New-York tribune., 1901-10-23

sent to Jail and the organization gradually de-
stroyed, Democracy viii have rid itself OF a
fungus that never has been OF any benefit TO It"
POINTS MADE BY MR. LOW.
When Mr.. Haven introduced MI Low the
audience seemed all ready for him. Round after
round OF applause greeted him, and when
finally he got a chance 10 speak he said:
II can stand this sort Of thing as long as you
can Qaughter), provided every cheer means
vote; provided this applause means a deter
rinetion on your part TO get out between now
and election day all the votes on the registra-
tion lists
'I said at the outset Of this campaign, and
say il again, the issue OF this campaign is
Crokerism, and now. after the campaign IS fur
ther along. I say again that the issue is Croker
ism. On the one side is ticket named by
Croker from top TO bottom, is also the county
ticket The ingenuity Of the ablest lawyer is
not able to make any believe that victory
for that ticket Is victory for Croker II that
ticket is elected Mr.. Croker will be able TO re-
turn TO England and say in the eyes of the civil
lied world that the voters Of this great city
actually prefer TO be governed from Vantage
by man who works for his own pocket all the
time, rather than by men in open antagonism
with Croker and all he represents. The contest
IS between Crokerism and those who hate Gro
kerism and want to destroy it. CApplause)
docs the head of the Tammany ticket ever
ask his audience to vote for Mr.. Ladd, the pri-
vate counsel to Mayor Van Wyck and the leo
Trust; for Mr.. Fromme, or for Mr.. Unger,
the counsel for Bissert? The issue is just as
clear and plain it the beginning Of
the campaign. 1t is Crokerisn. II the Tam
many ticket is elected it means that the peo-
pie Of New-York glory in their shame. Every
enjoys political prefernent and money
rightly made. Are you voters prepared to tell
the young men of this city that the only way
TO political preferment and business success is
through Tammany Hall? That is what you will
be saying If you elect the Tammany ticket. Can
you say anything more demoralizing?
Are you men. the husbands. sons and
brothers OF the women of New-York. prepared
tG say on Election Day that the things you
value are such success as has been won by
Richard Croker, and such success as he stands
,or in the political history of New-York. and
in the political annals of this country"
Cries Of mo! No" from all over the vast
hall greeted the question.
DR. ADLERS TRIBUTE To MR.. LOW.
after knowing Seth Low at short range for
thirty years." said Felix Adler. Il declare
1nat what Seth Low says is true. CApplause).
There is in Seth Low uprightness master
ful underlying sense of Justice. II Seth Low
says he believes in non-partisanship, then / be-
lieve that he believes it, and that if he is
elected Mayor shall get il. On the one hand
we see a man with a constituency pledged to re-
form and on the other man who hopes that
after he is elected there will rally around him
a new organization. prefer a bird in the hand
TO one In the bush. For the last two years 1
have been connected with an organization that
aims TO better the immoral conditions on the
lower East Side. When there comes back to my
mind tonight some of those scenes so awful
that no tongue could mention their horribleness
when these scenes come back 10 mind the
phrase OF Mr.. Shepard that he does not claim
immaculate perfection for Tammany Hall seems
almost horrifying. The organization Of Tam
many Hall is not like any other organization in
the world. 1t is unique in its iniquity. Even
If mans head and hands and limbs are sound,
II his heart IS bad, then the whole body is in a
bad way. II New-Yorks civic life is cankered,
the whole city is IN an unsound condition"
Charles V. Fornes and Assemblyman Seymour
occupied the time until Justice Jerome and ex-
Senator Cantor came. The last named were
uproariously received. Mr.. jerome said in part:
Tine days are long now and I'm getting
pretty tired, but I've got lot OF stay in me
yet. (Applause) Mr. Putnam has referred 10
thirty thousand gamblers and their friends,
who il was assumed. in the fusion conference
before ] was nominated would be opposed TO
me / want TO say 10 you here tonight that
those thirty thousand gamblers are not golnG
TO oppose me. The administration OF the analrs
of this city has been so corrupt for the last
two three years that the gamblers ano the
disorderly women can't stand for II any longer.
You can shake the gamblers down pretty often,
and they have been shaken down pretty often
for the benefit of Mr.. DeYery, Mr.. Van
wyck and Mr. Croker's intimate friend,
Frank Farrell but they are going to vote
for me, many Of them, not because they
do not fully expect 10 get what's coming
TO them Qaughter) in case / am elected,
but because they don't want 10 be blackmailed
out of all they've got. Probably there are close
on TO 100000 women in this city who make their
living by plying their peculiar trade Human
Judgment tells that long after our children
and grandchildren are dead and gone this So
called social evil viii continue TO exist Inc
wise man is he who seeks to minimize the evil
OF a lot so hopeless that il makes one shudder
10 think OF it. In this city, where that evil has
grown to an appalling magnitude, We find men
who grow rich in the shame OF those women.
We find policemen taking their money. Prac-
sically none OF the policemen who walk the beats
touch a penny Of il. Few roundsmes touch a
penny of IL. Few sergeants touch penny OF
it-but many captains-very many captains
take that money. When you add to the other
burdens of the poorer people Of the lower East
Side the burdens of blackmail, extortion and
plumber, you add one that they would not be
compelled TO bear If you had done your duty in
the years gone by. The responsibility for the
conditions on the East Side does not rest with
the people there. It rests with you men who
Sit here tonight. (Applause)
BELIEVES IN THE POOR MANS CLUB.
Libraries are a good thing but little cheap.
innocent amusement is better than all the IL
braries Carnegie ever gave to the people. I
have worked ten hours at a lathe at a stretch.
and know what I'm talking about. After you
have worked ten hours at hard labor you don't
want 10 go TO library and read about meta
physics. (Great laughter and applause) You
want 10 light your pipe and drink glass of
beer with your friends, and swap stories and
get little relaxation. CApplause) 1 believe
;n the poor mans club, and believe in having