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“...attention, it mattered not who
the individual happened to be. No matter how great was the
volume of work that De Leon had to attend to in those days,
eight oclock in the evening found him at the open-air meetings,
where large crowds were waiting to hear the Old Man, as De
Leon came to be known in the 16th Assembly District.
In the same year (1897) Lucien Sanial was the mayoralty
candidate of the Socialist Labor Party in Greater New York.
The vote of the party in the first election under the charter of
the Greater City was 16,000. There was quite a scramble among
the old party politicians for the spoils that lay in waiting for
the victors. Besides the regular nominations by Tammany
Hall and the Republican Party, there was Seth Low, president
of Columbia University, in the field, nominated for mayor by...”
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