The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-04
CTS CALLED Low DOWN.
DETECTED ~ MN q DISPOSITION
TO Err AND DEAL.

auarrels IN the Committee over It-some or tho
Cotnnritteeuen Applaud the Politician In Him
Others snS That '' There Are Traitors Here,
E'htt,uH Up Jobs That Have TO Bo Undone.
The Cleveland idolators, professional rcformors
and Columbia University professors. who are
running Seth Low, the President OF the college,
for tho first Mayor OF the Greater Now York.
nre finding out that II suns statement that
Mr.. Low is n very selfish man 10 absolutely
true. Mr.. Low has proved himself a very selfish
candidate, and THE Sun has 1t on no less au-
thority than that of n member Of tho Committee
on Organization. who is also n member of other
committees. that IT, has been necessary to call
MIR. Low down at least once.
Mr.. Low has been ready to deal and decker
with anybody so long as there was any POSSIBLE
iy or aid to himself in doing 1t. Ho has kept
the truly good young men in the Union in a
state bordering on terror ever since he got back
to New York from Northeast Harbor. The call
down came from these young men, some Of
whom, by the way, are in the employ OF Column
bia College. They told him plainly in effect that
while he might consider it all right to be tricky
with the people he must remcmber that he had
been placed where he was by the act of the re-
monstrants, and that SO long as he was their
must respect Il. they Would not permit him to
sell them out even If he could get himself elected
Mayor by doing 1t.
Ahic 80 ''"h
language. of course, but 1t was none the less
severe iot all that. and MIR. Low understood that
1t may be said right here that Mr.. James b.
Reynolls was not, one Of the young men who
virtue. and while from the first he has been the
loudcst shouter OF thu siog IN, " No diGker. no
TO dicker and deal with anybody. This state.
ment Is made on the authority OF a member Of
the N Exe Rsxpo, Ssmm ,his %emser Of the E.ecu.
tive mi of the Citizens Union said, lis
ready to do anything, to get a vote Tor Low. To
can't get it one way he is willing to get. 1t any
other. rs hard for us to keep him in bounds.
other candidate for Mayor. In his mind the
office Of Mayor is he only one to DO filled. and
this opinion. The man who informed II SUN
insi ths ss at ths same 90 TIME Ma; t boW this iS a ssiishne.s
was q. good trait. He said: II Mr.. Low was
that 10. II he was the kind Of a man that the
leaders of our Union ha We made the people be-
lieve that he is-he would be anything but the
he is the available man for this place, He is
only he has more brains. Do you suppose Grover
Cleveland would have been twice President of
the United States IL he hadn't been a politician !
Well. Seth Low is the same sort Of a slick. poll.
tician. and therefore he is Just the man in an
smff dssi, Sat H'm nn nos m anef on ideals sh mys sef.. snd
/ state simply the facts. I repeat. it's because
he Is a trimmer and a politician that he is avail
able now for our purpose. There is no secret
about this in the Union. It's only when We are
talking for the public to hear that Mr.. Low 10
set up on a pinnacle Of vir ue."
It developed in t Q course Of the conversation
with these two Cit committeeman that there is
anything but peace in the Union. One of them
said:
takes two-thirds Of the time of the other men
to undo tho Jobs that they put up on u.s."
Tho question of deals and dickers has been a
continual source of trouble and is yet, and quar-
rels are fierce sometimes. r. Fulton Cutting.
tho Chairman of the Union. who has been
abroad all summer, has been kept fully informed
of all that has been done, and he is one Of the
men who have been unalterably opposed to hav.
ing anything at all to do with any other party.
He was to have returned to this country on
Sept: 1. but 1t is certain now that he will not
be back during tho campaign, and it is
not likely that he will be back on election day
TO vote for Low. An evidence of the fact that
the dickerers and dealers in the Union are on
top is the fact that there Is considerable reioic.
Ing over Mr.. Cuttings determination to stay
We are very glad. indeed. that he won't be
back" said q member of the Executive Com
mittee to a SUN reporter.