The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-10-23
NEW Y0RK'S CAMPAIGN.
Politics Booming in the Nations
Great Metropolis.
TIE CANDIDATES KEPT BUSY.

| A"AOAEhouO viz AAObAopoiltah DiS~
trict-The Various Candidates Point
Out Errors of the Others Platforms. j..
political mass meetings were held
throughout the metropolitan district
last night. and the champions for the
different mayoralty candidates were
out In force. Senator John Ford pre-
sided at Republican meeting held in
the Atlantic Casino, this city, at which
General Tracy was the principal speak,
er. He said in part:
Beyond the consequences to you as
citizens Of New York, there are inter-
ests at stake which concern you as
citizens Of the Union. 1t is idle to say
that the result Of this election in q
| city of three and quarter million peo-
| ple-more than the colonies had at the
time Of the revolution-is to have no
influence outside of the city. 1t is
recognized by all the people outside
that the result Of this election is bound
to have great influence in the ma
tional election Of 1900. Organism is
not dead; the fight against it is not yet
oyer.
''They say the government of a city
is business and not political. This Is
truly strange doctrine. What Is poll
tics? Politics, my friends, Is nothing
more than governmental policy. There
is no difference between the politics #
a nation, state or a city. There Is
business side and a political side in the
government of nation, state and
city"
Cooper Union was filled to the doors
with adherents of the Independence
Hall Democracy to ratify the nominal
tion of the Tammany ticket. The In
dependence Hall Democracy has for its
leaders Julius Hamburger and Ernest
Harvier, and has declared for the
Tammany ticket because of the Raines
law. The latter was made the feature
Of the speeches.
Judge Van Wyck, is was exepcted,
would be present at the meeting, but
he did not go. Instead he sent letter.
which was read at the meeting. The
letter in part follows:
1--WE believe that home rule Is es-
sential to the preservation Of liberty.
The Democratic party stands for the
supremacy of the municipality In mat
ters of local government. We denounce
as usurpation of the rights of both
the individual and the municipality any
attempt of the state legislature to dc
tate the Ndstoms. habits and pursuits
of our citizens. We condemn the re.
peated fragrant violations Of our rights
in this regard by the Republican ma
jorlty in the state legislature.
1--WE denounce the system of unlawful
arrest and detention that has grown up
In disregard Of the correct principles
Of government as development Of the
arbitrary exercise of official power, and
we demand a strict observance Of all
legal requirements before any citizen
shall be deprived Of his liberty"
A Citizens Union mass meeting was
held at Clermont Rink. in Brooklyn,
under the auspices Of the German
American Reform Union of New York,
at which DR.. John w. Shidge presided,
and the chief speaker Of the evening
was Hon. Carl Schurz. Resolutions
were adopted denouncing the Tam
many Hall candidates as "notorIously
nothing but tools of one man." de-
nouncing the Republican candidates as
equally under the subsection of one
man." Henry George as "a dreamer
and theorist, who has never studied
municipal problems and whose admin
istration would undoubtedly be fail.
ure." and pledging the support of tho
Germans to Seth Low.
A letter was received from Oswald |
Ottendorfer, proprietor and editor OF 4
the New York Staats Zeitung, In which
he said: IN Seth Low we have man
who II 1t Is at all feasible. will bring |
some system and order into the chaos
which will follow the enaction of the
charter for greater New York. The mis-
fortune of a victory on the part of
either the Democrats or Republicans
at this election would increase the
chaos and would produce abuses with
which an entire generation might
struggle in vain."
Charles s. Fairchild, ex-secretary of
the treasury, candidate for comptroller
on the Citizens Union ticket, and Ev-
erett P. Wheeler. civil service commits
sioner. spoke at the Citizens Union
meeting of the Tenth assembly district.
All their references to Seth Low were
enthusiastically received and cheered.
Mr. Fairchild said that the city, he
felt, was surely going to deliver itself
from the management Of bosses"
Henry George made the rounds of the
East Side in a carriage, accompanied
by his wife and two friends, and in the |
several halls he visited he was greeted
by large and enthusiastic audiences.
who accorded him an ovation.
In the course of an address which he
delivered in Pythagoras Hall Mr..
George said: "Tammany is strong. and
has bought good many labor leaders
to fight me. but let them do so. Moth.
ing could be more repugnant to my ma
ture than the assertion that want
children to work. 1t is the pressure Of
poverty that makes parents send their
children to work at a delicate age.
Repress that, and you begin in the
right way. Open UP a way for the
'ather to find work and he will earn
enough to keep his little children from
working before they are IA years old.
II you find men living In tenement
houses not fit for a brute. 1t is not be-
,ause they like 1t. it is because they
ire poor"
Colonel Fred D. Grant presided over
! Republican rally last night at the
Central Opera House, at which District
Attorney Olcott was the principal
peaker.
General Miles Wants More Soldiers.
Washington. Oct. 23.-General Miles,
general Of the army has
made his annual report to the secga-
ary Of war. He commends the effici-