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What tho George People Want.

Near the southeast corner Of Madison
square, from q little stand dimly lighted by
a few lanterns, on Saturday evening last a
burly orator was addressing n small crowd
in behalf of the election Of HENRY GEORGE
to the Mayoralty.
Among other things the speaker said:
"ARnAHAm LINCOLN was elected, and no secured an
amendment TO tho Constitution which abolished
slavery. Elect HENRY GEORGE. and ho will secure IN
amendment abolishing landlordism In the United
Btatesl'
It ia thus evident that the supporters OF
HENRY GEORGE In the present canvass do
not agree with critics like the Evening
Post, who ridicule the idea that his cleo
ton as Mayor would promote his peculiar
and distinctive opinions in political and
eocial economy.
While he might be able to do very little
officially to carry those views into effect in
the municipal Government, the mere fact
that a man entertaining such sentiments
had been chosen to be the chief magistrate
of the greatest city on the American conti-
nent would give an alarming impetus to
the cause Of the
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To THE EDITOR OF The Suy-Sfr: Was Mr.. Low
elected TO the Presidency OF Columbia College on HIS
merits?
without his wealth would he have been chosen or
even thought OF for that position?
Was 1t not in the expectation. II not indeed on the
understanding that with his money he would supple
mcnt his lack OF that special fitness for the place
which the candidate for such onice usually possesses,
that he was asked to succeed President Barnard
II the transaction was not actually such a deal. the
present actual political prostitution OF which the
trustees and President OF Columbi College have be.
como guilty. proves that they were not above making
II. Otherwise they, the crew. would have asked him.
the captain. TO resign when they saw him steer
Ing the ship, on the sands of the sirens;
but how could they when they had sold
themselves to him Tor one million dollars? Let
them Eow recover themselves and awaken to a
sense of their moral responsibility for the high In.
tercsts which they are bctruying before II Is too late.
Let them tear the bandagc from their eyes, and in
the rank eHotism OF his face and the ignorant selfish
ness of his conduct see the real character Of the III an
To whom they have 50 unwisely committed the
precious fortunes Of their ship and OF tho youth
whom 1t Is bearing 10 educational disaster ani dis
grace. And let the voters OF Greater New York Oh
the I'd day OF November next compel them to do SO.
A "CIrlZES" OF GREATER NEW YORK.
NEW York, Oct. IL.
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A vew Words That End in ..a.n

To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Sir: In the notice IN
to-day's SUI OF Cuyler Reynolds's essay on the recur-
renee OF letters. your reviewer Judiciously intimates
that Mr.. Reynolds is rather hasty in laying down the
principle that Z" tho letter "a never terminates q word,
excepting only the word sea-" and he further says:
with sea in mind how could ho have overlooked
tea, lea, and Tea, to say nothing Of yea and sofa?"
Is really much more phenomenal than your reyiewer's
inquiry would indicate. Did Mr.. r. never solve an
enigma, or accept dogma. or escape O dilemma, or
resent q stigma. or detect an aroma, or gather data.
or observe phenomenal? Did he ever see o villa, or
sit on q vcranda. or walk in a rotunda, or ride in .
%gondola2 Does he ever use q comma? Has he never
read q stanEa, or listened to o sonata. or heard
. prima donna sing an aria? Does he not know q
dahlia when he sees II, or a camellla. or Q magnolia?
Did he ever have dyspepsia or pneumonia, or suner
from malaria or neuralgia, or dread hydropho.
SIENNA, or drink a glass of soda? Did he ever hear OF
a puma or an anaconda? Did he ever see the larva
of an insect or the corolla OF o flower? Has he never
heard of America. or Africa. or Asia, or Australia.
or India or China, or Alaska, or Genoa. or Vienna
Hail Columbia or Marching Through Georgia?
Julia. or Laura, or Maria. or Isabella ? Did he ever
hear OF Una. or Portia. or ophelia. or Gargantua. or
Sancho Panza- or Cleopatra, or Queen Victoria. or
Charles A. Dana? Does he know nothing OF a Corsi-
can vendetta. or OF the Roman propaganda? Did he
never see an aurora, or hear an opera, or read a
drama. or enjoy an era OF good feeling? Does he
never have to resist inertia or banie insomnia? Does
he never chuckle a mild {" ha, ha!' over some particu-
larry amusing piece OF literary absurdity? Did he
never have a papa or a mamma to teach him to think
before he spoke cor wrote)2
This is n very incomplete survey OF the extensive
vista OF words ending In IA" but 1t Is quite enough
to convince us that this particular one OF Mr.. Rey.
nolds's dicta must have been laid DOWN in a moment
of transient dementia, or intellectual coma at any
renee OF letters. hut of his ability TO handle the
subject = ad saGS ely bis assertion ,sasarat on c r,S,TIn y; iinal "a"
JAMESTOWN, n. Y, Oct. y. L. L. Stems.
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Working the Chicago Associated
Press,

