Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-11-09

ny and corruption and one man power
which controls tho political machine
and thus dcprivcs the people ut once
of their rights as free me and of the
control Of the government of the city
in public interests. | wish TO say 10
the people Of the city. ! shall give my
self TO this contest in their behalf with
new and higher resolve ms though ]
had received il ms last charged from
his dying lips
The campaign committee OF the cit
liens union CLow) unanimously
passed resolutions d~eploring the d aih
Of George,
Richard Croker and John c. Shcc-
han, Tammany leaders, sent letters OF
coincidence 10 Mrs. George.
The George headquarters is the CEN
ter Of polite interest. The executive
committee will meet at ! o'clock this
afternoon to decide whether n sue
cessor will be named.
Chairman Abbott Of the campaign
committee, thinks the committee will
recommend the voters TO vote for Low.
Tom J.. Johnson said Of Georges
supporters will probably go to Low.
He felt that IL would be done in pref
erencc 10 going back on all vows they
had made against the alleged boss'sm.
Richard Croker said of Georges
death: Nothing has given ne great
er sorrow during my political life than
the death of Henry George. | nefcr
met him, did not know him even by
sight"
Bryan on George.
Logan, O., Nov. III have just re-
! ceived a dispatch announcing the death
OF Henry George. The ~suddenness with
which the came VIII make
more keen the sorrow which h public
| generally will feel at the death of so
great, 80 pure, so brave a mar BY his
own unaided genius he made his name
familiar to the reading public the world
around. Those who agreed with his
theories found In him an ideal leader.
while those who opposed him admitted
his ability and moral courage. He was
one Of the foremost thinkers Of the
world. His death viii prove a loss TO
literature. society and politics.
tSigned) Nv. J. Bryan"
Mourning In England.
London, Nov. News of the death OF
Henry George was received too late to per.
init of general editorial comment in the
afternoon papers. The Echo. however, re-
fers to his worldwide fame and says: -
"Thc news has come ms "A great shock 10
his friends in England. lie had endeared
himself Ia a large portion of our social re.
formers
The Daily Chronicle says: The news OF
the death Of Henry George will come with
deep sadness to millions throughout he
civilized world. He died In the harness, n
victim TO a hercuiesn effort TO raise New
York from the slough Of corruption and
misrule. He could himself have hardly
chosen a better death
mo better or sweeter man has lived for
many q long year. Few will dispute that
he was one OF the most remarkable figures
among modern reformers. We doubt
whether his political group In America
Will survive. IL will probably be merged
I'm the great party OF social discomfort,
whose formation IL perhaps the mos
startling potent of our time
The Times, after abiding TO the rarity
of such a dramatic DEATH says:
"Mr, Georges influence was largely per-
sonal, and even II he had been elected he
would probably ave disappointed his de-
voices. He was sincere, but he would
nave Uhu no opportunity VI CdfIyHls iHto
effect his fiscal and social theories. whils
he would have been unable, through mex
p%erience, to resist the steady pressure OF
the workers and bosses His death
gives "A great advantage to Tammany
Hall, which would in any case probably be
victorious.
"Scrupulously honest as n man az We
believe Henry George 20 have been ne
might have kept his own hands clean In
such a position. but he could not have
reformed the system. and he might have
possibly engrafted upon it some new evils.
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