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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03
New York's Advertisement.

Tho very fact Of division in the Republi-
can arm that was SO solid n year ago was
an Inspiration and mn incentive To the Bry.
anized Democracy. and they have taken full
advantage OF their opportunity.
The news now goes forth to the world
that the capital of "thc enemy's coun.
try" tho citadc! of the forces mr.
rayed in 1896 against tho repudiators
and the revolutionists, has been cap.
tured by q plurality reversing MoKIN-
LEY's plurality OF twelve months ago.
Tho traitors and their gudgcons may
protest till their throats are sore that this
result has no national Significance. The re-
ply will come back from every point of the
compass, 1--WE have carried New York in
1897; we shall elect n Bryanite Congress
In 1898, and then proceed to elect BRYAN
or some other such as President in 1900"
The wild hurrahs that go up this
morning from every hamlet in the Union
where a dozen Bryanite Democrats or
Populists can DO found, are a sufficient
answer to the misguided or the treacher.
Gus Republicans who have pretended to
believe that municipal issues only were
involved in Yesterdays voting in the
Greater New York.
1.-THE election of Judge VAN WICK as
Mayor of New York." wrote the Bryanite
Senator MALLORY of Florida, on Monday,
will be accepted throughout the country
as an earnest Of victory for the National
Democracy in 1900"
1.-THE election OF VAS VICE." wrote
ALvA ADAMS, tho Bryanitc Governor of
Colorado, 'mcans moro than a Democratic
,.ator, IT, Nn-r, Nx,b II p,n- ta fha ranaoso
Of a National Democratic victory in 1900"
"a rousing majority for VAN WYoK,"
wrote The Bryanitc Governor BLoXuAM of
Florida, "will strengthen Democratic
hopes in every town in the land"
Democratic victory in New York."
wrote CLARK HOWELL of Georgia, Bryan
lite National Committeeman for the Empire
State of the South, twill be an inspiration
to the party in every State in the Union.
Every Democrat in New York, above and
beyond local considerations, will keep in
view the national significance of the re-
suit"
What they were all looking for they lave
nov In fact got. f n"'v
New York obtains a tremendous ad.
vertisement this morning, thanks to
SETH Lows personal ambition, the
folly of his dupes. and the DELHI
crate treachery of those factionists and
malignants who under the guidance of the
Ne1o York Tribune conspired with the
Mugwumps to use Low to break down the
Republican organization in this city and
this State.
They nave turned over the city to Tam
many They have advertised New York to
the world as a new stronghold Of Bryan
ism. They have helped to sound a rallying
call to the regulators and revolutionists
everywhere, and to encourage the forces
arrayed against New York's interests and
the nations interests to activity in the
present and hope for the future.
But they have not elected SETH Low,
and, thank GoD! they AVE not broken
down the Republican party in the Greater
New York.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03
"NEYER," SAID THE WOMAN.
She Would Not show Her Injured Leg TO the
Jury-Lost Her Case.
From the Hamilton Democrat.

From the Hamilton Democrat.
SANDusKy, O.. Oct. 3O.-Sandusky Is the homG
of a woman who would not show her limb to q
jury for So, 900. She brought suit against the
city for So, 900 damages, alleging that she fell
on the sidewalk and injured one OF her limbs
above and below the knee. She dressed tho
injured member herself. She Is Miss Mario Pre-
vonCha. n professional nurse.
When she was placed upon the stand ON
Thursday tho counsel for the city raiseh n point
as to the character of the injury, and insisted
that in order that the jury could better judge
of the facts Miss Prevoncha should exhibit her
injured limb to the jury. ; =priN
"Ncver!" she fairly Kissed. rs she pointed her
finger at the City Prosecutor. 1.-The demand in
monstrOus."
The Prosecutor insisted and quoted authors
ties. and there was n long argument. Tho Judge
finally decided that it would be indicate to cu-
force the demand. and the case went to the jury,
which r. turned n verdict for the city,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03
Even your clutch at the shroud, Mr.. SETH
Low, did not give you the mantle you coveted.

Rcreni, reridi, r%crici, is now the motto
of RICHARD CROKER He anncxes to himself
also the title of Child of Destiny" displacing
all other claimants. Never did Fortune smile
more partially upon any leader in politics Mug
wump for Boss), and don't let his enemies. fierce
or mild, forget 1t.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03

One thing that was apparent to impartial
observers before the election Is clear to every
body now. The only deals in the canvass were
those executed by President SETH Low of
Columbia University and they all ended in the
failure they deserved.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03

With a sizzle and hiss my halo went
out; oh. what woe is this. ! am up the spout.
Exhale most mournful breath. bewailing luck
less SETH. Yc Mugwumps. gather round where
l lie on the ground, and deepest pity show for
the lost, lost Low.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03
where Tho Morsc &. suprrlor.

