The sun., 1903-09-16

as this. ii We are satisfied that next year
he will not he found pres iding at RepuL-
hcan political meetings and l. man who has
elements Of leadership and sincere belief
IN honest and non-partisan municipal gov
ernment Surely the suggestion has not
come from the Republican party that Mr..
Low is the only Republican who can lie found
TO tulf1l these conditions.
10 my mind the reason of our success
in 1901 has never been consciously and
clearly pointed out. II was not brass
checks, nor Lena Schmidt, nor the cadet
system, nor the police, nor -whirlwind cam
paigns, nor graft nor any or all the abuses
OF Tammany, which was the real motive
force and which aroused the public CON
science and gave us a victory which all
over the country put heart in many who
had begun to despair of better things.
1t was the accent of sincerity which was
felt to be there. People were familiar
enough with these abuses for years and
were not aroused The fake reform cam
nothing against this view How can you
hope to win in campaign whose first note
and its keynote is insincerityf II you
could win, what worth has such victory
l have no patience with this talk about
illogical candidate" What does il mean?
candidates" and Republican or Demo-
cratic candidates and others Of this sorl.
but the only real meaning in the minds
OF people who resort to the term @loRl-
cal candidate is a candidate whom
they do not want but cannot get rid of
In this sense Mr. Low is surely the
logical candidate" of the Citizens
people some of the time, but not when
the matter about which you wish to deceive
is so open secret.
You know, or ought to, that the Repub-
lican dist rict leaders believe with practical
unanimity that Mr.. Low cannot be elected
and that very much more than a majority
have expressed themselves in substantially
the language used by one of them to me:
We cannot help his nomination. Put him
up and let him get it in the back OF the
| neck. You know, or ought to, the financial
difficulties, and even reform movements
cannot be run without funds, You know
! In your own organization that not only
with the leaders, but with the rank and
| file also, Mr.. Low Is the most unpopular
| candidate you can select.
| You must be perfectly aware that YOU
! do not dare to resort to secret ballot IN
| your forthcoming convention, even after
| the use of met hods surely more unbecom-
| ing reformers than professional politicians.
| It seems to me the Citizens Union leaders
must know all these things, or ought to, and
! what is more every one else does and yet
| they Join in with the selfish professional and
ride deliberately for fall, with braggartt
words on their lips known to be false, and
shame in their hearts.
! We're all our fine phrases and moral
protestations in 1901 but words to us? Does
the cause after all mean nothing? Must
we again go back to the old shameful method
| of bargain and dicker and chicanery. Are
| we forever to have "reformers" praising the
| sentiments of the good, but fearing to
| practise their precepts? Surely the con-
| yentional methods, being what they are,
| Of professional politicians are the best
| things for reformers to avoid. Can we
| not have little biz OF faith?
| To summarize-First, Mr. Low should not
be renominated because of his personal
unpopularitv caused not by adherence to
! the principles of reform but springng from
the personal character Of the man. Had
| the antagorism to him S.n because of
| his adherence to and enfo ment of re-
form PRINCIPLES no decent M could doubt
| that he should be renominated.
Seoond-The sincerity hat was in the cam
palgn OF 1901 gave US the 'lcloi y ohou.''
Mr. Low De renoillil,a'eu Iline, ,mn ,,,no nn
istinE cohuiIlols W. hnGu.l ins;unr.I,,
'nG baWa written ut greater length than
| T n,;a%aI ~ L,t T wanted Won t0 under
..o,I y>arfo,,tiv what il in nv mind I
| sSam bond this to The representntjves of
| the nress for | have neither time nor in