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join In deriding It's emptiness whenever
they see their gain in finging 1t away as
a claptrap contrivancei II that IL all there
is in the blatant B~ryanite movement, II IL
was nothing except a mere political bluff,
pure humbug, 1t is fortunate for this great
city that 1t should be thus exposed by the
prime political charlatan of last year..
If Tammany shall turn from it in shame.
full penitence for having used it as a jack
o'.lantern of politics to brighten the COM
munity half out of its wits last year, it will
deserve public respect; but 1t must repu-
diate it squarely and manfully to receive
such a tribute. The mere shame that
avoids the subject will not be enough.
Tammany must do works meet for repent
ance" by kicking out the foul thing from
its premises. Simply trying to hide 1t will
avail nothing.
The City Convention of Tammany is
called for the 3Oth Of this month: accord.
ingly, there are only nine days remaining
for 1t to come to a fnal decision whether 1t
will stand square with reference to Bryan.
ism, either defying it or espousing it, or go
down to defeat, If not extinction.
Such is Tammany's situation within a
few days of its convention, the facts we
have related being indisputable.
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England and the Fur Seals.

The agreement of Lord SALISBURY to the
meeting of international seal experts, called
for next month ut Washington, has robbed
the preceding diplomatic discussion of a
part of its interest. With the practical
conclusion that representatives of Great
Britain, Canada and the United States
shall confer in order to arrive at correct
conclusions respecting the numbers, condi.
ton and habits of the seals frequentinp the
Pribylov Islands," less Importance NAV
safely be attached to Mr.. CHAMBERLAIS's
reply to the sharp despatch of MI. SuER.
MAN, last May, on the dilatory tactics of
Great Britain. The October conference
may or may not lead to the needed modi6.
cation Of the Paris rules, but at least it
departs from the d%o-nothing policy, and
hence, to that extent, is a concession to
Secretary SHERMAN.
Yet there is one point in Mr.. CHAMBER.
LAIN's letter to the British Foreign Office
on MIR. SHERMAN's charges which ought to
be considered, because it defends pelagic
sealing, the very root of the difficulty. The
Colonial Secretary says that, in attacking
his industry, our country abandons its
noblest traditions, under which our people
had earned universal honor by their eff.
forts to vindicate the freedom of the high
seas"
1t is true that a restraint upon pelagic
sealing is the restraint Of an industry car.
ried upon the high seas, and partly for that
very reason, no doubt, our Government did
not attempt to check it until it became very
destructive. But pelagic scaling, which has
only been carried on to any Objectionable
extent in Behring Sea about a dozen years,
has had two disastrous results. In the first
place, 1t is destroying the value of our
PriDyloy Islands, which formed an import
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New York a Republican City.

The notion that New York IL a Demo.
cratic city, its Republicanism Of 1896 hav-
ing been an accident caused by the arous-
ing of a sentiment which has passed not to
return, must he abandoned.
New York "a 1t Is to be, or even as it is,
is a Republican city. 1t believes in the
St. Louis platform. 1t is against the
free coinage Of silver, and against the
incendiary Chicago platform. The Re.
publican majority of nearly 10000 in the
Greater New York district last year ex-
presses the actual feeling of the metropolis
to-day; and the dominating sentiment will
continue so long as New York Is threatened
with the fraud and disaster Of Organism.
The most striking evidence that New
York is Republican and not Democratic Is
the fact that the Democratic leaders dare
not take up the issue between those par
ties. They have skunk away from the
Democratic platform, seeing their only
chance Of victory in the burial Of Republi.
can principles under a muddle of pretended
municipal issues and non partisanship.
Next fall, with the forces of honest
money and of conservatism following In
good faith the Republican candidates, the
Republican ticket in New Yorii city will be
elected and Organism will be routed again.
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To rHE EDITOR oF THE SUS-Sir: l have been much
Interested and likewise amused at the "battIe~
wased 10y the Liquor Dealers Association against the
three aud Ave cent whiskey saloons.
Or. Lederle is right In saying that "morpue.
whiskey Is no more injurious than the socallcd high.
priced blended whiskey sold In the nrst.class hoteIs
and cafes on BroaHway aud Fifth avenue.
According to Government statistics there are ahou,
7'ooO,oOO gallons OF pure rye whiskey put annually
on the market by genuine rye whtskey distillers. Thu
amount OF whiskey labelled and branded pure rys
and sold by wholesale liquor dealers exceeds "a. 600.