From the Chicago Record.
- horse Is superior to q wheel. after an"
"ln what way p"
'lf sou run over anybody while riding horseback
you uan blame the horse"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03

In tear-water overshocs stand the Goo
Coos and Garoos, and jim REYNOLDS pours
forth views full OF woe; and over MorninGsidc
clouds hover dark and wide, and fiocks of crows
deride SETH Low.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03

The Whitelaw Reid class of knife bearers
might have saved themselves the ~pretence of
being loyal to the Republican ticket in the EN-.
pire State.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03

The battle axe of the Hon. PATRICK
JERoME GLEASON seems to have had no especial.
ly fine edge on it, nor did tho kumyss on which
he feeds his mighty beard give him speed.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03
tatnI 10 the seoreher,. rrIdc.

From The Chicago DgNy Scrs
"Ive been looking at the chalnlehs bicycle and /
don't see how 1t can possibly become popular"
'Why SOP"
highly gcared or not"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03

A second CLEVELAND CLEVELAND
started by being elected Mayor of his town. not
by being defeated ANONYMOUSLY.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03

The cmergence of the Hon. DAVID BEN
NETT HILL, in some shape or other, must be re-
corded also.
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The Most Perfect Thlnr OF lis Hind.

From the EusninO Post n Monday.
As an organization. In the fullest and best sense OF
the term. the Citizens Union is the most perfect
thing OF the kind now to be found In the city.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03

No more bossism! The Mugwump has
had his way once again. That once is enough.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03

From the Chicago Record.
Kitty thinks Harry doesn't intend to propose"
90 Has he quit visiting her ?'
"No; but no gave her silver name plate for her
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03

Where is the Ridderbund? Away in the
Ewigkeit.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03

1t is a great victory for the Rev. DIR.
PARKHURsT.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03

The statue with the feet Of clay has
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03

" our friends tcho favor as with manuscripts for
publication ,efsh TO hare rejected articles returned.
they must In oil cases sr,d stamps for that purpose.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03

The Hon. GEORGE FRET WILLIAMS of
Massachusetts also ran, as usual.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-04

and memorable one, to an occasion that
is already universally associated with the
patron saint of independence. We love
that statue ior itself; we love its rusty old
exterior, its Clipped surface, its nicks, its
scars, its rugged air of experience in the
wars OF time and weather; and, above all,
we love it for the part it played in our
youthful days, for the influence it wrought
over our holidays of pleasure, for the
American sentiment with which il in
spired our young hearts every time we
paused IN reverence before it. This is the
day of all days on which to pay it our
tardy gratitude, even if we care nothing
for it's broader and more general deserts,
which hope we do care for, and which l
hope we shall proceed shortly to bestow,
as true and grateful Americans, in return
for the blessings of a free land, as well as
simple and grateful San Franciscans in re-
turn for the good it did us when it stood
like a sentinel of peace in the pleasure
gardens of our youth.
The history of the statue has not been
particularly romantic and the inception
and execution of the plans which led TO
its erection in Woodward's Gardens were
even of the most prosaic and unsentI-
mental character. II was only in its SUBJ
sequent association with the people, espe-
cially with the younger Americans, that
it took on its symbolical and picturesque
significance and became in spirit what it
purported to represent IN cold material.
The personality in the statue which be.
came so real and so friendly in the minds
of the children who grew up under its
shades was not laid on with the plaster.
1t grew on with the passing of the human
tides which eddied and flowed around its
foundation, day after day and year after
year.
The close of Woodward Gardens
marked the downfall OF a hero. The hero
was sold for 81 90 at auction along with the
monkeys and the wild asses of Peru. The
doom of the great pleasure ground shad
been foreshadowed by gradual decline
for some years previous to the final col
lapse, but The shock occasioned by the
| actual, irretrievable loss of them
| was sufficient to obscure in the peo-
ple's minds the circumstance that
their friend. the statue patriot and father,
had dropped com pietely out of view. So
remarkabl a metamorphosis-so stupefy-
ing transition from plane of eminent
favor to one of obscure unpreferment-
was at the time too enormous 10 strike
COM prehensibly upon public attention. 1t
has taken US a long while to realize what
happened to us and to remember what
went down in the wreck when the auc-
| tioneer's hammer fell upon our para
disc of youth. And IL is only to-day,
on Fourth of July four years after the
calamity occr rred, that we are introduced
face to face with the situation and shown
a way to correct the injustice of colossal
oversight.
CARROLL CARRINGToN.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-04

