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Non-Partisanship Disclosed.

Some persons havc been inclined to doubt
the existence and even the possibility of
municipal non .~partisanship, the principle
or want Of one for which the Hon. SETH
Low and the other great spirits of the Citi-
zens' Union are Hopping about so deliri-
ously. How can there be government
without party in a country governed solely
by means of p~arties1 How can candidates
be nominated and elections held, under the
Constitution OF the State Of New York,
without the aid of partiesa And how can
there be n party without partisanship2
Such questions have the doubters asked, and
they have paused sneeringly for a reply.
The reply has come, and 1t Is crushing,
and leaves the doubters with not more
than two legs to stand III. There can be
and is such a thing as non-partisanship.
The great spirits of the Citizens Union
have proved it. Non.partisanship is the
general name for a miscellany Of deals with
anybody that will deal. Garoos, ship.
wrecked Ship Democrats, followers of the
bold PURnoY. shouters for Henry GEORGE
and the single tax. Thu Citizens Union,
trying to swell itself by means of any and
all additions, is not q political party but a
gang of office brokers.
In short, on. partisanship Is merely a
pompous name for shameless and unprinci-
pied political dickering and huckstering.
What al honor for the head Of Columbia
University to head this motley crew.
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Foreign Notes or Real Interest.

A Notwithstanding cat has taken its station on
the Dent du Midi. in Switzerland, and goes up 9 200
yards with tourists to share their lunch at the TOP.
age purposes has proved a failure. the chlorine OBJ
tained costing twice as much as that procurabie from
chloride OF lime.
A gunboat has made its way thirty miles up the
Atbara River. which flows into the Nile Just above
Berber. being the first steamer that ever foated on iL.
Tho water was unusually high.
Gloucester Cathedral's lady chapel. one OF the finest
specimens OF the perpendicular style of architecture
In England, has been restored and opened to the pub.
lie. after being closed for twenty-five years.
Michaelmas geese take the place OF THANKSGIVING
turkeys In England. but the demand for the birds has
been steadily decreasing for years. Either the taste
FOR goose or tho observance OF gastronomic holidays
is dying out.
Johnny Armstrong. the Border cattle thief VIII,
was han Ied at CaerlanTisS IN 1880 with thirty OF hs
followers, by orier Of King James ". and became the
hero OF II scottish ballad. has had a monuments
erected 10 his memory In Caerlanrigg churchyard.
81. Eanswithe'i relics are publicly exposed ON tina
altar OF the FolkrStone Anglican Church on tia
saints day. rnd after a special service the congrrgt.
tion passes by them, making rcverences. The vicar
declares that this Is not +" alteration" OF the relies.
Her younS man dropped dead Just before the we I.
ding day; the sudden shock kiIIei her mo,ner. h,r
sister died On her way To this funeral, and her lroth,r
then committed suicide. These troubles unset n Iou.
don young woman and she tried 10 drown hersclf
The Magistrate before whom she was brought how.
ever. told her that she had allowed herself 10 gt
into q very morbid state" and had acted very roSb
ishly and childiIhlI.
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EulliT Them Both,

Up to the time OF Gen. TRAcY's nominal
ton the Citizens Union people predicted
with becoming arrogance that the Republi.
can party in New York would be beaten
and would have to yield, abandoning
its own platform and taking theirs with
its candidate. Thanks to the resolution
and party loyalty of the New York Repub.
licans, this prophecy was made nonsense of
and the st. Louis platform was reafiirmed.
Since then these so.called non-partisans
have been predicting Republican defeat at
the polls, some of them pretending to con-
idence in n victory for Low, but most of
them saying glumly and with ever increas-
ing shamefacedness that the winner would
be one of the two factions of Organism,
that is, GEORGE or Tammany.
1t is for the Republican party to make
thisl latter forecast as vain as its prcdeces-
sor. We say that this is for the Repub.
lican party to do, because the Republican
party can do it. New York was a Repub.
lican city in 1895. On the St. Louis plat
form, still the issue of the day, New York
Is still Republican.
Vote for BENJAMIN F. TRACY!
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The Press.
That is why B wins.

