The herald., 1897-10-06
NEW YORK
DEMOCRATS
Turn Out TO Greet Their
Candidate
CHICAGO PLATFORM CHEERED
GEORGE GETS A HURRICANE OF
APPLAUSE
CHICAGO PLATFORM CHEERED
The Keynote of the Campaign Sounded
by a Demand for the Rights of
the Common People
Associated Press Special Wire.


accepted the nomination for mayor of
Greater New York at Cooper Union to-
night. 1t was the same hail and before
many Of the same people that he accept
ed the nomination clever, years ago. Ir
1886 he received 6s, 900 votes. Tonight s
meeting was the greatest ou.pouring of
the people seen in this city during the
present campaign. The doors were
opened al 7:15, and in less than two m in
every seat ip the big hall was occupied,
and the aisles, as far as the police per-
mitted, were crowded. Hundreds were
turned away during the next fifteen
minutes, and by s O'Clock several thous-
ands, unable to gain admission. assem-
bled outside and he'd open air meetings
in the plaza, which were addressed by
local speakers. Henry Georges ap-
pearance before the ing was the sig
nal for all outburst of cheering that
lasted three minutes.
Jerome O'Neill, of the Central Labor
union, presided. The chairman men,
toned the Chicago platform, whereup-
on the entire audience rose to its feet as
one mar, hats and handkerchiefs were.
waved in the air and the cheering cor
tinued for several minutes.
Charles OCornor Hennessey, in MAX
ing the nomination of Mr. George, said
simply: Il have RIO speech to make, but
I nominate for mayor of Greater New
York Henry George"
This was followed by a frantic out
burst of cheering, and the nomination
was made by acclamation.
The platform reafiirms adherence to
the creed of Democracy set forth in. the
platform adopted by the national con-
vention of the Democratic party in Chi
cago on July 8, 1896, and hints at the
single tax by declaring for the re-as
sumption of diverted wealth through
wise, equitable and scientific taxation.
The platform demands the repeal of the
Rair.es excise law, deplores the killing
at Hazleton, Pa, of score of working
men, shot dowp by deputy sheriffs, and
denounces mandatory orders of the
court issued after an eX-parte hearing;
declares that the disregard Of which re-
suits in the denial to citizens who have
asserted their historic rights, of the
opportunity to defend themselves before
a jury of their peers.
The platform concludes: I'VE declare
that this mass meeting was made neces-
sary by the denial to the people of the
right of selfgovernmept by men who,
having seized the machinery of the
Democratic party organization believe
themselves able to dictate to the citizens
of Greater New York, not the rulers, but
the very political questions with which
they may occupy their thoughts. We
ate here to demonstrate that what Dem.
ocrats shall or shall not think or speak
of is not to be determined onthe English
race tracks, nor in secret concave of
self-constituted BOSSES"
1t is said tfat Henry George wrote the
platform.
When Mr.. George, accompanied by
Tom l.. Johnson, entered the hall, the
audience again rose with more fervor
than before, If that were possible, and
there was wild hurricane of cheering.
A. B. Cruickshank, of the United De-
mocracy, then formally rendered the
nomination, on behalf of his organiza-
ton, to Mr.. George.
Charles Frederick Aanes, in behalf of
the Democratic alliance, then Offered to
Mr.. George the nomination of the or
garizaton which he represented
James 7. Garvey of the Peoples party,
and John H. Crosby, of the Manhattan
Single Tax club. also notified Mr.. George
of his nomiration by their respective or
ganzations.
The rising of Mr.. George was the sig
nal for another outburst of cheering.
Mr.. George said:
"Fellow Democrats, men who voted
last year for William Jennings Bryan.
accept your nomination. From now un-
til election closes, am yours. Aye, and
after election, too, l am a Democrat.
(Thunderous applause and cries of mot
of the Hill stripe.")
st cannot divide into parts the ques-
tiors which I, as citizen, have to deal
with, For the same reasons that I op-
pose this moEStrous tariff in all its
forms. for the same reason that would
vote wherever could for the utter abo-
lition of that tariff, for that same reason
I am opposed to the interference Within
dividual liberty which you see here in
New York.
Il am Democrat in the JeffeTsonian
sense. Because the Chicago platform
represented the idea of giving the great
common, people what belongs to them,
stood for it, voted for ii and was sor-
rier thar ever that it was defeated"
Mr.. George declared the nomination
was unsought and not desired, but that
he accepted it in the name of the real
Democracy.
Mr.. George spoke for thirty five min
utes. Immediately after he concluded
his speech the meeting was declared ad-
journed and the crowd quietly quit the
hall.
A BRITISH WALL
LONDON, Oct. 5.-The Times, COM
menting editorially this morning on the
increasing seriousness of Henry
Georges candidacy for the mayora,ty
of Greater New York" says:
"It is humiliatirg to think there is
any possibility of his being the first
mayor of the enlarged New York. No
doubt in mast times there have been