The courier., 1901-11-16
OBSERVATIONS
BY SARAH B. HARRIS

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greed. Rich and poor united to inttu-
ence men who never voted anything
but the democratic ticket, to vote
against Tammany. This republican and
democratic fusion success in an over
wheImingly democratic city is due to
the aroused Indignation and hatred Of
the men and women of New York. A
large majority Of the people love honor
and decency. Most OF the people are
honest and their regard for integrity
OverbalanceS party affiliations \
democrats love for his party and its
principles is tenacious in the extreme.
but a fortnight ago thirty thousand
democrats in New York renounCed
their lifelong preference for demo-
cratic candidates in order to rebuke
the most infamous political Organiza-
ton in the world. The spectacle is a
credit to the citizenship Of New York.
If nOn-partisan citizenship can be or
ganized into a body with correlated
functions while it has the chance Un-
der Lows administration. Tammany
will stay beaten. Otherwise Tammanys
retirement from power will be only
temporary.
Seth Low
An opinion of MayOr-elect Low by a
former chancellor Of the Nebraska
university, Mr.. James H. Garfield, ap-
pears in the current number of the
Review of Reviews I
The Roosevelt type is repeated in Mr.
Low. Direct, scholarly, forcible. able.
with executive and political ability. the
latest evolution of American culture
and the strenuous life is of a quality
and even Of a frequency which should
convince Americans especially of the
truths of evolution and of the certain
Improvement of political conditions.
Mr.. Low is fifty years old but he has
the vigor and the enthusiasms of a.
young man.
Mr.. Garfield expresses his entire be-
lief in the new creed that citizens are{
partners in the business of running
city. He says that THE newer and
clearer and more practical thought in
public affairs is that any unit of civic
life is nothing more or less than a bus
iness corporation, a very practical and
successful cooperative scheme, A
city charter and its accompanying or
dinances are a necessary expansion
and enlargement of the constitution
and bylaws of every four-corners de-
batting club or high school literary
society or labor union, since each
simply determines the ways and means
of best accomplishing the objects of
the organization For moral
than twenty years Mr. Low has stood
squarely and insistently and unselfsh-
Iy and fearlessly for this theory of 3
business principles and non-partisan
methods IN local affairs" Dur-
ing his mayoralty the public affairs of !
Brooklyn became as though they were 4
MS own private business, and as far
as possible were administered upon
precisely the same basis. He tried to
save money for the people precisely
as he would have tried to make money
for himself. He regarded taxes maid
by citizens as a definite investment
for definite purpose and he was as
eager to realize upon the investment
as though it had been made by or for
a corporation of which he was a direc-
Tor or the president He made char
acter and efficiency the sole test for
appointment to public service and the
sole assurance of continued tenure
He carried municipal administration
TO the highest nnint Of ofini. -