The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-06
Many Democratic Organizations
Meet in Cooper Union
To Offer Support to Henry
George for Mayor.
MR.. GEORGE ACCEPTS.
Thousands Unable to Get Into
the Big Hall.
Platform Endorses the Chicago
Document and Bryan.

New York, Oct. 6.-Henry George ac-
cepted the nomination for mayor of
Greater New York at Cooper Union
last night. 1t was in the same hall
and before many of the same people
that he accepted the nomination eleven
years ago. In 1856 he received $4,000
votes Last nights meeting was the
greatest OutpOuring of the people seen
in this city during the present cam
paign. The doors were opened at 4:lo
and in less than two minutes every seat
in the hall was occupied and the aisleS
as far as the police permitted were
crowded. Hundreds were turned away
during the next few minutes and by
O'Clock, several thousand unable to
gain admission, assembled outside and
held open air meetings in the plaza
which were addressed by local speak
ers. Henry Georges appearance before
the meeting was the signal for an out
burst of cheering that lasted three MN
utes.
Jerome O'Neill. of the Central Labor
union presided. The chairman men
toned the Chicago platform, whereupon
the entire audience rose to its feet as
one man, hats and handkerchiefS were
waved in the air and the cheering con-
tinued for several minutes. The secre-
tary then read kilograms from C. F.
Walsh, secretary of the national COM
mittee and member of the committee
from Iowa, and Senator Tillman en-
cOura ging the movement for the cleo
ton of Henry George.
Charles O'COnnor Hennessy in max
ing the nomination of Mr.. George said
simply: Il have no speech to make,
but 1 nominate for mayor of Greater
New York Henry George"
This was followed by frantic out
burst OF cheering, and the nomination
was made by reclamation. William Nc
Curtie Speer then moved that an exec
utiVe committee of five be appointed
by the chair with power to add to their
number to select the remaining candi-
dates on the ticket and carry out the
campaign. The resolution was passed.
While all this work was going on Mr..
George was still absent from the hall
and the audience wanted to hear from
somebody. John B. FOote, the Brook
lyn delegate, who protested against the
nomination of Van Wyck in the Tam
many convention, was called upon to
address the meeting. While Mr.. FoOte
was speaking Henry George, accompa-
MED by Tom L. Johnson, entered the
hall. The audience again rose with
more ferVOr than before, if that were
possible and there was a hurricane of
cheering A 3. CruikSh2nk of the
United Democracy then formally tend
cred the nomination on behalf of his
organization to Mr.. George. Charles
Frederick AmeS, on behalf of the Dem
Ocratic alliance then offered to Mr..
George the nomination of the organi-
zation which he represented. James
T Garvey, of the Peoples party, and
John H. Crosby, of the Manhattan
single tax club, also notified Mr.. George
of his nomination by their respective
OASduAEdA4O1lS. ne IlSlDS Oh MI. george
was the signal for another Outburst of
cheering.
Mr.. George said:
Fellow Democrats, men who voted
last year for William Jennings Bryan,
I accept your nomination. From now
until election closes, 1 am yours. Aye
and after election too, am a Democrat
OhunderOus applause and cries of Not
of the Hill stripeO.
4 cannot divide into parts the ques-
tions which as citizen have to deal
or he csa1a hot 7
pose this mOnstrOus tariff in all it's
forms, for the same reason that I
would vote wherever could for the ut
ter abolition of that tariff for that
same reason. am opposed to the inter-
ference with individual liberty which
you see here in New York. I am a
Democrat in the Jeffersonian sense
Because the Chicago platform repre-
sented the idea of giving the great com
mon people what belongs to them I
stood for it, voted for it, and was sOr-
rier than was ever before when it
was defeated
Mr.. George declared that the nonina-
ton was unsought and not desired but
that he accepted in the name of the real
Democracy.
Mr.. George spoke for twenty-five
minutes Immediately after the con
clusiOn of his speech the meeting was
declared adjourned and the crowd oui-
city and quickly quilted the hall.
The platform adopted reaffirms ad-
herence to the creed of Democracy
set forth in the platform adopted by the
national convention Of the Democratic
party in Chicago, July 8. 1885, declares
allegiance to the principles enuncfat-
ed in that document, prOnOuncing them
the formal expression of the spirit of
true Democracy; and points in corrobo-
ration of this belief to the fact that the
mere PRONUNCIATION of the doctrines
drive from the Democratic party those
who for corrupt, mercenary or anbi-
tious ends had striven to make it a
menace to the rights and liberties of
the people rather than the defender"
The platform sends greetings to the
'gallart leader of the Democratic par
Y, William Jennings Bryan" and con-
tinues:
''Deploring with full hearts. the mas
Sacre at HaZletOn, Pa, of a scorA of
Wordngmen who were shot down for
the public highways for orderly pro
cession, We call the attention of the
people of New York to the fact that
the execra BILE perversion of law nv
which that bloody deed was given a |
hollow semblance of legality EXISTS
equally in this city.
I'VE denounce the interference with
the peoples rights by the man |
datory order of a conr+ ie
sued after an ex-parte hearing and the |
d disregard of which results in the denial |
TO the citizen who has asserted his his
torlc htS,OppOrtunity to defend him |
self by a jury of his peers Whether
exercised by a federal or state court.
government by injunction is hateful,
un-Anerican and in violation of prin-
ciples of Individual liberty which Our
fOrefathers defended.
we declare that this mass meeting |
was made necessary bV the denial fO |
the people of the right of self govern |
ment by men who, having seized the
machinery of the Democratic party or
gaDization believed themselves able to |
dictate TO the citizens of Greater New,
York not only the rulers but the very |
political questions with which thew
may occupy their thoughts. We are |