The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-27
THE HrsroRr OF "Bos.n noN.
Eis Career ne . Busines- Mas. Politician. ana
College President.

Coticge Fretidcnt.
To THE EDITOR OF TnE suS-Sir: Con-
sidering that Mr.. Seth Low docs not like
machine methods. 1t is rather strange that both
he and his managers so closely initiate and pur-
sue them. Who ever before heard of any candi.
date having his portrait sent free by tho thou
sand to the residences of the citizens OF Brook
Ign for exhibition in their w~indowsi
This self-satistied young man was made. pollti-
cally, by the very men he Is now, with his wor-
shippers. so bitterly a%ss0illng. Frederick A.
Schroeder and others Of our best Republicans,
including Benjamin +. Tracy, all strict party
men, opened tho way for Seth Low to the
Mayoralty, and had done all the hardest work
before ho became n possibility or was thought
Of. Benjamin f. Tracy later on withdrew,
after being nominated, in agreement with Mr..
Ripley Ropes, for the purpose OF permitting Mr..
Lows nomination and election. Mr.. Low
thought no would do The same again and has
found his mistake. and he will now realize the
difference. It is TO DO hoped that the result of
the coming election will settle Mr.. Lows party
smashing ideas for once and all,
Mr.. Low Processes to be very much opposed to
so.callod "bosses," but he has no objection to
being "boss" himself. In fact, every move he
has ever made. shows that he is only opposed TO
some one. or any one else. except himself being
boss" He intends to be responsible only to
mint hs ~ W NptNSSh VIZ PNNpAS w
he does. who will hold him responsible, or up to
his promisesl He has no party. and tho
people" Ia too vague an expression and Is too
commonly used to signify anything definite, or
with any power to hold him or any one to pre-
election promises. He was a boss " in every
sense when he was Mayor OF brooklyn and
made every one accountable to hi and nj :
self accountable to nobody. He was independent
of the party elccting him then; what Will he be
now II elected by no party. but by the people"
of all parties
what he did before. lie insuiled and viciouSly
opposed MIR. j. 5. T.; Stranahan, who Was Gy
iiS%""n not 'H long sn Alter t""u and W." Who ' IS probably the
only man living to GO bis own statue erected by
his grateful fellow citizens. How did he treat
was then ono OF the wonders Of The worIdi How
did he treat others who were as far his superiors
his party in Brooklyn, so that the Democrats
sueeeeded him; and it took US 4, many years to , r.,
pSTs,aet IS B Bs'n %ainiy | for SSi'S and SS we're aSIy
iisnsd or ,r p iisTTyaanf6 BY out othe Ms' bo n%S he been Game fH,T in
sight. As a real man of business he was an
acknowledged failure, though =" born with a gold
ness already made for him by his father and
backed by millions Of capital, he soon had, TO
College. not specially remarkable. and after his
business tiasco, he sought and, with tho aid OF
dency OF that college, Aud it never had so eX.
Eensive a President; That college GoT %a osG rich; i
IL Is now lOalcu Win n ucOl Ol So.VtO,OOp. anu
what has he been there but a boss p How
has he treated some professors whom. he found
there before he came Anu is not the former
law professor now beating the college in every
wnyl
BY whom is he now urged upon our people for
the Mayoralty OF New York I! Is 1t not largely
by q mutual admiration society composed, OF
such former vicious Coppcrheads as Mr.. Joe La
ROGUE and such diserunilcd Republicans as MIR.
Joe Choate, and such disappointed men as Mr..
William L. Strong, who once said that Low
could not be elected ! Then Strong thought that
he might get the Republican nomination him
self, and become that "unifying force OF which
Mr.. Low once wrote so wisely. But as neither
Of them has proved SO 10 be. they do not intend
that any other Republican shall be, but rather
that st. Tanmany sh III again rule us. for
they we'll know that st. Seth cannot succeed
by any possibility.
1t might perhaps improve Mr.. Lows chances
II he or some OF his worshippers would fayorthe
public with some reasonable explanation of
some of his acts in his tyrannical and very per
sonal administration CT the Mayoralty of Brook
Ign. and his remarkable seeking Of votes among
saloon keepers. brewers. SC. What were the
causes. IL any, for his contemptible treatment OF
Mr.. Stranahan and Col. RoeblinE and others
What was the reason for his setting aside OF
educated men In the Board Of Education and
appointing men who he thought controlled more
votes, and for his general bad treatment and
contempt for the advice of those who elected
him Now he has a chance to let us have the
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, Oct. %. TRUTH.