The collapse of the Low movement in the
press Of New York and Brooklyn is notice.
able. In New York his only unqualified ad.
vocate is the Times, n Mugwump journal
which harassed the sound money forces
last year by supporting PALMER and BUCK
NER. What feebleness the Mail and Ear-
press is able to exert Is also for Mr.. Low /;
and his other friend, the Tribune, ~insignif-
cant in influence, is more occupied with vent
ing its feelings IN L~AUTERBACH and QUIGG
than in advocating the election of Low.
The q%uerulous auti-American Cuckoo and
brother megalomaniac, the Erening Post,
is for Low, of course.
In Brooklyn Mr.. Low has no advocate at
all. The two Republican papers, the Times
and the Standard Union, from organs of
the sentimental attachment for the Citi.
Zens Union have become fervent in their
Rc~publicanism and are stalwartly sup
porting Gen. TRACY. All that Mr.. Low
gets in Brooklyn is the sops flung to him
from the Brooklyn representative of Cue
kooism, the Democratic Brooklyn Eagle.
Before election the collapse in the Low
vote as figured up at the Citizens Union
headquarters will be far more sweeping
and complete han the collapse of his
support by the press.
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the employment Of labor at the navy yards
was the most important. A new system Of
practical tests Of fitness, founded solely on
the best interests OF the Government, was
introduced, and, although predictions of its
failure were made, 1t endured, and its
effects are visible to this day. In the bust.
ness of supplies and accounts valuable i'm
provements were made.
During these various lubors, which were
"not only far in excess of those Of any
previous administration since the civil
war, but required to a much greater degree
the solution of difficult and intricate prob
lens" the character of the administration
was above reproach. Gen. TRACY YVES able to
say, at the end, that, enormous as had been
the operations of his department, "thcre
has been no suggestion Of scandal or suspi.
cion of jobbcry raised against any person
connected with the establishment"
While this busy work was going on tho
attack at Valparaiso upon the men of the
Baltimore occurred. The mingled vigor
and sound Judgment with which Secretary
TRACY acted at that time, and the ending Of
the incident in the payment of an indcm.
nifty by Chilli, are matters of history.
Such is one chapter of the record Of the
man whom the people of New York can
now place in Office as their Mayor. 1t may
we'll be said that his past is the best guar.
antee of his public services to come.
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be said that he ought to have retained the
headship Of the Liberal party, instead Of
resigning and permitting his place to be
occupied by Lord RosEBERY, who was but
n lukewarm supporter Of home rule, and
who proved unable to hold tho Liberal
party together. With Mr.. GLADSTONE as n
standard. bearer, the Liberals and National.
lists together might rave again secured n
majority in 1905. They certainly could
not have encountered a defeat 30 disastrous
as that which did, in fact, await them.
When, however, the great age and visual
infirmity Of Mr.. GLADSTONE are considered,
he cannot be fairly taxed with disloyalty
to the Irish people, because, after having
twice essaycd to crafty their political de-
sires, he yielded to a natural yearning for
retirement to private life. 1t must nave
been some other incident that Mr.. RED
MoND had in view when he described the
ex.chief of the Liberals rs a traitor to
Ireland.
BY n process of exclusion, we arrive at
the one act in Mr.. GLADsToNE's career
which provoked Mr.. REpMoND's imputa.
ton. A veteran statesman cannot plead
the baby act; he must be presumed to have
forcsecn all the consequences of his deeds.
When, therefore, Mr.. GLADSTONE peremp.
torily exacted the removal of Mr.. PARNELL
from the post of leader of the Irish party,
he must be supposed to have known that
the disruption n intestine warfare of the
Nationalist would ensue, and that the
spectacle, by dismaying the friends of home
rule in England, would prove ruinous to
the Caulp SnCh at nil nvnnfa hna haan
the fatal outcome of the treatment received
by Mr.. PARNELL at Mr.. G~LADsroNE's
hands, and for this reason it is that Mr..
REDMOND describes the ex.leader of the Lib.
erals as 1.-THE man who betrayed Ireland"
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: Can there be .
time when there will be no "bossism ?' Talking
with a Republican inclined to vote for Seth Low, he
gave ~ his reason that member elected to the Leg.
islature consult Platt's wishes. ! startled him by
answering that ! never knew in my residence In Al.
bany when members failed to ask the opinion OF. lead.
ing members OF the party. 1t IL a mistake to suppose
that onicials fail to consider tho opinion, OF their
leaders.
Already there are consultations with Mr.. Low by
his adherents. and the same is true as To Mr.. George.
Leaders are an absolute necessity. Mr.. Plat dors not
lead the Republican party because he wants to; he
does u because tho party wants a loader. and Mr..
P1att Is willing to take the trouble. When the time
comes that we have no political leaders we shall have
a French revolution on hand
II the Republican party fails - put up good men.
rails to conduct the Government efficiently. IL III be
brought TO tho bar OF public opinion and condemned.
To charge 10 with keeping up a trim organization
amounts tn nothing. It wa, It's firm organization that
uliSm last year. The only Grim. l hear charged
against the party Is that II has u leader by the name
OF Plat
Every decent man in the city wants good govern
ment; II Is not the sole wish Of the Citizens Union.
How are we most likely to get II? With an organiza-
ton that stands for good government. sound money,
and general uprightncSs in all the departments. or
with a collection OF men who imagine, or assert. that
they arc the only ones who are virtuous and AL the
rest are bad? A. N. X.
NEW YORK, Oct, 10.
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Tho Wrecker.

