The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-02
GREAT FIGHT IN N. Y.
COMING MUNICIPAL CAMPAIGN DIS
CUSSED BY NEW
YORKER
PLATT WOULD MAKE PEACE
Seth Low Not an Ideal Candidate
Chances Favor Tammany-
Campaign to BE a Wig
OrOus One.

THE coming municipal campaign in
New York city will be the most holly
contested fight ever seen in the Empire
State" says Albert V. Weber, a well
Known and representative New Yorker,
who is stopping at the Ryan hotel. Il
observe the sentiment of the Western
press is that Plat is not sincere in his
advocacy of Lows candidacy. The gem
eral impression in New York city is that
he is in earnest. Not that he takes
more kindly to the idea of Mayor Low
now than he did four years ago; but
Platt feels the need of squaring himself.
While not generally known on the out
side, it is fact that the result of the
last municipal fight in Greater New York
hurt Plat far more than he realized or
anticipated, and this, combined with his
opposition to Roosevelt, engendered much
bitterness against him among the best
element of the Republican party of the
city. Platt has been made to feel this,
and the final triumph of Roosevelt has
forced him into a position where he can
no longer maintain his attitude of de-
1iant independence. He is forced to make
peace with his own party and his sin
cerity is on trial in the coming cam
paign, but his election is by no means
thusiaStic and able than in the last cam
baign, but his election is by no means
an assured thing. Many good Republt-
cans realize that Seth Low, able as he
is, is not an ideal candidate. Should the
Democrats nominate strong, clean cam
didate, like Bird Coler, or man of his
type, Low would lose the support of an
element in the Republican party almost
essential to his success. Low, while be-
ing eager to accept the assistance of
practical politicians, is not willing, or was
not in the last campaign, to make any
concessions whatever to them in the
event of his election. There is feeling
among many that after all Low is a silk
stocking.
Mayor Scherin, of Brooklyn, would
have been a stronger candidate. 1t is
not likely that the Democrats will nom
mate Coler. His attitude toward Tam
many has not been such as to commend
him to their support. His nomination
would be tacit acknowledgment that
Tammany feared the result of the COM
ing fight To predict the result of the
campaign at this time is absolutely i'm
possible. Just now the feeling against
the Tammany police department is very
bitter. Devery has been the last straw
with many who have heretofore support
ed the Democratic ticket. With but two
candidates the election would be exceed
ingly close, with the chances somewhat
in favor of the Democrats. If a third
candidate is named the Republicans will
have no show whatever.
Business conditions in the East are
capital just now. Every branch of in
dustry is booming, and gigantic enter
prises are reaching out into far lands.
There is a general feeling of security
in business circles. Prosperity is in the
air. American trade is selling golden
opportunities in the Orient, and the Amer
lean drummer is going forth on a new
and larger career OF commercial con-
quest. Hundreds of large manufacture
ing concerns in New York have called in
their best men from the South and West
to send them to the Oriental countries.
India has been the objective point of
many of these commercial expeditions,
and Mexico has also been a mecca to-
ward which the American manufacturer
has journeyed of late. Conditions in Mex
leo are ripe for American enterprise and
offer many opportunities for the hustling
Yankee. American commercial history
of the next few years will astound the
world. There are no bounds to the en-
thusiasm of the New York merchant these
days. Things are coming his way"