The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-23
TO SET AFIRE
The Voters of New York For
Henry George
By Bringing Bryan There in
the Closing Days
OF THE BIG CAMPAIGN
This is the Plan OF the George
Managers
IF Er. Bryan Will Consent to
Take Part.

New York, Oct. 23.-Walter Wellman,
who is here to remain until the end of
the municipal campaign, wires to his
paper, the Chicago Herald:
Greater New York's famous campaign
of 1897 may be brought to a close with
a most dramatic episode. 1t is now
proposed to bring William Jennings
Bryan here during the last days of the
struggle to make a few speeches for
Henry George.
The question whether or not Mr.. Bry-
an shall be invited is to be decided by
the George campaign committee. and
the outlook is that this decision will be
in favor of sending the invitation. If
the invitation goes, there are good rea-
sons for saying that it viii be accepted
and that Mr.. Bryan viii come here and
lift up his voice for Henry George and
Jeffersonian Democracy.
This will be the answer of the George
Democrats to the coming hither of
Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago 90
speak for Tammany Hall. and it is an
answer which neither Tammany nor
Mayor Harrison viii relish at all.
If Bryan does come. he viii come in
a most theatrical manner. He will
come prepared to make another great
est effort of his life. His appearance
here if the George managers are able
to carry out their plans, may wholly
change the course of the campaign.
In the first place. he will come with
the vast prestige of last years events
His advent Will be more or less a sur
prise. It is thought it viii surely strike
terror to the hearts of the opposition,
especially Tammany Hall. 1t will cause
the cry to be set up and TO run through
all this vast body polite, from the ocean
end Of Staten far up the state to the
northernmost limits of the Bronx: 'Bry-
an is here for Henry George and Hen
~ George is going to win
Some of the members of the George
campaign are much infatuated with the
plan to carry the city off it's feet with
stage effects and the red fires of burn
ing Bryanesque elOquence. They be-
HeVe they can thrust into the situation
a its most critical moment an element
which appeals to the Imagination Of the
voters, and which will produce a Won
derful effect. At the present moment.
they say, and with much reason, the
electorate of Greater New York is sad
" perpleXed- The four cornered fight
has naturally produced a confusion of
ideas. Men by the thousand are known
to be hesitating- Democrats be
tween Tammany and Henry George: the
Republicans between PIatt and Low.
In the last days of the canvass, argue
the George managers. there must come
a moment when the community is seiz-
ed by an impulse to narrow the fight
down to two men. Those who are Re
publicans by instinct and habit will
seek to ascertain which of the two Re
publican candidates. Tracy or Low, has
the best chance to win
If they can determine to their salts
faction, for that one. many of them wiuj
cast their ballots in desire to beat
Tammany Hall So also with the Dem
ocrats, or those who have habitually
trained with the Democracy. When
the hour of panic comes. when a thought
wave OF anxiety and eagerness runs
through the community. as it surely
viii in the closing hours of the canvass,
there is going to be a rush of voters to
one candidate or the other who best
represents Democratic principles-tO
Van Wyck or George
If at this critical moment the elo-
quent Bryan be thrust out upon the
stage to tell the Democrats of New
York that Henry George is the true
representative of the party, the man
who should be elected, the rightful and |
regular candidate, what will the effect
be2 The George mana gers think it will
be the success of their candidate. They
believe all the power of Tammany Hall
will prove OF no avail against this
whirlwind Of sentiment, this furore of
enthusiasm
Unless the George managers are da-
celVing themselves, they are much near
er victory as the case now stands than
it is estimated by most observers. They
believe they are as strong as either of
the other candidates, barring Tam
many's entry, and that if they can
bring Bryan here and set the woods on
ire for George they can win.