New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-09-30
WORCESTERSHIRE THE HOPE
PRAISE FOR low FROM MINISTERs-NO
NEED FOR APOLOGY WITH HIM AS
MAYOR, THEY SAY

Many ministers yesterday found occasion 10
comment in their sermons the the political stu
alton in this city. The general hope was that the
fusion OF the reform forces would be real fusion
The nomination OF Mr.. Low for Mayor was praised
and Mr.. Low personally highly spoken Of
The belief expressed that his election would
mean clean. sef-respecting city government
bearing hard on none except lawbreakers. open or
secret-one OF which all the citizens Of New-Nork
could be proud.
The Rev DR. W S. GROVE. in the Church OF the
Eternal Hope-During the last mayoralty cam
paign | said nothing the issue, for felt tnat
I do NOT now feel that the redemption Of our
city is assured. but there is hope MY nope
but for the future OF our Republic. Is the infe-
ciany. to the ,ndependent municipal vote: to the
freedom from partisan dictation IN the manage
trfnsicaily different from national government
They do not deal with the same prooI problems.
should enter into the managenent OF a city
than why II should be thrust into the manas manage
Your Repubiicanisn would not be questioned
president OF college president It should no
more be questioned because you voted Tor
sweryfns Republican. I would have been greatly
pleased TO vote for Democrat; hut am salts
Lew was selected because ne is the man for the
place He has Rsted the RePg6liean ,1s sehib Inc
widest Democratic fear that partnership vii VII
we know him. Few things are certain. espe-
cially in politics-but one OF those few certain
things is that his administration viii be Just
and fair and honorable In which the greatest
good 10 the greatest number will be jealousy
guarded With him Mayor. New-YOrk-
ers will face the world without apology.
The Rev. DR.. GEORGE p ECKMAN. ST. Pau1's
Methodist Episcopal Church-We cannot have
Christian city without the widest diffusion OF
intelligence. Ignorance and religion have no
relations but those Of mutual antagonism. Su-
but religion demands intellectual enlightenment.
The educa ton of the people therefore, Is or
incaculabe Importance A municipality which
does not provide ample facilities for the In
struction of children and youth IS thus far
pagan. and not Christian The company OF
bandits who, under the temporary sanction OF
authority, leave fifty thousand children in this
city without the means Of acquiring common
school education, while they pilage the town
for the munitions of their ungodly warfare, de-
If there were severer count In the indict-
ment against them, this fact ought 70 be sufff-
cient 10 bury them beneath the wrath OF an
aroused populace-
The Rev DR. DONALD SAGE MACKAY. Fifth
Avenue Collegiate Church---The greatest menace
to American life to-day springs not from the
fermenting corruption Of socialism or anarchy,
but from the torpid Indifference OF selfish re-
speetab ty The great causes Of God and
huma nifty" says A modern writer, ARE not de-
feated by the hot assaults of the devil. but by
the slow. crushing giacier.ike mass Of indifer-
by being blown up but By being sat upon. 1t
Is this apathetc temper that IS the real citadel
which every great reform movement must IN
the last event CAPTURE TO attain permanent vic
to-day settled down upon the lees of its selfish
pleasure, that is the real problem of clean gov
eminent, and not the fermertiug masses OF
population in the seething tenement districts.s