The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-26
Reform AND THE OFFICES

The nomination of Seth Low as the
anti-Tammany candidate for mayor of
Greater New York has already been an
ticipated. During the entire past sum-
mer and spring the movement has been
in active progress looking to the con-
centration of all opposing elements in the
| effort to put Tammany Hall out of the
! control of the offices. At the outset the
reformers sought to have their mission
regarded as a purely spontaneous popu-
lar movement for the moral publication
of the community; but of late all pre-
| tense of that sort of thing has been
! cast aside, and it is apparent beyond all
thought of serious concealment that
what the reformers are after is the Of
fees.
| The movement which President Low is
the nominal head of is stated to be a
purely non-partisan undertaking. That
claim is as little likely to deceive any
| one as the moral publication idea. 1t is
only non-partfsan in so far as it is a
negative movement. Partisan considera-
tons controlled in It's organization. Par
| tisan considerations stood In its path
from the beginning; and all the fuss
which has prevailed during the past few
months was the outcome of the effort to
| adjust partisan claims.
The men who are named with Seth Low
on the ticket have no great significance
They are the products solely of the eff
fort at personal and partisan reconcile
ment. The committee which decided on
| their names showed in the way in which
it did it's work In certain directions that
| it's appeal was not to the intelligence or
conscience of the community but rather
| to unreasoning political prejudice. The
| platform outlined by that committee re-
| veals much. 1t is a shifty and essen
| TALLY dishonest document, filled with po-
litical bombast and addressed largely to
class interests.
The class which does not believe in
| closed saloons on Sunday has the follow
! ing platform sop thrown to it, which,
when squeezed gives forth what in the
| language of the vulgar is denominated
| gulf
(2( The liberation of the innocent Gus
| toms and habits of our cosmopolitan
| population by rational laws and regula-
items assuring the largest measure of
| personal liberty consistent with the main
1 t6DanCG OF law and order
| The class represented by organized
labor is handed the following oracular
ufterance to convince it of the great
| gain which is sure to come to It's mem
| bers by the overthrow of Tammany: =
| f3) The conservation of the interests
| of capital and labor by an equal enforce
ment Of laws and the enactment of such
new measures as the welfare of the toll
| Ing masses may require.
The 'toiling masses have had many
a political fake rung in on them in their
day: but is it not doubtful whether a
more absurd play was ever before made
for their support than this!
The thoughtful reader who has read
that platform will probably give the
prize for sheer demagogism and untruth
to the following miserable appeal en-
| bodied in that platform:
(D The extirpation of the police black
mail iniquity and of the system of po-
l1tieal lobbery, maintained in the inter
eSts of the Tammany boss, wi1o though
q foreign resident, and British tax
| payer, yet rules the city of New York
by virtue of his control of Tammany
Hall.
If this means anything at all in it's
statement of alleged facts, it means that
the entire system of hlackmail and ex-
tortfon which these gentlemen claim is
maintained by Tammany Hall is main
tanned for the personal gain of Croker,
who, because he, from considerations af-
fecting his health or personal comfort,
thinks proper to live a portion of each
year abroad, Is referred to as ga Foreign
resident and British taxpayer" IF
there ever were anything In any plat
form more distinctively degrading and
the shameless imputation which is cast
on the good name of man whom not
all the assaults of his political enemies
have resulted in showing has ever han
died dishonesty a dollar of public
money.
Prof. Lows friends may be able to
elect him mayor; but if ever they do,
he can never get away from the impu-
tation that he reached the much coveted
Office be seeks through the agency of a
political blackmail as unconcealed and
unworthy as any blackmail ever charged
against Tamrnany, and as the result of
campaign of personal defamation and
| shameless falsehood.
| The English in South Africa have lost
| Dewet again. If he would only stay lost.
| ha rojCht he voted a nauSion