Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-11-06
DEATH OF HENRY GEORGE
IN THE MIDST OF THE CAMPAIGN
Attack of Cerebral Apoplexy Closes
the Career of the Distinguished
single Taxer-Henry George, Jr.,
Put Up for Mayor.

didate of the Thomas Jeeffrson democracy
for mayor of New York. died yesterday
morning in the Union Square hotel of
cerebral apoplexy.
In his great Cooper Union speech ac-
cepting the nomination for mayor, less
than month ago, he said: III make this
race if it costs me my lite. This is call
to duty, and as good citizen have no
right to disregard it on account of mere
personal consideration"
Today the cheers of the workers have
suddenly been changed to signs, for, true
to his words, Henry George, the apostle
of the rights of man, died as he wished
to die-in harness, fighting for the cause
toward the close of the greatest munici-
pal political contest the world has ever
seen.
The end was peaceful and he died with
out pain. This man of mighty brain and
undaunted courage was physically frail,
and the strain of an exciting campaign,
requiring speech making at points many
miles apart, night after night, was more
than nature could stand. He kept it up
to the end and only a few hours before
the dread messenger cried halt, Henry
George had addressed enthusiastic audi
ences in three of the towns of the borough
of Queens, and still larger assemblage in
an uptown hall here. He spoke at White
stone at o'clock and made speech at
College Point and Flushing before return
ing to New York to speak at the Central
opera house.
At Whitestone he drove from the rail
way station to the meeting hall at gal
lop. To the cheering crowds he said Il
believe that all the needed reforms are
+ summed up in that philosophy-the right
of very man to eat, to drink, to speak rs
! he sees fit, so long as he does not trench
on the rights of any other man. / believe
/ that God, the Father, can take care of
His laws-there is no need for us to get
into trouble trying to NEEDLE with Gods
laws, to enforce them If | am elected, as
| believe that | will be, | will enforce the
laws upon the rich and poor alike"
In the same speech he repeated his
/ threats against Croker in "A ringing voice
! that greatly affected his hearers, saying:
/ Let him go to the penitentiary; he shall
go there
Mrs. George accompanied her husband
on most of his speech making trips and
was with him last night Newspaper men
! who have been with George during the
| campaign have felt that the strain was
surely and rapidly breaking him down.
At times he has been incoherent. His
whole temperament underwent a com
/ MI obo Io1iN,nroI hv,
/ the half-dozen each day, were often ram
/ bling, though their trend was ever faith
/ full to the toilers whose devoted champion
he has been all his life.
Henry George was born September 9,
1889. He received common school ed
ucatiOn and then went into a counting
room. He was also a sailor and after
ward learned the printers trade In 1853
he reached California, where he worked at
the printers case until 1866, when he be-
came a reporter and afterward editor
working at different times on the San
Francisco Times and the Post He return
ed to New York in 1880 and went to Eng
land and Ireland the following year,
where he was twice arrested as a sus-
pect, but afterward released when his
identity became established
Mr.. George is best known to the world
at large through his writings upon eco
nomic questions, notably his work en-
titled progress and Proverty,' published
in 1879. His other works are: ''Our Land
Policy in 1871; Irish Land Question"
in 1887; "Social Problems" in 1888, and
"Property in Land" controversy with
the duke of Argyle, in 1884; "The Con
dition of Labor" an open letter to Pope
Leo XIII, in 1889, and "Perplexed PhiIos-
opher" Herbert Spencer), in 1892.
In 1886 Mr. George was nominated by
the united labor party for mayor of New
York polling $4,000 votes, against 10000
for bran S. Hewitt, the democratic nom
inee, and 10000 for Theodore Roosevelt.
now assistant secretary of the navy ire
publican).
Henry George, Jr., for Mayor.
New York, Oct. 30.-The Thomas JEFF
ferson democracy Immediately substitut-
ed the name of Henry George, Jr., for the
name of his father, Henry George, as can
didate for mayor of Greater New York.
Henry George, Jr., is about 80 years of
age. He is literary in tastes and was at
one time managing editor of the Jackson
vile (Fla) Citizen. He has accepted the
nomination of the Jeffersonian demo
Gratis, which was rendered him unani-
mously.
The absence of soft water is no excuse
for hard drinking.
THE FUNERAL OF HENRY GEORGE.