New-York tribune., 1901-10-18
CIRCUIT HITS VAN WICK.
OR KEATING is IN LEAGUE WITH
ASPHALT TRUST.

ASPHALT TRUST.
Camp Seth Low, at Seventh-ave. and One
| hundred-and-twen -ffth-st. was crowded full
of men and women interested in the cause of
good municipal government last evening be-
fore the time for the advertised campaign meet
ing to begin, and when Seth Low arrived at
the meeting hundreds of Harlem's good citi-
zens were trying in vain to gain standing room
near the big tent. Mr. Low and General Anson
G. McCook, who presided at the meeting, were
let in through a gateway in One-hundred-and-
twenty-sixth-st.. and the large audience made
the tent shake in applaudng Mr. Low when he
appeared on the platform.
In a brief address General McCook tore to
shreds the Tammany campaign declaration that
Mr. Low was partisan Republican candidate
When he introduced Mr.. Low there was loud
applause followed by respectful silence on the
part of the audience when Mr.. Low said i'm
pressivey
Standing in this camp which now bears my name
and remembering that only one year ago II pore
the honOred of William Mckinley L feel al
most as if l were standing on hallowed ground
May the inspiration of his life lead me, ana may
his benedicton rest upon our cause!
Continuing. Mr. Low declared that the fusion
movement for good city government. and
for the rescue of the city from the hands OF men
who had used the power of government TO dis
grace it. He declared that the rule of the city
by q person VINO spent most OF MS lllIS SapiOAN
was hateful and intolerable. Imagine William
Mckinley trying to govern the United States of
America from Vantage he said The Ameri-
can people would not submit to such a govern
ment for a minute. and the people of New-York
will have themselves to blame If they continue
TO submit to it."
Speaking of the many ways in which Crokers
method of working for his pocket all the time
when he in politics went down the line
all +Ia Of ha q
ernment Mr.. Low said in part:
To-day heard one of the bootbacks in the city
say that he was o9sed to Gnr51e 6d m0aey none m TO @ d
not steal and did not permit men he APPOINTED to
office TO steal from the city. but that he compelled
part of their salaries. Offcers in this city have
those in power. %nother way is to he admitted
into corporations which expect TO do business with
s!oner was indicted on the charge that no business
man could sell supplies to the Fire Department ex-
True the indictment has been dismissed but not
@ G ifs se we ma ndr H3Ps"n S'Tny nd Tcce
surprised that persons who have failed in business
missioner lays off hundreds OF men in the summer
and puts them on when election time draws near.
of the city so as to make political leaders rich
Charles V Fornes, the fusion candidate for
President of the Board of Aldermen. followed
Mr.. Low, and there were other speakers at the
meeting.
said proved that either Mayor Van Wyck or his
Commissioner of Highways was in league with
the Asphalt Trust. In taking the book of sta
tistics out of his pocket he brought out with 1t
one OF the suppressed Kings County Democratic
campaign books.
"It is political play, Called Back by Rich
ard Croker" said Mr. Grout. i've read it, I
don't know whether it's a burlesque or a
tragedy" Uaughter)
Mr.. Grout went TO say that the admin
istration of this city and the administration
OF Tammany Hall not Democratic because
Democracy meant the rule Of the people
'"Tammany Hall is not the Democratic party"
said he because it is business corporation,
a organization for taking the peoples money
and putting 1t into the pockets Of favored dis
trict leaders,"
After Mr. Grout's speech the announcement
was made that Justice Jerome was coming. and
the crowd waited When he came in he was
loudly cheered. Mr.. Jerome began by saying
that an expression among the police and Grim
inal classes OF this city was being shaken
down for an extra" He said that il meant that
the proprietor was putting up something more
than the usual tariff because of an emergency.
Tonight / feel that have been shaken down
for an extra" he added. Il wasn't scheduled
for Camp Seth Low"
The speaker said Mr.. Shepard had been
traitor to the reform forces. He also denounced
Mayor Van Wyck, declaring that he unfit
to be a candidate for the Supreme Court bench.
justice jerome CrltCiSed Justice O(Ornnan-
He referred TO Devery and his possible retire
ment.
Heaven knows | not anxious to keep
him from retiring" said Mr.. jerome. In spite
of the writ of prohibition that Mr.. Justice
O'Gorman-and that's queer thing, too-it
takes him over two weeks to decide whether I
ought to hear that not. 1t took Justice
Lacombe Of the United States Court only a day
to decide to dismiss the writ in the Bissert case"
No vote for good government can he spared
November ,, IL that
to vote in the municipal election is secured