The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-29
VOTERS


BENJAMIN F. TRACY, Rcnub,icon-so,d,e
and statesman, one of the founders of tho Re.
publican party and a steadfast and undertaking
supporter OF It's policy and principles: n General
OF distinguished service In tho Union cans, dur.
ing the civil war, a Judge Of our highest tribu.
nal, the Court of Appeals; Secretary OF tho
American Navy during tho Administration OF
benjamin Harrison; ono of the ablest and most
distinguished members of the New York bar;
former United States District Attorney. twice
appointed, for the Eastern District OF New York;
a member Of Assembly in early liro during tho
war session OF 1862; an advocate of the con.
solidation of New York and Brooklyn, and Chair.
man of the Creator New York Charter Com.
mission, which prescribed and arranged tho
conditions under which tho enlarged New York
city will entor upon its existence as such on Jan.
l, 1898; an advocate, an orator. an authority on
municipal law and on municipal government.
u man of unblenished record and entire fitness.
ROBERT A. VAN WICK. Tammany-Judpe
of tho City Court. tho nominee OF a political
organization which supported Bryan and Bryan
ism in the election OF 1896; u Thorough and stead
last organization man, supporting Tammany ut
all times and under all hazards. and chosen
from among other candidates for the Mayoralty
on account of his tested loyalty to the views and
wishes of tho leaders of that organizations;
never before a candidate for any office except
for Judge Of tho City formerly Marine) Court;
defeated in 1881, elected in 1889 and 1895; has
mado no personal canvass; has made no
speeches. and Is not known in connection with
any matters relating to the municipality of Now
York under tho scheme of its enlargement.
SETH LOW, MuRwump and Iowite-IIe be.
gan his career MS a clerk in his fathers tea
house; was admitted into the firm in 1879. tho
business being liquidated in 1883; became a
RnnthttNnr -trs- A. -. E.
In 1878; was Republican candidate for Mayor
OF Brooklyn in 1881; was reelected by n dc.
creased majority in 1888; has held no office and
has been n candidate for no office since; left
the Republican party by sending in his formal
resignation in 1883, and is popularity supposed
to have acted with the Democratic party in all
national elections in which Grover Cleveland
was n candidate; was not put In nomination for
the office OF Mayor BY any party recognized by
the laws of tho State of New York as author
lied to make regular nominations, but Is the
nominee of a number of miscellaneous citi-
zens. or Cts, under whose direction and at
whose expense was prepared n petition" part
ly prepaid, partly fictitious, and in some par
ticulars fraudulent; is supported by some So
%cialists. by the frec.silver "Purroy" organiza-
ton. and b. no recognized members of the Re
publican party; was an unsuccessful candidate
for the Republican nomination at the Carnegie
Hall Convention of Sept. 2S; was there defeated,
polling a small vote; his associate on the Mug
wump ticket for the office OF Comptroller is c.
s. Fairchild, Clcvcland's former Secretary of
the Treasury, and chief supporter of Z. J..
Wheeler. unsuccessful candidate for Governor
Of the State OF New York in the election of
1895, when Levi p. Morton was chosen by a
plurality in excess OF $50. 600. Mr.. Mortom's
vote in the Greater New York at that election
was 26,0OO; Mr.. Whecler's was 10, 800.
HENRY GEORGE "Jeffersonian Democrat"
Writer. agitator and orator, author of Prog
ress and Poverty" and Property and Land;'
has been a sailor, n printer, an ofliccholdcr in
California, a newspaper correspondent, and for
a time a newspaper editor; is an advocate
OF the project for conflscating the value of land
by selling upon the rent OF the same; was the
nominee of the labor organizations for Mayor
OF the present city of New York in 1856,
polling OSLO votes in opposition to the
candidates of the two regular parties, Dem
ocrat and Republican, who polled respect
lively 10000 and sc. 900 votes. many Rcpub-
licnns in that contest voting for the Democratic
nominee. Abram S. Hewitt. as the surest way
Of defeating Horny George; was last year
an ELUSIVE and outspoken advocate OF the cleo
ton Of William J. Bryan. and n vigorous do
fender of the several planks in the Bryan plat.
form; is the nominee OF the various silver or.
CARNATIONS OF the CITY OF Brooklyn and OF the
Peoples party or Populists; is a man of cour.
age and indepcndcncc, a thinker and drcumer;
popular among the workingincn Of the city.
LUCIEN SANIAL, Socialist-Hi is a familiar
name on the Socialist ticket; is opposed to CAPT.
tai: has never been elected; runs to be defeated.
PATRICK J. GLEASON, Independent Demo.
crat-Mayor OF Long Island City, and the most
conspicuous resident OF that part of the Greater
New York; began TO be elected ms Mayor OF Long
Island City in 1856; the symbol of his candi-
dature is an axe; is supported for the enemies he
has made; was one OF tho Greater New York
Charter Commissioners
w. T. WARDWELL. ProhiLitionist-Advo.
Gates q constitutional prohibition against the
use of intoxicating liquors; has frequently run
on the temperance ticket; is nominated to he de-
featcd; is n man of substance pccuniarily, but
is the candidate of the political organization
which is numerically the weakest of all.