Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-11-05

Mr.. George got to the hotel about
o'clock. The work of the night seemed
to have told on him. He complained of
being tired. but his friends and relatives
Who awaited him thought 1t only the
natural fatigue that follows such hard
campaign work as Mr.. George had been
doing. Not long after reaching the no
tel he retired.
1t was about $50 o'clock when Mrs.
George was awakened. She found Mr..
George sitting in an armchair. Il am
not feeling quite comfortable" said the
candidate to his wife.
Wont you go back to bed?" inquired
Mrs George aniXiously.
Il will sit here awhile" was the an
swer.
Mrs. George at once grew alarmed as
to her husbands condition. Mr.. George
gradually grew incoherent and lapsed
into semi-consciousness. Mrs. George
was now thoroughly alarmed and called
her son, Henry George Jr.. from an ad-
joining room. Frank Stevens was also
called in.
Mr.. George was now unconscious.
call was sent to DR.. Kelly, and he came
without delay. Mr.. George was still
unconscious All efforts to revive him
failed, Without sign of recognition to
those around him, he passed peacefully
away at 4:45 o'clock.
Newspaper men who We're a part
of the George campaign felt that he
was undergoing a strain which was
surely and rapidly breaking him down.
AT times he has been incoherent. His
whole temperament underwent COM
plete change. His speeches, delivered
by the half dozen each day, We're often
rambling, though their trend was ever
faithful to the toilers, whose devoted
champion he has been all his life.
Mrs. George and Henry George Jr.,
were very solicitous regarding the effect
of the terrible strain of his being bundled
about from place to place each day and
far into the night and making speeches
before wildly enthusiastic gatherings Of
bis admirers, and it has been noted again
and again that his faithful Wife sat be-
side her husband on the platform from
which he spoke or watched closely from
a place of vantage close by.
Mr.. George had not been strong for the
past three years, and his son. Henry
George, Jr has been his companion in
almost every enterprise in which he mas
engaged, going with him on his tours Of
the west as special newspaper CORE
spondent in the last presidential cam
paign and keeping close at his side in
his movements IN the campaign.
Within the past day or two close
friends of Mr. George had noted with
apprehension marked change in his ap-
pearance and manner. His eyes grew
duh Wrinkles came at the corners and
his eyes sank in hollow caverns. His
voice, usually resonant and pleasant,
now pitched almost TO piping treble in
conversation was querulous. while he
seemed Ike one whose nerves were so
highly wrought that they might snap
without warning. The pace of the cam
paign was harder than this man, high
strung and sensitive. could maintain.
When the sad news spread beyond
Union square at first no one thought it
to be true, believing ii to be a campaign
canard but the verifcation came in the
form of the extra editions Of the after
noon newspapers. Politicians of all sorts
stopped TO discuss the possible conse-
quence of the change Mr.. Georges death
would make in the campaign now clos
ing. All admitted that he had made a