New-York tribune., 1901-10-08

yourself are true reform representative. Able.
ties and The I GSulS . have have
ef Mayor Our opponents have openly proclaimed
that this is TO be a campaign Of personal defsma- ma
reach of shafts of SANDER. Your reputation is
TnsIse & yo spT Re sre confident
that you will lead US to victory. Democratc VIC
ea 5eIg ts IS Td is dr t wg
she motley hrgsdes as refoTmefs e e
honor of formally asking you to accept the nomina-
of this city.
Mr.. sHEPARD's SPEECH.
Mr. Cummings finished received dash of
perfunctory applause, and then Mr.. Shepard
said:
Gentlemen: ] accept the Democratic nominal tion
for Mayor Of greater New-York WHICH you tender
With your permission | dispense with the prenli-
nary aa1feIs ustal WIN caHuiadtei @ anu ps & est @
tomary formal letter of acceptance
d - , 70 i1, S ny nnn1ira +io, 10 thai high Of
fee Of the Democrat of my own Borough Of Brook
lyn whose administration of the finances of our
tinGuished place among American public men.
could rot consider the suggestion until knew that
IL MS wish that should 90 so, nor after leaIh
ing that it his wish, did determine my course
them familiar with poltcs ana some not, IN nae 40
found the opinion OF much the greater majority OF
tunity and burden Of public service If your conven
That service will think he a real one. 1t surely
ought 10 he real whether it be the Republican cam
ddste or the Democratic candidate who is suffer
defeat For ] myself TO believe and also to
be that nearly all good citizens viii very soon
believe that competition for the mayoralty be
tween President Low and myself VIII not, on the
whole. be calamtous any real interest OF the
American metropolis or of its people Nevertheless.
and OF good government require his defeat.
For the candidacy of the Republican candidate.
dictated by the Republican organization and sub
mted by its allies represents. first, the proposi-
ton that the Mayor of the city must be a Re
publican that under no circumstances for the
present at least. matter what the assurance OF
honest and efficient administration by Democrat,
shall not in sympathy with the Republican
State and national administrations be allowed TO
administer the affairs Of the city. The crcum-
Of hfs nomination have peremptorfly placed
and were so intended by those who effected 1.-THE
present campaign, far as the head Of the ticket
is concerned, upon partisan basis.
ATTACKS REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION.
That candidacy represents the proposition
that IL evils or mistakes can under the vigorous
and wholesome watchfulness of the public senti
ment be found in municipal administration, they
shall all be charged upon the Democratic party. in
disregard of the fact. known TO one better
than President Low, that whatever the burden OF
responsibility resting upon Democrats may be, the
evils and wrongs of administration have in large
part been created 10y Republicans and by Republi-
can legisia ton.
In the third place. his candidacy represents the
proposition that the of the city shall turn
from al OF those questions OF effectiye construc
tive ferseenG administration of its affairs, so vital
TO the future welfare of their city, the sole
question whether not, by alliance between
grossly incohgruous elements. another defeat can
be added the several defeats in former years
and generations-all OF such defeats baving been
femnorarA-p hich a single bat onefful political
organization of this city has suffered.
In other words. the basis of my adyersarys cam
paign is partisan and factional and in no proper
already expressed plain opinion upon the merit Of
the various attacks made upon the present admin
various comparisons between that administration
and the administration which preceded IT, With