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EDITOR, Francis Bellamy.
erar Tracy are lighting au IIIS SIUC.
In the Citizens' Union program, moreover, there
L. XXII.
New YORK, October 16, 1897.
No. 16.
items favoring municipal control of many portions of
public service. In such items he cannot but recogn
allies of his own socialistic ideals.
Speaker Reed Next Week!
General Tracy has a difficult and contradictory part
the contest.
CRITICS AND LEADERS" is the suggestive title of
His chief and directly challenged foe is, of course, Ta
eaker Thomas B. Reed's next week's contribution to
many. He claims to stand for straight republicanism a
Illustrated American. Present politics make the
acknowledged virtue against democracy and corruption
me most timely, and the Speaker, whom the people
For the specific measures of good government
mire because of his courage, is as judicial and discrim-
which Mr. Low contends, he also contends. But his pr
ting as he is outspoken in the everlasting distinction he
ciple, needless to say not formulated in SO many wor
WS between the political critic and the political leader.
is "good city government because it will be good for
republican party;" while Mr. Low's is, "good city g
the fierce quadrangular duel now waging on the
ernment, because it will be good for the city."
municipal field of Greater New York, what are the
Mr. Low, though at one with him on SO many poin
ses for which the contestants struggle, and how do
must be stabbed as a rebel to the party machine, as a
ir blades cross
triot who would play Brutus to the Platt Caesar. Gene
Each champion threatens all the other three at one or
Tracy's lot, just now, is not a happy one.
other weak point. At the same time there are strange
To fight the battle of bossism, he must at the sa1
ances between them, with opjortune good offices at
time see himself fighting the battle of Tammany, a
expected moments, SO that a descendant of prophets in
thrusting at the throats of a hundred principles which
seventy-seventh generation would be puzzled to pro-
knows to be wise and just.
esy as to the result.
Toward Mr. George, however, he makes no concessio
Mr. Low, standing for the one plain principle of city
Everything he hates is combined in the free-silver, soci.
vernment for the city, not the party, aims his chief
istic, democratic, anti-boss champion whom Bryanism h
ack at Tammany, as the embodiment of saloon politics,
SO unexpectedly forced to the front.
rupt administration, and the shameless prostitution of
The Tammany candidate has the simplest part to pla
ic interests to party exigencies. His chosen adversary
Judge Van Wyck knows just who are his enemies. T
udge Van Wyck, the Tammany candidate.
other three are all his enemies, and his point threate
At the same time he must aim an occasional thrust at
them all impartially.
neral Tracy, as the champion of the republican machine,
The hand of Tammany is against good governmen
ich, while proclaiming its adherence to the principles of
against republicanism, against Bryanism-and the han
d government in general, frankly declares that party
of these are all against Tammany.
st be considered first of all.
The outlook seems bad for Tammany. But it must
Though there is practically but one point at issue be-
remembered that those who serve Tammany faithfully a
en these two contestants, their thrusts are bitter, for
faithfully rewarded.
quarrel is a family quarrel. Both are republicans.
There are $70,000,000 at stake in the contest. Wi
f they could but be brought together they would find
such an incentive Tammany may do great-things.
It
union a pledge of victory.
too soon to read Tammany out of the contest.
n the other hand, Mr. Low presents a threatening
nt at Mr. George, as the representative of all those
ories, social and economic, which are most hateful to a
THE
shriek of the locomotive whistle is the voice
marching civilization.
d gold republican.
In the war against the forces of barbarism it plays
Mr. George is a many-sided champion. His primary
mightier part than the storming volleys of the Maxim
IS to further the cause of his own social and economic
the Gatling.
ories, which, as he sees, would gain immeasurable credit
The British advance up the Nile is slow, but inevitab
m a victory on such a field.
The hordes of Osman are falling back before it, step
He does not directly challenge Mr. Low, but he seduces
step.
he followers from. Mr. Low's camp. He attacks the
They have relinquished Dongola. They have reli
er champions with impartial vigor-General Tracy for
quished Berber. When, as is their probable intentio
republican principles, Judge Van Wyck for the treach-
they make their final stand before Khartoum, they
W
of Tammany to the new principles of democracy.
find themselves too late.
ammany balks with a creditable determination at the
The Nubian desert will have been already subjugate
cago platform. But democracy, according to Mr.
not by the British rifle, but by the British railroad.
orge, has accepted the Chicago platform with its uncom-
The Dervishes have a brilliant and crafty leader. Osma
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