Evening journal., 1901-11-02

a special to the Baltimore Sun thus
describes the great campaign in progress
in New York city:
The campign in New York city is
both fierce and comic 1t is serious to a
degree that no campaign has been before
for years, yet the method of it is
grotesque almost to the point of comedy.
The opposing organizations are making
faces at one another, calling names and
drawing ugly pictures with abusive
things written under them, as small chill
dren sometimes do on their states ot
school. Some of the things said and done
seem too absurd to be meant. vet it is
really no jokins business. Bitterness
of feeling has reached a point where
rational argument fails to express the ex-
isting sentiment.
The issue lies close TO the people. for it
is that of good government but it would
bewilder the wise to determine how any
thing good could come of an outlook
as black as it Is painted in case either
side should win. The leading candidate
of each organization is recognized as
man of integrity. "reformer" and sit
lzen of high standing and dignity Sern
Low and Edward NJ. Shepard are men of
character. Yet the campaign is one of
comic valentine. cartoon and epithet.
Each party seems to be trying to outdo
the other i'm tha which is grotesque.
The whole excited city is crying
Catch THEIR and each party is pointing
to the other and shouting You are the
Onc.'
Posters on buildings, in windows and
on numherless wagons moving about the
streets declare. ON the one hand. that
New York is the best-governed city in
the world. giving charcoal sketches rep
resenting business activity and work on
public improvements: and on the other
hand declaring that New York is a law
less city. full of corruption and vice, gov
erned by system OF loot and backmail
this, too, Illustrated with grotesque pic
lures of Croker, Devery and figures sym
bolical of Tammany.
RESTRAINTS OF SUNDAY LICENSE
One Of the Tammany posters repre-
sents "A lank sharp-nOsed Puritan. with Il
staff in one hand and "A bell in the other.
clearing the streets and driving the peO-
pie to church ON Sunday. Another rep
resents old Father Knickerbocker pillor-
led with both feet and hands in the
stocks. for taking a glass of beer on sun
day. Under each is a warning that this
is what will happen TO the good people of
New York il Low is elected
One large anti-Tammany banner
swung across broadway bears this in
scriptlOn:
The issue: Chou shalt not stealr'
\ Tammany banner is inscribed:
The issue: "Shall we give this city to
Boss PlattW
Verses of various sorts and Mother
Goose melodies paraphrased figure con-
spicuously in The campaign. The Citi-
zens' Union plays this upon the name
of Shepard:
AN oyster lav on "a rivers bank.
The ooze was thick and the mud was
rank.
And II hid its face as it deeper sank
For twas put to shame by Shepard.
More mute than an oyster did Shepard
keep.
And he, like the oyster. is sinking deep
In Tammany mud. with his own black
sheep
Sheen that has led their Shepard!
Oh. what is an oyster without cook
And what is a graveyard without ii
spOOky
And what is Shepard without a
crook
Or crooks without a Shepard.
The City Niclance League has a
"do0ger" representing Devery with one
shoulder bare and branded with crow
on the back of dog marked eur and
inscribed Our Own Tammany Hall