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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-23

In Heavens namo what has Bryanism In do
with this municipal contest 2-Mr. Ei6u Root al Car.
neOie Hall.
Organism has this to do with tho New York
election, and the Now York election has this to
do with Organism,
First, two representatives of Organism, VAN
WYcK of Tammany Hall and HENRY GEORGE,
arc running as candidates for Mayor.
Secondly, there are substantially no NUM-
cipal issues in tho canvass. Tho only issues
actually in sight are those denoted by the st.
Louis and Chicago platforms. and MIR. SETH
Lows personal issue about his own election.
Thirdly, throughout the length and breadth
Of this democratic and happily united country
tho millions OF believers in party government
are looking toward tho contest for Mayor OF
New York as incomparably the most important
election of the year in its bearing upon the
political progress OF the country. The partisans
OF the st. Louis platform lament and resent tho
Citizens Unions declaration of neutrality to.
ward Organism. and partisans OF the Chicago
platform chuckle ovcr 1t as a heaven.scnt aid to
their otherwise hopeless cause.
Fourthly. the defeat of the Republican candi.
date here would be a shock to every commercial
interest connected with New York.
Organism and tho election In the Greater
New York have q great deal to do with each
other, and let not Republicans forget It'll
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-23
Tho FaIse-Pretonce Petition.

To THE EDITOR OF THE srS-Sfr: In looking over
the report OF a Seth Low meeting in this mornings
issue l found that Mr.. Low said: II stand before you
as the representative OF l25. 600 people" This
caused me to reflect and question Just 20 what extent
that Is now true. Ny signature is among the 1876. 900.
but It was given without any idea that 1t was to DO
used in an attempt to destroy the power OF the Re.
publican party. and because 1t has been so used my
signature does not now count among that number;
not that ! love Seth Low less. but because love tho
Republican party more. To my mind princii les arc
OF more Importance than ndividual men. a. was well
illustrated in the recent disastrous administration Of
Grover Cleveland.
! am well pleased to take my stand In the Rcpubli.
can party. and that includes the machinery of the
party. / am reminded OF an utterauce by the late
Henry Ward Beecher. who was addressing a meeting
OF irresolute and wavering Republicans. With char
acteristic energy he closed his g hortation TO the I'M
decided. and thrilled them with his farcarrying voice
rs he exclaimed. with splendid emphasis:
"Stand In the line!"
ROBERT sMEAToS. 537 First street.
BROOKLYN. Oct. 30.
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spain's Reply to the woodford Note.

According to a telegram from Madrid,
the Spanish Government has prepared a
reply to the note presented by Gen. WooD-
FoRD on behalfo of the United States. That
note set forth, it will be remembered, that
American citizens have large financial and
commercial interests dependent on the
restoration of tranquility and prosperity in
Cuba, and requested the Spanish Minister
for Foreign Affairs to designate the tim
when such restoration might be looked for.
The reply, we learn, virtually asserts that
1t Is not for Spain but for the United States
to fix the date for the suppression of the
Cuban rebellion, for the reason tina the
insurrectionists are only enabled to main
tain their ground through the help af-
forded by flibustering expeditions which
escape from American ports.
Spain cannot thus shift upon our shout
ders the responsibility for the prolongation
of war in Cuba and for the devastation of
the island. The facts show that we have
used due diligence in the performance of
the duties prescribed by international law.
In pursuance of those duties, the most
stringent orders have been issued to our
revenue officers at every port of entry on
the Atlantic or the Gull of Mexico. These
orders have been faithfully and punctually
obeyed. Not only has there been no trace
OF completely in flibustering projects on
the part of our Government or its agents,
but the measures taken to defeat such
projects have been remarkably efficient and
successful. Out of eighty attempts to send
to Cuba vessels laden with munitions of
war, no fewer than thirty have been
foiled. On the other hand, the Span
ish navy, which, with its innumerable
gunboats, processes to keep every mile of
the Cuban coast necessarily patrolled, has
proved unable to capture one.tenth of the
expeditions which have managed to evade
the vigilance of our officials. We could
not lawfully be expected to protect Spain
better than she protects herself yet such
excess Of activity on her behalf we ave
actually displayed.
In its determination not to give Spain
any cause of complaint, our Government
has left unheeded the dictates of equity
which bade US consider the victims of
unparalleled barbarity; it has turned
a deaf ear to the appeals of Ameri-
can citizens, who cannot witness without
sympathy the struggle of a neighboring
people to be free it has thus far refused
to follow the precedents set by an earlier
Administration at the time of the re.
volt a the Spanish colonies In Gen.
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Come All and Help.

