The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-15
HOW ATTACKED BY PLATT
4 GLORIOUS SELF-SEEKER MAS-
 OUERADING AS 4 REPUBLICAN,.

Seth is Willing at Any Time, Says tho
 Senator, to Wreck the Republican Ship
 on the Ledge of His Own Ambitions
 Republicans Will be R Republicans Again,
 However.
 New York, Nov. 14-Senator Platt tonight gave out the following state- ment: 'It is the plain purpose of those republican factionists, who, failing, in every effort repeatedly made to control the republican organ, projected Seth thereby dividing the anti-Tammany vote, to force into the public mind the impression that the responsibility for this division attaches not to them, but to the republican organization, just as during the campaign they stopped at no act of treachery in order to create dissension. They are now hesitating at no falsehood or calumny in order to promote 1t and keep it alive.
 'The malicious misrepresentations of these incurable factionists must not go
 unchallenged. No fair minded person who will allow his mind to go back over the events of the ! last six months can fail to re-
 member that the attitude of the re-
 publican organization up to the last moment at which the law permitted a nominating certificate to be filed was
 much more than favorable to a union
 with the Citizens organization. Fair minded men will remember that when
 MT. Quigg assumed the presidency of the county committee, he made the of fer of union distinctly. They will
 remember that his offer was dis
 tinctly refused by those to whom it was addressed. They will remember, indeed, that when the Citizens associa- tion organized it adopted a platform which was intended to commit it's mem- bers to the Go 1t alone policy.
 '9This platform denied the relation of a national political party to municipal affairs. It challenged the right of the republican party to make a republican nomination. It placed upon the doc- Urine of on-partisanship new inter-
 pretation and one which forbade the
 possibility of cooperation between the republican party and the Citizens union. This was done, we must remem- Der, away back in the spring and be- fore the average citizen had begun to
 consider what his political course should be.
 "The republican leaders met this in- solent challenge without bitterness or
 resentment. They found no fault with the candidate whom the citizens union picked out as the expression of it's purpose and ideas. They do not deny that they regarded him as a man prac- tically the sort that he has turned out to be-a vain, glorious self-seeker, mas querading as a republican but willing
 at any time to wreck the republican ship on the ledge of his own ambitions. The republican leaders do not deny that they were then opposed to the can-
 didacy of Seth Low, but they allowed
 their opposition to take no definite shape.
 "No party should be false to its prin- ciples. The fact that MT. Low was not the man for whom the republican party ! could afford to be responsible, was | shownby his personal conduct through | out the canvass. It was shown when, after saying that he would not allow
 himself to become the instrument of
 disruption, he made himself the leader | in the crime of preventing a union. It
 was shown in his shameful abuse of
 General Tracey, the man who gave him
 his first opportunity by generously re-
 tiring from the field several years ago. l ''The republican defeat in New York
 city was a local defeat. It had it's
 cause in local controversies. In the
 state above the Harlem river the re-
 publican majorities were all that could | be desired. The republican organiza-
 ton in New York state and the city no less than in the county districts is
 still powerful, earnest and devoted. In
 the menace of another Bryanite cam- fpaign factional controversies will soon
 be forgotten and republicans will be l republicans again.