The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-02
What Will Low Cost

The political path along which Mr.. SETH
Low has been meekly and half apologet-
ically travelling for several months, with
feet carefully feeling the way while his
eyes are fixed on Heaven, has been trodden
by a heavier foot, to serious public mis-
fortune. The extraordinary likeness which
extreme self. absorption, the pursuit of par
tisan ambition under cover of non-partisan
virtue, and the exaggerated adulation Of
Mugwumps and responsibilities political
guerrillas have developed between Mr..
Low and the Hon. GROVER CLEVELAND, is
strikingly revealed by Mr.. Lows presence
in the New York political Geld as q candi-
date for Mayor at a time when the victo-
rious party Of 1896 calls earnestly for the
assistance Of all patriotic citizens to help 1t
in its opposition to the fraud and calamity
of Organism.
AS Mr.. CLEVELAND imperilled the cause
of order and sound money by stubbornly re-
naming a candidate for President when 1t
was manifest that such an attitude on his
part would give a victory to the faction Of
the Democratic party devoted to free silver
and lawlessness, and precipitate upon the
country q Presidential campaign Of which
the Democracy thus Initiated hould be one
Of the c%ontending parties, 80 Mr.. Low,
basking in the favor Of the Mugwumps
who stimulated CLEVELAND in his execrable
ambition, sticks to his candidacy for Mayor
of New York at the risk Of Republican
defeat and Democratic success.
In the grave and philosophic dissertation
upon Democratic regeneration that has
been continued for some time in the col.
umns of the Courter-Journal, which, to
this day, cannot bring itself to speak Of
the great architect of disaster without
protesting it's unwillingness to be harsh
with him, the following remarks, so per-
tinent to the condition of New York city
politics, have recently found a place:
1.-THE Chicago Convention OF 1899 assembled at Q
time when there was Widespread depression. not to
say distress, throughout tho land. The gathering at
Chicago resembled rather q meeting OF the Tiers
Fiat, preceding the Reign of Terror in France. than
an old.fashioned National Democratic Convention.
1.-THE quasi.candidacy OF Mr.. CLEVELAND for tho
nomination Of that convention had tied the hands OF
sound money Democrats everywhere Permitting q
member Of his Cabinet without rebuke deliberately
to urge q third term in the Presiiency for his chief,
Mr.. CLEVELAND could DO induced TO utter no word
discouraging the suggestion. He was believed by the
best-informed people In Washington to be so far a
candidate that he had in his mind the idea that the
convention would DO forced at last to take him.
During the winter OF $3.50 the late Governor RUSSELL.
OF Massachusetts sought some expression from Mr..
CLEVELAND without success as to his wishes and In
tentions with respect to the forthcoming Presiden.
tial nomination. Tho friends OF MI. CARLISLE In Ken.
lucky. knowing not what to do. did nothing. The
cause OF sound money was therefore lost long before
the meeting OF the Chicago Convention. 1t was lost
because It had NO leader around whom its forces
could rally. Mr.. CLEVELAND being impossible. yet
Mr.. CLEVELAND standing in the way, there was
neither organization nor enthusiasm here. II
Mr.. CLEVELAND had promptly. decisively taken him.
self out of the category Of expectant possibilities.
Governor RUSSELL could have rallied the sound
money forces OF New England. and Mr.. CARLISLE
could have rallied the sound money forces OF Ken.
lucky and other Southwestern States. The onward
sweep of the free silver fanaticism could have been
stayed and the final issue greatly modified, II not
diverted altogether"
A year ago the party Of THOMAS JEFFER-
soN was converted into a dangerous maniac,
and the soul of the country was tried rs it
had been tried but once before, because a
vain, selfish, and sanctimonious politician
insisted on being q candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination. To-day Mr.. SETH Low,
Mr.. CLEvELAND's curiously faithful copy
in public bearing, political methods, Mug
wump standing, and general makeup Of
personality, persists in being a candidate
for the Office of Mayor of New York at the
risk of defeating or enervating the party of
the st. Louis platform, and of putting the
New York city government into the hands
of Mr.. HENRY GEORGE, proclaiming his
Organism openly, or of TammaLy Hall, the
slave under any and all circumstances of
the party of the Chicago platform.
Mr.. CLEVELAND failed, but his enterprise
was terribly costly to the public. Mr.. Low
will, of course, fail also. What will be the
cost of him If he stays in the canvass
What estimate is put upon it by the fat
nous or treacherous Republicans who are
aiding Mr.. Low in his shameful endeavorl