The Republican ratification meeting, held
in Cooper Union on Saturday night, was
described by all the papers in this city,
with a single exception, as n large and en-
thusiastic assemblage. Even papers OPP.
posed to Gen. TRACY spoke of It as equal in
most particulars to the preceding meetings
in favor of GEORGE and Low.
That the World should lie about 1t is not
necessarily a matter Of concern. 1t de-
scribed the occasion as n "frosty night for
Gen. TRACY" the audience as small, and
all enthusiasm as "sternly rebuked." But
what chiefly fixes attention upon the
Worlds account is the prelude that intro.
duces it and which is supplied by the AS
ISOLATED Press" otherwise known as the
Chicago Associated Press. The Worlds
report Is begun with a quotation from this
so-called news agency, in which, after pre-
tending that the attendance was quiet
and Of moderate quantity, it goes on to say I:
"Silence. absolute silence-that was the ono over
shadowing feature of that big audience. No one could
explain It."
While the Chicago Associated Press is
more or less controlled, or rather coerced,
by PULITZER, it is singular to find the
Shiny hands of STONE & LAWSON doing his
~disreputable work in our municipal cam
paign. The incident Is of little conse-
quencc, but it is full of interest for our
subdued contemporaries hcreabouts and for
SToNE& LAwsoN's a~ccomplices everywhere.
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Look at Mr., Low,

This non.partisan campaign Of alleged
superior political purity and ideality in
candidates will go down to history as the
first to produces candidate for Mayor whose
campaign addresses gave to himself the
character not only of a weak wanderer from
the path to public duty marked out by him
self, but the smirch of false and absolutely
unveracious statements. We willnot stopto
consider again Mr.. Lows reputation of
his original refusal to be other than
n unifying force by announcing, as he
did in Brooklyn last Saturday night, that
he did not feel called upon to say in
june what he might do at some later time"
He would have described his policy better
by saying: What l said in June makes no
difference as to what l desire to do in Sep
tembcr." We invite special attention to
thisp passage in the same speech
"The Citizens Union asked me to come to the city
in August and look over the ground and see what I
would 40. The people OF the Citizens Union said TO
me that they were unwilling to confer with any or.
ganiZotion. They had started out upon a definite
straightforward platform making nominations. and
they meant TO do that without conferences with
anybody"
This was not the truth. At the time
when Mr.. Low uttered it the evidence of
its falsity was before Mr.. Low Us it was be-
fore others. The Citizens Union. in one
way or another. had been or was then asso-
ciated, either through the connection of po-
litical alliance or through conference, with
every political organization in the city, bar
ring the Republican party.
Mr.. Low and his party will be put down,
perhaps first, on n certain unfragrant list
of warnings to straightforward men and of
examples for avoidance by every rising gem
Grafton. When you find n seif-styled re-
former whose stock in trade is the COMPARE
son of his own virtues with others faults,
a philanthropist whose benefits are secretly
bound to n thirst for public honors and
advantages. a public man of the smooth and
oily typo known as "Christian statesman
or a particularly unctuous and Sinking
exhorter with the cloak of religion, look
out for him! Honest men revolt from him.
Mothers shudder at the thought of their
boys being like hin.
Yet of such Is the first fruit of the Citi-
zens' Union.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Sfr: On q recent trip
through ohio I was struck with the extraordinary In.
terest exhibited by the silver demasosues and calam.
ity howiers Of that state in the present municipal
contest OF Greater New York.
Are we to strengthen the party of population and
disorder? We must show them that the voters OF this
city. who last year gave such n signal victory to Nc
kinley and kepnblicanism, are today as loyal to the
party Of law aud order and as enthusiastic in its sup
port az they were then. Would the election OF n
'non'partisan'' candidate be a sufficient rebuke ?
Would It. in fact, be q rcbuko at all? And is a re-
buke enough? The voters OF New York will answer
by heartily indorsing the st. Louis platform on Nov. 9.
NEW YORK, Oct. 10. D.S.s.
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A Southern Murwump on Seth Low.

