The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-03
THE LEADERS OF THE CTS.
SOMETHING ABoUT THE MEN VINO
RUN THE SETH Low MJCHiNE.

RUN THE SETH Low
Jnmes II. REYNOLDS n Graduate In Theology
John n. PIne,s Record ne a Goo Goo-john
a.. CInrk,s periious ActivIty-standin OF
the Three Men In the nnsincss world.
Tho Chairman Of the Executive OF
the Citizens Union is James Bronson Reynolds.
As Chairman OF this committee Reynolds is the
head and front Of the Seth Low machine. He is
the man who has discovered what good gov.
ernmcnt is. Hc is tho man who as.
scrts that everybody who Is opposed to
Seth Low for Mayor is opposed to good
government. He is the boss of tho little
crowd OF Cleveland idolntcrs, Columbia College
professors, and professional reformers who put
up Mr.. Low ami have boon insisting with bass
drums and wind instruments since then that
the people have got to swallow him on election
day whether they like the dose or not.
James II. Reynolds is practically a stranger In
New York city. He has no business interests
here NOR anywhere else, SO far as can be learned),
and questions frequently asked are: Who the
Moses-is Rcynoldsl What's his standing !
What's his business record ! What title has he
got to be heard
THE Sun reporter asked these questions last
week of one of Mr.. Reynolds's friends.
Well, said the friend, Mr.. Reynolds comes
Of vigorous Revolutionary stock and inherits a
~ 'hphh. " '"S pSS eANA oliA
Hero is n very complete biography OF Mr..
Reynolds: Ho was born in Kiantone, Chautau-
qua county, on March IT, 1861, SO no is SO
years of age now. His father was u Congrega-
tional minister. and had charge Of the
village church. When James was old
enough and had prepared himself he
went to college. His ambition at that
time, IL seems. was TO become a minister, for no
became a student in the Y le Theological Semi
nary. He was made the deacon Of his class and
led the weekly prayer meetings. In 1884 he
was graduated, and then he went abroad.
He returned to this country at the
end OF a year and took q post gradu-
alto course. His appetite for foreign travel
not being Satisfied and tho opportunity
presenting itself. he again went abroad. This
time he was gone nearly five years. He spent
most OF the time studying universities as social
and Intellectual centres. He took courses in
econ3m cs and sociology in Paris and d Rim. In
infected with the university settlement idea.
r. spent a year or more studying it.
he got. Dr.Stanton Colt had organized a univer-
sity settlement in this city before Mr.. Reynolds
MIR. REYNOLDS got back here Dr. Colt maze up
his mind to leave the settlement and to travel,
hna .heTe was H in oPG%ing i0r To MI IT, kssynElds
Cots shoes, anu he has been standing in them
since.
This was about fivo years ago. In 1891 he
was a member of one of the Good Government
clubs that iourishod in that year. and through
the Committee of seventy. which helped to
make William /. Strong Mayor of New York.
MI; REYNOLDS, however, did not take a very
sity settlement his friends do not assert that he
has any present interest in the city of New York,
ever done to distinguish himself. AS Chair
man OF tho Executive Committee Of the
say that While processing the greatest virtue
OF all Mr.; Reynolds has been the most ready to
s sbiSpp {, TO S be1n , rnd ss dtcksTs; i! His I'm motto Hsy is i TaA6n ny.
no more business experience than he has bust
ness interss5 in the sitty; He is in the liss Of
legc, OF which his candidate is President.
The man noxl in importsnce TO Mr.. REYNOLDS
hand, in fact. ia John b.. Pine. No man has as
sWqmed the right To- Say mor' omphstically than
must take him whether We will or no. The
same sort OF questions have been asked about
noids. Tho name Of Pine is well known in
New, York. but hardly. ono man in a
is Or what he ,doss Tor S''i living, Tie
earliest record Of Mr.: Pine that was found yes
that year from Columbia College. HE was for a
timo engaged in the office Of NORWOOD S
t 90 Wall street. 1t is one Of a suite occupied
by half a dozen lawyers. Mr.. Pine; it was
learned. j counsel for a number OF charitable
organizations in the city. He has seldom, been
heard of by the public except during political
campaigns; lie has not been heard OF to any
When the good government clubs were boom.
ing he was a member of Cluh0. lie WAS one Of
the faithful band who in 1898 ran a Goo GOO
ticket and scorncd any connection with any poiit-
ical party, Just as oCitizens' Union is doing now.
The determination was to SIN 'sh the machines.
The ticket got in the neishborhood Of LOGO
votes. Mr.. Pine has no record ms a business
of his associates in the Citizens Union was
asked about his ability IN that line.
is co @Hi Mai !e soi F re- o4 at rf hsif e Si kr'sh A. p &asa hG
any udgmcn lie gets ideas and he goes TO
work laundering ahead. He spends $50 or $50
they are all wrong. Pines all right, but he goes
or At half cock two-thirds of the time"
Mr.. Pine is the clerk of the trustees OF Column.
biz College, Of which Seth Low, his candidate
Next 10 Mr.. Pine in command o. the Citizen 8
Union is John c. Clark; If Mr., Pine is the right
hand Of Mr., Reynolds. Mr.. Clark might be called
the LETT hand of the chief boss. The 9ues.
noids and Mr.. Pine are asked about
Mr.; Clark as well. Mr.. Clark is hardly
He is not nj the head or even in the employ of
any Of Tho great business interests, of the city.
there is no man for Mayor but Seth
ais"tion Inc DAP ye0" orc m iRHy s "rs iost him M On
Rcynoids. Mr. Pine, and Mr.. Clark nj say so.
sEn ni9sr" Ihsn s . sEa,s Of n Mr M Gl"T h.x Is OF necessity
is Younger by two years. He is only 81 years
old. He was horn in Plnttsburg, y. Y. His father
was n lawyer in that town, and he sent tho boy TO
Wesleyan University. Mr.. Clark was gradu-
ntcd from the university in 1886. and made up
his mind TO be- II lawyer. like his father. He
came to New York and studied law and was ad-
mitied to the bar; AZ the present time
state, Senator Frank d. Pnvey. Like his
associates in running the Citizens Union. MIR.
Clark is heard of by The puolIc chiefly uurIngpo-
litical campaigns. lie was a member of the
Committee OF seventy. He has agitated in
favor of school reform. His colleagues in the Cit
liens Union say he has been on the point of a
nervous breakdown once or twice since tho
campaign opened.
Mr.. CLARK is a graduate Of the Columbia Col.