The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-30

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1880 people who had waited for an hour
to see and cheer for their idol When
Henry George broke away from this
crowd. his long days work was over.
His busy LIES work was done.
Van Wyck's Coincidence.
When the news of Henry Georges
d;ath was received at the democratic
headquarters of Robert A. Van Wyck,
orders We're sent to all the printers who
had been printing campaign literature
for Candidate Van Wyck to stop print
ing all documents bearing the name of
Henry George. The following was sent
by Judge Van Wyck to Mrs. George
1 am inexpressibly shocked No words
can express my regret or sincere sym
pathy. (signed) ROBERT A. VAN
WICK.
Others Quoted.
General Tracy, the republican nominee
for mayor said at his headquarters
II regret exceedingly this unfortunate
affair. l have had the highest respect
for Mr.. Georges philosophy"
Chairman Elliott Danforth of the DEM
ocratic state committee, said:
l. HC IcWS Is 81 SuuQeH that can
but express my deepest sorrow and ten
der through the press my sympathy to
his bereaved family
Richard Croker said of Mr.. Georges
death: Nothing has given me greater
sorrow during my political life than the
death of Henry George. l believe he
has been a failing man for some time
and am sorry his friends permitted
him to go into this canvass.
His family has my earnest sympathy.
I never met Henry George and did not
even know him by sight. Please say
for me l am sorry from the bottom of
my heart"
Newspaper men who have seen a part
of the George campaign have felt that
he was undergoing a strain which was
surely and rapidly breaking him down.
At times he has been incoherent. His
whole temperament Underwent COM
plete change.
His speeches by the half dozen daily
were often rambling, though their trend
was ever faithful to the toilers, whose
devoted champion The has been all his
life.
A Premonition
The Journal and Advertiser .lhis MORN
ing contained an article on Henry
George, written by Alfred Henry Lewis,
who visited the famous single tax adj
vocate at his headquarters in the Union
Square hotel yesterday. OF his impress
sions Mr.. Lewis wrote:
1.-THE Henry George 1 found was not
the Henry George 1 had me- fewer than
two nvnths ago. When I saw him lat
he was tranquil, quiet, even, steady as
to nerves, rational, sedately contented,
talking of his books and his tax dreams.
Today I met man haggard, pinched,
with face as thin and peaked as pen.
His eye roved his hair was tumbled, his
face the theater of disorder. If ne was
the picture of anything, 1t was his unfed
ambition made desperate. There was
despair, too, in his face, as If in a dim
way he looked into a future black with
disappointment. I tell you it was
shock 10 see the man."
Low on Georges Death
MIR. Low, candidate Tor mayor OF
Greater New York on the citizens union
ticket, regarding Henry Georges death.
said:
"The sudden death of Mr.. George I'M
der the stress of the campaign is great
tragedy. No soldier on the battlefield
ever gave his life for his country more
readily than Mr.. George has laid down
his life in behalf of New York. Pure
in life, unsfslflshly devoted to the inter-
es'is of his fellow man as he thought
they could be best served, he has fallen
in the thick battling against tyranny
and corruption of one man power con-
trolling the political machines, thus de-
pr4ving the people at once of their rights
as freemen and of control of the govern
ment IN the peoples interests.
During the campaign Mr.. George re-
peatedly recognized that fundamentally
this is fight against bossism and that