The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-18
SITUATION AT NEW YORK
INTERESTING TALK WITH EXPIRES
IDENT BEJAMIN HARRISON.
at Is Not Time" He Says, "FOr the
Conservative Forces to Fall Apart"
The Issues at Stake.

NEW YORK, Oct. lin an interview
with Murat Halstead tonight former Pres
ident Harrison said: II have been detained
here by the fact that all my family have
had the prevailing influenza and the doctor
would not consent to our going home. We
hope to have his consent by the middle of
this week, as we are all convalescent now.
II have been watching the campaign in
New York with increasing interest. have
read the papers. Some Of my old personal
and political friends, who are supporting
Mr.. Low have labored with me and l with
them when they called. If 1 do not get
out of town soon 1 am afraid shall find
myself in the melee.
II do not see that any distinct issue is
presented between General Tracy and Mr..
Low. have heard no arraignment of Gen
eral Tracy because he was for or opposed
to any measure of municipal administration.
He seems to stand for an honest, economic
cal, progressive and philosophical city ad-
ministration. The issue seems to me to be
whether you shall have any issues-the Cit
liens Union holding the negative and the
Republicans the affirmative.
There is great force in the suggestion
that ordinarily a city election ought to turn
upon questions of city administration, but
there are national questions that will not
be ignored. The men who voted for Nc
Kinley in lS96-whether Republicans or gold
DemocratS-will not fail to inquire how the
candidates for mayor of Greater New York
stand upon the Observation-Disclosures public
and private debts are to be paid at 40 cents
on the dollar, and whether the just powers
OF the courts t are to be uphga IN no S
whether a particular election is going to
scatter or weaken the forces that won these
we'll think, ought not to be a repudiationist
or friend of the mob
ut is folly to say that the st. Louis plat
form is not an issue and that the business
men of this Greater New York are not to
take account of influence the election may
have in the further fight that is to be made
between the advocates of reputation and
disorder are dispersed. Good local purposes
and management are not the worse for be-
ing associated with good national purposes
and measures. Business men have not for
gotten that the Republican party met these
grave and threatening issues boldly and
offered rallying point to the Democrats,
who had been overwhelmed in their own
convention. What has the Republican party
done since to forfeit the confidence of those
who voted its ticket in 1898?
1.-THE business men of New York have a
right to make sure that the issue of this
city contest is not such as to weaken or dis
organize the sound-money forces through
out the country. They are not asked to
vote for unworthy and incompetent men in
order to do this-their opponents themselves
being the judges.
1.-The problem of currency reform is also
ii it is to be wisely solved, it will be by the
Republican party and its sound-money al
lies of the campaign of 1886. It is not a
time for the conservative forces to fall
apart
Judge Gaynor, of the Supreme Court, to-
night made public his decision in the mat
ter of the legality OF the Citizens Union
and SuStainS the police commissioners.