Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-25
GEORGES FIERY CAMPAIGN.
Ha Talks to the Common People Of the
Metropolis


Metropolis
With All the Fire and Ardor of a
Peter the Hermit-Men Go Wild
at tho Mere Sight Of Him The
Enthusiasm Represented to Be
Unbounded Amid Certain Ele-
ments Of the Population Of the
City-A Picturesque Description
Of a Specimen Day and Night in
the Contest for Supremacy.
New York, October 24.-Henry
Georges canvass continues to be the
spectacular affair of the most remark
able political campaign New York has
ever witnessed. His army of speakers
hold hundreds of meetings in all parts
of New York every night, but Mr.
George himself is the most effective
advocate Of his cause, preaching the
crusade against poverty with the zeal
of Peter the Hermit; declaring himself
an instrument in the hands of God to
better the condition of his fellow-men,
and firing his hearers with an ardor
that makes them in turn apostles of
HIS RADICAL DOCTRINES.
In every borough of Greater New
York, in halls, in the streets, on the
wharves, Henry George speaks to null
titudes that cheer his every word. For
the past few nights Mr.. George has been
making savage attacks on Richard Gro
ker, the leader of Tammany Hall.
Among the labor unionists and in the
swarming tenement districts where peo-
pie are crowded more thickly than any,
where else on earth, Mr.. Georges au-
diences are almost frantic in their
demonstrations The business end of
his campaign is conducted by ex-Con-
gresham Tom l.. Johnson and ex-Post-
master Charles w. Dayton, shrewd vet
eran campaigners. Of speakers there
is no lack; all the survivors of the 1886
campaign are on the stump again ex-
cept Father McGlynn, and he has de-
clared himself in sympathy with the
movement
An immense crowd gathered into and
overf1owed from Colts hall, on Abing-
don Square, on the Lower West Side.
last night to hear Mr.. George and
Charles W. Dayton. Mr.. Dayton arriv-
ed first. He was wildly greeted. and
every sentence he uttered brought out
great cheering. His speech was about
the same as others he has delivered. a
plea for the plain people and the de-
struction of the Bosses"
Dayton was just finishing when
CHEERS FAR DOWN THE STREET
heralded the coming of George. Every
one in the hall turned about and watch
ed the door. When the jostling in the
crowd near the door told the audience
that the popular idol was near at hand
there was loud cheer. But urhou TIC
smiling face of the candidate appeared
the audience seemed to go suddenly
mad. Men shrieked and reared. They
did not cheer. They grasped their
nearest neighbors by the hand and they
yelled in unison. George tried several
times to quiet them. Each time he
raised his hand the tumult started
anew. But order was finally restored
and the candidate made his speech.
1t was choice talk, interrupted fire.
quently by enthusiastic expressions of
confidence by people in various parts of
the hall. The speech was practically
the same as the one he delivered in
previous meetings. Outside the hall
Mr.. George and Mr.. Dayton were be-
sieged by those who could not get in
to the hall and made brief talks.
The inhabitants of West Chester,
West Farms and Unionport turned out
In full force last night to greet Mr..
George. He received
MOST ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME.
Mr.. George said that Mr.. Croker has
conducted blackmail shop where the
people in the name of Democracy have
been robbed. Those who have wealth
even now are being blackmailed. 81
have heard Of one corporation to-day
that had to pay $4,000 in order to help
defeat me in the coming election. Even
the judiciary has been blackmailed."
Mr.. George then went on to say that
q blackmail of $4,000 was levied on
each Supreme Judge of the State to in
sure their elections. Every one of the
Judges of the Supreme Court, with the
exception of Roger A. Pryor, he said
was compelled to pay this blackmail to
Tammany hall. Mr.. Pryor did not
have this amount to pay, he said, so he
went around among his friends and
collected or borrowed $15,OOO which
Mr.. Croker took as an installment and
allowed him to remain on the ticket.
He then went out and raised $1,000
more. Who took it? Why, Croker