600 gallons. French spirits or hiIh wines, the main
product OF the Whiskey Trust. Is used Inv tho Who'll.
sale dealer and so-calicd offender" MS a bas' ,or
Almost all or his whlsSry. The lower grades rnnta,n
from one to nve gallons OF purr rye; the high nricea
gallons of 81 ir Is. i"'S
Few drln ers like a pure rye whiskcy, and tho
goo'ls with syrups. &C. he might as well use sririts
ana 'av" 100 per cent. In so doing, as the pubIir, an.
not tel til" d ference. Spirits can he sold AZ n ma,
AZ lie. per gallon In bond. The retailer often MAJ
NOR" for a brand OF wrllalvertIscd shirt" wh,Is"sss
man he does for an absolutely pure straight seven.
sine" March 3 dlstiiers can bottle thor nroduc, In
tohd' nut tho Government insists that the moot -,
same must he ln0 and Nil allow no swr.,arin, norr
any pth r Ingredients 10 he added. so tina O. naroai
drinking public " II not be pleased with iii cnI,ss ~
goods II IT Is pat ON sale al tho bars and hotels
EN'L.iQUOn DEALER
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ant Offset to the price paid to Russia for
Alaska. We used to get 100, 1000 sealskins
n year on the islands, and yet the herd
fiourished, numbering millions, whereas
now, with pelagic hunting destroying tho
mother seals and their young, we get fewer
than 10000 a year. and the herd has fallen
of by millions, at that.
But, apart from the losses Of our Govern
ment in rents and royalties, this diminu
ton OF the seal Is a loss to the whole world,
and England, where the skins are mostly
prepared for market, will herself be n great
loser II pelagic sealing goes OH as in the
past. This view OF the worlds interest was
taken by the Paris Tribunal, even though
1t would not admit our claim to the owner
ship OF the Pribylov herd, based on Its
habitat on the islands. In other words,
1.-THE freedom Of the high seas" In this
matter was restrained by the Paris award.
Why, then, should Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN re-
proach us with assailing that freedom,
when this Board of Arbitration agreed that
it must be restricted The only question
now Is as to the amount of restraint; and
our country insists and can prove hat the
present rules are inadequate, and do not
prouuce the protection whlch tney were eA-
pressly intended to secure.
MIR. CHAMBERLAIN points out that sixty
five years ago, in 1882, we were zealously
asserting our rights not only to kill seals
on the high seas. but to land and slaughter
them on the shores Of a friendly nation.
The shores referred to are those Of the
Falkland Islands and Terra del Fuego, and
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN says that no British
subject ever claimed the right to kill seals
on the Pribylov Isles as u citizens did on
the islands Of the South Atlantic, under
the protection of the guns Of an American
man-of-war." We think the records show
that British subjects have at times poached
on the Pribylov Islands; but, admitting
that they knew they were wrong, the point
now is that largely because Of the lesson
learned by all nations as to the disastrous
effects of pelagic sealing in the South At
lantic, the present efforts to avoid their
repetition in Behring Sea are made.
If Great Britain seriously desires to save
the Pribylov herd from the fate that befell
the fur seals in the southern hemisphere,
she should promptly consent to put greater
restraints upon pelagic hunting.
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Eileen Rowena Victoria Diamond Jultl~r ,a.s srd
oueen!e Victoria Williams are the name. =. With
Two little English girls are cordemuri uu ~.r-Ns'
on account OF the recent celebration In La..
Two new asteroids have heen dlseo,yua ..i,cra
Mars and Jupiter by NJ. CharIots OF Nj o. g.. r- ;9s
number discovered 10y him up To elsaty.-N Asa
the Austrian astronomer, has discovers e..t, ,-rE
The Brit sh troops in India have recciyai -'e> 10
carry twenty rounds Of ball ammunition ~ aE"a
paraies' This pra tice was discontinue EsG~
years back, and its renovation can only sr 80
upon as a necessary precAUton.
