The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-29

ascertain how much OF Bryan's vote of
last year would go TO George instead Of
Last night Mr.. George spoke in the
borough Of Queens and later in the bor-
ough of Manhattan at the Central
Opera House. Ede was greeted by large
and enthusiastic crowds everywhere. In
one of his last nights speeches, Mr.
George said:
4 have labored for years to make
myself known, and now, at last, these
things are all written down. 1 believe
that all the needed reforms are summed
up in the philosophy: The right Of ev-
cry man to eat, to drink, to speak as
he sees fit so long q s he does not trench
on the rights of other men
Later in the same speech he repeated
his threat against Mr.. Croker in a ring
ing voice that greatly affected his hear
ers saving: Let him go to the peni-
tentiary. He shall go there
Mrs. George accompanied her hus-
band on most of his speech making
trips and she was with him last night.
NeWspaper men, who have been a
part of the George campaign, have felt
that he was undergoing strain which
was surely and rapidly breaking him
down. At times he has been incOherent.
His whole temperament underwent q
complete change. His speeches delivered
by the half dozen each day were often
rambling though their trend was ever
faithful to the tOilers whose devoted
champion he has been all his life.
Mrs. George and Henry George, Jr,
have been sOlicitOus regarding the et-
fects of the terrible strain of his being
bundled about from place to place each
day far into the night and making
speeches before wildly enthusiastic
gatherings of his admirers, and it has
been noted again and again that his
faithful wife sat beside her husband on
the platform from which he spoke or
watched closely from place of want
age close by
Mr.. George has not been strong for
q nd n
~ George, Jr., has been his companion
in almost every enterprise in which he
has engaged, going with him on his
tours of the west as a special neWSpa-
per correspondent in the last preSiden-
tial campaign and keeping close at his
side in his movements in the campaign
Within the past day or two close
friends of Mr.. George have noted with
apprehension marked changes in his
manner and appearance. His eyes grew
dull. Wrinkles came at the corners and
his eyes sunk in hollow caverns- His
voice, usually resonant and pleasant,
now pitched almost to piping treble in
/ speech, was quereulous, while he seem
ed like one whose nerves were so high
ly wrought that they might snap with
out warning. The pace of the campaign
| was harder than this man, high strung
| and sensitive, could maintain
The Journal and Advertiser this
! morning contained an article on Henry
| George written by Alfred Henry Lew
/ is, who visited the famous single tax
| advocate at his headquarters in the
! Union Square hotel yesterday.
OF his impression Mr.. Lewis wrote;
| 1.-The Henry George found was not the
! Henry George 1 met fewer than two
! months ago. When I saw him last he
I was TRANQUIL. quiet. even STEADY as 10
/ nerves rational, sedately contented
| talking of his books and his tax dreams
/ Today I met a man haggard, pinched,
with face as thin and peaked as pin.
| His eye roved, his hair was tumbled
| his face the theater of disorder. If he
/ was the picture of anything, it was his
unfed ambition made desperate There
! was despair, too, in his face, as in
| dim wav he looked in the future black
| with disappointment. I tell you it was
/ q shock to see the man
! Mr.. George was about five feet five
| inches tall and of slender build. His
| head was bald and his brOws fast be-
| coming grey.