The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-31
LIQUOR DEALERS ABUSE LOW.
CAMPAIGN OF BFLLENGSGATE
STARTED AGAINST FUSION.
"This Flabby. Flaccid Creature"--This
"Kin9 OF the Cads"-These EDithets
for His Honor, with Many More. in .
"PlatfOrm" Issued by the Saloon Men.

"PlatfOrm" Issued by the Saloon Men.
A statement which is described as plat
form for the coming campaign was issued
yesterday after meeting of the Liquor
Dealers Association held at the Broad
street office from which Fritz Lindinger
conducted his unsuccessful campaign for
Congress few years ago. Quarters have
been hired in the Barthold Hotel and the
liquor dealers mean to conduct an active
campaign against Low and against all
candidates Of either party who refuse TO
take a position satisfactory to them.
The platform" IL remarkable docu-
mem, Whoever wrote it dug through
the dictionary for every word that could he
used in abuse of the Mayor 1t insists that
blackmail is practsed more than ever
before. The executive committee is to
hold meeting on Tuesday afternoon. when
a report will be made on the contributions
to the fund for the campaign and the work
will he planned.
Some extracts from the platform" are
given here;
The LIQUOR Dealers Association Of New
York after mature delibe ration has de-
termined to enter the municipal campaign
this year as a political body to oppose
the election of its enemies and espouse the
cause of its friends Never before has the
LIQUOR Dealers Association Of Greater New
York, nor any part thereof. taken part actively
in any campaign. Other interests have en-
tered politics, sought for and obtained re-
dress for wrongs inflicted. and obtained
advantages they would have gotten in no
other way.
thNl Il hnu haa
lulled to inacton by the political siren song OF
friendship and cajoed into supporting this
or that candidate. only to be betrayed after
election The time has come 10 demonstrate
TO self-seeking politicians. whether clad
in the vestments OF pnarisaioai pulchrltude
and wearing the hGlos of seif-constituted
righteousness. or otherwise. that the vast
army OF voters who for years have been de.
ceived. played upon and beguiled by, honeyed
promises have at last awakened to the neces-
sity of action.
DR. Seth Low was elected Mayor by the
grossest misrepresentation and deceit. He
lied In order to be elected Mayor and has lied
to and about the liquor dealers ever since.
Reared amid wealth and culture. DR.. Seth
Low looks on the common people much in
s sh %ho s sT down dosns DGf st
perfectly justifiable to lie and practice the
arts Of deceit on interiors in wealth and edu-
cation.
The misplaced and exiguous brain of the
aabby. tinccid creature who mistits the Mayor
atty chair Is incapable of concepts OF honor.
officer Of the law Slippery Seth" has taken
no steps to run down and punish the bride
giyers or takers, even when the officers OF
this association offered to assist him. Dele
cations from the Hotel Mems Association and
various German societies were also snubbed.
insulted and refused audiences with this
King OF the Cads of Greater New York.
Mayor Low, representing and typfying
in himself that small. Over-satstied. obtrus-
i've. meddlesome and noisy pharisaical body
,.,Ht ,h., flt.r N md
endeavor to force on honest taxpayers
habits and modes of life which they them
selves do not practise. immediately after
made to the liquor dealers and others. The
invertebrate that calls itself Mayor OF New
York city, instead of being liberal minded
Parkhurst once called him. IA snug fiabby
hypocrite.
Police Commissioner Greene was the choice
Of Gov. Odel. who knew that he was fit
agent for the SNUG, and oleagnous Mayor
In the great Asphalt Trust swindle. which
is now being aired in the courts Gen Greene
in asphalt, ten. Greene naturally became
callous to dedement that would inure from
tho dirty work of manipulatins The police
schemes of the predatory and political pir ates
who control the actions of Mayor Low.
GOV; 0del wants TO facctionize the police.
and coerce the saloonkeepers into doing his
bidding. Let the saoonkeepers declare for
tiov 0dcll and Mayor Low and at once all
prosecutions and expressions OF the liquor
While PIE ending to abolish tie syste
of graft" bIackInail sytortions ana tribmes
of the most nefarious kind are more prevn-
lent than ever before in the history OF the
city So persistent and so openly are the
matchmaking practices now that they have
been and are being DENOUNCED from the bench
fshy eyes in the. direction Of his self-snper-
imposed halo and sanctiImnoni9usly in Peck,
Wh nnneT e9oms Is
daily giving him tho lie by his convictions
We say that there is moro e1torton and
in in" the history OF the city. The demand Tor
proof by the city authorities ia insincerc and
made as bluir fanny evidence is furnished
guilty will be punished. Both Mayor Low
and Police Commissioner Greene have been
given opportunities in this matter and both
We declare that neither Gov. 0dell nor any
member of his Cabnl desires to stamp out
the system" from the police force. for then
Hundreds Of instances Of the dmplicity,
deceit and insinceritv Of Mayor Low and
his trucking creatures could be given here
They will fully be exploited during the cam
paign The true character of our nnguentonS
MnVor can be understood when it is stated
that among his chief advisers ARE that highly
perfumed society leader George l.. Rives
and saCrosanct James y, Reynolds the former
resembling in appearance and nature Cotton
Mather, who in 1882 peraecuted innocent
witches, and the later having as his prOto-
type sheriff Brindlc of Salem. Mass. who
gibbeted women and children on Witches
Hin,
This association will demand of every
candidate on every ticket n personal deCara-
ton as to how he stands on the excise uu"s,
declaration will he taken to mean anita gonism
and that candidate will be opposed to the