The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-30

by the United Labor parry TOT mayor
OF New York, polling $4,000 votes AGAINST
$4,000 for Abram S. Hewitt, the Demo-
cratic nominee, and 10000 for Theodore
Roosevelt, now assistant secretary OF
tho navy. Republican.
After his nomination for mayor by the
Jeifersonlan Democrats month ago,
Mr.. George made an extremely active
canvass, speaking several times every
evening and working from early to late
at his headquarters. He gave TO the
campaign Its most sensational incidents,
its attack on Richard Croker and SEN
ator Platt, whom he threatened TO pros
ecute for various crimes, such as levy
ing blaclSmail upon city contractors
and asplrants for Office should he be
elected mayor, His candidacy gave 10
the coming election It's greatest element
OF uncertainty, for according to expert
politicians It was practically impossible
to estimate how much Of Bryan's vote
of last year would go 10 George Instead
OF Van Wyck.
Last night Mr.. George spoke In tho
borough OF Queens and later In the bor-
ough OF Manhattan at the Central opera
house. He was greeted by large and
enthusiastic crowds everywhere. In
one OF his last nights speeches Mr..
Geroge said; II have labored for years
to make myself known, and now at last
these things are all written down. be-
leve that all the needed reforms are
summed up In the philosophy: The right
OF every man TO eat, to drink, to speak,
as he sees lit. SO long as he does not
trench on the rights OF other men,
Later In the same speech he repeated
his threats against Mr., Croker in
ringing voice that greatly affected his
hearers, saying: LET him go to the
penltentlary, he shall go there"
Mrs George accompanied her husband
on most Of his speech-maklng trips, and
she was with him last night,
Newspaper mon who have been q part
of the George Campaign have felt he was
undergoing a strain that was surely and
rapidly breaking him down. At times
he has been incoherent. His whole tenn
permanent underwent a complete change
His speeches. delivered by the half
dozen each day, were often rambling,
though their trend was ever faithful 10
the toilers. whose devoted champion he
has been all his life.
Mrs. George and Henry George, jr.,
have been solicltous regarding the effect
of the terrible strain Of his being bun
died about from place to place each day
and far into the night and making
speeches before wildly enthusiastic
gatherings OF his admirers, and 1t has
been noted again and again that his
faithful wife sat beside her husband on
the platform from which he spoke or
watched closely from place Of vantage
close by.
Mr.. George has not been strong for
the past three years and his son, Henry
George. jr., has been his companion In
almost every enterprise in which he has
engaged, going with him on his tours
OF the west as special newspaper cor
respondent In the last presidential cam
palgn and keeping close at his side in
his movements In the campaign. With
in the past day or two close friends Of
Mr.. George have noted with apprchen-
sion marked changes in his appearance
and manner. His eyes grew dull.
Wrinkles came at the corners and his
eyes sunk In hollow caverns. His voice,
usually resonant and pleasant. now
pitched almost to piping treble In con-
yersatlons. was querllous, while he
seemed like one whose nerves were so
highly wrought that they might snap
WITHOUT WiTIllH. lHt phNt VI Allc Ndlll-
paign was harder than this man, high
strung and sensitive, could maintain.
The Journal and Advertiser this
morning contained nm article on Henry
George, written by Alfred Henry Lewis,
who visited the famous single tax advo-
cate at his headquarters in the Union
Square hotel yesterday. OF his impress
sions, Mr.. Lewis wrote:
"The Henry George found was not
the Henry George had met fewer than
two months ago. When / saw him last
he was tranquil, quiet even steady as to
nerves, rational, sedatcly contented
talking OF his books and his tax dreams.
To-day I met him man haggard,
plnched, with face ns thin and peaked
as a pen. His eyes roved; his hair was
tumbled: his face the theatre of dIsor-
der. If he was the picture Of anything,
Il was his unfed ambition made desper-
ate. There was despair. too, in his
face. az II in dim way he looked into
n future blank with disappointment, ]
tell you II was n shock to sec the man."
Mr.. George was about five feet five
inches high, and Of slender build. Hin
head was bald and his brown beard was
fast becoming gray.