Doubt and distrust hang over the mar.
kets and the whole business community.
What causes his sudden reaction from
confidence and buoyancy7
1t is solely the dread of Organism and
Socialism now rampant In the political
campaign in the Greater New York.
Why Is there this alarm7
1t is because SETH Low, a vain and ire
sponsible independent" Is struggling in
all ways to divide disastrously the con-
sentative forces regularly organized to op-
pose Organism and its assault on the Sc.
curity Of property and the stability of
society.
Otherwise, instead Of gloom and depres.
sion we should have light and buoy.
ancy; but SO long as Lows raid against
society, for that is what it is, shall con-
tinue, the anxiety weighing on the markets
will continue also.
SETH Low is the wrecker.
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SUgBEAMS.

True Worst 10 the name of q Maryville. No, drum
mer.
Drought has caused an advance in laundry rates
at jacksonville. XIV.
Six hundred geese were driven through the streets
OF Morganne!d. KY, the other morning on their way
to market.
According to report, q hen belonging to Miss Annie
Green OF Westminster, Nd. died at the age of II years
few days ago.
-Convicts in the penitentiary at Boise, Idaho. have
organized two baseball teams. and are permitted to
play on Saturday afternoons.
Az they put It in Rockland. Me-. Mr.. and Mrs.
Irving Harrington OF Hathorns Point were the re-
cipients of a daughter Thursday night"
-Tacoma's Probate Judge is hard put to It to deter
mine whether a ministers claim against an estate for
$40 for burial services should be allowed.
A breeder of Chestertown. Md. has Q pair OF
golden fawn rabbits with ears that measure Ell
inches from tip to tip and drag on the ground.
A thrifty man of Rockport. Me-. objects to any
invidious differences being drawn from the fact that
he advertises himself rs a dealer in fruit trees and
tombstones.
Goats have brought as high as $50 each In victo.
ria B. c.. the demand for them for packing along the
Klondike trails being 30 great. ono day recently not
q goat could be found in the city.
-Perkinsvile. otherwise known as Hurontown.
Mich, where the Post ONCE was discontinued four
years ago and the last store and saloon was closed
last year. Ia coming back to life so rapidly that prop
erty values have trebled in three months.
"A pious Long Island editor fathers tho story OF q
horse owned by Samuel Webb Of Greenport. which,
after belng hitched up each morning. goes alone to tic
masters store; Lut one day when its shoe was loose
1: went instead to the blacksmith's shop. where Mr..
Webb found 1t.
There Is a COW on the farm OF Charles B. Pearce
OF Montgomery county. Md. that tho milk trust
which the English papers have discovered In this
country ought to acquire without delay. 1t is q two.
year.old heller with an udder as large rs q bushel
basket. and 1t is necessary to milk the animal thrice
daily.
People of BIddeford. Me-, are Of opinion that n
new game has been worked among them. A man
representing himself as the agent of n New York pub.
fishing house went there and hired n youth OF ths
place TO go over the directory with him and point out
the prosperous residents OF Blddeford and Alfred,
Nothing has been heard since OF the book agent, bun
the houses Of several OF the people who were pointed
out as being IN good circumstance have been visited
by thieves.
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Perils or tho Railway Mail Service.
From the Kansas City journal


