The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-06
Drumming Up Enthusiasm.

Tho Evening Post announces in It's Jews
columns that this Is the fatal week which
els expected to furnish evidence enough
to suit Mr.. Low Of the popular desire for
his candidacy" In the absence of exact
knowledge as to how easy Mr.. Low is to
suit, 1t Is impossible to say how much
evidence and what kind of evidence
Of Q popular desire for his candidacy
will suit him, but clearly something star
Ting Ii in preparation, IL the Evening Post
IL to be believed. 1t is an unfortunate fact
that the Citizens Union is not popular, but
highly and multifariously unpopular, and
90 it's frantic boomings of Mr.. Low arc only
evidence, not of q popular desire for Mr..
Low, but of Its own wild desire to become
o political machine. The taking of straw
votes Is an intellectual recreation of great
interest to certain minds, but surely Mr..
Low IL not a man to be fed upon straw. He
must have something more filling.
Where is the evidence of a popular desire
for his candidacy to be obtained9 Are the
people crying in notes of thunder for SETH
Lowf Are they rising as one man to de-
mand then nomination of SETH Low3 Not q
thunder and not a rise. The people have
700 MUCH bcuSc " cAClUc UucLl6clNc6 1 LILO
forehead of July about a November cleo
tion. They are making up their vacation
schedules, buying pajamas and straw hats,
resisting the thermometer. and waiting for
the passage and signing Of the Tariff bill.
Thu sucklings in the Godkin editorial
nursery are squalling their loudest for Mr..
Low. Over in the stone palace Of sleep the
Neto York Iinles's somnambulists and SON.
%niloquists are murmuring Mr.. Lows name
In their daily sleep-talks. No doubt all
tho amateur minstrels Of reform are
singing the praises Of Mr.. Low day and
night. Somewhere or other. the Rev. DIR.
RAWsFoRD, known to a large circle OF
wondering observers as "HALLELUJAH
BILL" Ia shouting q prayer Of agony
for Mr.. Low as the friend of 1.-THE work
ing classes" The Hon. LABOR THINE
the hopeful CLARK. and JUBILEE jim
REYNOLDS are revolving rapidly in the
worthless Of their own enthusiasm, with q
waving of many banners and Of all theil
mouths. These things nay be heard and
seen, but whore is the popular desire forths
nomination of Mr.. Low to be seen ant
hearda There is a tremendous patter and
chatter made by the pullers-in of the c.. U
show, but the people refuse to be hailed int
the tent.
Still, IL the evidence of the popular desir,
70 not in existence, 1t must be manufac
tured. Mighty conceptions may now b,
futtering in the Mugwump noodles. We ar,
informed that toy balloons labelled "Vot,
for SETH Low, the Peoples Choice" will b.
sent up In immense numbers from Morning
side Heights to-day, and that tomorrow
1000 sandwich men bearing the sam,
legend will march up Broadway. The peopl,
must DO reused. They have got to desir,
the nomination of Mr.. Low whether the.
want to or not. The c. u. bosses, dripping
atevery pore and apoplectic with sound an,
emotion, are yelling at the tent door a par
ody of Major PIToAIRN's celebrated remarl
to the militia at Lexington. They ar
yelling Assemble, you Williams. assemble
and say that SETH Low must DO NOM
mated" 1t must be tough work to be a re
former when nobody want to be reformed