The times., 1897-10-30

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mr George announced that lie should, as 4
| Tree trader, support Mr.. Cleveland and
| tslls ended the United Labor organization
| thougn the propagation of the SIM gle
Tax mas gone on in quietar wa ~ TT.9ra
actively than ever
In the Presidential campaign OF 1892
over IuH1on cOpIesOf "A very ctfeaD edition
OF Protection or Free Trade were cir
cuiated in the United States. with a fnarls 81
result upon the election. Between 1887
ana 1880 Mr.. GeOrge published the STA M
ard weekly paper, in New York
VI late years Mr.. George has lived uuie;I =
at ms farn home at Fort Hamilton. Long
lsiaud, ms time being taken up principally
In his literary labors. He took an acfive
part IN the campaign last year anu wa an
ardent supporter OF William Jennings
Bryan Tor the Presidency.
HIS Nomination this year was the result
OF circumstance Many OF the supporters
OF Er%an and the Chicago platform thought
Iiat IdmInanY should name n out aHd-Out
supporter OF the national DemOcra tic
TICKET as It's candidate for yor or
Greater New York, but Tammany did not
seem 10 wish to fail In with their de-
sires Henry George was na turaIIy looked
20 ny these persons as their sIanda rd
bearer, and when approached on the
matter, SaId thdt he would stand for
mayor III 1ammany did not name Judge
william j. GaynOr or a man OF his c=4Iiber.
IaHmany named Robert A. Van Wyck,
anu then George made good his promise
and entered the field. He was nominated
by four or five different organfZa tiODs.
He had made hurricane campaign and
EllAAtNA HtAtHElD udfiF To SuCIl an extent
that ne was looked upon as N important
factor in the race, II, indeed he could
not win. He, himself. ana his friends were
confident OF victory. He vas a uOta bIe
figure in the campa ign beca use Of his ar
tacks on Richard Croker and Thomas C.
Platt. He was the first politician who
dared TO publicly attack these men.
Mr.. George had long been in Father feebIe
health For that reason some Of Jne friends
with whom he consulted urged him not TO
accept the mayoralty nomination he
was Impatient " hon the SIIDreg W.
toned. His health did not enter into TIE.
matter, he said If lie could do some
thing to Improve the condition Of the p.sO-
pie and the principles for which he stood
he would run 1t was a question of hu-
manity, not of his personal weffs.e
Tom l. Johnson was one of his closest
friends and one of the last to acquieSc
la canuidacy. SIR. johnson saIti -,.-,.--
day morning: Il sincerely believe that IL IL
could nave been made clear IN advance 70
MI George that by keeping out of the fight
his life would have been prolonged ten
years he would have gone in without a
moments hesitation"
Mr.. George died as he would have pre-
ferred TO pass away-battliug in the IN
teTeStS or the people. or has honesty, iuteer-
rlty and unSelflshness, even his strongest
opponents nave SPOKEN IN words or the
highest praise during the campaign There
mas been opposition To Ills principles but
not a WORD Of reflection on the man
When George made his speech of ac-
ceptance the effort bore 50 heavily upon
him that those who heard him predicted
that he would not be able to go upon the
stump. But his heart was in the work
and he said in that memoirs Bile speech he
would go into the fight il he dIed for il.
As the fight increased he seemed TO gain
strength. He began making three and
four speeches every night and his cause
swept the City like a whirIwind There
were signs of exhaustion and his friends
became anxious, but he would not con
slider his health as against the principles
at stake
Within the past day or two close friends
Of - hsaNF nor.
sion marked changes in his appearance
and manner. His great, clear ewes, show
ing through big -rimmed specUa Giles out
upon a world he loved and DeaminE with
eloquent kndliness upon ''the masses"
with whom ne was so clearly in touch,
grew dull. Little wrinkles came at the
corners and his eyes sunk in hollow
caverns. His Voice, usually resonant and
pleasant, was now pitched almost to
piping treble in conversation and he seemed
Ike one whoSe nerves Were so highly
wrought that they might snap without
warning like an overnight banjo string
The pace of the campaign was harder
than this man, nigh strung and sensitive
could maintain That the fearful strain
was telling upon him became evident In
slips of tongue occurring IN his last few
speeches. His hearers as a rule heljevefI
that they were simply errors that might
he made by one who thought more TaDfdIv
than ne talked. Now it appears that they
were the first indications OF the break
down
/ one meeting Nj George referred To
himself as candidate for governor AT
another hs said that mis- friends had asked
him 80 run for mayor, and now, nineteen
years later they had called upon him
again. He spoke of the election as occur
ring on November 4, when November 9 is
the correct date. He said that in 1885
he had told his friends, as condition n,
his acceptance of the nomination. TO GET
an expression from the people TO bring him
petition signed by thirty people He
meant 10000, and a moment later said
they had come To him with such petition.
M George Suctee,teu IN dtIng ;. Hstt t,
writer on political economy had ever done
before The dismal science under his
treatment has become a topic or a hsorbiur
interest to countless thousands OF people
His great work, Progress and Poverty,
is as interesting as any novel. The list of his
principal works ana the tfuao puhiirati-,a
follow: Our Land and Land Policy
1871; Progress and Poverty 1879;
= = irish Land Question 1881; Social
Problems SS3; Property in Land - a
controversy with the Duke Of ARGYLL SS4;
Protection or Free Trade SS6; The
Condition Of Labor" an open letter TO Pope
Leo XIII, 1891 and a Perplexed Phil
oSepher' Herbert SpencerJ, 1892.