FROM the ifHIHfd Looking GLASS.
Let any doubtcr Of this assertion procure a portrait
of Sir. Low and inspect II carefully. He Will see n
fat and pompous gentleman. with n small, curly mus.
tachc. ;iptiited nostriis, no chin worth talking about.
and eyebrows habitually raised In melancholy dcprc'
cation Of the wickednesso OF tho other fellow. he Is
a prig because God and environment made him 80.
Surrounded as he has been from infancy by sycho'
plants and hatterers. II Is perhaps only natural that
he should bave come to regard himself AS censor OF
the universe. Ie was the logical candidate OF tho
citizens movement, which Is sired by wealthy and
totally Impractical performers" who believe they
have a special mission for purifying New Works. po-
litical atmosphere.
When a Snug and condescendins gentleman Of tho
Low brand bends TO teach tho common. everyday
people how to govern themselves, the common. every
day people are apt 10 resent this attitude AS an i'm
piled anront and to send him back fun OF bitterness
at what h naturally regards as their gross ingratl-
tude. This Will be the fate Of Mr. Low.
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Typographical Errors.

The victim of an amusing error Of the
printer and proofrcader writes this letter
TO our neighbor, the Neu York Times:
"Your issue Of this morning. reporting a meeting I
attended yesterday. says; 'Ilive by my trade and by
politics By correcting to read: 'Ilive by my trade aud
not by politics. and making tho mot conspicuous,
you will do an act Of simple justice. 49,.
"owES j. KISpELos."
This annoying habit Of the Illness types
may explain some things that are other
wise blank mysteries.
For example, on Saturday last the Times
announced the completion of the deal be-
tween the promoters of SETH Low and the
managers of HENRY GEORGE. Here are
some of the statements of the Times:
E"A deal was made yesterday between Ton l.. JOHN
soS. representing HENRY GEORGE. and the candidates
OF the Citizens Union. The result OF the deal
has been to turn the Democratic Alliance and the rep
resentativcs of the Central Labor Union against Mr.
GEORGE. . . . The deal which was put through
yesterday was denounced last night ON all sides by
the former friends OF Mr.. GEORGE in the Democratic
Alliance. The deal between MIR. GEORGES
friends and tho Citizens Union was brought about
through a visit made by Chairman REYNOLDS of tho
Citizens Union to Mr.. JOHNSON. . " Mr.. JOHNSON,
after arranging the deal. left for the Everett House.
. . . Then more OF the deal was learned at tho
ENerctI House. TIMOTHY DAIf d inc Sentrh
Labor Union was among the takers who denounced
the deal the loudest. . . . Mr.. ADAMS considered
the deal as being advantageous to Mr.. GEORGE. and
expected TO get Mr.. Low and Mr.. GEORGE to speak
from the same PLATFORM"
All this under the word "Deal" in the
blacklist of the Times's headline type.
On Sunday morning the Times remarked
editorially:
1.-THE Plat men made q little capital out OF tho
story of a deal between the Citizens Union and
Mr. GEORGES friends. The common sense and the
clearly defined principles OF the Citizens' Union pre-
vented It from making that blunder. II Mr.. GEORGES
supporters vote for tho county nominees of tho
Union 1t will be without invitation. preatrangement.
deal, or conditions Of any kind"
The apparently frigid %impudence and APP
parcntly reckless mendacity of this edi-
torial statement of the Times, right in the
face of its own news columns, has attracted
much attention among the ungodly. Mr..
K~INDELoN's revelation of the chronic
weakness in our neighbours mechanical de-
partment perhaps throws some light on
the matter.
In the passages quoted above announcing.
the deal, insert eight "nots" in the places
from which they were inadvertently
dropped by the printer, and everything be-
comes straightforward, consistent. and
truthful in the Times's u~tterances.
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More Light.

