The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-03
SO or roo PREACHERS FOR Low.
Result Of . Postal Gard Canvass BY the
Rev. BrAdln Hamilton.

Squire Cookers good Mr.. Shepard has
been insisting with much emphasis that
the ~clergymen are with him. In proof OF
this he has produced a letter. extracts from
which he has read at a number Of his meet
ings, which was written to him him by a
professor out in Ohio, who was once q
clergyman and who does, In fact, express
his confidence in Mr.. %Shepard's goodness
coupled with the hope that he will win In
the coming election.
In making this letter, however, the basis
for a general statement that the clergy were
practically unanimously with him MIR.
Shepard was i'll advised. II he had taken
pains to get an expression Of opinlon from
tho clergymen Of Greater New York he
would have found a state OF affairs which
probably would have surprised him. The
Rev .sBradin Hamilton of No. 81 East Fifty
eighth street, Manhattan, did make such
an inquiry among the clergymen OF New
York, and the results are interesting.
MIR. Hamilton addressed postal cards TO
100 prominent clergymen In the city OF New
York, asking them the point blank question
II they were going TO vote for Mr.. Low. In
response to these 100 postal card inquiries
he received eighty-six replies. Every one
OF these eighty-six clergymen said with
more or less enthusiastic emphasis that he
wa going TO vote for Mr.. Low. Only IA
out Of the 100 addressed failed to reply,
and the presumption il that they are out
working for Mr.. Low 30 busily that they have
no time to attend TO their correspondence.
Coupled with the inquiry or the postal
card "a to whether the person addressed
was going 70 vote for Low, there was a re-
quest that he Indicate whether or no he
objected TO having his political preference
made public. Tho replies on this point
stance. the Rev. L. Walpole Warren Of 81.
James Church. said
Il am going to vote for Mr.. Low for
Mayor. don't care who knows IT.
The Rev. James V. Chalmers said: Il
I'M going to vote for Mr.. Low along with
$50, 900 others"
The Rev; Charles B.. Chaplin. DID. OF
Hamilton Grange Reformed Church, said:
Il am working for him, praying for him,
and Sunday next l am going 10 preach for
him"
The Rev. Robert J. Iau Of the German
Evangelical Church, PA and 2Is West
T~hirty-fifth street. said: Il intend to vote
for Mr.. Low. | would he ashamed TO vote
any other way even IL | were a Democrat, "
The Rev, II. X, Hulse. the rector Of st.
Mary's Church, Lawrence street, said Il
am going TO vote for Mr.. Low, and ] don't
care who knows H."
The Rev. r. s. Macarthur Of the Fifty
seventh Street Baptist Church, snid: Most
assuredly l intend 10 vote for Mr., Low"
The Rev. George William Knox said: Il
am not "A voter, but a suburbanite. I am
wholly for Mr.. Low, and / write solely that
may not be counted on the other side.
| abhor it
The Rev. George v%andewater said: Il
intend TO vote for Mr.. Low, and you may
publish Il all you want
This vein Of comment ran through n
large percentage OF all the letters received,
and Mr.. HamiltonIs postal card canvass OF
the clergy showed clearly, not only that
they were practically unanimous for Mr..
Low but that they were worked up TO a
high pitch Of enthusiasm for him and were
doing all within their power to elect him.