Britain declined to
take part.
We are not surprised to learn that the
Washington conference has gone much
further in it's recommendations for seal
protection than the Paris tribunal did.
This latter had before 1t the case OF two
litigants, and In such instances an effort ut
a compromise, which shall give points of
satisfaction to both sides, is not unfamiliar.
Again, at Paris 1t may have been considered
an advantage to get for the foreign
arbiters those whose countries were not
specially interested In sealing, whereas,
to the Washington conference Rus
STA and Japan were invited for the
very reason that they, with Great Britain
and ourselves, are the countries most con-
cerned in the preservation Of the seals and
the proper conduct of the hunting. Finally,
the Washington conference had before 1t
the results on the fisheries of the Paris
rules, while those rules, though doubtless
we'll meant, were experimental at first.
win England, in the special conference
which she is ready to have her experts hold
with ours, assent to the conclusions just
reached II so, all may go well. II she
objects that her action has been forestalled,
and that an endeavor is made to force her
hand, she may thank her delays in past
years for this result. The American view
is strengthened by the adhesion to it OF
Russia and Japan.
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germ. We scarcely need point out that II
t%ubcrculous milk n mingled with milk free
from tubercle. the bacllli are propagated
with great rapidfty, and the whole fluid
soon becomes infected. Now, a large pro.
portion, practically the whole, Of the milk
rctailcd In our great cities is the mixed
milk OF many cattle. sometimes Of many
herds. 1t follows that all the milk of one
retailer may sometimes be infected, and that
his customers, as a body, may consume a
fluid containing the dreaded seed of con.
sumption, the tubercle bacillus.
1t appears that in 1895 the Royal Com.
mission on tuberculosis, which has been re.
appointed by the present Government, is.
sued n report to the following effect: First,
consumption in nan is probably acquired
from animal food in an appreciable degree F.;
secondly, milk containing tuberculous mat.
ter Is responsible to n larger extent than Is
the meat of a tuberculous animal for the
appearance of tuberculosis in man thirdly,
the tubercle bacilli are extremely active in
the case of animals or human beings fed
upon milk in which they are present (;
finally, inasmuch as the consumption of
unboiled or unstcriliZed milk is attended
with risk, the commission recommended
that all milk should be boiled, especially
where II Is consumed in large quantities.
That is n precaution which the individual
consumer of milk may take on his own ac-
count. or course 1t behooves the COM
munity on its part to provide for the sys-
tematic inspection of cattle, and for the
slaughter of all animals shown to be in
fccted with the disease.
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The Campaign Closed.

Tho Republican campaign was brought
10 a close last night with the great meeting
ut Carnegie Hall and about one hundred
others throughout the Greater New York.
Never In It's history did the Republican
party conduct a more vigorous and method
lcal campaign, and never before was greater
and more pervasive enthusiasm aroused in
the party. 1t has been a splendid canvass.
The treachery supporting the Low candi-
dacy for the dastardly purpose OF stabbing
the party has aroused a more passionate
emotion of loyalty in the breasts of all true
and faithful Republicans.
The campaign has closed with tho most
hopeful indications of victory all along the
Republican line.
Down with traitors! March forward to
triumph on Tuesday!
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modern doctrinaires, aud not Of common ordinary
clay. II would be well to recall what George wash
ington thought of such folk. In hs address to Con-
aress upon the ed Of December. 1898, h, said; I" Tho
United States ought not to indulge a persuasion that.
contrary to the order OF human events, they will for
ever keep Mt a distance those painful appeals TO arms
with which the history of every nation abounds.
There 10 q rank due to tho United States among ma.
lions, which will be withheld, II not absolutely lost,
by the reputation Of weakness. II we desire to avoid
insult. we must be able to repel II; II we desire to So
cure peace. II must be known that we are at all times
ready for war"
II we hope to perpetuate our Institutions, maintain
the dignity of tho republic and tho honor Of our Gag.
let us vota for the champion OF true AmcrIcan,sm and
the builder Of tho new American Navy, benjamin r.
Tracy. 7. ST. J, @.
NKw YORK, Oct. 81.
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RALLY, REPuBLICANs, RALLY,
1t " Again q Fight for National Honor and
Your Own Interests.