The dicker between the Citizens Union
and the George organization needed but
the letter of the George Chairman, Mr..
WILLIS j.. ABBOTT, to Gen. TRACY, to make
tho relations of the Citizens Union and
the George people to each other, and Of both
to the party of the st. Louis platform, clear
and unmistakable. We quote Mr.. ABBOTT:
at Is a cardinal principle of the Henry George
campaign that no alliance shall be made with the Re-
publican party. Mr.. GEORGE is offered to the voters
of New York as the regular Democratic nominee for
Mayor, nominated by Democrats aud standing upon
O platform which reiterates the code of Democratic
principles formulated at Chicago in July. 1895. Be-
tween him and the Republican party there can be no
honorable alliance, and none has been sought by any
ono authorized to speak for him.
This from the spokesman Of Organism! !
Hostility to the Republican party is a
cardinal principle" Organism will ally
itself with any man or with any idea so
long as it may think itself helped in it's
warfare against the principles of the st.
Louis platform. But is the bitterness of
the George men against the Republicans
less intense han that of the Citizens
Union2 Not a whit. The Republican
party is also the one party with which the
Citizens Union, On the authority of its
candidate, Mr.. Low, would not confer.
And to think that the head of New York's
greatest institution of learning has fallen
into association with these ~incendiary
forces! To think that sober men of large
material interests and responsibilities, pre-
tending to place the greatest public inter-
ests above their own spites and prejudices,
should be unified with HENRY GEORGE in
the attempt to discredit and defeat the
honored representative in New York city
of the principles to which the followers of
HENRY GEORGE VOW destruction!
1t all seems a dream, or a farce; some
thing imaginary or ludicrous. Yet it is
serious business.
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Foreign Notes of Rea, 1ntere,t.

Russia Is sending missionaries TO England to In
struct the people in the doctrines OF the Greek ortho-
dox Church.
OIL Is now used as fuel for the cromer Express on
the Great Eastern Railway. which runs 100 miles at
the rate OF 4s' miles an hour.
Kaiser wilhelm's speeches during tho last two
years MI 1898 closely printed pages in the cheap Ger.
man edition in which they are printed.
Mr.. James Mcneil Whistler, it is asserted. will be
run henceforth by q London syndicate. which will
exhibit and advertise his artistic work.
Capt. Searle OF the Cape Town Highlanders admits
that the head OF Luka Jantje. the rebel chief. was cut
from the dead body by his orders. as he wanted to
preserve It as a curiosity.
A check for e2+5. 500 paid to tho London Custom
House for a cargo of ! 800 tons OF tea is said in Lon.
don 10 be the largest single payment FOR duties ever
made In the worlds history.
Salts OF cinnanlic acid have been used rs 4 remedy
for tuberculosis on 400 patients OF Prof. Landerer OF
stuttgart. From an experience of seven years no
hopes that he has found q lasting cure for the disease.
Queen Victoria recently invited a Glasgow singing
society TO sing TO her at Balmoral. Among tho songs
were " wacs Me for Prince Charlie" "MacGrcgor's
Gathering" " Bonnie Prince Charlie" and "Charlie
Is My Darling
Compulsory education is about to be established
throughout European Russia. the Ministry OF Public
instruction having devised n system which will hs
enforced as soon al the Car approves of It. Only \
per cent. of Russia's population OF 1870. 600, 900 can
read ana write.
Australia seems to have discovered a cure for tho
righteousness peculiar to the Eriton. In hvo years tho
annual number OF writs issued from tho Supreme
Courtof Victoria has sunk from 1000 TO i,432. whilo
from 0.243 to 3.27O a year.
Iadcn, baden. having given up its gambling tables. 10
Offering stringent Sunday laws as an attraction to Wis.
itors. The police stopped two old gentlemen who
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attested, and this nomination has been
heartily and generally commended by in
dependent Democrats. Mr.. FITcH's fitness
for the place is generally acknowledged.
The nominee Of Tammany Hall for Comp.
troller is a resident of Brooklyn.
Enormous material interests are involved
in he project of the enlarged New York,
and the adequate protection of these inter.
ests demands the election of AsuBEL p.
FITCH as Comptroller, a man who will not
compound shortages, compromise dcficien.
cics, or leave uncollected, or make uncol.
lectible, debts due the city of New York.
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The Brooklyn Finances.

