The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-22
PANIC CALL.
MiIliOnaires Called on to Give
100000 Dollars
To Save New York From George
and Socialism.
O,HORROR OF HORRORS
New York, Which Has Been So
Bitterly Rowling Kansas,
In Grave Danger of "GOing
Pop"-Or Worse.
GEORGEISM RAMPANT
Socialism Likely to Sweep the
FuSSy Old Town.
Will She s'Repudiate Her
Debts" and Become
The "Ashheap of Failure
When She Goes Under.
PHIL ARMOUR,PACKER
Gives 100000 to Save Her
From Her Awful Fate.

New York, Oct. 22.-The excitement
over the coming election of mayor of
Greater New York has in the past few
days reached fever heat. 1t is univer-
sally felt among all classes of New
Workers. that it is not merely the con-
troll of the city that is at stake, but that
the main issue is between conservative
views of city government and socialism
in a modified form. The socialistic
propaganda has been so rapid and ac-
tive in the last few years that practic-
ally all the workingmen of New
York and thousands among the middle
and cultured classes have been convert
ed to a belief in municipal control or
ownership of public utilities. Both the
World and Journal the leading papers
in circulation and influence are now
open advocates of a change in the dis
posaI of public franchises.
Party lines have practically disap-
peared. All day long crowds of men on
the street corners and in Union, Mad
ison and other squares discuss the
problem of municipal government The
same scenes that characterized the
Bryan campaign last year are witness
sed every day. Orators spring up from
every crowd, briefly address their fell
lows, and are succeeded by others. This
is not confined to wOrkingmen, but men
wearing fashionable clothes and silk
hats and bearing evidence of wealth
are as interested and as excited as the
others. All classes of people have been
aroused on the subject.
The dinner pail orators" have be-
come a unique feature of the George
end of the argument Every evening,
after the whistle blows in the factories
and shops to mark the closing of the
work day, the Union Square hotel,
where George has his headquarters,
presents an interesting spectacle, for
then begins the advent of crowds of
men who come direct from the scene of
their daily toll to offer their services in
spreading the propaganda of the New
Democracy Some of the men have with
them the pals and boxes in which they
carry their monday meal. The din
ner pail orators are not to be SneeZed
at. The meal hour meetings are an
other feature. They were inaugurated
a day or two ago. At noon the George
spellbinders talk to groups of tOilers in
the slips on the water front, on the
piers of the ocean liners and in busy
Another vOte-getting idea of the George
leaders is decidedly novel. 1t is to en-
gage 1000 orators to ride in street cars
during the rush hours and discuss the
political situation for the benefit Of
their fellOW-p passengers. The most sig
nificant feature of the struggle, howev-
CT, Is lIle TACT lnAl the 1dIllIIlany man
ayers have again issued orders to all
their orators to leave General Tracy
severely alone, and devote all their at
tentiOn to Seth Low and Henry George.
Nearly all the Tammany literature at
tacks Georges theories, while a fair
percentage of the pamphlets attempt to
show that the author of Progress and
Poverty" isn't a real friend of the la
boring men The Tammany managers
still say that Tracy is the only candi-
date they fear, but they show by their
acts that they do not consider him in
the race. And the voter lis on