The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-28
HENRY GEORGE
FOR MAYOR.
He is Nominated by the Silver
Forces of New York.
His Nomination to Be Used As
a Club
TO COERCE TAMMANY
Into an Endorsement of the
Chicago Platform.
Bryan Makes a Strong Appeal
to the Dem Ocrats.

New York. Sept 2S-The most import
ant development in the Greater New
York political situation was the unani-
| nous nomination of Henry George for
mayor by the united Democrats, compos-
| ed of numerous free silver and Bryan
| clubs.
Mr.. George once polled 6S,OOO votes as a
| labor candidate for mayor of New York.
| His strength, if he should accept, would
| be drawn principally from the Demo-
cratic vote. The united Democracy also
adopted a resolution condemning the ac-
ton of the state committee in refusing
to reaffirm the Chicago platform and in
nominating candidate for chief judge
of the court of appeals Alton B. Parker,
whose party fealty is so doubtful that he
is popularity believed to have voted
against the Bryan and Sewan electoral
ticket last year.
The convention nominated John G. Boyd
for comptroller and Winfield S. Overton
for president of the municipal council.
A belief is current that Mr.. George will
not accept the nomination if Tammany
indorses the Chicago platform.
On the other hand the old time Demo-
cratic leaders prefer to ignore the silver
question altogether. So the Democrats
are as much worried over Henry George
as the Republicans are over Seth Low.
L
of the borough of Manhattan met last
night and after a long caucus decided to
place in nomination at the city conven-
tion today these names:
Mayor Benjamin F. Tracy; comptro1-
Ter, Ashbell P. Fitch; president of the
council, Ross Appleton.
At meeting of the executive commit
tee of Tammany hall the roll of assem-
bly, districts for nominations for city and
of cd
lowing results: Mayor, William Sohmer,
Geo. B. McClelland, Charles H. Knox;
president of the borough George w.
Plunkett, Charles f. Allen; comptroller,
Ashben P. Fitch.
Much stir was created in political cir
cles by the publication of a letter pur-
porting to have been sent to Colonel Will
liam L. Brown of the New York Daily
News by William j. Bryan, urging that
the municipal campaign in Greater New
York should be run in harmony with the
principles and declarations of the national
organization.
The letter says:
"a triumph of the Democracy of Great
er New York, except under the auspices
of the issue that animates the party, will
have the same moral effect a renewed
and affirmed triumph of the agencies led
by Senator Hanna.
when parties cease to represent GER
tain fixed principles the supreme preroga-
tive of the ballot becomes prostituted to
a contest between organizations for the
spoil of office and the enjoyment of sue
cess.
'"To this prostitutio nof the ballot may
be ascribed every chapter of shame and
corruption in the history of American
municipal government. 1t is better to
have a government by the Republican
party, responsible to it's declarations,t than
government by Democratic partisans
without responsibility to Democratic
principles.
1.-The Democratic party is the party of
home rule, and home rule does not mean
irresponsibility to the nation at large.
The great cities are part of the state and
country; they are the granaries, treas
urers, clearing houses and capitals of eul-
ture and science; they are created, not OF
themselves, but of the whole peoples toll
and progress; therefore it is unnatural
and artificial to avoid responsibility, not
onlv to themselves and the greater city.
but to their party and It's living princi-
ples and the nation. This election is the
most important and Influential political
event between 1896 and 1900.
ITO this prostitution of the ballot may
platform has no place in this contest
is to admit doubt of it's wisdom and
places the Democratic party on a par
with the fallacy of non-political govern
ment. The issue is the life of the party,
not the garment, and to alter or deduct
from the declarations of the assembled
party is mortal injurys nor have battles
in which men fought, now on one side,
now on another, now shoulder to shoulder
as friends, now bayonet to bayonet as
enemies, a place in honorable war"