Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-10-08
MR.. GEORGE ACCEPTS
Notified of Several Nominations
for Mayor.
MASS MEETING At COOPER UNION.

MASS MEETING AT COOPER UNION.
Enormous Crowd of Adherents of the
Famous Single-Tnx Leader Attend
wild Cheers for Nominee and
the Chicago Platform.
New York, Oct. 6.-Henry George ac-
cepted the nomination for mayor of
Greater New York at Cooper union
Tuesday night. 1t was in the same hall
and before many of the same people
that he accepted the nomination II
years ago. In 1886 he received 6s.O0O
votes. 1t was the greatest outpouring
of the people seen in this city during the
present campaign. The doors were
opened at 7:15 and in less than two
minutes every seat in the big hall was
occupied and the aisles as far as the
police permitted were crowded. Hun
dreds were turned away during the
next IS minutes and by eight o'clock
several thousands unable to gain adj
mission assembled outside and held
open air meetings in the plaza which
were addressed by several local speak
ers. Henry Georges appearance before
the meeting was the signal for an out
burst of cheering that lasted three
minutes.
Jerome O'Neill, of the Central Labor
union, presided. The chairman mem
toned the Chicago platform, where
upon the entire audience rose to it's
feet as one man, hats and handkerchiefs
were waved in the air and the cheering
continued for several minutes. Charles
O'Connor Hennessey, in making the
nomination of Mr.. George, said simply:
II have no speech to make, but NOM
mate for mayor of Greater New York
Henry George" This was followed by
a frantic outburst of cheering and the
nomination was made by reclamation.
William McMurtrie Speer then moved
that an executive committee of five be
appointed by the chair with power to
add to their number, to select the re-
naming candidates on the ticket and
to carry out the campaign. The resolu-
ton was passed. The secretary then
The Platform.
The platform reat1irms adherence to
the "creed of democracy set forth in
the platform adopted by the national
convention of the democratic party in
Chicago July 8, 1896; declares allegi-
ance to the principles enunciated in
that document, pronouncing them the
formal expression of the spirit of true
democracy, and points, in corrobora
ton Of this belief, to the fact that the
mere PRONUNCIATION of the doctrines
drove from the democratic party those
who for corrupt, mercenary or ambi-
tious ends, had striven to make it
menace to the rights and liberties OF the
people, rather than the defender. The
platform hints at the single tax by de-
claring for the presumption of d.
verted wealth, through wise, equitable
and scientific taxation" The remainder
is devoted to purely local matters.
Notified of Several Nominations.
While all of 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
Brooklyn delegate who protested
against the nomination of Van Wyck in
the Tammany convention, was called
upon to address the meeting. While Mr..
Foote was speaking, Henry George, &C.
companied by Tom l.. johnson, en-
tered the hall. The audience again rose
with more fervor than before, if that
were possible, and for several minutes
there was wild hurricane of cheer
ing. A. B. Cruikshank, of the united
democracy, then formally rendered the
nomination, on behalf of his organiza-
ton, to Mr.. George. Charles Frederick
Adams, on behalf of the democratic
alliance, then offered to Mr.. George the
nomination of the organization which
he represented. James I. 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 organizations. The
rising of Mr.. George was the signal for
another outburst of cheering. Mr..
George said:
Speech of Mr.. George.
yellow democrats, men who voted last
year for William Jennings Bryan, accept
| your nomination. From now until cleo
| ton closes I am yours-aye, and after
| election, tool am democrat Thunder
Gus applause and cries of Not Of the Hill
| stripe!l I cannot divide into parts the
| questions which as citizen have to deal
| with. For the same reason that oppose
| this monstrous tariff in all its forms, for
| the same reason that would vote wherever
| could for the utter abolition of that tariff,
| for that same reason am opposed to the in
| reference with Individual liberty which
| you see here in New York. am demo-
| orat in the Jeffersonian sense. Because
| the Chicago platform represented the idea
| Of giving to the great common people what
| belongs to them stood for it, voted for 1t
and was sorrier than I was ever before
| when 1t was defeated"
Mr.. George declared that the nomina-
ton was unsought and not desired,
but that he accepted in the name of the
real democracy. Mr.. George spoke for
rs minutes. Immediately after the con-
clusion of his speech the meeting was
declared adjourned and the crowd
quietly and quickly quilted the hall.
Tragedy In st. Louis.
st. Louis, Oct. 6.-During quarrel
late Monday night George p. pfeiffer, a
stenographer. shot his father-in-law,
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