To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: In 1896 we
practically voted unanimously for the princl-
pies Of the Republican party. both upon national
and State issues. and to-day there is no man who
has any just cause to complain Of either admin
istration. Standing again upon this platform
OF sound money and protection. is 1t not still our
single duty to again Loyalty support the candi-
date OF the Republican party. and not be guided
by another party of M~ugwumperyi
Must not all American citizens who hold tho
interest Of their country and party above every
other object. and who have the interests OF their
business to care for, take upon their shoulders
tho responsibility of again repeating the victory
they 80 nobly accomplished for Mckinley last
yearl
This is simply a repetition Of the campaign of
1896. and II we approved OF the Republican
party then. and since that time have had no Just
cause TO complain. why should we now repudi-
ate our party, the party that has so long and SO
candidate like Mr.. Low. whose single object is
his own election. and whose victory would leave
no organized party 70 resist Eryanism IN 1900
Where can we find a man more capable to ad-
minister the affairs OF . great city. or n man more
thoroughly familiar with his duty than the man
who drafted the charter u. Greater New York,
and that man Is Gen. Benjamin. r. Tracy. the
Rrandest candidate and pyramid I integrity
II We value our own personal interests above
those of tho Citizens" candidate. We must
support Gen. Tracy.
Now. therefore, we who stand firmly and
squurely upon the Republican, platform must
join together and fight ~squarcly and earnestly
for our success. Let us. therefore. from now on
repudiate all self.constituted candidates, and
rally around one whose object is the interests Of
the people, ana not the destruction OF tho great
est and Rrandest party in existence.
Wherever the Republican party shall DO Tight
Ing TO maintain its glorious principles, there |
shall be found. and as n public speaker now on
the stump for the q. .. i. ] shall at least do my
share to prevent its destruction, feeling CON
operation and support OF all good citizens.
WILLIAM b. MANN.
100 BROADWAY, Oct. 80.
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Lows Bid for Bryanism; or What "

Read this eulogy of Mr.. HENRY GEORGE,
uttered at a public meeting on the night he
died, for it bears upon the campaign for
Mayor of Greater New York:
THE people of New York take up their fight for
good government tonight under the shadow OF a cloud.
Abrave and q good citizen has fallen with his armor
on. Almost with his last breath he was lighting the
peoples battle against one-man power. which
threatens TO destroy In this city the very
substance OF democratic government. Before the
campaign began he was warned that he entered It at
the peril of his life. He willingly faced the peril
because OF his sense Of. the magnitude OF this danger
to our free Institutions. Being dead. he yet speaks.
and II Is impossible to believe that his words and acts
IN this crisis will be lost upon q people capable of
appreciating sacrifice made In their behalf"
This was not from a disinterested fol-
lower of Mr.. GEORGE, but from the Citizens
Union candidate, the fawning politician to
whom not even Mr.. GEORGES death cham
Der was sacred.
But what a spectacle this utterance
makes Of Mr.. Low! If Mr.. GEORGES death
really casts a cloud upon the fight for good
government, and his was the peoples
battle against the one-man power that
threatens to destroy In this city
the very substance of democratic gov.
ernment," what an enemy to this sacred
cause Is Mr.. Low HIMSELF Why has
not he retired from his rivalry of Mr..
GEORGE and sun his own ambition under
loyal support of the leader over whose
body he now sheds crocodile's tears2 In
this fulsome adulation of an honest man,
which Mr.. Lows own course proves to be
wholly insincere, he makes of himself a
very despicable public figure. In the
hope of attracting Mr.. GEORGES friends to
his own standard, he says of Mr.. GEORGE
dead what he woul have bitten his tongue
ont rather than say of him when alive.
But what shameless vote seeking, what
childish ignorance Of the facts of the cam
paign is displayed in this expression upon
Mr.. GEORGE and in Mr.. Lows plea to the
George managers upon the latter's death,
that "this Is a fight against bossism." and
that he, Low, would "take up Mr.. GEORGES
contest in behalf of the people with a new
and higher resolve, al though he had re-
ceived 1t as a last charge from his dying
lips"
Mr.. GEORGE was nominated not as the
antagonist of bossism, but as the repre-
sentative of the Chicago platform, of the
Democracy of NBryanism, deserted by Tam.
many Hall. When it was apparent that
Tammany would stink from the Chi,
cago platform, the Bryanitcs' request
of Mr.. GEORGE to run as their
champion was repealed by the latter
with the direction to wait until the
recreancy of Tammany should be I'M
questionable. "Crokerism," or " bossism, f"
was not in his mind during that uncer
tainty; and if the Chicago platform had
been reafirmed by Tammany, undoubtedly
Mr.. GEORGE, as a loyal Bryanite, would
have come vigorously to its support,
and would have resented u traitorous all