England is bcconiius alarmed about r,r '7-r',s
trade lu August III" exports had fallen ~ D.
ooo and the imports increas d nearly =. " 80
compared with the same month last year n '~
crease In exports is IS Der cent. ~ the TT Mt
All the British t~orpedoes known as "NuA 49,
and MARK | two stars h We been orl.r. Hv 10
Admiralty TO be destroyed. as they ar, l... ,.-fr
Gus TO the vessel nring them than 10 ,Aa ,l,nJ
There are 500 OF them. costins on a. AtrraE'
$4,000 apiece.
Eleven persons. two mon. nvc women an ''ar
children inside. a man on the luI be-, rr" ~
driver three satks of hops on top. and a mr. ,.5Ei'
Ing on tn" springs behind was The lotl .f 4, a47
tourwh'el cab drawn by on horsr t'c.' ~
Tue driver vas hncd ten shill.nGs for carryH- aArI
passengers.
Mr. Harmswortn. who betrayed the ,I',n.'f
the Jackson expedition In Franz Josef I,-a Nt 49,
''@Feu that he will send two sh p. to the A.. Xxi
season anu keep an eI peditou n the An. 80
I'LL "a complete map can he ma lie Of all p a. -
parts OF the Nor'h Polar world. The j.. /. . &, q
dillon has cost him COCO. 900.
Anu'SemitIsm may deprive Vienna ~ a. r r.. 'r
cafes one OF the chef utIrayt!uns ~ lee .. 2
hu'Eer' the hurgomaster. and his rarity, t.r. j
""''hAt many or the proprietor, mr. lrNr ,
discovered that The table, an cG,l, % q. ." :
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When was there ever such n gathering
caused by any other issue as the great free silver
camp meeting at Springfield. o. 2-Indtanapoi1
Sentinel
There has never been anything like it in
quality and flow OF eloquence. and in point OF
numbers tho Crusaders cannot be compared
with the Buckeye faithful. One DAY last
week the number OF auditors was only
slightly exceeded by the number Of ora
tors on the platform. AS many as $50
or 200 people stood beneath the awful
v~astness Of the Hon. JOHN PETER SISJUN's
moustachios and heard him say: As / look
upon this sea Of faces. my countrymen." Sea
was too cold a word; all great N~ErrUSE's ocean
OF faces he should have said. The price OF ad-
mission to the gathering was only ten cents, but
on account of the enormous multitudes that
stayed at home. free tickets were scattered with
q smiling hand. Only extraordinary precau-
tions on the part OF the Ohio people in keeping
away prevented the Democratic candidate for
Governoro of Ohio from being crushed. The people
loved him too much to wish to hurt him. Gen.
ADoNIRAH JUDsoN WARNER, that antique
Silver trumpet, addressed a multitude OF some
500 persons. Now it is no ordinary multitude
that will allow itself to be addressed by Gen.
ADoSIRAM JUDsoN WARNER. All in all, the
Springfield gathering was and is a marvel and a
boon.
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At last the so.called National Democrats
OF Massachusetts have found a man willing to
let them Nominate him for Governor. The Hon.
GAMALiEL BRADFORD, who has been mentioned
with praise as a possible candidate for this ex-
allied honor. is as earnest as the east wind, but
as an orator he 10 somewha musty, and not
moro inspiring than a cucumber pump. DIR. and
the Hon. WILLIAM EVERETT OF Quincy. who has
consented to be the candidate, is ono of the
most original and moving stump speakers in
Massachusetts or anywhere else. He has wit,
passion. eloquence, poetry. and a choice collec-
ton Of language ranging from sublimity to
slang. Most of the Democrats to whom he used
to talk are not National Democrats, but
probably they will go to hear him again.
The smaller the minority he is in, the greater
the Joy for DR.. EVERETT. and SO he will drink
deeply o. JOY this fall. Although he is no wax.
works figure like the Hon. MARCUS Z. CATO. the
vanquished cause pleases him, and he will
illuminate it with his fancy and his ingenuity.
At last galvanio semblance OF life will be left
in the National Democracy of Massachusetts
while DR.. EVERETT is on the stump
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To II EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Ny atten-
ton has been called 10 an article in last Sun.
days Sun reporting a celebration in this CITY
on Sept. l6 OF the anniversary OF Mexican in
dependence. In the article referred TO, certain
remarks are attributed to me, and l am repre-
sentcd as having said upon that occasion that
the present Instruction in the island OF Cuba
must end in victory for the revolution. Permit
me 10 correct the error into which you have in.
advertentiy been led. and to request that you
give publicity 10 this correction.