part OIL the war, Wnen Lincoln was GAZING
for troops. He lay on his couch in the
rooms at the hotel and could hear plainly
the music ana the drums and the tramp of
the marching feet. Inspired by thess
sounds and the thoughts that came
him of what it all meant, he went to the
table and wrote The Battle Cry OF Free
DOM A few hours afterward a commit
tee waited upon him with request that
he furnish it with a song TO be sung at a
NEE ting that evening. The one which be
had just written was gladly accepted,
learned and sung, and its popularity has
never lessened since that night"
"The last time that he was in London"
his daugh went on, "it was found that
his songs filled twenty-four pages of the
catalogue in the British Museum. The
whole of the civilized world seems to have
appreciated him." she added.
What was his last published song2"
"'Our Flag He was at work just be.
fore his death on the final chorus of a
cantata which has not been published.
Shall we publish it? Oh, yes, eventually"
she said.
"My father had a very sweet voice.
she went on after a pause He used to
Wrlte olS SouHS duO tueu sing tuSHl 20 my
mother and those of the children who
were at home. l can remember hearing
him sing them over and over again and
we never got tired of them. Home has
never been the same since he died. His
death, which occurred in August, 1895,
was so sudden and was an awful shock to
US all.
HE seemed in the best OF health, hale
and hearty. Although he was 70 years Of
age he id not look it. Why, he used to
romp with us until we got 100 dignifed,
| or thought we were. His death occurred
at Bailey Island, near Portland, Me. You
can't imagine how many friends he had.
.'There were six OF US in the family be-
sides my mothers children, you know.
Nearly all OF them are doing well for
themselves now. l am .he only one on
the stage"
Mr. Roots eldest daughter. Clara Louise
Burnham, is we'll known in literary circles
in the East, and her writings have been
| widely read both East and West. Besides
other york she has written one novel OF
more than ordinary noe, "The Wise
Woman" which was published about two
years ago and was an instantaneous suc-
cess.
As a family the Roots are carrying for
ward the fame of the name which George
Frederick Root, the distinguished head
thereof, so ably grounded in the history
OF our country. JEAN MORRIS.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-04

:Out in Golden Gate Park there stands
an elaborate statue OF baseball PLAYER.
1t is surrounded by flowers and bright
green foliage, and it is harmoniously out
lined against background of lawn and
shruhbery which blends into whole pic
ture, with the baseball-player as the CEN
terpiece.
Out on Mission street, in the back yard
OF tenement-house, stands statue OF
George Wa Shington. 1t is the only statue
OF George Washington extant in this part
OF the country. Carved on the front OF
- The pedestal are these words: First in
war, first in peace and first in the hearts
of his countrymen." In tenement's
back yard it stands surrounded by high b
board fence, over which the weather
beaten head of il looms like grim specter
offorgotten days-a startling, shuddery,
= chilling reminder as it breaks suddenly
upon the sight of unsuspecting patriots
- travelling up and down Mission street,
. lost in business distractions And out in
e: Golden Gate Park, where people congre-
gate when the cares OF business may be
laid aside, stands the statue of the base
:. ball player. recommended to the gaze of
W
: for patriotism's sake.
Trees and flowers and a lawn for the
athlete; rubbish and dirt and boarded
up dumping ground for the pc triot.
r. 1t would seem that in this most lefined
and enlightened age the advantage of
being first in war. first in peace and first
: in the hearts of ones countrymen is n OF
p. a clearly discernib bic TO the naked eye as
ii used to be. The compensations for i'm
=. mortslizing oneself on the baseball field
= have multiplied to the extent of EN- brac-
= ing certain spectacular rewards which a
o.. mere patriot, in the course of his long
! career in the hearts of his countrymen,
!; after he is dead, is likely to miss.
Men, WON and children who used to
=. flock so enthusiastically to Woodward IS
!: Gardens seldom proceeded far past the
! main entrance 10 that eIysium of pleasure
:.Wtthout an involuntary pause before the
commanding figure of General Washing
: ton. 1t reared its grand proportions
d: across our path like sentinel barricading
:: iiie road to any unseemly indulgences. Il
:: " as the father of our pleasure ground in
:feace, as its living original was the father
. OF our country in war. and it exercised a
=. pdtent influence over those who passed
':.uiider. its paternal shadows on the way to
recreation, even as the living father him.
self welded an influence over these who
rassed under his directing eye on the way
10 battle.
Who does not remember the great statue
with fondest veneration and pride? With
whom does not the recollection OF its
. finely nodded countenance and The cAryen
: dignity OF its ample form still li1ger as
the dearest picture OF Washington we
have ever seen? Associated as it is
with some OF the brlgh test intervals In
our life, linked inseparably with our child
hood conception of the weekly holiday,
al the head and front of which it stood as
a benignant gateman welcoming US into
the gardens of its domain, it EN- mbodies
something more than a statue OF a great
man. Any statue OF Washington ought
10 he revered and taken care of-this one
ought to be mounted on high hill over
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-04

