The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1897-11-06
DEATH OF HENRY GEORGE.
HE WAS CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR
OF GREATER NEW YORK.
THE END CAME VERY SUDDENLY.
The Champion Of Jeffersonian Democrs oy
Falls Under Strain OF n Vigorous
Cainpaign-The Son Substituted.

injury NeorBe, autnor Vi HToBrooo
and Poverty" and candidate of the
Jeffersonisn democracy for mayor OF
Greater New York, died suddenly at
4:45 o'clock Friday morning at the
Union Square hotel in that city of
cerebral apoplexy.
In his great Cooper Union speech
accepting the nomination for mayor,
less than month ago, he said;
'I'll make this race il it costs me
my life. This is call to duty, and as
a good citizen have no right to dis
regard it on account of mere personal
considerations.
Mr.. George arrived at the hotel
about o'clock in the morning. He
had Just returned from several large
mass meetings in the boroughs OF
Queens and Brooklyn. The work Of
the night seemed to have told on him.
He complained of being tired, but his
friends and relatives who waited on
him thought it was only the natural
fatigue that follows such hard cam
paign work as Mr.. George has been
doing. Not long after reaching the
hotel he was stricken down.
Thus the cheers of the campaign
workers were suddenly changed to
signs, for true to his word, Henry
George, the apostle of the rights Of
man, died as he wished to die-in
harness fighting for the cause--towsrd
the close of the greatest municipal
political campaign the world has ever
seen.
The end was peaceful and he died
without pain.
Mr.. George was physically frail and
the strain of an exciting campaign re.
quiring speech-making at points many
miles apart, night after night, was
more than nature could stand.
He spoke at milestone at 8 o'clock
and made speeches at College Point
and Flushing before returning to New
York to speak at the Central opera
house. Mrs, George went with him.
All the halls in which he spoke were
filled and at College Point and Flush
ing crowds were turned away. At
Whitestone he drove from the railroad
station to the meeting hall at gallop.
To the cheering crowds he said
81 believe that all needed reforms
are summed up in that philosopy-the
right of every men to eat, to drink, to
speak as he sees fit, so long as he does
not trench on the rights of any other
man. I believe that God, the Father,
can take care of His own laws-there
is no need for us to get into trouble
trying to NEEDLE with Gods laws, to
enforce them. II am elected, and I
believe that 1 will be elected, I will
enforce the law upon the rich and poor
alike"
Henry George was fifty.eight years
old, being born on September 2, 1889.
He received q common school educa-
ton 1881; "Social Problems" 1888;
property in Land" controversy
with the Duke Of Argyle, 1884; 1.-THE
Condition of Labor, an open letter to
Pope Leo Kill, 1891; and "Per-
picked Philosopher" Herbert Spen-
cer) 1892.
LII looO MI oeOrBc Wus Hoiniuutcu
by the United Labor party for mayor
of New York, polling $4,000 votes,
against 10000 for Abram s. Hewitt,
the democratic nominee, and 10000
for Roosevelt, now assistant secretary
of the navy, republican.
After his nomination for mayor by
the Jeffersoniau democrats several
weeks ago, Mr.. George made an ex-
tremely active canvass, speaking sew
eral times every evening and working
from early to late at his headquarters.
The Son Substituted.
At IL o'clock Friday morning the
Thomas Jefferson democracy held a
meeting and submitted the name of
Henry George, Jr., for the name Of
his father, Henry George, ms candidate
for mayor of Greater New York. The
nomination was accepted.
Henry George, Jr., was born in
Sacramento, CAL, in 1862, He was
educated in the public schools Of San
Francisco. He was taken from school