The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-06


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Fierce as has been the suns battle ON
MI. Low, II has boon fie;csr on Mr, Low
friends, tho cltiz In the .atf0,.u Of
the union are the words, "os ths peot le.
Tor the people, by the people, Tho sun
mas ridiculed the Union ~ every ccmbipa-
ton OF words 1t could fabrica.o These
are some OF It's refsrsacas to the union
and its leaders; 'squaks.9 "Sun.piicus
boys. "goo-goos, dear children"
youthful politicians" petty pc.iticians"
+ 'soro heads ''cranks," babies" fools.
"ddacks," angels" '.humburs ire.
quentere Of kindergartens." sewing cir
cies victims OF deplorable aberration,''
given to folly and inanity." 'prigs, for
p tsrya ana BY priss." an esoteric mys-
Of humbugs,' "cits." ''spanguiiikens.''
self-styied better element" "political
salvation army" and "megaphone politi-
cal salyationists." II has charged that the
union is simply the quntessence of boss
Ism instead OF liberty from bossism. And
II has charged many things besides.
Among those other things the Sun has
said that the fight following Lows nom
NATION, no matter what else it might
mean. would mean the complete destruc-
tion OF Seth Low. But all opinions do
not agree with this one. There are some
who believe that Mr.. Low can be elected
Without Thomas Collier Plat and the re-
publican organization. Many good poll
ucians sa. that II the Plat organization
does not indorse Mr.. Low the certain re-
suit will be the election of the Tammuny
candidate. with Low good second and
the regular republican candidate poor
third. II overtures are to be made they
must be made by Plat and his friends
The citizens can not bulge from their dec
araton of principles, which denounces the
republican machine quite as stoutly as tie
democratic. Platt and his lieutenant
Lemuel Il. Quigg, have fought with as
much strength as they could summon
against Mr.. Low and his nomination How
far they can hold out, or will, Is matter
Tor the future to determine. But the work
OF these gentlemen and the announcement
Of the Sun that II Mr.. Low accept the
nomination he will be dragging Columbia
university into the mre of politics have
not acted as brake on the Citizens
union. President Low Is the nominee. and
that is all there Is about It.
1t is not to be wondered at that Tam
many. with all this falling out is laugh
Ing in its sleeve. Tammany Is maturing
its plans to seize the city and at once
make the glad boast that the hosts o. free
silver have risen and carried the day And
1t is Tanimany that is TIE thorn In the
rose of citizen and republican alike.
Seth Low. the man about whose held
are flying oil the envenomed arrows OF
political strife, is quiet, solid man whose
name has ever been associated with edu-
cation and with reform in politics. His
life has been enc of successes. His man
agement of the great Columbia University
has made that institution dream city,
with future assured that surpasses the
fancy. His beginnings were humble. He
is now only AZ years old. but his yersatil-
ity lis SO great as TO lead one to believe
that he has lived three lives. Until seven
years ago he was never regarded 5s a
scholar. Now peorle know him to be a
man of the widest culture, with as keen
an appreciation of learning ana as thor
ough an understanding OF educational
forces as any man in America. Out OF
his brain has arisen a school that is the
marvel of the East.
He was educated in the institution OF
which he is now the head. Then he wen.
into his fathers store in Brooklyn and
mastered the details of its business so well
that in four years he was made Its man
ager. He began to be interested in poll
tics as a boy. At 30 years OF age he was
the leading republican in Brooklyn. A
year after the election OF Garfield, In which
he was quite active, he ran for the mayor
atty of Brooklyn The bosses fought him
with IN industry Of which political bosses
alone are capable. But he was elected.
His rule in Brooklyn was of the kind that
is especially pleasing to the good citizen.
He served two terms and retired. But
he had shattered political ring that had
dragged the city down for many a year
Mr.. Low is interested IN industrial ie-
form, in the elevation and ameioration Of
labor and long before he thought OF poll
tics he was an active agent OF siich re-
forms. He opposed himself to the high
tariff platform on which Harrison and
Morton ran, and resigned from the repub-
lican association OF which he was mem
Der. Last year he supported Mckinley.
and was open in his condemnation of the
platform advocated at Chicago Mr.. Low
is very popular with union worklngmen
They will know hereabouts that he has
friends among the PEOPLE before tho tale
is all told.