The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-06

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-Henry George
| accepted the nomination for mayor OF
| Greater New York at Cooper Union to-
| night. 1t was in the same hall and be-
| fore many of the same people that he
! accepted the nomination eleven years
| ago. In 1886 he received $4,000 votes
| It 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. HUH
| dreds were turned away during the
| next fifteen minutes, and by O'Clock
several thousand, unable to gain al
| mission, assembled outside and held
| open air meetings in the plaza, which
were addressed by several local speak
ers. Henry Georges appearance be-
| fore the meeting was the signal for an
outburst Of cheering that lasted three
| minutes
Jerome O'Nefll, of the Central Labor
! toned the Chicago platform, where
| upon the entire audience rose to its
| feet as one man, hats and handker-
| cheering continued for several minutes
! The secretary then read kilograms from
| c. A. Walsh, secretary of the national
| committee and member of the COM
mittee from Iowa, and Senator Till
man, encouraging the movement for
the election of Henry George. Charles
| O'Connor Hennessey, in making the
nomination of Mr.. George, said SIM
| ply: "I have no speech to make, but /
nominate for mayor of Greater New
| York Henry George
| This was followed by frantic out
burst of cheering, and the nomination
was made by acclamation.
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 the1.
read the platform, which was adopted.
The platform reaffirms adherence TO
the "creed of Democracy set forth iii
the platform adopted by the national
convention of the Democratic party in
Chicago, July 8, 1896; we declare our
allegiance to the principles enunciated
the formal expression Of the spirit of
true Democracy; and we point ia cor
rObOratiOn of this belief to the fact
! that the mere PRONUNCIATION of the doc
| trines drove from the Democratic party
those who for corrupt, mercenary or
ambitious 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 declaring for the "reassumption of
diverted wealth, through wise, equita-
| bic and scientific taxation" The plat
form demands the repeal of the Raines
excise law and continues:
Deploring with full hearts the massacre at
! Hazleton, Pa, of a score of workingmen who
were shot down for exercising their natural
| right to use the public highway for orderly
| procession, we call the attention of the people
| of New York to the fact that the execrable
perversion of law by which that bloody deed
was given hollow semblance of legality ex-
! lists equally in this city.
We denounce the interference with the peo-
! pies rights by the mandatory order OF a
! court, issued after an eX-parte hearing and
the disregard of which results in the denial
! to the citizen who has asserted his historic
| rights, opportunity to defend himself before
| a jury of his peers. Whether exercised by a
| federal or a state court, government by in
| junction is hateful, un-American and in
| fragrant violation of the principles of in
! dividual liberty which our forefathers de-
| Tended.
We declare that this mass meeting was
| necessary by the denial to the people of the
| right of self government by men who, hav-
| ing seized tie machinery of the Democratic
| party organization, believed themselves able
! to dictate to the citizens of Greater New
| York not only the rulers but the very po-
iitical questions with which they may oc-
cupy their thoughts. We are here to de-
monstrate that what Democrats shall or shall
not think and speak peak. of is not to be deter, +.
secret conclaves of sef-constituted bosses.
| 1t is said that Henry George wrote the plat
| form.
While all 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 WyclI
in the Tammany convention, was call
! ed upon to address the meeting While
Mr.. Foote was speaking, Henry George,
| ACCOMPANIED by Tom L. Johnson, en-
tered the hall. The audience again
rose with more fervor than before, If
that We're possible, and for several
cheering. A. B. Chuikshank, of the
United Democracy, then formally ten
dered the nomination on behalf of his
organization to Mr.. George, Charles
| FredarioL Cams, dams OH oenaif Of the
Democratic alliance, then offered to
Mr.. George the nomination of the or
ganization which he represented.
James T. Garvey, of the Peoples par
! ty, and John H. Crosby, of the Man
haitian 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:
Fellow Democrats, men who voted last year
| for William Jennings Bryan: I accept your
| nomination. From now until election closes
| 1 am yours; aye, and after election, too.
| am a Democrat (thunderous appleause and
| cries of Not of the Hill stripe.
| cannot divide into parts the questions
which I, as citizen, have to deal with. For
the same reason that l oppose this monstrous
| tariff in all its forms, for the same reason
| that 1 would vote wherever l could for the
| utter abolition of that tariff, for that same
reason I am opposed to the interference with
| individual liberty which you see here in New
| York | am a Democrat in the Jefersonian
| sense. Because the Chicago platform repre-
! sented the idea of giving to the great COM
| for it, voted for it and was sorrier than
! was ever before when it was defeated.
Mr.. George declared that the NOM
ination was unsought and not desired
but that he accepted in the name OF
the real Democracy. Mr.. George spoke
for twenty-five minutes. Immediately
after the conclusion of his speech the
meeting was declared adjourned and
the crowd quietly and qpicbly quilted
the hall.
LONDON. Oct. 5-The Times, COM
menting editorially this morning on
| the increasing seriousness of Henry
C<o,,-ro,- 10 t11ra for, tho M ~