The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-05

| membership expressing taeir WISH Tor
J the nomination and election OF Mr..
Low. The nomination followed.
While ali this was going on the New
York Sun was fighting the citizens
| movement and the nomination Of Low
I like tiger. All It's resources OF INJECT
, I've and satire were drawn upon. It's on
| s,aughts have been fiercer and more Wig
orous than anything it has yet turned
Que. It has spoken out to the Republi-
can rarty OF New York and urged II not
| 10 allow the self-constituted committee
OF citizens 20 cram a candidate down the
| throat OF the Republican organization
On the other hand, the Sun has appealed
| 10 AIR. Low in the name Of good govern
/ ment not to run. l. has humored him
| and attacked him by turns. 1t has
thrust lis sword into every nook and
corner that is deemed vulnerable In the
armor Of the Columbia president. Never
In the history-not even in its savage
onslaughts on Mr.. Cleveland-has the
editorial page OF the Sun thundered and
foamed and crashed as 1t has thunder
ed and foamed and crashed against the
citizens favorite candidate. In all the
fight OF the GUNNER the most picturesque
fighter by far has been Mr.. Dana's pa
per. Never tired. il has opened new bat
teries day by day on the third party and
its candidate. and the sound of its guns
and the smell OF Its powder is over all
New York
Fierce as has been the Suns battle on
Mr.. Low. 1t has been fercer on Mr..
Lows friends. the citizens. In the plat
form OF the union are the words" of
the people, for the people, by the peo-
pie" The Sun has riiiculed the union
by every combination of words is could
fabricate. These are some OF its refer
ences to the union and its leaders:
'Squaks, "bumptious boys" goo
goes" dear children youthful politi-
clans" petty politicians" "sore heads"
'cranks." babes FOOLS angels"
"humbugs." "frequenters OF kindergar-
tens" sewing circles" victims of de-
plorable alteration" given to folly and
insanity ''prigs. for progs. and by
prigs." IAN esoteric mystery" smooth
gentlemen ''numbugs Of humbugs."
cts" "spangulikens," "self-stylej bet
ter element" political salvation army"
and "megaphone political saliva tionists."
Il has charged that the union is simply
the quintessence OF bossism instead of
liberty from bossism. And it has charg-
ed many things besides.
Among those other things the Sun has
said that the fight following Lows nomi-
Eaton, no matter what else il might
mean. would mean the complete destruc-
ton of Seth Low. But all opinions do
without Thomas Collier Plat and the
Republican organization. Many good
politicians say that if the Plat organi- |
cation does not indorse Mr.. Low the GER |
tain result Will be the election of the |
Tammany candidate. with Low a good |
second and the regular Republican cam
didate poor third. If overtures are to |
be made they must be made by Plat |
and his friends. The citizens cannot |
bulge from their declaration OF princi- |
PIES, which denounces the Republican |
machine quite as stutly as the Demo- |
cratic. Piatt and his lieutenant, Lemuelf
E. Quigg, have fought With as much |
strength as they could summon against |
Mr.. Low and his nomination. How far
they can hold out, or will, is matter
for the future TO determine. But the |
work Of these gentlemen and the an
nouncement of the Sun that IL Mr. Low
accepts the nomination he will be drag
ging Columbia university into the mire
OF politics have not acted as brake on
the Citizens Union. President Low is
the nominee, and that is all there is
about IL.
II is not tobewondered at that Tam
many, with all this falling out. isl augh-
ing in its sleeve. Tammany is matur-
ing its plans to seize the city and at
once make the glad boast that the hosts
of free silver have risen and carried the
day. And it is Tammany that is the
thorn in the rose OF citizen and Repub-
lican alike.
Seth Low, the man about whose head
are flying AL the envenomed arrows of
political strife. is quiet, solid man
whose name has ever been associated
with education and with reform in poll
tics. HIS life has been one o. successes.
His management OF the great Columbia
university has made that institution a
dream city. With a future assured that
the fancy. His beginnings
were humble. He is now only A. wears
old, but his versatility is so great s 10
lead one TO believe that he has lived
three lives. Until seven years he was
never regarded as scholar. Now pople
know him 10 be a man of the widest
culture, with as keen an appreciation OF
earning and as thorough an understand
ing OF educational forces as any nancy
In America. Out OF his brain has arisen
a school that is the marvel of the east.
He was educated in the institution %
which he Is nOw The head. Then he went
into his fathers store in Brooklyn and
the details of It's business 50 .
we'll that in four years he was made its
He began to be interested in !
politics as boy. At 80 years OF age he
vas the leading Republican In Brooklyn. |
4 year after the election OF Garfield. in |
Tnich he was quite active. he ran for
he mayoraity of Brooklyn. The bosses
ought him with an industry OF which
POLITICAL bosses alone are capable. But
le was elected. His rule IN BROOKLYN
vas OF the kind that IS especially pleas
ng to the good citizen. He served two =
ernls and retired. But he had SKATER +,
ID political ring that had dragged the
,ity down for many year. SIR. Low
: interested in industrial reform. IN the
deviation and amelio-ation OF labor. ana
eng before ne thought OF politics he
vas an active agent OF such reforms.
ie opposed himself 10 the high % The
ign tariff platform on which Harrison =
ma Merton ran. and resgnei from the
Republican associa lion OF which ne was
member. Last wear h su0a9r-zi NJ.
>inley. and was open in his con6er1na- :