Likening the present situation in New
York to that of 1894, when Col. STRONG
WAS chosen Mayor, as the Low men are
doing, denotes very dull appreciation or
very wilful neglect of what has happened
between times.
Since 1894 the Democracy has been
changed from n party Of conservatism n
support of American institutions to an
incendiary and radical organization that
to-day threatens the credit and the law of
the land, and even civilization itself. No
American believer in the principles of
THOMAS JEFFERSON can any longer think
of the transfer of the national Government
or of any important political centre from
the Republicans to the Democrats with
equanimity, or, indeed, without the very
gravest anxiety.
Even II 1t had been the rule, therefore,
which 1t has not been, that the Republican
party should not nominate its own distinc-
tive candidate for Mayor of this city, or
even II 1t had been the intention of the last
Constitutional Convention, which it was
not, that the Republican organization here
should not nominate it's own candidates for
Mayor, it would have been the duty of the
Republicans at this crisis to brush aside
all precedent, and behind the Mayoralty
candidate chosen to represent them and the
st. Louis platform, to carry on the fight
against Organism with energy equal to
the tremendous outpouring for MCKINLEY.
Will any believers in the st. Louis plat
form or any sober-minded citizens of New
York not help in electing the admirable
candidate so chosen, BENJAMIN +. TRACY3
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The real foe is Tammany Hall.-setA Lo,o. at
Curnrufs HAN

The real foe is Tammany Hall.-Seth Lo,r, at
Carnegie Hall.
What impudent humbugl SETH Low, who
became the candidate Of an organization that
invited members of any national party
whatever" who signifed his desire to DO a
"unifying force among the friends of good gov
rnment.' and then had himself nominated by
an organization that conferred with every other
group it could lay its hands on except the Re-
publicans. and who since nomination, together
with his friends, has been mainly occupied with
denouncing the regular anti.Tammany Repub-
lican party for not nominating him. and with
traducing its honored candidate! Fog him to as
sert hostility to Tammany Hall Is p~retence Of
the falsest kind.
Vote for that regular enemy of Tammany
Hall, that honest man, whose words have al
ways the ring of truth instead OF tho hollow dis
cord of insincerity, BENJAMIN +. TRACY
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A Caracas paper publishes an incredible
report about tho Hon. HAzEN 8. PINGREE of
Michigan and the Isle Of Barataria. The re-
port Is that the Governor Of Barataria and
Michigan has visited Venezuela for the pur-
pose of examining certain gold fields and as
phalt mines. Now, everybody who knows the
Governor knows that he detests gold. "If 1
owned all tho gold in the world" he says.
~ would keep 1t. / would not allow
1t to benumb the circulation OF the
human race any longer. Silver Is good and
leather is good, but gold Is the worst enemy,
except hve.cent street railway fares. that ciyili-
cation has over had" Nor does he care for
asphalt. In Barataria, where he now rules abb
%solutely. the streets are paved with tho eye-
teeth of capitalists. monopolists, directors Of
corporations, and believers in the gold standard.
"The only cheap and durable paving for a free
country" says the Boss of Barataria.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-23

The Hon. WILLIAM LYsoNG STRONG, full
Of tobacco and emotion, looks with an
aggrieved eye at the Administration. The
conduct of a Republican Administration
interested in the Republican candidate for
Mayor of this country's virtual capital
pains the Hon. WILLIAM LYsoNG STRONG
inexpressibly.
The sensitiveness of an unselfsh spirit,
however much encouraged by the tobacco
eating habit, is a touching thing to see. If
the Republican Convention had nominated
Mayor STRONG instead of Gen. TRACY, no
doubt the former would have appealed to
the Administration not to support him.
1t is interesting to know that the flavor
of sour grapes car be communicated to
chewing-tobacco.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-23
The contrast between the old frieatc Con.