Washington's head peering al him over
the top of high-boar fence surrounding
Mission-street residence lot makes him a
sick American.
| rise on this Fourth of July, in the
year of our American independence one
hundred and twenty-one (openlng my
shocked eyes and uncovering my panied
ears for the purpose). 10 propose the
fortnight removal of the WASHINGTON
statue from it's present ignominious quar- :
ters We may save the honor of the day,
serious impairment of which is threatened
by the foregoing deplorable circum stance,
by devoting an hour out OF the twenty
four to solemn and diligent planning for
surcease of the circumstance henceforth
forever. Choose the hour at light, an it
please ye, and do your planning while
lying awake on your piIlow-a preceding,
by the way, which greatly promotes
thought-but do not fail to do it at some
hour ere the sun rises on another day.
Fourth of July in San Francisco may be
made 10 wear double significance in
future, I Eating from to-day. The recama-
tion of the famous old statue of Washing
ton would add a great local Importance,
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-04

The elevator hurried me up toward the
roof the Baldwin Hotel, stopped sud-
denly, and l passed out into the puzzling
hall and peered bIindly at the white doors
in a vain search for the numb Der OF the
right room. l found 1t at last by the aid
of the boy who had taken my card up.
She received me very graciously, al
though I must have stared curlously
One doesn't often have The opportunity
OF looking at close range at such great
mans daughter.
Yes" she said, 81 am Grace Root"
She motioned me to char and, seat
ing herself contem plated me Tor awhile.
You are the daughter of George Fred
erick Root, the author OF The Battle Cry
OF Freedom, are you not?" said.
She nodded her head.
Probably not one anniversary of our II.
dependence day has passed without our
having heard or sung one or more of the
stirringly patriotic songs Of George Fred
erick Root. They are sung in the public
schools regularly Dy thousands OF sweet
voiced children all over the land and at
every public-spirited meeting which has
as an incentive the love OF country.
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" THE Battle
Cry of Freedom" The Vacant Chair"
and Just Before the Battle, Mother" are
all so we'll known TO the citizens of this
land that even reference to them almost
sets US all TO singing.
This daughter of his happens to be in
San Francisco on this Fourth of July,
Il rough her connection with the Lyceum
Theater Company, which is play ing an ell
gagement here.
sion long?" L asked.
Not very long," she replied. II de-
termined TO adopt it only a year and a
hals ago. Last tall-the early fall OF
1861 was engaged by Mr.. Fro man in
New York This is my first trip out 10
this coast, OF course
"And you enjoy it?
Eyes, indeedI'' she exclaimed. But il
is very different from Maine-that was
my home, you know. My father would
have been inspired by the sight of your
wonderful hills TO have written far greater
things than he did, ;" she said.
could he have done that?'
perhaps not in way, she replied.
oh am very proud OF him."
Nv mich is the most popular of all his
songs?" | asked.
"'The Battle Cry OF Freedom" she an
swered quickly. 1T was strange-the
way he came to write that. l mean. l
have often heard him tell of it. He was
In Chicago, and it was during the heaviest
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-04

looking the people of to-day laboring in
their maturity whom it watched over
years ago playing in their infancy, and it
ought to be looked up to by them now
with a reverence infinitely greater every
time they go out into the sunshine of
free American city.
Shall we leave Washington in the back
yard? On this Fourth of July the fire.
crackers are popping on the sidewalk by
the high-board fence. The commemora-
tion OF the day in 1776. which Washngto ton
made glorious in the history of the world,
is trans spring amid the cracking of the
paper torpedo and the booming of the
miniature cannon. The smoke from the
cannon and the sulphurous haze from the
torpedoes are being carried by the Mis-
sion winds in clouds about the gray stone
head and are settling upon it and clinging
to it as mute expressions OF that patriotic
ardor among the people which is evoked
by recollection of the occasion bequeathed
to them by the statues own immortal
dead. Itself the star image and the ideal
token of Am merican independence, what
would be the sensations of the statue if it
ould feel when touched by the smoke of
crackers fired in honor of that same Amer
lean independence, coupled with the con-
sciousness of it's own position in the back
yard of an obscure tenement-house
Ugh! 1t makes an American shut his ewes
and stop up his ears. To hear all this cele-
brating going on and then 10 see George
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-04
MISS GRACE ROOT.

Daughter of George Frederick Root the musical composer
Miss Root is in San Francisco with the Lyceum
Theater Company of which she has been member for
two An interesting interview upon her fathers
work is here given
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-04
GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT,

Composer of The Battle Cry of Freedom Rally Round
Flag Boys Tramp, Tramp Tramp, the Boys Are Marching
and many other famous patriotic songs His youngest daughter
San Francisco interview with accompanies
this sketch.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-04
MRS. CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM.

Another distinguished member of the Root family Mrs.
Bunham is the author of The Wise Woman" and other
famous novels, and is widely known in American literary
circles She is the oldest of family of six notable children
of notable