The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-04
HENRY GEORGE DEAD
THE GREAT PHILOSOPHER, THINK
Err AND WRITER ON ECONoM.
&c SUBJECTS DIED SUD-
DIED IN HEAT OF BATTLE
FIGHTING FOR THE CAUsE-sTRAIN
OF A TRYING CAMPAIGN WAS
TOO MUCH FOR HIM.
CEREBRAL APOPLEXY CAUSED death
o. Passed Away at 4,5O Friday Morn
=, ing, Three HOursAft Return
ing Home From an Ardu-
Gus Days Work-Con-
dOlence From Gro
ker and Others.
CEREBRAL AP0PLEXY CAUSED DEATH

New York, Oct. 29.-Henry George, au-
thor Of Progress and Poverty" and
candidate of the Thomas Jefferson democ-
racy for mayor of New York, died at 45O
o'clock this morning at the Union Square
hotel of cerebral apoplexy. In his great
Cooper Union speech accepting the nom-
nation for mayor less than a month ago,
he said:
"Fll make this race if it costs me my
lifelife. This is call to duty, and as a
good citizen l have no right to disregard
it on account of mere personal consider
alton"
Today the cheers of the works have
been changed to signs, for, true to his
. word, Henry George, the apostle of the
rights of men, died as he wished to die
in harness fighting for the cause toward
the close of the greatest municipal polit-
ical contes the world has ever seen.
The end was peaceful, and he died
without pain. This man of mighty
brain and undaunted courage was phys
ically frail and the strain of an exciting
. campaign, requiring speech-making at
|tpoints many miles apart, night after
uigbt, Es.s more than nature could stand.
II, kept it up to the end, and only a
few hours before the dread messenger
Grid "halt," Henry George had address
el enthusiastic audiences in three of the
towns of the borough of Queens, and a
still larger assemblage in an uptown hall
here. He spoke at Whitestone at y
o'clock. and made speeches at College
Point and Flushing before returning to
New York to speak at the Central opera
house. Mrs. George went with him. All
the halls in which he spoke were filled,
and at College Point and at Flushing
crowds were turned away. At White
stone he drove from the railroad station
70 the meeting hall at a gallop. TO the
cheering crowds he said:
81 believe that all the needed reforms
are summed up in that philosophy
right of every man to eat, TO drink 10
sneak as 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 own laws: there is no need
for lis to get into trouble trying to med
do with Gods laws to enforce them. II
am elected, and l believe L Will pc
elected l will enforce the law upon 'he
rich and poor alike. :. uo, out
the charges popularity made against Mr..
Richard Croker. If l am elected these
charges shall be investigated. Ii they
are proved untrue, let him go unscatheu
hack to England or to any other lana ne
u UauN -. Rmt if they are true" MIR.
Georges voice rang out in menacing tones tones
that visibly excited his audience, iet
tbe law be enforced. Let him 60, TO the
nenitentiary. He shall go there MI
George picked up his hat, SAID go9u ,.Ssa
and Started for the door. The CROWD ros st
r. cheering, and elbowed and fougnt 10 ne s1s
near him. They reached out 'heii n"A"
College Point there were l2Oo Ia
horers n rough crowd closely packeu ~
t%a hall Mr.. George was INTRODUCES
sne tho friend of the workingman' lie
began: .1 10 no a friend of
1'nrtngman. | do not now nlake
a anv sncb claim. There was pause y,
a dnsa S;ence1 | have not ana ! 40 no'
u ;ntond to advocate anything ID lhe oPb
n;ai interest of the laborng man tAh4 t,,il
ciai s;innce Mr.. George walked tne luz ,;s
10 Of the platform and lie. gu, mon nr'
i eenS o;oa in shout.) | am 1or N.n
ITl, crowd set up such cheerlns al dho a
Stom,ring that the room was hiieu WIN :
ch .f ~, for men. the equal rights Oh r; u,
am OF a ia be done with asking priv
! i,en, for the laboring men. , ohout
lieges sr iot was much cheering ana snt t ~.
Inert tbe 8" sneaker pushed his way ou 'on ~
ing a. ,m rn' He drove to Flushing' d i ,Sni
the nun tho nnd of which he spoke 10 io 90,
rae, at .n had waited an hour 10 '''
and cheer for their ldol. % hall in tn
ON asaiH,iii onhattan island. Here ther
was vas P Peor above your shouts the rooster
crow" he said: will hear tn
Mex crow again, and the party s,; u b t.r;
rooster cTo tho a7 common people, VIII nav an
dom anu IN AGAIN after years OF ion Ion I;pds {
waiting, and after vari 70 cleveland, aftt
DEMOCRACY after thar q WV
that az Croker. ,,,ch wishing. aft'
"f have travelled m mn r. show myse
the dhen}ocratic fashi'n Drff ~ / ask.
to the people whose su crowds like thi
have NIT everywhge ,orCe in number
intense lin spirit ard i hal;eve shall
After Meeting Their l oe"' "
Z "si 1886 I ave not had my ~