The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-01
LOW, VAN WICK OR TRACY ?
PRE-ELECTION STATEMENTS IS-
 SUED LAST EVENING,

Gen. Tracy Appears sanguine-Appeals to nn Lovers of Good Government-Low Sets Forth the Issues and What the Citi-
 zens' Union Stands For--Ex- Mayor Grant Figures Out a Tammany Victory.
 prediction statements were given out tonight:
 election day ask the privilege of ad- dressing few final words to the re-
 publicans. It is a good, safe party to
 stand by. Taking it year by year. place
 by place, candidate by candidate, it is
 the honest, efficient party and you can depend upon it that it will lose nothing
 of it's character in these respects by anything that shall ever do. Remember that you have never vot- ed against your party without coming finally to regret iS The election of
 Cleveland by republican votes caused the people of this country uncountable
 losses. That whole dark period of dem-
 ocratic misrule came about because of
 few thousand well intending repub- licans deserted their party.
 Tn the mayoralty election of a dozen
 years ago, by precisely the same argu-
 ments that are now being used, repub- licans were induced-not many-to elect a democrat. Out oL that election Tam
 many was rehabilitated. Out of Hew- | itt proceeded Croker and the fair prom iseS and misrepresentations which are
 now being employed to draw you from
 the straight path of party loyalty are
 just the ones which were urged upon you then. If you yield to them now you will simply invite history to repeat it. self
 'I shall receive Tuesday, in any event, nine-tenths of the normal repub- llcan strength. MT. Lows vote can by
 no possibility approach the great figure by which the strength of republican principles can be measured in Tues days election. I shall always be a re- | publican, no matter what the result of the election. Would you not rather nave it republican,? The voters who nave not always been identified with | the republican party, but who wish that the new city of New York shall start on it's great destiny creditably but with an honest, efficient and business like administration I have this assurance | that l shall approach the consideration | of every public duty solely from the 1 point of view of the interest and well fare of the citizenship of New York" | Seth Low issued the following: "The issues of the campaign nave been fully | presented and the decision now rests with the voters. The cause which the citizens union represents stands for these things
 Tt stands for local self govern | ment, for government of the city by the people of the city and in the inter- ests of the city. It opposes the govern
 ment of the city by the machinery of party.
 ''2-It stands for the right of the peo-
 pie to nominate their own candidate as well as to vote for them.It opposes the dictation by one man, through his par
 ty machine, of candidates for public
 office irrespective of the popular wishes.
 ''3-It stands for the responsibility of
 public offices to the people and it op-
 poses the claim of the machines to use the government and the city in their own interests.
 "4-The citizens union stands for un- faltering opposition to Tammany. Tam
 many has twice made the name of New York by-word among the cities of the
 world. Only three years ago corruption
 ran riot in the police force; to-day the
 
 Three years ago there We're no recrea-
 tion piers, no small parks in the tene-
 ment house districts, the street were dirty and the city's poor were neglect
 ed. In all of these directions there have
 been marked improvements and the death rate has been greatly reduced. "5-The new charter forbids the city from parting with it's franchises except for limited periods and for adequate considerations. The Citizens union stands for the principle that for every franchise of privileges granted to cor poration or to any individual the city shall receive full and fair compensa- tion.
 "The citizens union stands for the treatment of all matters of public
 policy in a broad and liberal spirit"
 Former Mayor Hugh J. Grant of this city has issued a review of the political situation, in which he says: 'HThe campaign has closed with the issues clearly made on party lines. The democrats have lined up against the re- publicans not only those fighting under the banner of regularity and encum- bered with their legislative record as oppressors of the people of this city, but also those who are fighting under the guise of non-partisans." Ex-Mayor Grant says that the re- publicans will be met with a solid front and that the democratic party strength Is a majority of the full vote and Judge Van Wyck will be elected by a major ity vote.
 Leader Grant says that Judge Van Wyck will receive 240,0O0 votes out of 527, ,000 votes cast.
 Hanged Herself.