The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-10-20
NEV YORK MAYORALTY.
Mr. Van Wyck's Acceptance Of the
Tammany Nomination.
WITH THE BETTING FRATERNITY

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still Offering odds on Van wyok, but
Colonel Swords Succeeds In Placing
Three Thousand Dollars on Tracy as
Against Low.
New York oct. 2O.-The letter of
Robert A. Van Wyck, Tammany can
didate for mayor, accepting the nomi-
nation, was given out last night. 1t
discusses municipal affairs solely. A
large part of the letter arraigns the
| present city administration for ex-
travagance and calls attention to the
discomforts the people are enduring
| through delay in street Improvements
now In progress. Mr.. Van Wyck then
| takes up the citys alleged grievances
/ against the state legislature, saying
Of the Raines law:
In the Raines liquor law we have
an example of a class legislation ut
terly without public sanction. 1t was
imposed upon our citizens against their
/ vigorous and united protest It has
| failed to secure a single one of the ad-
vantages urged in justification of its
enactment 1t has only succeeded, by
dispensing with local supervision and
control, in removing the salutary re-
straints which heretofore protected the
reputable dealer from the open rivalry
Of the dive keeper"
Mr.. Van Wyck pledges himself to
favor the increase of school houses, the
establishment of a rapid transit sys-
tenn, more bridges across East river
more parks, better docks, 81 gas and
enforcement Of the eight hour law. He
says further that the municipality it.
self should both own and control its
| franchises.
Claim everything" has seemingly
been adopted as the motto Of many Of
the political master mechanics of New
York for the pending campaign. The
most sweeping is that made by Messrs
| Sheehan and Croker representing the
Tammany organization, and which has
the practical endorsement of the bet
ting men about town, who have all
along been offering odds on Van wycx.
The claim, however, that the Tam
many ticket viii receive 250,OOO out of
the 475O0O votes registered in greater
| New York is secuted by other party
leaders, some of whom do not hesitate
! to assert that the prediction will be
reversed more or less completely in
Next to Tammany's the most confident
! predictions are those given out at Re
| publican headquarters. where the tone
is most hopeful that the outcome of the
| election viii be the choice of General
| B. F. Tracy for mayor. The adherents
! of Seth Low are protesting confidence
! that their man will be elected, and the
Georgeites are professedly hopeful Of
winning the day
! Colonel Henry L. Swords, sergeant
alarms to the Republican national
committee, visited Wall street yester-
! day and offered to bet any part of
| $4,000 at even money that GenereS
Tracy will poll more votes than Seth
Low He succeeded in placing about
! $4,000 of il among members Of the
Stock Exchange and half as much
more with several of the brokers on the
curb" The colonel announced his in
tention to visit the bulls and bears
again.
This is only a small part of the
! Tracy money lying around loose" said
the colonel. THE only trouble is we
can't find any Low money to put 1t up
against"
Van Wyck still leads in the betting
on the Stock Exchange. odds are good
as to 1 that he VIII win out.
Allen w. Thurman, son of the late
! Allen G. Thurman, has written a letter
! to Henry George, which sincerely wish
es George success. Mr.. Thurman was
/ formerly chairman of the Ohio state
! Democratic committee.
Henry George last night addressed
an assemblage of more than a thou
sand people at Lion Park Hall on the
upper west side of this city. Ex-Post-
master Dayton also spoke. After tell
| ing of his candidacy for the mayoralty
| IL years ago, on the identical platform
on which he is running now, Mr..
| George said:
Il will not be cheated and counted
out. The great time has come when
the people are interested in this cam
! paign, and 1 am honored by being asked
to be the standard bearer of the De-
mocracy. If the people don't want me,
then all right. There are two men in
this fight with me of whom I am
proud. One is Charles W.~Dayton. No
one will say of him that he is a
dreamer or man who cannot be trust
ed with practical affairs
Mr.. George and Mr.. Dayton after
ward addressed a second large meet
lhB IN Harlem. during MS speech Mr.,
George said:
'Mr. McHugh, of the longshoremen,
told me he had seen a payroll at Hazle-
ton, Pa, and there were on it names
Of men who drew only 5 to 20 cents a
day. Think of 1t, men doing the hard
work of these coal miners for this mis-
cradle pittanee. And this was not
paid in money, but in store orders.
These were the men who were shot
| down at Hazleton.
Scientists tell us that ages before
man came to this world these black
diamonds, these sparks of the sun, had
been placed in the ground for the use
of man. To whom do they belong ?
Our laws have made them the prop
trty of Individuals This company and
that company have been given the
right to use them, own them and mine
them with the men to whom they pay
the mite, and to keep them at it comes
IN the lava sheriff, backed by rifles.
This is America as it has been made.
This is our boasted democracy"
Running sores, indolent ulcers and similar
troubles, even though Of many years stand.