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Show TtTr.rtny BlocSbsulers at. It Early. V; Precedents- and political tradition have been swept aside by the opening of the New York Mayoralty May-oralty campaign eight months before the election. The first meetings were held last week. An active campaign has been planned for the spring and summer sum-mer by Tammany and! by Mayor Low's managers. Mr. Low's candidacy is treated as settled. Up to date, the Kepublican city organization has refused to take part in the reform meetings, but the support of Mr. Low's candidacy by the Piatt machine is certain. cer-tain. Mayor Low has assurances from President Roosevelt and Got. Odell that they favor his renom-ination, renom-ination, and Senator Piatt has agreed not to oppose it. Mayor Low will have with him the chief elements ele-ments of the fusion of 190L Robert Fulton Cutting, Cut-ting, head of .the Citizens' union, has charge of the preliminary fusion campaign. Charles F. Murphy, . Tammany leader, has issued orders to all the leaders for meetings at the district clnb houses. And is making preparations for the most strenuous campaign cam-paign in the history of Tammany. Mayor Low was elected as a reform executive by a fusion of Republicans Repub-licans and Democrats, who were in favor of an honest hon-est "administration and who desired to drive the Tammany blackmailers out of power. Mayor Low's management of Gotham affairs has been that of an honest official. He has made mistakes, but for the first time in New York's history corrupt city employees em-ployees and blackmailing policemen have had terror struck to their hearts. The hold-up bluecoats who have grown rich in levying blood money in the Tenderloin Ten-derloin districts and along the docks have been stripped of their brass buttons. And if Mayor Low'f policy is carried out New York will be guarded by its first honest police force. For years Gotham needed an honest chief executive. It finally elected one in Seth Low. While he may not be a financier as gauged by the Wall street standard, he is straight to the core and that's the sort of man to fill the bill in Gothams case. It is indeed gratifying to learn that the decent element of New York citizenship has indorsed the so-called reform administration, and that the fusion elements which made Mayor Low's election possible in 1901 are again supporting his candidacy. Tammany will make a determined fight to regain its lost power, but the respectable classes of. New York will see to it that the blackmailing henchmen of this corrupt organization never collect another dollar of bipod money. |