The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-05
Two Meetings.

HENRY GEORGE will accept at Cooper
Union this evening his nomination for
Mayor by several Democratic organize
tions. TIL occasion will be Of great sig
%niicance, for the candidacy Of GEORGE at
this time Is of foremost Importance in the
history of New York and even in American
politics generally.
The political and social revolution In
vited by the Chicago platform of last July
created a disturbance of political condi
tions throughout the Union, but the ap-
peals of the Bryanite orators in that am
paign were directed more specifically to
the farming communities, then filed with
discomfort because of the phenomenally
low prices of farming products generally.
The revolution did not make 80 great
Roadway in the great centres of population,
the largest cities Of the Union resisting it
successfully. This year, however, it is these
great cities to which its leaders and en-.
gineers will direct their strongest and
most sanguine efforts, and by far the most
important undertaking in which they will
Engage will be in the Greater New York
under the leadership of HENRY GEORGE.
They will appeal to the social discomfort,
which is the more dangerous the more 1t is
massed and focused.
GEORGE is a far stronger and more inlu-
entail personality than BRYAN. Really he
represents Organism more thoroughly and
completely than BRYAN himself, more es-
pecially in it's socialistic phases. He is
rather a g~reenbacker han a silver man,
but that is probably the natural tendency
of Organism. 1t was for 16 to / because 1t
is after cheap money, and in the turn OF
events fiat money, endless imitation, is
likely to suit its purpose better thar the
free coinage of silver, and to accomplish
even more fully the end desired.
HENRY GEORGE will introduce Organism
Into New York this year far more danger
ously than it was brought in last year.
Tomorrow night, at Cooper Union also
there will be another meeting, and it will
introduce formally to the campaign an
other candidate. 1t will be a Low meeting
and will be presided over, it is said, by q
former President of the Chamber of Com
merce, while grouped around him will be
respectable representatives of the conserva
tism of New York, ponderous merchants
grave lawyers, and solemn ministers.
This meeting, however, will have no more
to do with the actual campaign as it has
shaped itself than il it were an assembly o.
aeronauts to discuss the chances of ANDRES
balloon voyage in search of the North Pole
The very respectable and ponderous speak
ers will not talk about anything that will
really stir the great body of the people IL
this campaign, and what they say at it will
10 much JUNCTION will have been dismissed
from their own thoughts long before thu
day of election comes. If they recall thei
eloquence of tomorrow night it will b.
only with modification that they made
public exhibition of the dulness OF thei
political perceptions at the opening of
campaign which swept away their argu
ments as chat, as the folly of children.
All the substance of the Low platform 1
In the Tammany platform; nothing excep
the moonshine of "non-partisanship" re
mains. All the substance of the Tamman
platform is in the George platform, wit
the fire and the vitality of regular Democ
racy added. Hence the George movement
Absorbs everything that gives body or fore
to Low or Tammany. They are left by 1
exhausted. Whatever was In them Ina
gone to furnish nutriment for HENRI
GEORGES candidacy.
Low and his hackers, more especially
can have no logical place in the campaig
as 1t Is to be. The fight is to be agains
Organism as represented by HENRYGEoRG
and embodied in his personality, and Low
ism is excluded from that contest by til
very law of its being. Moreover, 1t is a sol
of diluted and cmasculated Georgeism Il
self. II it should fight against Georgeism,
would be guilty of political matricidc. A,
cordingly there is no place for il in TIL
campaign. The flood of %eloquence at tn
meeting tomorrow night will be wasted,
The question which will stir this whol
community during the next four weeks is