The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-30
OPINION OF LEADERS.
Low is Ready to Receive the Notcs--
senator PIatt Asserts That Tracy


will Lose no Votes.
New York, oct. 29.-Mr. Low, candi-
date for mavor of Greater New York
on the Citizens union ticket, regarding
Henry Georges death, said:
"'rhe sudden death of Mr.. George
under the stress Of the campaign, is
great tragedy. No soldier on the bat
tlelield ever gave his life for his coun-
try more evidently than Mr.. George has
laid down his life in behalf of the city
of New York. Pure in motive, high
minded, absolutely devoted to the SER
vices of his felOw-men, as he thought
they could best be served, he has fallen
in the thick of the battle against the
tyranny and corruption of one-man
power controlling the political machine
and thus depriving the people at once
of their rights as free men and of con-
troll of the government of the city in
the public interests.
Il would like to avail myself of this
opportunity to express to the family
of Mr.. George my sincere sympathy in
their irreparable loss.
During the campaign Mr.. George
repeatedly recognized that fundament-
ally this is a fight against bossism and
all that that implies in political degra-
dation and corruption. In view Of Mr..
Georges death, / wish, therefore, to
say to the people of the city that I
shall give myself to this contest in
their behalf with a new and higher re-
solve as though had received it a last
charge from his dying lips"
The campaign committee of the Citi-
zens' union unanimously passed a reso-
luton deploring the death of Henry
George, in whom the committee recog-
nized "a pure, high-minded man, an
unselflsh patriot and a brave and un-
compromising champion of the peoples
rights against political tyranny and
corruption"
The resolution tenders to Mr. Georges
family Our sincere coincidence, and to
| his followers the generous sympathy of
| soldiers in the same battle for politi-
! cal freedom"
Chairman Quigg, of the Republican
/ county committee. said he would not
| make any statement until he knew
| what position would be taken by the
| George Democrats. He was very reti-
| cent regarding the death Of Mr.. George.
SENATOR PLATTS REMARKS.
In a statement issued this afternoon,
| Senator Platt says:
UNLESS the jefferson Democrats are
! betrayed by Tom Johnson, who has
! been their hoodoo from the start, their
votes will be easily consolidated upon
! the other candidates. The disreput-
! able deal between Johnson and the
| Citizens union has further poSsibili-
| ties so far as Johnson is concerned,
but not so far as the real friends and
| followers of George are concerned.
| They are not deliverable in bulk to
anybody except to another bona fide
candidate Of the party.
General Tracy will not lose a single
| Republican vote as the result of Mr..
! Georges death. The Republican party
! VIII poll its strength with substantial
entirety for General Tracy, and moth
ing could or can effect that fact. Re
| publicanS recognize the Low move
| ment as a Democratic conspiracy.
| They see in Low an attempt to revive
| Cleveandism and to betyay the Re-
| publican party by another of those
| characteristic tricks of the Cleveland
| Democracy
ut is an old and we'll understood
thing in every political crisis during
the last twelve years that the Cleve-
! land Democracy has undertaken to di-
! vide the Republican forces by with.
| drawing from the Republican candi-
date the support of Republican voters
upon dishonest pretense of reform
| purposes.
I'm tha existing situation as it is
Low stands for Cleveland methods
and manouevres, but the Republicans
understand their game. They remem-
Der its consequences to the public and
the Republican party in former peri
DDS. Attempts to stampede them now
excite only their indignant disgust.
They will support the party, theil
party's trusted principles and theil
party's unconquerable candidate. II
the George party should be split up
the Social;stic-D Democratic element may
be carried by Johnson to Low. Low
is something Of a Socialist himself, OF
rather he is so much Of demogogue
that, as he says, he is willing to stanC
on any platform that viii fetch hin
a handful of votes. This will affec
General Tracys chances favorably.
IF George had lived lie would have
secured an enormous labor suppor
that will now come to General Tracy
The working people appreciate wha
the Republican party has done for then
not only at Washington by restorins
prosperity, but also at Albany by pro
tccting them and encouraging the de
Yclopment Of their organizations. Tam
many cannot get this vote. 1t ha
become estranged from Tammany Hal
and in this election it IS supporting
Tracy, and it win now support hin
more strongly than ever.
"Of all the candidates in the field
the Republican candidates has mucl
the best of It,"