On the occasion referred TO l spoke OF Cuba
and OF the bloody struggle there waging as a ma
tional calamity, but expressed no opinion what
ever either regarding the merits OF the contro-
vsrsy or its probable results: In view OF my
official connection with the Spanish Govern.
OF opinion by me on such an occasion would
have been highly improper. and IL was, in fact.
stuoiousiy aNoiced. l remain very truly yours.
5. MALLET.PREvosT.
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The Real Reason.

The Low boomers last appeal to the Re.
publican party not to let the methods and
manners of the Citizens Union in nomi.
mating Mr.. Low prevent the Republican
organization from taking Mr.. Low also is
like an address to vacancy. Mr.. Low was
barred as the Republican candidate not
by the when or the how OF the Citizens
Union nomination Of him, but by the Cit
liens Union platform, to which Mr.. Low
has subscribed.
The Citizens Union is founded on an
invitation to voters to Join its ranks
without regard to opinion as a Republi.
can, a Gold Democrat, a Silver Democrat or
a member Of any national party whatever.
The Union has no concern with coinage,
free trade or protection, or with national
or State politics in any form"
This is not the platform of the Republi.
can party, and therefore no Republican
politician can approve it or its candidate
without betraying his party.
The Republican organization in New
York regards itself as very seriously con.
cerned with coinage, free trade or protec.
tion, or national or State politics in any
FORM" The Republican party is against
Iue SnlcdRO PLATFORM, ana Is DOund TO make
the fight upon 1t in New York city with all
the vigor of which it is capable. Turning
to the Gold Democrats, it points to the St.
Louis platform for honest money. But it
doesn't court the alliance of Bryanites or
Socialists or supporters Of the Chicago
platform under any title. 1t Is against
them, and has no thought of attaching
them to itself through the agency of soft
soap. II from the beginning the Citizens
Union had talked in honey instead of in
vinegar, Mr.. Lows nomination by the
Republicans would have remained as un.
natural, as tainted with political treachery,
and therefore as far removed from posi-.
bility as the nomination of HENRY GEORGE
or Of JOIN c. SHKEHAN.
Not the chaff of Citizens Union talk, but
the vital question Of political conviction
is what made it utterly impossible for the
Republican organization TO consider Mr..
SETH Loweven for a single moment. 1t was
pretty childish politicians or a pretty shady
politician who expected otherwise.
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The Better Element must not be discour-
aged by the sagging OF the Low boom in New
YORK 1t has never been strong here; but what
a precious thought II ought to be to the Better
Element that other towns and cities have been
moved even to the filling OF tho eyes with
tears by the loneliness and the fresh
ness OF the non'partisan movement ana
movers, At this very moment, when the
voters OF New York are showing n horeal indif.
ference to The charms of the Citizens Union
and is Indispensable and preterperfect can
didate, Hartford yearns for them, and Chicago,
that famous centre of good government, can
not say enough in their praise. II may
be a true and is a saddening reelection
that the impressionable editors in Hart
FORD and Chicago will not be able to
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Our esteemed contemporary, the Chicago
Tribune. must be reproved severely for display
ing an undesirable ignorance in regard TO an
important educational subject 1t speaks Of the
man upon whom the eyes OF all the friends of
typewriter university education are fixed in
reverence and expectation as MIR. JAMES
BRlsBIS WALKER" The Chicago Tribune
might have been dismissed with a eau.
ton il IL had spoken Of DR.. CHARLES r.
HARPER o. the Chicago University, or DR..
THOMAS DWIGHT of Yale. or DR.. HENRY W.
ELIOT Of Harvard, or DR.. f. BEzALEEL An
DREws OF Brown; but not TO know the exact
name Of the founder OF the typewriter univer.
sity is a monstrous fault. That name will be
better known in Chicago when the typewriter
university begins to typewrite.
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Quit whiting md splitting. Take OF. your
business.