The contrast between the old frigatc Con-
s~titution and the big modern armorclads Iowa,
Massachusetts, Brooklyn, Now York. and Texas.
that visited Boston harbor to honor her hun
dredth anniversary, must have been most Inn
pressive. But though even in her best days she
could have been sunk with a single shot from
one OF the big guns they carry, she has a record
OF glory which they have yet to earn. What we
may hope and believe is that, In our navy of to-
day, there are worthy successors of HULL,
B~ALNBRIDGE, STEWART. and the sailors that
gave to the Constitution her immortal renown.
Now that this famous centenarian has passed
the anniversary of her launching. we trust that
she will continue to he cared for, with the single
purpose of preserving her as long as possible to
postcrity. as q monument OF heroic days.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-23
Canada and India.

1t seems at first a little difficult to
imagine how there could be any commu-
nifty of political thought between Canada
and India; but there is such, and it is
proved by the indisputable fact that more
than one Indian editor and publisher is at
this momcnt undergoing penal servitude
for expressing in his newspaper approval
of political ideas received from Canada.
The editor Of the Islampur MahrGni has
received the sentence of penal servitude
for life, and his publisher that of seven
years. The editor of the RambhOW of the
same place has been sentenced to q long
period Of similar punishment, as also the
editor of the SAHARA PratOda. The offence
Of these men has been that they wrote and
published articles similar to that repro
duced in THE SUN of Oct. 10, comparing
the freedom of Canada with the miserable
condition of their own country.
Early in the year tho Canadian indie
pe%ndence Club of Montreal drew up and
sent to leading Indian politicians u reso-
luton of sympathy with the Indian people
in their sutferings from famine and plague,
expressing the opinion that the people Of
India could not expect prosperity so long
as they remained dependents of an alien
rule. This address seems to have touched
a responsive chord in the minds of many
to whom 1t was sent. and drew out ex-
pressions of approval from many parts
of India, with the result that tho writer's
have been hailed before the English tri-
bunals in India and punished with unex-
ampled severity. 1t is to be remarked that
while Mr.. GANGUDHAR TILAK of Poona
received only eighteen months imprison.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-23

The strike ut the university in Sioux
Falls, s. D.. deserves the thoughtful considcra-
tlon of students Of education. Tho undergrad
yates Of the Sioux Falls institution walked out
In a body" as is the fashion Of strikers in less
learned folds Of labor, and gave notice that they
would not return until the President of the col.
lego was removed. They want to have q new
foreman, 80 to speak,, and to lock out the present
one; and they are determined to keep vacation
until the locking out has been done. Should
this application Of the strike succeed 1t will be
initiated In other colleges, and severe or surly
professors will be obliged to mend their habits
or depart from their chairs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-23

Harper's MuOdzine for November offers a list
of contributions by wellknownw writer's. Mr.. Richard
Harding Davis tells about his experiences with the
Greek Soldier;' Mr.. Howclls has a short story. "A
Pair OF Patient Lovers" Sir. William Mcl.ennan's
spanish John" 10 continued, aud Mr.. Stockton's
"GreAt Stone OF sArdis' 10 ended. Mr.. James Barnes
tells OF the annexed district, under the nanlc OF Tho
City to the North OF Town. Frederic Bennington
has . characteristic story with characteristic pictures;
Toru Hoshi describes the new Japan; there are CON
t%ributions by George Wharton Edwards. Henry
Smith Williams, and Carl schurz, short stories by
Ruth Underhiil and Willis Boyd Allen. aud poems
and "otheE things' 10 make Al interesting number.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-23

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN must DO given
credit for one thing. IMPROVISATION Iress.
Our esteemed contemporary in tho Oneida
Reservation owes an apology to LINpLEY
MURRAY and to Mr.. BRYAN. To the gram.
marian for taking English syntax by the wind
pipe; to the gifted Nebraska peripatetic for as
sorting or implying that no wants or will take
credit. The sale Of speeches for half the gate
money has already made Mr.. BRYAN a good
deal Of a plutocrat. Besides. he scorns credit.
The word suggests its dreadful congener, Trust,
q name more abhorred than gold.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-23
In the Nursery.

