The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-10-14

Saturday night. his first in the ram
plign. was a study.
-Sueh repuic In publls ms,',r, A. haze las been
rained here
True. and l. was glined wholly by de-
n%unciation. OF the most unrcsiHalncd and
unqualified character, Of the two Demo
cratic organization from which he las
accepted the nomination for Mayor.
And his ~d,nunciation was directed chiefly
against the corruption and the
"crime" that diSgraccd "Willpughbv
S,rcot," the party orgln'7ation IN
Broeklvn. Mill and puritanical COM
pared TO Ia nmany.
I'll, charge tina, 70 T. ,l,cvd I shall reverse vhAt
have said aud dom In te oaus Of administrative
reform anu o. the honest ard ercicni government
OF Aaencan cities. l d-cArr - b. fats,
No ~sclf-revcrsal could surpaSs Mr..
~sHEPARD's in agreeing 10 take office al
the hands Of these two political parties.
Tho politician who does that would do
anything.
VII nj In ne future r. di,fsu, from shat I
have bern In ibs pas
"Simplc man" he is different. He IL
the direct contradiction Of the Edwin VI
SHEPARD known TO the public.
-The ntx, Mayor will have absolute power o. dts
nlSSaL Whcn any department, Is corfup, Of inenn'
ern, 90 Oppressive. tr corruption. inefhoicnoy aud
OPPRESSION l.lonr - ,h- Mayor hlmsli
This prc,cncc cf being the hinge and
master of municipal anl'r doesn't sur
PRISE NJ. Nothing sad or done bv Nj.
SHEPARD can o surprise. But II =
rank mrsrcpaes utItio1 Of the facts IN
yolyed in the election. SHEPARD. the
ompol and sclf-sa'ishod M1vor. means
q Tammany man in the citvs Bureau OF
finance. "A Tdmmany President Of b
Aldermen pre- siding ove- "A Tamrntny
Board. Tammany Presd 'nts 81 boroughS,
and a,t and. in the light ot recent rev
elation. the most noticeable. Tammany
control Of the Office Of District Attor-
ney. cvcr the terror or the shrine OF
crime AMI lswlc ssne's.
Il am thu p-mocrauc nouln,e ! am a party
candidate. Has NJ, the time c,me " make Of this
American metrop,Iis a real and fruitful unity
This. from possibly the mos, vociferous
advocate OF municipal non-part4sanship,
will b. likely To make people laugh, more
in contemp, though than in humor.
MT Lows candidacy IS a' partisan as mine
That simply isn't true.
And now m a very monument
among campaign arguments II is
dcs g,ed TO que. the agitation over
the Manhattan pol q manag -ment and
Deputy Police Commissioner Devery IN
particular. which. as 4, involves u burn
inx issue. Mr. Low has declared him
sc,f on in unmis,akable terms:
-Th,rr Is a oousd-rauon witch rrrNdrn, Low
has ovcrlook.d. Tho Constitutional amendment q
iS74 requires the suoo,sSiul oznd.dA,e. bsiurr he may
take ornor. 70 S,l~mnly sWoaf. among oih-f things
tina, he has Contributed no m,nsy ~ valuable thing
as a consideration or r,wstd tot the giving - with
hiding a vote at the el,c,lon al which he wAs
ele-ed W Said onior. and that he has no, mad any
proml~ W inrusnor the giving o. Withholding Of
any such vote
The Constitution Of the State Of New
York IL n great instrument. but when II
Ia invoked rs a cloak for concealing
a candidates policy when in Office either
from his party or from the public. the
only thing that prevents the Constitu-
ton from seeming ridiculous Is the fact
that such a speaker has moi the power
to cast ridicule on IL. IL Is safe from the
attacks OF sophistry like he. Ridiculous,
however. is a word Of too much dignity
20 be applied TO Mr.. SHEPARD's Con
stitutional" argument, or. rather. Con-
stitutional humbug. against announcing
his police policy. II would practically
make all political campaigning moor
stitutional."
Two types Of politicians must see in
Mr.. SHEPARD an entirely sIti sfactory
standard carer. We refer. Of course.
frat to the type represented by MIR
RICHARD CROKER. and secpn ily to that
Of Mr.. GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY, the
latter essentially in manner a, mind
and principe another SHEPARD The
campaign has but three weeks To IN.
We cannot imagine that 10y election dav
the public will find out anyrNiny more
important about Mr.. SHEPARD than he
has revealed Of himself already.