The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-10-23
.NEV YORES CANPA AIGN.
Politics Booming in the Nations
Great Metropolis,
THE CANDIDATES KEPT BUSY.

THE CANDIDATES KEPT BUSY.
over a Hundred Mass Meetings Held
Throughout the Metropolitan Dis
trict-The various Candidates Point
Out Errors OF the Other's Platforms.
New York, oct. 23-Over a hundred
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 a Republican meeting held i'm
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 It is idle to say
that the result Of this election in a
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. It Is
recognized by all the people outside
that the result of this election is bound
to have a great influence in the ma
tiona election of 1900 Organism is
not dead; the fight against It Is not yet
over.
"They say the government of a city
is business and not political. This is
truly a strange doctrine. What is poll
tics? Politics, my friends, is nothing
more than governmental policy. There
| is no difference between the politics f
/ a nation, state or a city. There is a
| business side and a political side in the
| government of a nation, a state and a
city"
/ Cooper Union was filled to the doors
with adherents of the Independence
/ Hall Democracy to ratify the nomina-
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:
I'VE believe that home rule is cs
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 a usurpation of the rights of both
the individual and the municipality amy
attempt Of the state legislature to die
tate the customs, habits and pursuits
of our citizens. We condemn the re-
peated fragrant violations of our rights
in this regard by the Republican ma
jority in the state legislature.
1--WE dauo11ppa the exrqtar, of uula yVf11
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"
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. Shildge 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 a theorist who has never studied
municipal problems and whose admin
istration would undoubtedly be a fail
ure" and pledging the support Of tho
Germans to Seth Low.
letter was received from oswald
Ottendorfer proprietor and editor OF
the New York Stats Zeitung in which
he said: In Seth Low we have a mar
who, if it is at all feasible, win 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 Unior
meeting of the Tenth assembly district
All their references to Seth Low were
enthusiastically received and cheered
Mr.. Fairchild said that the city h,
felt, was surely going to deliver itseD
from the management of BOSSES"
Henry George made the rounds of th'
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 a 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 1 wan
children to work, 1t is the pressure oi
poverty that makes parents send theil
children to work at a delicate age
Repress that and you begin I'm the
right way. Open up a way for tbs
father to find work and he win carr
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, it is not be
cause they like it, it is because they
are poor"
Colonel Fred D. Grant presided ove
q Republican rally last night at th
Central Opera House, at which Dlstric
Attorney Olcott was the prlncipa
speaker.
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