The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-23
Speeches by General Tracy, Carl
Schurz, Col. Fred Grant, Charles
FairchiId and others.
HENRY GEORGE ON EAST SIDE
THE sINGLE-TAXER CAMPAIGNING
WITH HIS BETTER HALF.
Rebellion in the Ranks of the Ger
man-American Reform Union
What Van Wyck Promises to Do.

NEW YORK, Oct. PA great number
of political mass meetings were held
throughout the metropolitan district to-
night and the champions for the differenN
mayoralty candidates were out in force.
Senator John Ford presided at a Repub-
Iican meeting held in the Atlantic Casino.
this city, at which General Tracy was the
principal speaker. He said in part: THE
Republican party was the bulwark, the raj
lying point to which patriotic Democrats
flocked to make a last stand for the honor
and integrity of their country when it was
threatened by Organism last year. Bryan
ism is not dead, the fight against it is not
yet over"
Cooper Union was filed to the doors with
adherents of the Independence Hall Democ-
racy to ratify the nomination of the Tam
many ticket. The Independence Hall De-
mocracy has for its leaders julius Harbur-
ger and Earnest Harvier and has declared
for the Tammnay ticket because of the
Raines law.
A Citizens Union mass meeting was held
at Clermont Rink, in Brooklyn, under the
auspices of the German-American Reform
Union of New York, at which DR.. John w.
Shidage presided and the chief speaker
of the evening was Hon. Carl Schurz. Reso-
lutions were adopted denouncing Tammany
Hall candidates as ''notoriously nothing but
tools of one man." denouncing the Repub-
ican candidates as equally under the SUBJ
lection of one man. Henry George as "a
dreamer and a theorist, who has never
studied municipal problems and whose ad-
ministration would undoubtedly be a fall
nd nile 1erfp l,a Of he Ger
mans to Seth Low.
A letter was received from Orwald Often
dorfer, proprietor and editor of the New York
Staats Zeitung, in which he said: I'm Seth
Low we have o man who, If it is at all
feasible, will bring some system and order
into the chaos which will follow the enac-
tion of the charter for GreaJer New York"
Charles S. Fairchiid, ex-secretary of the
treasury candidate for controller on the
Citizens Union ticket, and Everett p.
Wheeler, civil-service commissioner, spoke
at the Citizens Union meeting of the Tenth
Assembly district. All the references to
Seth Low were enthusiastically received
Henry George made the rounds of the
East Side tonight in a carriage, accom-
panied by his wife and two friends, ana n
by large and enthusiastic audiences, who
accorded him an ovation.
Col. Fred ID. Grant presided over a Repub-
lican rally tonight at the Central Opera
House. There was an audience of two
thousand in the hall. District Attorney OIL
colt was the principal speaker. He de-
nounced trusts and combines and said
that he hoped in the second trial of the
cigarette trust to secure convictions.
There is a rebellion in the ranks of the
Germah-American Reform Union. The ac-
ton of the general committee in indorsing
the Citizens Union ticket a few days ago
Is the cause. One branch that of the Thir-
ty-third Assembly district. has seeded and
its leaders claim the majority of the others
will follow.
The United Democracy. at an executive
here. indorsed Charles w Dayton, the cam
didate for controller on the same ticket with
Henry George. An address to the people
will be issued tomorrow reaffirming al
legiance to the Chicago platform, calling
upon the Democrats who voted for Bryan
last year to support the silver candidates Of
the United Democracy.