Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-21

New York, October 20.-The Henry
George meeting in the Brooklyn Acad-
envy of Music tonight called forth an
audience which filled the big building
to overlooking. The principal attraction
was the appearance in Brooklyn Of
Henry George for the first time during
the campaign.
Mr.. George was received with ire
mendous cheering at the conclusion of
which he began an address that was
interrupted repeatedly by prolonged
applause. He made his customary ap-
peal to the True Democracy" in the
name of Thomas Jefferson.
A second meeting was held in the
Clermont avenue rink, Brooklyn, where
an immense audience was addressed by
Mr. George and ex-Congressman Tom
L. Johnson, of Ohio.
Seth Low addressed large meeting
in Flushing tonight. The executive
committee of the Manhattan Democracy
-so-called Steckler Democracy-unan-
imously Endorsed the citizens union
ticket tonight and issued an address
to the people giving the reason for so
doing. The Steckler Democracy has
| more than once polled 10000 votes and
is composed principally of Germans.
The breach in the Henry George
ranks, caused by the refusal of the
United Democracy to indorse the Cit
liens Union and of the Jeffersonian De-
mocracy ticket, and later Henry
Georges refusal to allow his name to
appear at the head of the United De-
mocracy ticket, was healed tonight in
conference between the United De-
mocracy and the Henry George cam
paign committee. Mr.. George will re-
ceive the full support of the United
Democracy.
Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy, candidate
for Mayor, and Secretary of the Interior
Cornelius N. Bliss and Governor Frank
Black address an audience of $4,000
persons at a Republican meeting held
tonight in the Lenox Lyceum here.
Mr.. Bliss. in the course of his re-
marks, said:
'tThere are two candidates in this
town standing On the Chicago plat
form-one squarely, the other not say
ing much about it, but standing there
just the same.
There has been criticism about men
coming from Washington and Ohio and
Nebraska and other places to speak to
the people of New York. l thought
had a right as citizen of this town to
come. | have seen Senators Thurston
and Foraker come here before and
some of our friends who now criticize
them for coming were then glad to see
them. They did not come to ten you
what to do, but to find what you are
going to do.
THE State of Kansas is raising mon
ey for Georges campaign. A fund to
elect George is being contributed by
Kansas people. / can say that | hear
from all over the country what is New
York going to do. They ask Are the
people of New York going back on
what they did last year?'
THAT is the question. There is but
one thing for the great Republican
party in this State to do. 1t is to get
behind Gen. B. F. Tracy, elect him for
Mayor of this great city and guarantee
for four years honest government in
every way and concurrence with the
country in honest money and the kill
ing of anarchism and everything that
goes with the Chicago platform"
When Gen Tracy rose he met with
an ovation, but it was not lasting as
the one he got when he entered with
Mr.. Bliss.
Gen. Tracy in his speech dwelt large
ly on Brooklyn politics, and made an
argument against the Citizens Union.
Governor Frank Black, of New York,
was the next speaker.
Conservative men are beginning to COM
ment upon the belittling of the George
vote by leaders of the regular parties and
recall to attention the vote Of 1886, in
which the single taxer received more than
65 600. when before the election no one
would concede him third of that total.
The deduction the conservatives make IL
that George will surprise the minimizers
Of 1897 as he COMPOUNDED those of 1856.
Richard Croker Is credited with the
prediction that Van Wyck Will have piu-
raHty Of 750o0, and that 5000 is safe to bet
on Meanwhile there IS much more talk
Of wagers and odds than there is outyard
and visible sign of betting, and the actual
placing Of money has not as yet begun to
any marked extent.
John C. Sheehan, the Tammany Hall
leader, received the following dispatch to-
day from Mayor Harrison. OF Chicago:
''Win be with you October Is, accom-
panied by large delegation of Cook
County Democrats
MAYOR HARRISON,