Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-29
THE NEW YORK FIGHT.
Progress of che Hewitt t-GeOrge-RoOsevel
Race For Mayor.

Progress OF che GeorSe-hooseEelt
Race For Mayor.
New YORK, October 2S.-A rousing
meeting was held at Tammany Hall last
night. Many prominent men in Munici-
pal and State and National politics were
present IS speakers or vice-presidents OF
the meeting. The hall was iammed and
Mr. Hewitt was given IN ovation. He
spoke at considerable length. In reference
to the candidacy of Henry George, Mr..
Hewitt said:
GEORGE AND THE woRKINGNEN.
But / would like to know whether he
said what now read TO you, and which is
Il key to the method by which he proposes
to make tine laborlng men of this city in
dependent. Fellow citizens, men who know
your own minds and your own rights aud
responsibilities, and how to maintain those
rights, Mr.. George is reported TO have said:
I'VE have the best political organization
in existence enlisted in our cause. No,not
! irving Hall. An organization that is so
we'll disciplined that upon word from the
leaders it will pour out its members like
swarms of bees with my ballots in their
hands. They dare not shirk their bounden
duty. for if they ever do, ever afterward
they will be taboOed from wOrkingmen' :
society"
Did he say this or did he not? If he ut
tered that language what word can / find
in the English tongue TO adequately ex-
press nv sense Of the turpitude of that
mans character, who could thus publicly
degrade the workingmen of this city aud
tell them ct the order of some obscure, un-
known, namelesS boss they will pour out
their numbers like swarm Of bees with
his ballots in his hands Applause.
Ave. YOU have known Tammany Hall
these many years. Did any man ever
turn YOU out like swarm Of bees with
ballots that you had to go and deposit IN
the box? No: no. 1fthese submissive
slaves dare 10 disobey. II is that they are
never more to be tolerated IL the society
of workingmen. Do you undc rstand what
that punishment means? Do you under
stand that the horrors of the prison house,
of the bars and stripes Of the felon are not
so to be dreaded as the punishment Of
that man who is driven out like an lsh-
mael from the society Of his fellow work
ingman. All, i think that fellow feeling
which pervades every rank Of life, that
fellow feeling which IS in the heart OF
every citizen, will 90 back upon Henry
George and his declaration that the work
inSmen are to do the bidding of any man
or any set of men. He will be woefully
disappointed. [cheers-
Ifyou are going to vote for me upon the
bidding of Tammany Hall or any politi-
eiau who trains in this building, or any
local boss. beg Of you stamping his foot
and stretching out his hands / beg Of you
not to do it. [Thunders Of applausel. l
scarcelv can conceive Of any calamity
worse than that Henry George should be
Mayor Of New York on the platform on
which he stands, but there Is one thing
worse. II would be still worse If the men
of the Democratic party, the men who
have built it up, who have made it what
il il. should put me in the Mayors chair
at the bidding fany one man or any
CLIQUE of men. Mr.. George says have
exaggerated the evils consequences of the
doctrines which he has been preaching.
He tells me his is no class movement,
when charged it upon him that he had
said it was n class movement be denied it
I do not know what the real fact is or what
was actually said, for did not hear it;
but recollect something that Mr.. George
did say to my own knowledge, and which
made Mr.. George known to me in the year
1880. He wrote an article, like all hisar-
ticles, powerful, full Of passion, marked by
intellect, by fine diction,-scholar as he
is, and. as l then thought. , patriot-and
here il what he said IN that article. He
has doubtless forgotten it:
"Given universal suffrage, . vague, blind,
bitter feeling Of discomfort On the one side
and Of insecurity on the other, unserupG-