The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25
The Wall from the Nursery.

Tn Ercning Post of Saturday contained
the most juvenile of the many leading or
~lcading.string articles which the refusal OF
| the Low movement to move has drawn from
| the nursery. 1t is an article which de.
serves to be engraved on blocks for the use
OF blockheads. The author of it Is seen
going to the barred window, peeping peev.
ishly at New York and the rest of the
world, and then smashing his rattle and
breaking into a wild lament. eff a ma.
jority says that it prefers the old regime
| cries the Infant Phenomenon of Fulton
street and Broadway, that CROKER and
PLATT IRE good enough for 1t. we do not
| hesitate to say that the news will be re.
| ceivrd all over the world with consterna-
ton, as a vcritable catastrophe for free
government. 1t will stimulate everywhere
the growing trend toward Crsarism." Aut
Caesar dut nulius; CESAR or SETH Low +!
Such is the alternative.
So the city learns for the first time that
the great Low paper movement is the last
bulwark against Cesarism. The indispen.
stability of DR.. Low must be patent to
everybody when the fact Is appreciated
that he must be elected or free government
will totter to its fall. 1t might have been
supposed that REYNOLDS, PINE, and JOHN
COLUMBUS CLARK would be sufficient to
prop up free government for a season, and
to smash Cusarism with their warlike
shields, but no; free government and SETH
Low stand or fall together. Consequently
free government is doomed to tumble.
No wonder there is a terrible banging
upon the nursery floor. The Infant Phe-
nomenon looks a%larmingly apoplectic as he
screeches about the obstruction of popu-
lar government" and 1.-THE destruction of
public liberty" as the result of the refusal
Of a perverse generation to appreciate the
necessity of DR.. Low and make him Mayor.
at is the growing perception of this fact"
/. e., the fact that liberty and Low are
Siamese twins, THAT has led to the Low
movement, and has caused the world to
fix its eyes or us as men who are really
lighting one of the great battles of civili-
~zation, such as CHARLES MARTEL won at
Tours over the Saracens." Behold the
CHARLES MARTEL of Morningside sallying
forth against the Moslem hordes Of parti-
sans, a mortar board for his casque, n cane for
his hammer. The sight is glorious, but the
consciousness that the Morningside MAR
TEL is regarded by too many of the people
as a stick rather than q hammer, disturbs
the Infant Phenomenon, and he filings the
Carlovingian picture book away and turns
from CHARLES MARTEL to HENRY WADs-
WORTH LoSGFELLow:
I'VE are working out the experiment for the bene-
Mt of mankind. What LoSdFELLow said OF the Cu,on
is, in a measure. true OF the Low movement In this
city at this moment:
"'Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes OF future years
Is hanging breathless on thy fate"
What has SETH Low to do with human.
ityl Isn't he above itl Still, humanity
may calm all it's fears in regard to him.
While the squalls Of the Infant Phcnom-
enon die away, another voice, and one of
good cheer, is heard in another corner OF
the nursery:
Every straw vote that 10 taken shows that
among all classes OF voters Mr.. Low Is the favonte.
II this were the case In some instances and not In
others, there might be some doubt about Il. but there
are no exceptions. Not 4 straw vote of any kind 10
published which shows q contrary result"
Straw votes for n man Of straw.