The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-29

Croker and Thomas c. Platt, whom he
threatened to prosecute for various crimes
should he be elected Mayor HIS camel at.
dacy gave to the coming election us
greatest element of uncertainty, Ior, ae-
cording to expert politicians, IT was praS-
tically impossible to estimate now mucn
of Bryan'S vote of last year would go 70
George instead of Van Wyck.
Last night Mr.. George spoke In the Bor-
ough of Queens and later in the BorouSh
OF Manhattan. at the Centrai -, 0pelS ei,
thusiastic crowds every where In one OF
his last nights speeches Mr.. George
said:-"I have labored for years TO make
myself known, and now at last these
things are all written down. peheVe
that all the needed reforms are summed
up in the philosophy, the right of every
man to eat to drink. to speak, as he
sees fit. so long as he does not trench on
the rights of any other man." Later. in
the same speech, he repeated ms threats
against Mr.. Croker in a ringing voice that
greatly affected his hearers. SAYING
'Let him go to the penitentiary. lie shall
go there
Mrs. George accompanied her husband
on most of his speechmaking trips, and
she was with him last night. Newspaper
men who have been part of the George
campaign have felt that he was undergo
ing strain which was surely ana rap
idly breaking him down. At times he has
been incoherent- His whole temperament
underwent complete change. HIS
speeches, delivered by the half dozen each
trend WAS always in the same direction
of fanaticiSm
Mrs. George ,s.:G Henry George. Jr..
have been soletiols regarding the erect
OF the terrible strain of his being bundled
about from place to place each day and
far into the night making speeches before
wild gatherings OF admirers. and 1t has
been noted again and again that his
faithful wife sat beside her husband on
the platform from which he spoke or
watched cinseiy from place of vantage
close by.
Mr. Georse hA- not been strong for the
past three years, and his son. Henry
George. Jr.. has been his companion in al
most every enterprise in which he mas
engaged, going with him on his tours of
the West DIS special newspaper corre-
spondent in the last Presidential cam
paign, and keeping close at his side IN MS
movements in the campaign: Within the
past day or two close FRIENDS of Mr.;
marked changes In Ms appearance and
manner. His eyes grew dull. Wrinkles
hollow cavers.s. His voice. usually re-
sonant ara pleasant now pitched alraos.
to piping treble in conversation, was
Querulous. while he seemed like one whose
might snap wittlCut warming. The pace
of the campaign was harder than this
rnan. high strung and sensitive. could
The Journal and Advertiser" this
morning, contained an article on Henry
George, writ.en by Alfred Henry Lewis,
headquarters in the Union Square Hotel
yesterday. OF hts Impressions, Mr.. Lew
is wrote
THE Henry George found was not the
Henry George had met fewer than two
months ago Whea I saw him last, he
was tranquil, quiet, steady as to nerves.
his books and his tax dreams. Today l
met a man haggard pinched. with a face
as thin and peaked as a pen. His eye
roved, his hair was tumbled. his face the
b0Q frc 0rf dor ha fta nj,
ture of anything it was of unfed Ambition
made desperate. There was despair, too
in his face. as. If in a dim way he looked
into a future black with disappointment,
| tell you it was a shock to see the man" :"
Mr.. George was about feet inches
hign ana of slender build. His head was
bald and his brown beard was fast be-
coming gray.
Henry George was born on September
?. 1899. He received a common school edu-
cation GATOR ana then W went Into Into counting
the printers trade In 1858 he reached
California, where he worked at the cases
until 1866, when he became reporter and
afterwards, editor. working at different
Post"
He returned to New York In 1850 and
went to England and ireland the follow
ing year, where he was twice arrested as
a suspect. but afterwards released when
his identity was established. Mr.. George
is best known to the world at large
tions. notably his work entitled Progress
and Poverty" published In 1879. His other
Policy" 1871; Irish Land Question: 1881 /.
Social Problems" 1888; Property in
Land a controversy with the Duke of
Argyle 1884; The Condition of Labor"
an open letter to Pope Leo Kill, 1891. and
"A Perplexed Philosopher (Herbert
Spencer), 1892. In 1886 Mr.. George was
Mayor of New York polling $4,000 votes
against 10000 for Abram S. Hewitt. the
Democratic nominee, and 10000 for Theo-
dore Roosevelt, now Assistant Secretary
of the Navy Republican.