The daily sentinel., 1899-11-09
GREATER NEW YORK
POWERS BESTOWED UPON ITS MAYOR
WILL BE ALMOST AUTOCRATIC.

POWERS BESTOWED UPON ITS MAYOR
WILL BE ALMOST AUTOCRATlC.
The Annual Running Expexses of the New
Municipality VIII Exceed S75.OOO,OOO
Its Employees VIII Outnumber the
United States Army.
The mayor to be chosen by the hall
million or more electors Of the Greater
New Torh on the first Tuesday of Novem.
ber will be at the head of IA municipality
the annual running expenses of which will
exceed $75, 600, 900, while the roster of its
employees will be larger than that of the
United States army. The term Of the
mayor will be four years, extending until
Jan. /, 1902, or nine months beyond the
present term Of william Mckinley, tho
president of the United States.
The powers of appointment and removal
bestowed upon the next mayor during the
first six months of his term are summary
and sweeping. No municipal officer in
the history of the United States has been
permitted to exercise such powers before,
The mayor, too, will be influential in or
Ranizing the new s1ty government for all
time, many of the details having been left
by the charter makers for determination
and adjustment in the esta blishment and
subdivision of city departments.
The voters Of the enlarged city will be
more in number than have ever participat-
cd in any municipal election in the United
States, and they will be called upon to
elect mayor who, whatever differences @:
opinion may have divided them in the
past, will come before them upon an issue
practically new and all Important to a
successful administration of city affairs.
After Jan. /, 1898, New York will
have, more than ever before, the control
of the financial affairs of the whole coun
try. Whatever question there may have
been of New Yorks supremacy in com
mercial, manufacturing and productive
interests will exist no longer. The Greater
New York will be foremost in all branches
of manufactures, as has been well Illus
trated in the documents published by the
Merchants association. 1t will be clearly
and permanently at the head of all Ameri'
can cities. Long the largest among Amer
ican ports and in the collection of cuStomH
revenues, the enormous and increasing
ooncentraticu and consolidation of Imam
c1al interests here. of TIE interests of rail
road companies, banks, bond and trust
companies, savings banks, benevolent and
fraternal orders, and the life insurance
companies and other institutions, will put
New York so far at the head that there
will be no possibility of rivalry.
For the safeguarding and protection OF
all these interests and of all those who are
represented in them it is imperativ" that
the man chosen AS mayor shall be the rep
resentative and candidate of u political
party of principles justifying the conf
dence of property and civilization. Hap
PLY such n party is now the dominant
political organization in the Union, and
its predominance ut last years election
affords promise that it will be put in pow
er and on guard over these tremendous in
terets0 This is simply the dictate OF com
mon sense The Republican party will
represent law, order and financial security
and honesty against the foes of property,
of law and of commercial stability. The
choice of the people of New York will not
be between two men candidates for mayor,
but between the two parties-two theories
Of government.
On such an issue as this, the only issue
Of the canvass, the party back of candi-
ate is of first Importance. 1t is essential,
moreover, that the nominee shall bo in
full and complete accord with the party
which, on clearly defined platform, puts
him in the field and responsible to that
party York Sun.