Tho remarkable number of fatalities among
railway mail clerks in recent wrecks calls fresh
attention to the extreme hazards taken By
these public servants. 1t is claimed by those
who have taken some pains to gather statistics
that the death rate is greater in proportion to
numbers than in actual warfare. This seems
almost incredible, yet 1t is apparent to every
one who investigates that OF all the positions in
the railway. service that of the mail clerk Is
accompanied by the greatest risk. It is gen.
orally supposed that the engineer and fireman
have the most dangerous posts, but they al
ways have at least a moments warning and are
often able to save themselves by jumping.
Active preparations are being made among
the mail clerks to petition Congress for better
protection. Those who have the matter. in
charge are considering various suggestions that
may take the form of recommendations. Ono
reform that will probably be asked is that the
mail coaches be placed after instead OF before
the baggage cars, the through baggage coach.
which is usually unoccupied by bageagemen
while the train Is in motion. to take the place
next the engine, now invariably assigned to tho
mail coach. 1t is also probable that the Gov
eminent will be asked to supply its own cars
and to make them Of steel, and without plat
forms. which facilitate the tclescoping process
and its frightful results.
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That Secretary SHERMAN, in expressing
surprise at Great Britain's refusal to enter tho
seal conference with Russia and Japan, should
nevertheless accept the agreement OF Lord
SALISBURY for n meeting of the British experts
and ours, Is quite natural. Our primary object
is to get England's consent to modifying
the Paris rules. But by these rules
neither Russia nor Japan is now bound. and
in fact neither Russian nor Japanese
pelagic sealcrs hunt around tho Pribylov
Islands. While. therefore, the coming confer
ence with these two powers may be advan-
tageous in a general way, it cannot compare.
apparently. in Importance. with u consultation
which should result in placing adequate ~restric-
tions upon the Victoria scalcrs. 1t would have
been n mistake for Mr.. SHERMAN to decline q
conference with Great Britain because the latter
would not also admit Russia and Japan.
And yet, as affairs have turned out, 1t looks as
IL we might have u case of getting the cart be-
fore the horse. The natural order would be to
receive the reports OF the British and American
experts. and then make these the basis OF action
by all tho nations. But now tho conference
with Russia and Japan seems likely to DO held
first. We may, therefore. soc an effort to retard
the latter and hurry on the other.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SrN-Sfr: ! firmly agree with
You that the election Of Henry George would Ds .
calamity no. only to New York, but also to the couu-
try at large.
Now. what does George stand for' He wants all
taxes on products Of labor, such as buildings. furni-
ture. diamonds. &c, 10 be abolished. Furthermore.
no proposes. In lieu OF this outrage, to levy all taxes
for revenue on the value Of land. Could anything he
more absurd 2 And to mink that labor unions should
indOrse him. For wha.? He tells the latorcrs that
his scheme woul1 stop speculation In land; that I'M
DER lis regime no ono could Bford 10 hold Ian! Idle,
Now granted that this Is all true, what would that
pront the laborinR man. LAborerS don't want lardi
they want work anu It's results.
III George could put HIS scheme into operation.
every landowner In the territory In which his an
archistic and sociallstlc scheme operated would 10
bankrupt. Nice state OF Affairs this.
IIIE BUN Is doing = noble work In exposing such
nonsense. JoHS TAYLOR.
CHICAGO. 00t. 10.
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VICTOR HUGo's masterpiece has been ex.
cludod as a text book from the Girls High
School OF Philadelphia by a committee of the
Board Of Education Of that town. 1t is a some
what curious circumstance that the only mem
Der OF the committee to defend Les Miserablcs'
was the only woman member OF that committee.
On the other hand. n Mr.. RICHARDSON l..
WRIGHT reported that he had read the work
and regarded it as perfectly shocking in regard
to the French side OF life This profound re-
mark is notable only as coming from a Philadcl.
phian supposed to he intelligent enough to be a
member of the Board OF Education. What is the
French sldo OF life" as distinguished from tho
Portuguese side. or the Japanese side. or the
Philadelphia side 7 There are g~risettes as we'll as
JOSEPH PRUDHoMMEs in tho city of WILLIAM
PENN. and there always have been and always
will he such.
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Did Mr.. Gladstone Bctray Ireland I?

