The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-11-12
TlkhlHI HILL is
It IS 1T PRESENT
Just Now the Tiger
Is Especially
Active.
HOWEVER, THE FIGHT is LOSING ONE
COMBINATIONS AGAINST THE
OLD RING VERY
STRONG.
HOWEVER, THE FIGHT IS LOSING ONE
Even Old Democrats Have Forsaken
the Ring-Predieted that a BEST
Mans" Ticket VIII Win in New
York-Fisht Now On.

Special Correspondence OF The Re
publican.
/ NEW YORK, Oct. 2S.-The last
week Of the bitterest and most vicious
campaign in the recollection of old
politicians opens with a swing. New
York adds to its two main objects in
life-making money and enjoying
what money can bring-a third inter
est that for the time is almost as alb
sorbing as the others.
Every man and woman in New
York seems to be talking politics and
thinking about politics The minis
tiers preach it from the pulpits; wo-
| mems organizations stir up the femi-
nine population, and they raised from
their pin money $4,000 to put into
the fight against vice; in all clubs,
cafes and hotel corridors politics is
the dominant theme; newspapers de
vote to it all the columns they can
spare from the fall advertising.
| The people who think and the peo-
/ pie who read are thus moved to active
! participation in the greatest crusade
| against vice. dishonesty and misrule
that New York has ever experienced
The masses are drawn into the
rushing political current by methods
suitable. The town is plastered with
posters inveighing against one party
/ praising the other, while hundreds of
great Illuminated banners swing
| across the streets. cartoons and We
neer adorn dead walls and fill the ad-
vertising spaces in the street cars
J Tammany gets out a paraphrase of
| the illustrated advertisement of
| "Spotless town" and on the theme of
"Spotter town" represents the re-
! formers shopping around after trou
bic and derides them in rhyme The
| fusionists come back with a series
entitled Spotted town." in which the
alleged abuses in municipal affairs
are depicted in a way that he Who
runs may read.
| .Tammany swings banners quoting
Andrew Carnegie as praising the
New York city government. The fu-
| sionists display one telling that Car
negie gave New York institutions So
100000 and tiled it up so Tammany
could not handle a. cent" adding that
Carnegie knew his business"
Flashing electric signs bring out
incandescent legends against the
night sky line and spell such ques-
tons as Tammany's shall we give
Tom Plat this town." On every
prominent corner in the Tenderloin
the Tammany carttail spellbinders
hold forth from the store box and cab
upon the beauties of a liberal city
government" and depicting the nor.
rors of ''puritanisms" as threatened by
the reformers. Tammany says New
York is prosperous under its man
agement and claims prosperity as q
battle cry. The Republicans retort
that Tammany is the creature of the
trusts. Thus two favorite campaign
slogans are put to unusual usages.
Every public hall in New York's East
Side is engaged for campaign speak
ers this week and more prominent
public gathering places down town
will be the scenes of great meetings
which famous men will address.
The campaign has entered upon the
vicious stage. The Republican and
Fusionist speakers use 6enunciation
| and are loud in their charges of fraud
and dishonesty. The Tammanyites get
back with brick bats and stones in the
4
and literally silence the speakers in
long popular and primitive way. 1t
seemed few days ago that there was
nothing more to be said in the cam
paign. but each day opens up new pos
sibilities OF elimination. and recrim-
nation
| 1t Is assumed. of course. that the
readers of The Republican know what
the trouble is all about. Broadly stat
ed. it is campaign of Republicans
and anti-Tammany Democrats to take
the control of the City OF New York
from Tammany. upon the ground that
the Democratic officials have been
guilty Of mismanagement and OF every
municipal crime in the category.
The Mayor and a number of city OF
heials are to be elected. The fight
after the mayorality. centers upon the
Office OF District Attorney Assocfat
ed with the mayorality contest IS the
struggle for the control OF the police
department in order 70 reach the vice
in the red-light district
A fusion ticket composed of Demo
Gratis and Republicans has been nomf
mated The two most prominent neE
on 1t are Seth Low. candidate f0I
mayor. Republican. and William T
Jerome. democrat. candidate for Dis
trics Attorney. The Tarnmany eands
date for Mayor Is Edward d. Shepard
The fusion ticket has been Endorsed
by 6 number of political factions TIE
ticket viii appear on the Official balio'
three times-in the regular RepnbH
can column. in 4 Democratic column
/ arsa ~ fho f-fffrc,ef TTrfrn column
Thus the voter who Is = stickler fo.
regularity can support the reform
ticket By voting the regular Repn6h
can ticket or the Greater New Tori
Democracy. n he Is souFed On botl
parties he can vote the Citizens
Union ticket. which Is an organization
designed to take in all the inde
pendent political elements In