Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-06
GEORGE FORMALLY ACCEPTS
Famous Single Taxer Again Candidate 70,
Mayor Of New York.
Big Meeting Mt Cooper Union-Chicaso
Platform Indorsed-Says He IN a
Jefersonfan Democrat.

| Henry George, who has already had
Elany minor nominations for mayor Of
New York, was nominated once more at a
| rearing mass meeting held in the Cooper
| Union last night The mass meeting took
! surprising turn. On the strength III dis
| patches from c. A. Walsh Of Iowa, .secre-
| tary of the democratic national commit
tee, and from Senator b. F. Tillmaa, which
| declared that the candidacy of Mr.. George
| was the only real democratic candidacy,
being based upon the Chicago platform,
Mr. George was declared by the mass
meeting to be the only regular democratic
| candidate for mayor in the field.
The platform was adopted declaring Tam
| many Hall to be in cowardly subjection to
| undemocratic forces of monopoly praising
William J. Bryan for his courage and fidel-
ity and embodying most of the principles
of the platform already adopted by the
democratic alliance.
1. 1t declared unequivocaIIy for the mu-
| nicipal ownership of all quasi-public mo-
| railway. and lighting plants.
2. 1t declared for dollar gas.
B. 1t advocated the extension of the park
system and an increase in the number of
public schools.
4. 1t denounced the Raines law and de-
manded its repeal.
5 1t declared for home rule.
o. 1t denounced infringements under the
authority of had laws on the personal lib
erty of the citizen.
T. Il declared against Crokerism and all
that Crokerism stands for.
Representatives of the united democracy,
democratic alliance, peoples party and
Manhattan Single Tax Club in turn notf-
ned Mr.. George of his nomination by their
respective organizations. In response Mr..
George came forward and said:
Fellow democrats, men who voted last
year Tor William Jennings Bryan. L accept
your nomination. From now until election
closes 1 am yours. Aye. and after cleo
applause and cries of Not of the Hill
strfpe')
cannot divide into parts the questions
which 1 as a citizen have to deal with.
For the same reason that 1 oppose this
monstrouS tariff in all it's forms: for the
same reason that would vote wherever 1
could for the utter abolition of that tariff,
Tor that same res son 1 am opposed 10 the
interference with individual liberty which
you see here in New York. l am a demo-
crat In the Jeffersonian sense, because I
believe in the principles and stand for the
philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. Upon
that point my life has always been clear
and consistent.
1t was for that voted at the last cleo
ton. Because the Chicago platform rep
resented the idea of giving to the great
common people what belongs to .hem, |
stood for it, voted for it, and was sorrier
than ] was ever before when it was de-
feated.
This nomination has not been sought by
me. 1t has been repugnant to me. My life
lay in different path, and hoped to con-
tinue to tread it. But hold, with Thomas
Jefferson, that no man can ignore the de-
mands of the people when they ask him to
come to the front and represent their prin-
ciples. 1t seemed to me that some one else
would be fourd to stand in my place fer
mayor of the Greater New York. Last
ST nday week, when a gentleman came TO
mo mt inc fhn fin a 1ian 90
asking ME il iE any contingency l would
stand their candidate. and again when
the representatives of the democratic al
lance came to me and offered an uneluivo-
cal nomination, / hesitated.
1 hesitated, because if 1 had answered
at once the answer would have been no.
They urged me not to make an answer
then, and l told them that l would take
no nomination until the great city con-
vention had acted, and if in the meantime
they wanted an answer 1t must be no. That
convention has been held. 1t has registered
the will of whom? Shouts of "Croker.')
Yes, it has registered the will of Mr..
Croker fresh from the English race track,
a man who has grown rich, and on what?
lie dictates the democratic nominations,
and as a democrat say 1t was not demo-
cratic nomination. The regular democracy,
the democracy of Thomas Jefferson, ten
ders me the nomination tonight. / have
sought for means to have some else
come forward and take this place. 1t was
not until 1t was shown to me that unless I
took this nomination Mr.. Croker's repre-
sentative must poll the votes of the democ-
racy of Greater New York that consented
to stand.
as is left in me, such ability as / still can
WELD, IS for your cause. am a democrat
not silver democrat nor a gold democrat,
but a democrat that believes in the car
dinal principles of Jeffersonian democracy,
to whom this great principle is self-evident,
that "All men are created equal"
On that principle 1 stand. So far as L
have power it will be carried forward.
This great Office I have been named for
gives me no power to carry out in full my
views. Whether it be success or failure
matters nothing to me, but it is something
to all OF you; something for the future,
something for the world. To make the fight
is on us. whether 1t shall be for success or
failure.
Democrats, feilow-cftizens, I accept your
nomination, without wavering or turning.
whether those who stand by me are few
or many. Fellow-democrats, I am your
candidate for the mayoralty of the Greater
New York.
There were sensational Developments at
Tammany Hall. Mr.. Croker and John C.
Sheehan settled their differences by Mr.
Croker dropping his mask and coming out
into the open as the real boss of Tammany
Hall and accepting full responsibility for
the nomination of Judge Van Wyck, his
personal candidate for mayor.
Mr.. Croker attended the meeting of the
Tammany executive committee at O'Clock
Sheehan welcomed him in a speech, in
which he attacked the newspapers for
printing the very stories that Mr. Sheehan's
closest friends had inspired. and babe Mr.
Croker welcome. Mr.. Croker made a
speech. in which he attacked the newsDa-
pers for printing reports that he was try
ing to name candidates for Office and then
like q general to his army. told all the
members to quit their chickering's and get
to work.