To THE EDITOR OF Tax suS-Sir: The Low canvass
having now assumed Its proper dignity In the nursery,
the good nurse Choato has come out with Mother
Goose rhymes for the good little boys who. as often
happens. think they know more than their fathers.
God bless the dear little things There Is another lit.
tie ditty that Mother Goose srnds to the +" Cts and
she hopes that, while sucking their thumbs, they will
realize the truth OF the forecast:
Hey diddle, diddle, Seth Low and his nddlei
Van Wyck jumped over the moon;
And Henry George laughed to see such great sport.
While Tracy ran on with tho spoon.
Your devoted grandmother. MOTHER GOOSE.
OCT. 2n.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-23

The Richmond Dispatch declares that
Virginia sis done with histories that treat US as
rebels and traitors" Tho Richmond Times
AYERS that the South Carolina Board OF Educa-
tion has sent out a number of questions to
BIO put to applicants for toachers' certih-
Gates. one OF which is as follows: What was
the real cause OF tho rebellion in 1861 I"
AS South Carolina was for many years
a great many degrees warmer than Virginia
in defence OF the constitutional right OF seces-
sion, this use of the word Rebellion" by a
South Carolina Board of Education must be
surprising and painful to the Virginian assault
ants OF yankee" histories OF the civil war.
Doubtless the Richmond Dfspdtch and the
other warriors against the Yankee" war his
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-23

The report of tho Secretary of the Spir-
ituallsts' Association reveals the fact that the
Spiritualists have been lighting ecclesiastic
control Of tho Government" This "ecclesias-
tic" control would seem to be sufficiently airy
and impalpable an antagonist for tho members
OF the Spiritualists' Association to fight, and in
fighting 1t they are sure of tho valuable CO.
operation Of such mighty men of valor as
HENRY w. BLAIR and JUSTIN d. FULTON,
curious but unresting allies.
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tories will demonstrate with the South Caro-
llnians. Would 1t not DO a sound plan to bring
in the initiative and referendum to decide all
vexod questions Of historyi Surely not merely
every State, but every county, town, and hum
drod ought to have tho right and opportunity to
determine at least once overy year what shall
DO accepted as history during the next twelve
months.
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u our friends ,Dho favor US Nth manuscripts for
publication irish 10 haze rejected articles returned,
they must IN all cases send stamps for that purpose.
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we'll that all men who are opposed to the
confiscation of private property should real
lie betimes the mischicvous Significance of
such q fusion.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-12
THE MILITARY VIMyY.

Commander A. T. M2hCn contribute IS
to Harpers, under the title of "A Twen-
tieth Century Outlook" an analysis of
conditions, past and prospective, which
might, with a considerable degree of
propriety. have been called "a Plea for
Martial Glory" 1t is difficult without
doing violence to Mr. Mahon's logic, to
give, in half dozen sentences, the con-
illusions OF a somewhat involved and
rather extended magazine article; but
the salient points may, perhaps, thus
best be brought out. The dominant
note of the next century, as foreshad-
owed in tendencies already apparent,
Mr. Mahon believes, is tc be expan-
SIGN; a revival of the spirit of colonial
development which marked the close of
the eighteenth century will usher in
the twentieth. AS a result of this
movement, the buffer states which have
interposed to prevent clash between
opposing factions will be occupied by
the one side or the other; and, in direct
contact, conflicting powers will stand
at bay. Eastern and Western civiliza-
ton, in a word. are to come together.
and, in Mr. Mahon's view. the great
question of the coming century is to be
which of the two will control the des-
TIMES of the world.
While a believer in universal peace
as theory, the naval officer does not
regard it as either desirable or prac-
ticable reality A general disarming
now, with all International questions
submitted to an artificial tribunal, its
powers resting upon a forced rather
than a real amity Of nations, will, he
argues, leave the Western world at a
disadvantage when the clash comes
with the advancing Orient Militar-
ism, as it exists among the powers CT
Europe, he does not attempt to defend
entire. but its strong points are en-
phasized and its weaknesses, to say
nothing Of its positive evils, are passed
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-12

