The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-30
FROM MOCK WOE TO REAL.
GENUINE SMILES AND PAPER RE.
GRETs At O. U. HEADQUARTERS.


That was in the NaornInE, when Low was
..GeorEe's Heir Came bows In Haste |
TO Take HIa HerItnEe-But Hia DELEGATES.
Came HACK without II and Then Thcre Wa.
MournlnE-Ruin Wrought by Lows Haste.
dozen newspaper reporters were at the Citi-
Eens' Union headquarters, at 80 East Twenty.
third street, at noon yesterday. aud they all saw
what THE Sun reporter saw.
This is IT.:
All the campaign managers, little and big,
wore smiles. Henry George was dead.
Arson G.. McCook walked around. smiling and
bowling, moro cordial and approachable than he
had been since he took charge there. Charles
Stewart Smith was fairly trembling with excite
mcnt ana good humor. The same may be said
Of Reynolds, Clark, and Pine. LarOcquc really
beomod as he came into the place and went up
stairs TO the committee room, arm in arm with
Smith. The good feeling was even less con-
cealed among the various clerks and mcssen-
gers. who tackled each man that entered and
told him what II cinch Low had, now that Henry
George was dead. Such was the condition OF
things there in the morning. In the afternoon
1t was different.
The day at the headquarters began early.
Before 10 the Campaign Committee was in ses-
sion. No calls had to BIO sent out, all the mem-
bers hurried to the place Of their own accord,
for they had all heard that Henry George was
the committee, presided; The session was. OF
course. executive, for the Cts were not now
going to begin to work In the open.
They had not been in session more than ten
minutes when Seth Low was called up on the
telephone and requested TO come down TO head.
quarters as soon AS possible. He arrived about
IL. In the statement which he gave to tho
press as soon as he could dictate it he expressed
his deep sorrow over Mr.. George death. II no
really felt II, he concealed tbs feelings stoiCally,
for when he mounted the steps Of the house
there was planted on bis face his stereotyped
smile. and he seemed as cheerful and clipper
as ever. He went directly into the room where
locked in with them. Shortly after the stcnog-
rapher was called for and he dictated that state
ment that has made him notorious for ever.
The sudden death Of Mr.. George under tho
s seIdisr % on M the SfS% ntsisfiela 4 e a sFs cave ,r Els lie f EG
his country more evidently than MI. George
lutely devoted to the services OF his fellow men
as as he th9uEhs they could best be served
battling against the tyranny and corruption
OF one man power controlling a political ma.
tnt% rights g ! as u free mem and md P the Control ar po OF the =
government of the city in the public interest. l
express to the family Of Mr., George my sincere
sympathy in their irreparable loss: During, the
that fundamentally this is a fight against boss.
ism and all that that implies In political degra.
udLlOn ana COrrupllOn.
I'm view OF MI. Georges death I wish. there.
fore, to say, to the people Of the city that shall
a newer and higher resolve, as though j had re.
ceived i as a last charge from his dying lips"
A half hour later he left the place and did not
return again until evening, when he stopped on
his way to a meeting for a couple OF minutes. 1t
Is perhaps quite as well thar he did not for he
would have heard some things from his sup
porters that would not have been pleasing to his
ears.
The Campaign Committee remained in session
nearly two hours. The problem discussed WAS
how they could get some Of their members over
to the George headquarters to be on hand to
make a proposition to the Georgeites without
seeming to show an indicate haste in the mat
out Of it was to draw up a set Of resoiu.
lions lamenting the death Of Mr.. George and
send a committee down TO the Union Square
Hotel to lay them before the Campaign Commit.
tee or the Jefferson Democracy with appropriate
remarks $, it being LEI! to the Judgment and dis.
tho time was opportune for a bid for the George
vote. The, resoIutions were drawn up in a trice
by the skilled hand OF LarOcque. Here they are:
Tho Campaign Committee OF the Citizens' Tn on. In
ing resolutloni
Resolved. Tha. We deplore the untlmely death Of
M MsSey S Of ,se S Sfs Tt th Ss Ssn9 Yort. Yer tss fes s Q IN IN
him a pure. ~hish,m!nded man. an unselhsh patriot.
lion E t.ndefIo his family our sincere coad0lsntse
dicrs in the same battle for political freedom.
presented snntsesd1 10 l1 aae faS SHe, and ' ,Sss M 5ss%1"'' Charles es
Stewart smith aud Joseph LARGO !ue be appointed a
Hii'it " pt'htnN uts " ne 30
Committee at the Union Square Hotel.
Messrs; iiaTTU TO- and Smith departed and i
give out an interview later In the day congratu-
lating the Citizens Union upon receiving the
support of the followers OF Henry George.
In the meantime, downstairs, men were con-
graduating each other. But the evening papers
published Mr.. Lows statement and soon all was
changed. Larocoue and Smith returned from
the Onion Square Hotel with faces long and
solemn and announced that Henry George, the
son, had been chosen to take his fathers place.
The announcement came like u thunderclap. 1t
had bern entirely unexpected.
The Campaign got together again,
and in a few minutes the waiting reporters were
informed that Gen. McCook would not give out
any further statements and the bosses closed the
doors again.
Then the fternoon papers arrived containing
Lows staten mt and the further
they called the indecent bid for votes. The
effect OF the Low statement upon the men gath.
cred IN the front room when they saw 1t in print
was fairly ludicrOus.
One OF the noisicst OF the district leaders when
he read the statement in the EVENING sun
threw the paper on the floor. shouting:,
Its a damn lie. Seth Low never saiu such a
! people against Low. The World and the Jour
, !, n% wan 9 81, got i; its a damn lio' tell you ]
Nor would he until the press agent OF the Cite
+ had been appealed to and 1h said that 1t was cor
fitted and disconnected, blurtcd out:
t Well. that may be The right thing for a gen
+ hcmdn to do. but it's damn bad po iticS.'
y The gloom that had fallen over the spirits o.
/ the Cts was becoming oppressive. From al
k Seetaha 'Is low had had i issued 70 such a tatc @ns true They h
: b%esiegcd the door OF the Campaign Committee
h room in their efforts to get at McCook and gel
! hint to say that the papers had misquotcd Low
A few OF them criticised The bad taste OF tht
: document, more criticised the bad politics in it
Finally, late in the afternoon, McCoOk, driver
fairly to desperation by the men who wanted t
r talk to him. came out to the reporters and sait
y in angry tones:
lit is nonsense to suppose that Mr.. Low, II
Q that st1tement OF 8. made a bid for the GeorE'
Il snme AS l was for an opinion on the do tn o
- Henry George, and that he very naturally eN
pressed his sympathy. II is "A political trick t.
n say that this expression of sympathy was a hi,
- for votes. Mr.. Low could not receive The nomi
= nation from the George committee under tn,
:. law. as he is already a candidate, on anothe
ticket, and he understands the law"
j To-day witnesses the practical windy OF tn,
Cts campaign. There will be a big meeting II
Eighth avenue. whore Low. oscar Straus. Mayo
Strong and Others will speak, Low will ais
speak at an open-air meeting in Sheridan sqnnr,
I Lyric Hall. Sixth avenue between Forty-firs