Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-11

assumed charge of the canvass Of Judge
Van Wyck wanders through the rooms
formerly occupied by the late William P.
St. John, treasurer Of the democratic ma
| tional committee. and Jimmy Oliver of
Paradise Park st. John never fully re-
covered frcm the effects of the defeat of
dste for the assembly in district strongly
democratic. The Bartholdi Hotel. from
which was flung to the breezes the only
banner on Broadway bearing the inscrip-
ton of Bryan and Sewall," is row the
center of life. light and color. TaInmany
Hall leaders are coming and going, plan
ming how to raise and how to spend money
for what is expected to prove the greatest
ne unicipal contest Of the nineteenth CEN
fury.
The headquarters of Seth Low and the
Citizens Union adjoin the republican head
quarters on the east. These rooms are
presided over by a young man whose chief
distinction is found in the fact that he has
been member of the New York city school
beard and the head worker of the uniyer-
slty settlement, a sort of object lesson to
the teemfng millions in the Delaney street
district Mr.. Reynolds is willing to discuss
the beauties of non-partisanship by the
Lour TO all visitors. To the average man
VINO calls at the headquarters of the Citf-
zens Union the lack of practical workers
Is painfully evident. 1t is true that early
, in the campaign the Citizens Union sue
ceeded in obtaining over enc hundred thou
sand signatures to petitions for Seth Low
Put since they have accomplished this work
theS nave been resting on their oars and
paying what q TamTrany Hall leader
scornfully called Kindergarten politics"
The headquarters of Henry George at the
Union Square Hotel will compare favora-
by with any of the headquarters OF the
QUEER political organizations in point of
iiveIness. In point of fact, so lively did
matters become. when the announcement
OF the deal engineered by ex-Congressrran
johnson of Ohio was given out-labor lead
ers. populists and socialists storn1ing
through the halls and corridors-that the
nor-poiltlcal guests complained to the pro-
prietor of the hotel that the Georgeites
would not allow them to sleep at night.
Mr.. George has as his chief lieutenant cx-
Congressman johnson. His brother aEd
MS two sons are. however devoting their
entire time to their relatives campaign
ard even his wife and his daughter drop
in at the Union Square occasionally for
the purpose of watching proceedings.
That Deal With the "Cfta.-
The echoes of the Johnson deal between
the Citizens Union and the campaign COM
mittee of Henry George have scarcely died
away yet. Here is the situation: Mr..
George was Endorsed at the Cooper Union
mass meeting by representatives of the
urited democracy, the democratic alliance,
the peoples party and the Manhattan Sin
gle Tax Club. Tine united democracy and
the democratic alliance are rival indcpen-
dent democratic organizations. both pro-
testing un6ying devotion to the principles
OF the Chicago platform and opposition to
TammaHy Hall. After the nomination of
Henry George at Cooper Union the local
jealousies prevented them from getting
together" Both organizations wanted 10
name the candidates for the minor Of
fees: neither organization would yield.
though both acclaimed Henry George d
modern Moses
Then ex-Congressman Tom L. Johnson
of Cleveland appeared upon the scene. He
is the principal owner of the Nassau Rail-
road Company Of Brooklyn. and the
wealthiest single taxer in the country.
Johnson. who does not vote in the Greater
New York district. though he has large
property interests here. is the proprietor
of the house in which Mr. George resides
at Fort Hamilton on the Shore read of
Brooklyn. He is warm personal friend
of the single tax leader. He found q cam
paisn committee, which had been appointed
by the Cooper Union mass meeting. which
was like putty in his hands. AT the head
of this campaign committee was Willis J.
Abbott Abbott. who came to this city re-
Gently from Chicago. really knows little OF
New York city politics. though he aspires
to become the ''Thurlow Weed of the New
Democracy" lie wrote the Cooper Union
platform upon which Mr.. George is making
his canvass, and while he has something
of raine as writer, he has his sDurs
yet to win in the political field. The other
members of the committee were Jerome
ONeill, the president of the Central Labor
Union, who was rewarded by the parties
10 the deal with nomination for presi-
cent OF the Nltnlcinai assembly, CnarieS
o. c. HenEessey a reporter for the Tam
nany Hall organ in this campaign. and
several friends of Mr.. George without
large personal experience constituted the
campaign conirnittee-the material on the
George side of the deal as the party of
tie first part. The party of the second
part consisted of Mr.. Reynolds, Seth
Lows yourg man now in charge of the
campaign committee of the Citizens Union
"a complete novice il the political field.
Tom L. Johnson acted in the capacity of
go between or "niddleman.''
After a series of secret meetings the
Henry George men agreed to indorse the
Citizens Union county ticket in New York
county and the regular democratic ticket
in the other counties.
What Does Johnson Get.
What does Tom L. Johnson get out of
it?' is the question which half a million
voters in the Greater New York district
are asking today. In the first place. John
son will be the Mark Hanna of the George
administration" in case George should by
combination of circumstances be elected
mayor. Nothing will be too good for him
or for his friends. But in securing the In
dorsements by the George men of the local
tickets of the regular democracy in Kings
county and Brooklyn, johnson is evidently
playing very clever game.
In case Mclaughlin and his men win
OUT across the East river, Johnson can
claim the credit. and he will naturally be
.He greatest Mail III ire borough oil BROOK
lyii, with plenty OF friends at the TammaEy
Hall court. In the event OF Seth Lows
election and the triumph of the Citizens
Union ticket, Sir. Johnson can Justly claim
credit for having aided 'non-partisan poll
tics. by securing the Georgeite indorse-
ment- 1t is difficult what he expects
from the republicans, but Messrs Platt and
teuigg, 1t is said. will do we'll to watch the
movements of this gentleman from the
west, else they may wake up some brig hit
morning to find that the hustler from
OHIO has captured the entire republican
organization, bag, baggage and baggage
masters.