of it's intense and venomous hatred of
st. Paul. 1t has repeated, in almost
every article that it has published on
this question, some such statement as
the following: 1.-THE st. Paul press has
from the first manifested no sympathy
with home interests in this connection;
but, Influenced by the notion that
Georgia marble would make hand
somer building than Minnesota mate
rial, and therefore greater ornament
to st. Paul, has been willing to see
home interests sacrificed and a heavy
blow struck at one of the great re-
sources of the state"
Speaking for ourselves, we are oblig-
ed to characterize this statement as a
plain, ordinary, everyday, fat-footed
lie. From the very beginning the
G L o has urged the use Of domestic
stone in the construction of the state
capitol. 1t has not based it's position
upon any. foolish theory of protecting"
Minnesota industries, but upon the
broad, general proposition that the rep
resentative building of the state should
be representative also of the resources
of the state. We have gone so far in
this direction as to express emphatical-
ly our approval of the sentiment that,
if Minnesota had no other native ma
terial than yellow brick or wood, then
it would be better to use those than to
go elsewhere This has been the
G o e S position, and it has never
varied from 1t a hairs breadth. The
capitol commission having decided con-
trary to our own view, we, knowing
them to be thoroughly honorable and
conscientious men, who have given this
subject careful study for months, and
have stated frankly and fully the rea-
sons for their action. yielded, as good
citizens everywhere have done, to their
conclusions.
The idea of gauging the propriety of
the use of one material or another by
the effect that the new building would
have as San ornament to St Paul. has
never suggested itself to anything but
a Minneapolis mind. There is no other
place small enough for it's home. We
believe now that far more injury will
be done to the state and all its inter
ests by this tempest in a teapot that
the Journal is so diligently fomenting,
by dragging the question into the
courts and piling UP opinions and de-
cisions and injunctons and getting
ourselves involved in an inextricable
quarrel, than by sending to South At
RIGA for material, if necessary.
We do not expect the Journal to be
able to see that it is the state and its
people who must suffer either from an
excess Of the appropriation they have
agreed to, or from delaying the COM
pletion OF the new capitol for years. To
st. Paul it cann"t make a penny's
worth of difference what conclusion is
reached. But there are papers in st.
Paul that are capable of taking pub
lie view of things aside from their rela-
ton either to their city or 20 MinneaD-
oils The Journal shows itself to be as
incapable of that as it is of telling the
truth where the interests that it cham
pions would be assisted by falsehood.
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over with lightest touch. The greater
the degree Of military advancement
today, it is urged, the greater will be
the potential power of Europe and
America to resist overthrow, independ-
ent of conditions that may then exist,
when the struggle for supremacy
comes.
To a man trained in the profession OF
arms-an author as we'll whose liter
airy fame rests largely on the history
of a naval hero-Commander Mahans
position is the one most TO be expected,
and the argument he offers is striking
in it's force. Admitting his contention
that there must somt day be a battle
to the death between the East and the
West, it is easy to see that the West
may find use for all it's military train
ing. But while this may be true Of
arbitration in general, the logic does
not apply with equal force to the two
great Anglo-Saxon nations, as the
writer would imply. 1t may be granted
that if the time does comes when the
West must fight for life, England and
America must bear the brunt of the
struggle; and then it does not appear
that the two prospective defenders are
to gain anything by practicing on each
other in the meantime.
The popular ideal Of the past has
been military power, tempered With the
mercy and justice of Il Christian civil
cation 1t is probably true that such
an ideal is the one that most people
have in mind today and that it will
continue to hold it's place in the dawn
of the coming era. There are many,
however, who will dispute Commander
Mahan's assertion that the century
about to be born will offer nothing bet
ter than the one now fastening to its
end. Justice and mercy are hardly to
be bettered as constituent factors in an
ideal, and might is not to be eliminated
while finite nature remains human; but
many who read the signs Of the times
believe that the keynote of the next
century will be peace and not war, that
force will be called in as arbiter as
last resource and not as a first eXpedi-
ent. By these it is expected that the
fighting of the twentieth century will
be done not by those who can but by
those who must, nor will they admit
that refusal to do battle for trivial
things will be followed by inability to
defend the right when necessity calls.