Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-10-30
NEW YORK PRESS COMMENT.
Views of Henry George as n Man and
as to the Political Effect of
His Denth,

New York Oct 29-The Evening Journal
(no preference on mayoralty expressed)
says: 1.-The sudden death of Henry George
removes from the mayoralty contest one
OF the most conspicuous public men New
York has ever known. Steadfast in his be-
Iiefs. honest and brave in his convictions
and true to every purpose, Mr.. George has
ever commanded the respect and confidence
OF all men and as leader of labor welded
immense power. His death is regretted by
all classes
The Mail and Express Iow): Henry
George is dead. But every cause that
makes for right is greater than the greatest
of its champions we must turn from the
bier whereon his lies, and without waiting
for his consignment 10 earth, resume the
battle now, within forty-eight hours of its
close. This is as he would have had IL. for
this course in face of stupendous issues at
stake shadows the creed which inspired mis-
life and won for him the regard of honest
men. who instinctively repudiated the the
ories which made him famous. The only
for which Henry George gave his life is
Seth Low.
The Daily News (Tammany): Henry
Georges sudden death Is an event of the
gloom over the entire country. The fact
that he became reckless in his utterances
presence of his lifeless body. His following
in this fight for the mayoralty has been
largely 2 personal one, and what those who
Intended 10 vote for him will do is now q
problem
The Evening Post Q.owl: Mr. Georges
rntimely death before the close of the can
N&ss gives n certain tragic interest to a
contest which already has moved the COM
nunity TO a very unusual degree. The time
and form of his death leave nothing to he
regretted as far as he IS concerned. He
lad nothing TO look forward to. for it is ali
but certain that he could not have been
elected. His real value lay in his stern and
energetic presentation Of Plat and Croker
as criminals to be punished. This was in a
certain sense n new idea The moral law,
for the first time in politics we may say,
spoke through him to the masses of this
city. There were no mincing. no allow
arce. no courtesy. no complaints or quail
fications, such as have been showered on
some other city thieves and reprobates, but
the Ten Commandments in their naked
majesty. For this we honor his memory.
We believe every word he said in this can
vass WILL now that he is gone. rebound to
the advantage of Mr.. Low
The Commercial Advertiser Crracy):
THE personal aspect Of this stroke of fate
may be lost to sight quickly in the swift
II deprives a great and menacing body of
opinion and action of more than leader,
of its voice soul of all that held il to-
gether, of all that made 1t formidable. AS
a direct influence in the campaign, Henry
Georges party disappears with Henry
George. though its elements remain a
dubious menace. No other leader can be
found to hold the party together, though
some Of II may follow an anti-Croker DEM
ocrat. But the seething mass of discomfort,
the restless sekers after a vague social
revolution. who made large part of il are
left leaderleSs and purposeless. Much of
the vote he promised to poll will be silenced
absolutely new basis four days before cleo
ton