The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-30
BRYAN PRONOUNCES GEORGE
ONE OF THE WORLDS FORE
MOST THINKERS.
he WAS A KING AMONG SELF-MADE MEN
A Poor Boy, Without Great Educational Adyant-
ages, He Became Scholar and a Leader
of The Plain People Who Made Platt
and Croker TrembIe- "A Monument
win be Erected to His
Memory.

New York, Oct. 29.-Henry George,
candidate of the Jeffersonian Democracy
for Mayor of Greater New York, is
dead. 1t has been a matter of gues-
tioning remark all along how Mr..
George, an old man, could Withstand
the strain of his remarkable campaign
against "bossism." 1.-The harder he
works, the stronger he grows" was the
wondering comment of his friends; but
the wear and tear of such a struggle as
he has made was too much, and, after
a round of speeches at College Point
and Flushing, Long Island, and a long
jump to the Central Opera House in
this city, the man who has made posi-
BILE the defeat of Tammany, who has
caused Croker to be hissed in his own
meetings, peacefully gave up his life for
the cause he espoused
Mrs. George had accompanied him in
his round of speeches last night and re-
turned with him to his hotel. Those
who met him remarked that he did not
look like the hale old man who had en-
tered the campaign few weeks before.
haggard and pinched face; a rowing
eye, with a wistful, tired look, was
what they saw. But the nerves were
steady, the voice calm, and as he listen
ed to the reports of the Tammany ceie-
bration, where Croker, his particular
rty <af Mt oi- hp1 10
of satisfaction crept over his tired face
and expressions of qualification escaped
him. Mr.. George arrived at the hotel
about ] O'Clock this morning. He had
just come from several large mass meet
tngs in the borough of Queens and
Brooklyn. The work of the night SEEM
ed to have told ON him. He complain-
ed of being tired, but his friends and re-
latives who awaited him thought it only
the natural fatigue that follows such
hard campaign work as Mr.. George had
been doing. Not long after reaching the
hotel he retired Mrs. George awaited
him in room % of the hotel. 1t was
about $3.50 o'clock when Mrs. George
was awakened. She found Mr.. George
sitting in an arm chair.
II am not feeling quite comfortable"
said Mr.. George to his wife.
won't YOU go back to bedY' inquired
Mrs. George anxiOusly.
II will sit here awhile" was the an
swer.
Mrs. George at once grew anxious
as to her husbands condition. Mr..
George gradually grew incoherent and
lapsed into semi-consciousness.
Mrs. George was now thoroughly a.
larmed and called her SON, Henry
George, Jr., from an adjoining room.
Frank Stevens was also called in.
Mr.. George was now unconscious.
A call was sent to DIR. Kelly, Mr..
Georges family physician and he came
without delay. Mr.. George by this time
was unconscious. All efforts to revive
him failed. Without sign of recogni-
ton to those around him he passed
peacefully away at 4:45 o'clock.
Mrs. George was prostrated and was
cared for by the friends Of the family
at the hotel.
DIR. Kelly said that he saw Mr.. George
a few days ago and that he was then in
better condition than at the opening Of
the campaign.
When asked as to whether he had ad-
vised Mr.. George not to enter the cam
vass, the doctor replied eyasivey:
II don't think any power in Chris
tendon could have prevented Henry
George from sacrificing himself in the
cause in which he was enlisted, and 1
know him WELL"
In the death certificate DR.. Kelly said
~ hereby certify that / attended tho
deceased from September, 1881, to Octo-
Der, 1897; that ] last saw him alive on
the 2Sth Of October, 1897, at 5 o'clock
in the morning, and that to the best
Of my knowledge and belief, the cause
OF his death is hereunder written:
"Chief cause, apoplexy (cerebraD; con-