The report of the Special Commissioners
of Accounts authorized by act of the last
Legislature to investigate the fiscal affairs
of the Boroughs of Brooklyn, Richmond,
and Queens, to be consolidated with the
city of New York next January, has now
been filed. 1t reveals a condition of things
w~hichdoes not surprise those we'll informed
as to the financial affairs of Brooklyn.
The report, which shows that while on
the LIST of January last the balance of taxes
and assessments due as arrears was So, 714,-
800, according to the accounts of the Regis
ter OF Arrears, the actual balance of ar
rearages on the books of the Comptroller
was $s.415 900. Some of the records of the
towns forming a part of Brooklyn have
been lost; other records are in an imper-
feet and unsatisfactory condition. There
are discrepancies dating back many
years which 1t Is impossible to rec
oncile, and a statement made in an in
terview by Register POWELL. Is by no
means reassuring. These discrepancies, he
says, while they are to be regretted, are not
to be charged to the officials now in Of
fice." 1t is not a matter Of very much impor-
tance, except to the individuals concerned,
to whom discrepancies in public accounts
are chargeable, the essential point being
that they exist and must be provided for.
The shortage in the account of the County
Treasurer's Office is put by the examiners at
$SS, 1870, and it is said that there is a def
lett in the account of the former town of
New Utrecht with the city of Brooklyn.
1t Is to be remembered that some weeks
ago the representatives of various banks,
national, State, and savings, and of trust
and insurance companies, and others
made a vigorous effort to secure the nomi-
nation by both political parties of a New
York man az Comptroller for the enlarged
municipality, with the view of safeguard
ing and protecting the rights and inter
ests of so much of the territory as is in
cluded within the present city of New
York. Though Brooklyn is increas.
Ing in wealth and population with
great rapidity, the assessed valuation of
real estate in this city is three times as
great as in Brooklyn, and the assessed
value OF personal estate is about twenty
times as great in New York as in Brooklyn,
though in respect to population New York
has, officially, less than 100000 inhab.
~itants, whereas Brooklyn has, officially,
more than 100000. The prudence, pro.
priety, and wisdom of choosing a New
York man for Comptroller seemed, under
these circumstances, clear enough, but it
was vigorously resisted by some persons in
Brooklyn for reasons which can only be
Conjectured.
Accordingly, the Republican City Con-
vention which put in nomination Gen.
BENJAMIN Il. TRACY for first Mayor of the
Greater New York nominated for Comp,
trollcr AsHBEL p. FITCH, u public officer
whose loyalty to the cause of honest finance
and a businesslike administration of the
fiscal concerns of the citizens has been well
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From Yesterdays Journal.

. poufT ut.
Tho rescue OF Evangclina Cisneros. which has
moved even London to enthusiasm. might have been
expected to stir even tho CONCEALED blood OF a repre-.
sentative OF the old journalism. but here is the high
minded comment OF the Herald upon 1t:
1t now would seem to be in order for some " enter.
prising" journal to storm Sing Sing Prison and set at
liberty the Hon. John y. Mckanc. That might he "a
bit less romantic than releasing fair prisoners from
distant dungeons. hut II would have "a local touch
that would certainly be most refreshing.
1t Is impossible for all newspapers. any moro than
for nil individuals, to he first. Some must be ahead
or Others. and no discrcdit necessarily attaches to II
position in the rear. But there Is Giscredit In n mean
envy of success gained by superior energy and libcr.
ality. II the Herald objects to making the excrtions
required TO keep n leading position. that Is It's own
affair. but 1t might at least accept gracefully the I'M
ohtrusiye place IL has earned. Sensationai.sm" is
always the cry OF n newspaper TO the rival which
passes it. II means that the newspaper 10 which 1t Is
applied prints the news first.
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An ORGANIZATION w,thou, rr,nc,,,,.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: 1t is painful to all
righteous men to observe such a condition OF arairs
as seems to exist in that small but select and pure
organization known as the National Democratic
party. Here We have the Brooklyn members OF that
organization endeavorlnG TO bring It to the support of
the consecrated candidate. while the New Workers
advocate the Endorsement OF the "yellow dog"
ticket, The ltrooklynitcs are busy accusing the New
Workers of selling ont the organization 10 obtain n
judGeship for Mr.. Scott. W hen. 10 and behold. II trans.
pircd that Mr.. shepard. the lender "r the Brooklyn
ties. Is SLATED" tChief Citizen Reynolds viii pardon
the tcrm) for the Citizons' Union nomination for
President OF the Council. To a man up a tree It looks
as though the members OF the organization could take
their choice between q Tammany.Scott deal and a
Citizens Shepard deal. Truly. such things go far
toward shaking ones faith in human nature.
A SHOCKED PHILOSOPHER.
NEW YoRK. Oct. 2. 1897.