Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-30
nit 80


During the campaign Mr.. George
repeatedly recognized that fundamen-
tally this is a fight against bossism
and all that this implies in political
degradation and corruption. In view
of Mr.. Georges death / wish, there
fore, to say to the people of the city
that shall give myself to this contest
in their behalf with new and higher
resolve as though had received it as
a last charge from his dying lips
Chairman Quigg, of the Republican
county committee. said he would not
make any statement until he knew
what position would be taken by the
George Democrats. He was very reti-
cent regarding the death Of Mr..
George.
In statement issued this afternoon
Senator Platt says:
Unless the Jefferson Democrats are
betrayed by Tom Johnson, who has
been their hoodoo from the start, their
votes will be easy consolidated upon
the other candidate. The disreputable
deal between Johnson and the Citizens
Union has further possibilities so far
as Johnson is concerned, but not so far
as the real friends and followers of
George are concerned. They are not
deliverable in bulk to anybody except
to another bona-fide candidate of the
party.
General Tracy will not lose a single
Republican vote as the result of Mr.
Georges death. The Republican party
will poll its strength with substantial
entirety for Gen. Tracy, and nothing
could or can effect that fact Repub-
licans recognize the Low movement
in Low an attempt to revive Cleve-
landism and to betray the Republican
party by another of those characteris-
tic tricks of the Cleveland Democracy.
ut is an old and well understood
thing in every political crisis during
the last twenty years that the Cleve-
land Democracy has undertaken to di
vide the Republican forces by with
drawing from the Republican candi-
date the support Of Republican voters
upon dishonest pretense of reform
purposes.
I'm the existing situation Low stands
for Cleveland methods and manoeu-
vres, but Republicans understand
their game. They remember it's conse-
quences to the public and the Repub-
lican party in former periods. At
tempts to stampede them now excite
only their indignant disgust
IF George had lived he would have
secured an enormous labor supper,
that will now come to Gen. Tracy.
of all the candidates in the field,
the Republican candidate has much the
best of it."
Er. Sheehan said:
George was too weak, physically.
to be put up do u candidate, and the
strain of the campaign was too great
for him. | think that the great ma
jority Of the men who were following
him will vote the Van Wyck ticket"
When the news of Henry Georges
death was received at Democratic
headquarters of Robert A. Van Wyck,
orders were sent to all the printers
who had been printing campaign liter
allure for candidate Van Wyck to stop
printing all documents bearing the
name of Henry George. The following
was sent by Judge Van Wyck to Mrs.
George:
Il am inexpressably shocked. No
words can express my regret or my
sincere sympathy.
ROBERT A VAN WICK"
Gen. Tracy, the Republican nominee
for Mayor, said at his headquarters:
II regret exceedingly this unfortun-
ate affair. l have had the highest re
spect for Mr.. Georges philosophy"
Chairman Eliot Danforth of the
Democratic State Committee, said to-
day:
THE news is so sudden that | can
but express my deepest sorrow and
tender through the press my sympa-
thy to his bereaved family
Mayor Gleason, of Long Island City,
a candidate for Mayor of Greater New
York, said:
"Mr. George was indeed the friend
Of the workingman, honest, capable and
conscientious. His sudden death VIII
completely change the complexion of
the political situation The vote which
would have been cast for Mr.. George
next Tuesday will now be split up, and
as most of Mr. Georges followers were
workingmen, | fully believe that rs
per cent of them will now come over
to me-"