The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-02
HENRY GEORGE IN THE FIELD
TILL ESPOUSE THE CHICAGO PEAT
 FORM OF D DE1IOCRATIC PARTY.

Nominated for the Mayoraity of Greater
 New York by the Democratic Alliance
 Scathing Arraignment of Tammany-
 Platform Favors Municipal Home Rule,
 Three Cent Care Fares and Dollar Gas.
 New York, Oct. 1.-At the city nomi- hating convention of the democratic al liance of Greater New York tonight Henry George was unanimously nomi- mated for mayor. The nominating speech was made by Charles F. Adams. The nomination was greeted with en- thusiastic applause.
 The platform preamble in part follows;
 The democratic alliance is a body of democrats, loyal to the policy of the great democratic party of the nation. Our object was to find basis for unit ed action of all democrats in the pend- ing municipal contest. We believed that the democratic party should re-attirm the Chicago platform, pledge itself to the policy of the municipal ownership and operation of franchises We insist ed that the candidate for mayor must be man whose character in the past, as well as the stand he took during the last campaign, offer the strongest guarantees for his faithful adherence to this policy.
 | We took steps at the proper time and | in due form to appraiSe the organlza- tion which pretends to stand for true 1 democracy of the position taken and of our firm purpose to maintain it. Pa tiently yet watchfully we awaited the result.
 1 The action of the city convention is clear to all men. Tammany and it's allies have waved the national banner of ! democracy and are Shamed to march i under it's folds The Benedict ArnoldS l of last fall who deserted to the enemy on the eve of battle are to be restored to places of honor and friendship; the fran l chlse grabbers are to retain their clutch on the city's highways, by Tammany's aid and connivance Thus Tammany and her allies separate themselves in principle and policy from the great democratic party of the nation and must be looked upon solely as a local 1 body of unprincipled spoil hunters unfit to sit in the councils of the party.
 It now becomes our solemn duty to | lift up the flag of true democracy and dispose of treacherous leaders. In con- vention assembled we therefore de- clare the following as our platform: | In these times of peril to the welfare and liberties of the people, the vital ! nr'incjn1aG at cta ial ali 70 in nation, state and city. The law making as we'll as the law executing powers serve to bolster up great wrongs till they are claimed as vested rights 1 Our aim is to correct these evil ten dencies. We therefore reaffirm the principles of the platform adopted at Chicago, and we shall apply them in the coming municipal contest, believing that local liberty and justice will re- ward earnest and persistent effort and that whatever good rasults we achieve in this great city will beneficially affect the state and nation.
 The platform also declares in favor of municipal home rule, municipal own- ership and operation of franchises, three-cent street railway fares, dollar gas, direct employment" by the city, eight-hour day and the prevailing rate of wages, representative sf labor in ad- ministrative and legislative branches of the city government, sufficient schools and manual and industrial training, free open-air places for the holding of public meetings opposition to government by injunction and abolition of property qualification for grand and petit jury.
 | It was decided to hold a conference with other anti-Tammany organiza- tions before proceeding with nomina- tiOnS.