The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-20
CROWDS TO HEAR GEORGE.
HE AND DAYTON ADDRESS FOUR
BUMPER MEETINGS..

city last night. Altogether they addressed
about 5000 persons. They wero everywhere
received with enthusiastic cheering. The
crowds treated them like mon who had fought
and won rather than as men on tho eve OF a
battle. After Mr.. Dayton's speech at Lion Park
the tumult Of cheers, stamping, and throwings
of hats lasted until Mr.. George and Mr.. Dayton
had both left the hall on tho way to the next
meeting.
The Lion Park meeting was tho formal ono OF
the night. The first row on tho platform was
filled with ladies. There were fifty rows of
seats, fifty seats in a row, on the floor. All were
filled. Back of them, in n space as largo rs one
third OF the hall men stood packed together, with
scarcely room to breathe. The side aisle was
also packed. When Henry George entered fully
half OF the crowd in the seats climbed upon their
chairs ana cheorcd him until he reached tho
platform. From half a dozen places at once
came cries for Three cheers for Henry George
The cheers met and Joined and ovcrlappcd. and
started up again until the Chairlnan's appeals
for order were reinforced by gestures from Mr..
George and Mr.. Dayton. Mr.. George said:
l rise here l feel. as not before for eleven
years, the past coming back to me-; the struggle
OF 1856, the victory, the official defeat. lCheers.1
But here l am again. For you have called me
and l have come to stand for the old principles;
to begin again the old fight. ICheers.l At the be-
ginning OF the tNelltlcln century 1 oluuu "neTc
Thomas Jefferson stood 100 years ago, / raise
again the stahdard-,the old, old standard; the
before. you know mel
A voice: =" You bet we do. Three cheers for
1t is for you to say whether I shall take up
f 4dsrs burden Sfs iou The sob 5si9s IS e Yon b nnd P }bdss
who belong, to the Democracy OF which
Is on the other side. President Low
II nnlanaa and hlkapal and HpnTV fRnrpa
prolonged cheersl. We ali ask your suffrage.
For what we all stand you know. Do as you
be offended, no matter how it is given. This is
your battle; II Is yours to choose, u
I have not thrust myself forward for
the nomination. have stood on the JET;
who really, felt the obligations OF principle
would not shrink back II his fellows came for
represent us Such a man believes in the true
meaning OF tho words that the voice of the peo-
II have with me two men with whom 1 am
W. Dayton: lCheers.l He is a man of this part
in offices Of great responsibility. No man
will say OF me. in the face OF his nomi.
a true man and tried. He was too much OF a
the raeh friend rHs d. Of I the Prince nee Of w ttS.n Here enc on the the
other side is the man upon whom Will fall the
S SsiTsH ]. jerry s'f o,Ia an.' IG khSMs A liz IS isF h s,nssh
him; he isa man to bs trusted; These three.
peculiar ticket which has become necessary in
the interest OF pure Democracy. ga.
a voice: alt is the Iticket Of the people,"
"AyeI 1t is! 1t is the ticket OF the people. I
am glad to see the day when tho standard of the
people has been raised again. Crokcr's conyen.
tion ignored the issue of 1896. They ignored
the fight of the real Democratic party against
Tho rings. the trusts. and me money bower.
Bryan was beaten. they said, and he should re-
man beaten. We como forward to, meet the
plutocratic onset; to raise the demand for popu-
lar and equal rights. / know you! l have met
you before. l take my seat"
SAID DE- crown 'Hse''u ''Ss't H0AF ~ DA'
I'm the first place. a meeting of this kind 10
distinctly c In this city-an audience SO large as
this-for the reason that bands OF music and
professions and the orders OF the district boss
didn't bring it together; 1t came The time has
come when American citizens feel that their po-
litical liberty is at stake. Years ago there was in
this city a pure. clean Democrat who lifted his
voice against the Tweed ring and the canal ring.
and the canal ring and the Tweed ring laughed
at him. But he %faltered not. He fought on.
an honest vote, WAS elected President OF the
United States. lCheers;l
and our votes against CrokCrism in Greater
New York. do not mean to impute the slightest
thing against the personal character OF the ruler
that organization. But under his rule there
has grown up the most awful system Of
| bltNtTy EOuCtlNdDIt. fDOh Ut lie INV tlll OH dl
the Grand Central Palace. There were 600 dele
gates. They nominated a ticket. Not one man
ticket. Nine-tenths OF them never heard the
name Of the candidate until the gentlemen an
nouncins the fchoice OF unit rule pronounced it
in that convention. Not three-not two-one
man made that ticket
A Voice-To hell wild der Prince OF Whales!
sorry. sorry will be the day and this magnif-
cent city II this gentleman, who fits between
two continents TO govern New York, wrests
away from the tremendous power that shall
| be a mart OF its organization, Do not make any
mistake about me in this fight. To you, who are
In a way my neish6oFif l Say in abi so
least part OF our consideration. II we bring 1t
about that you shall awake to the dangers OF
It, we will 10 compensated for our work a thou.
sand times. lCheers.l We feel, and we want
this voice OF protest has been raised. We can be
supremacy glad that that voice OF protest will
not die. but will ring out louder and louder
A storm Of enthusiasm broke out that had in
it a terrific TinE OF persona m sympathy and
dress the stablemen and brewery hands at Bra
When the candidates arrived. there Col. Mar,
tin Williams. Mr.. Georges si9gIe-tax friend
a against the millGionaires, and in his u appeal to
class prejudice the Missouri Colonel was graph
icaIly. eSpIsi,ninSS i. how S% ,h the as riStsFs Of Mszle to-
George was introduced before Mr.. Williams
completed his address. and took up the same
Iutlnt. w buu'
liams has brought TO my mind a conversation I
held to-day with my friend McCabe, who is here
for the purpose OF organizing tho long.
shoremen. He tells me that he has seen
a numbor OF the Hazelton pay rolls and
that tho average compensation per day for
each miner ranges from i've to twenty cents.
Five to twenty cents u day for performing tho
mines and breaking the coal from It's walls, and
TO add to this their pay isglven to them in or.
derS on company stores, the miners being ac,
cash for their labor. 1t also brings 10
my mind q scene presented to mo for tho first
time last uight-of 100 men lined up, as the rich
line up Mt IA theatre to purchase seats, in front OF
a bakery, waiting for a small portion OF stale
bread to bo dolcd out TO them to save them and
their families from starvation. Think OF the
wickedness and tho absurdity OF these specta,
cles-onc in the State Of Pennsylvania, where
they say prosperity reigns, and one in tho city
Of New York, where the Same claim is also as
serted,
poorest OF its citizens better than this, and car
IL not grant these men the only right they de
mand-tho constitutional, inherent right OF
every man to earn his living. When God placed
these black diamonds in the earth, which was
TO be tcnantcd by human beings lac made then
Cor yChat Z For Tho common benefit NJ nIl ma