1t seems, at first sight, a strange story
which is cabled to us from Dublin. We are
told that Mr.. JOHN L. REDMOND, speaking
at a convention of the Parnellite party held
In that city, referred to Mr.. GLADSTONE as
"the man who betrayed Ireland" When
did the alleged betrayal occur2 What in
cident had Mr.. REDMOND in his mindf
1t Is certain that Mr.. GLADSTONE did not
betray Ireland when, in June. 1886, hekept
the promise made to Mr.. PARNELL and
This proof of good faith cost him the place
OF Prime Minister, alienated many of his
warmestf friends and caused the exclusion of
his party from powerfor six years. Wenow
know, also, since the publication of letters
which passed at the time between Queen
VICTORIA and Lord TENNYsoN, that Mr..
GIADSToNE's unfiinching advocacy of home
rule, after he once became a convert to it.
cost him the favor of his sovereign.
Neither can Mr.. GLADSTONE be accused
OF treachery to Ireland when he returned to
office in 1892. His majority was a small
one; nevertheless, he kept the pledge which
he had made to the Irish Nationalist.
brought in a second Home Rule bill, and,
by the compulsive force of a great person.
ality, drove 1t through the House of Com
mons. 1t was certainly no fault of his that
the House of Lords threw out the measure
by an adverse vote Of ten to one. viii it
be said that, finding himself thwarted by
the hereditary Legislators, he should nave
dissolved Parliament forthwith, and ap-
pealed to the constituencies on the home
rule issue2 Since the disclosure of the
letters above referred to, we can see that
Mr.. GLADSTONE was unable to take re-
course to that e~xpedient, because the Queen
would not have assented TO a dissolution
for the purpose named.
There are only two conceivable grounds
on which Mr.. GLADSTONE can be charged
with a lack Of fidelity to Ireland. 1t may
4
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The Reason Why b Wins.

Our faithful old friend, the Constant
Reader, who is so admirable in his con-
stancy, and SO intelligent and discriminat-
ing In his choice of literature, turns up
this morning with q question artfully
formulated as n bet for declsion:
.To TIRE EprroR OF THE suS-Sfr: VIII you kindly
give your decision as TO the following argument: A
claims that THE Sun is q Democratic newspaper. b
claims that 1t Is Republican. Who wins?
"NEw YORK. Oct. 10. A CONSTANT READER."
b wins, of course.
TIL Democratic party of 1897 is the Dem.
ocratic party of Chicago and of the Bryan
campaign. 1t is the only potent and eff.
cient organization now wearing the name
of Democracy. 1t represents those princi.
pies, those tendencies, and those urposes
in co~ntemporaneous American politics
which THE SUN abhors We have accord.
ingly repudiated its platform and opposed
It's candidates; and we are splitting no
hairs over the venerated name itself.
There is no room for warm blood and no
field for serious effort in the very small
company Of former Democrats who, in CO.
operation with a larger number of Mug
wumps and idolaters, are maintaining the
pretence of Democracy as the best flag I'M
der which to attack the Democracy of the
citadel. This Is the party Of individual
pride and personal comfort, rather than of
definite purpose or truly conservative USE
fulness. 1t counts for precious little in the
situation, and that little counts for bad,
because it is a di~sorganizing influence
wherever it shows itself, and a discourag-
ing. depressing sort of concern, anyway.
However, most of the ~favorite notions and
declared principles of the so.called Nation
al Democrats are as remote from any prac-
tical relation to the duties and issues now
appealing to American patriotism as are
the doctrines of e~soteric thcosophy.
An overruling Providence has decreed
that the Republican party, in the closing
years of the nineteenth century, should
stand for the gold standard, the one-hun.
dred.cent dollar, the honest redemption of
public and private obligations, the preser.
walton of existing institutions against the
assaults of the radicals and the annihila.
tors, the material prosperity Of all our in.
dustrial interests, the American idea in our
foreign affairs, and that national policy of
expansion which is to make the second
hundred years of the existence of this Gov
eminent as wonderful and inspiring story
as has been the first. For all this the Re-
publican party stands, up to date, like a
rock; and for all this, il the Republican
party is not responsible, no party is respon-
sible. While it so stands. and while its
responsibility is such, THE SUN is with it,
heart and soul, in national, State, and mu-
nicipal politics.
That is why B wins.
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signs of the gathering Of a social and polit-
ical storm which will rage long and de-
structively throughout this republic unless
1t Is beaten of now by the combination and
concentration of every conservative social
and political element against it. The I" con
servative rich," under Lows leadership,
are stupidity assisting HENRY GEORGE and
GEORGES radical poor" to destroy the
political party upon which alone orderly
and civilized society in this republic can
depend for the organization requisite for
its successful defence.