Whiting and cxpcctorhtion should not be
classed together. The latter is a crime; the
former may be tho evidence OF a latent tn ent
for architecture or sculpture, or II may
be tho harmless companion OF leisure,
learned or unlcarncd. Colorado business
has in mind the philosophers who prefer
to discuss the state of the country, gently stimu'
lating the intellectual processes meanwhile by
whittlin and cxpcctorating. to doing any more
concrete labor. But II all these gentlemen
should shut their knives and their jaws. and
go TO work, the wealth OF the country might be
increased too rapidly. Do we want more pluto
Gratis or moro philosophers
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HAS M~'LAJGHLIN A DOPPELGAES-
GER?
while He Was TeieEraphing from Chicago III,
Was Seen Walking broadway


To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir In to-day's
issue OF THE Sun ] find an item which greatly
perplexes me. W. G. Mclaughlin. the pic
t~uresque Major Of the Siniun campaign, is re-
ported as staying with Bryan and ,elegraphing
grave messages from Chicago yesterday.
Now it happened that yesterday. III the hou.
OF noon. mine own eyes beheld the unmistaka.
BILE figure OF the sagacious and communicative
Major on lower Broadway. His long black coat.
tails, his tall black hat, the twin OF Senator
Evarts's renowned tile. his whiskers, yellow
mixed with gray. his twinkling eyes shining be.
hind large s.asses, his arms and hands waving
in the heat OF argumcnt-every inch w. G. as
we knew him in the glorious days when he and
sweet Ollie made things hum in the Bartholdi
headquarters.
How could he telegraph from Chicago and be
In New York al the same time! Or has he be-
com" a follower of the Mahatmas, projecting his
astral body wherever he listeth Did l behold
the real W. e., or was it his occult soul that en-.
livened lower Broadway in the noon hour OF
yesterday
May THE SCS, shining for all. shed Its RAYS OF
light upon this pulling problem.
MOSES OPPESHEIMER-
NEW YORK. Sept. 81.
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Silver is no longer a precious metal.-Roches-
ter Post.ErpreSs.
Well, it's very precious TO the Democrats still.
II may not be precious in itself, but think how
1t is endeared to the Bryanites by old habit and
association. They love it just as we'll as they
ever did. and are persuaded that it will be as
precious as ever II 1t is treated right And every
man who votes a Democratic ticke. this fall will
vote for the rehabilitation OF silver"
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Justice 10 n Gallant soIai..

To THE EDITOR or THE suS-Sfr: on the sth inst,
oy n'l''''"h OF the President a Congressional medal
Of Honor was awarded my father. wison v,ros %"
"moSt distinguished sallantry in action" " AT Stone
River Tenn, Dec. ~, 1872. while serving : rriv,,o
IN ,ninphhy h' Twenty first ohio VolIntee,s aud
Us url'rly 10 TIC brigade commander. In I'D ~
lns'"n vortcspond"nce in TIN SUN the a " ard i, mnteI
~ !, mi oeeh made 10 william" Vance, Wil -
yours, 49, ' ~, very ifuly
NEW YORK. Sept. is. "E>Hf T. 'AH't'
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Why did not the Citizens Union candi-
date. who sought the support Of silver Demo
Gratis or members of any national party what
ever. without regard to coinage" try 10 make a
dicker with Tammany Hall. instead OF concen-
trating his efforts upon the Republican organi.
zationi The answer is. because he would have
been ashamed TO be seen at it.
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vote for the indispensable and perfect one,
but votes are common. while such eulogiums rs
they give him will mako n memorable scrap
book OF just the sort OF literature which Is most
attractive to his mind. Canvasscs and cam.
paigns soon end. but a scrapbook strongly
bound will last for generations.
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The Hon. JACOB WORTH and the Hon.
AMAsA THORNTON appear to be somewhat sur.
prised still, but they will soon get used to ap.
pcaring as tho Two Orphans.
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Whore Are the Theatres, What Arr Tnc,.
HOurAi

To THE EprroR OF THE suS--Sm: l notice tina,
WE'VE OUT OF the twenty nine playhous,s advrr.
fusing. le"p1" bulS Is CON
TRoY, Sept. 30. SLhAhr'
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Mr.. Low has put himself distinctly upon the
platform OF a judicial action In all his appointments
In the Mayors ONCE .-B0stonH Herald.
The Citizens Union should nave nominated
the man OF judicial action for Chief Judge
OF the Court OF Appeals.
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n our friends toho JGcor Us Nth manuscripts for
publication tci'h TO hare rejected articles returned.
they must IN all cases send stamp, for that purpose.
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When was there ever such n gathering
caused by any other issue as the great free silver
camp meeting at Springfield. o. 2-Indianapoiu
Senftnxl