The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-05
GEORGE MEN CAPTURE CTS
nose OF INITIATIVE, REFBREN-
onu. AND UNEARNED INCREMENT.
c,,., Committe on AnnexinE Mabo HAD to
swallow the Lot. Along with Municipal
Ownership ana Municipal Operation or
rr,nchisra-wouldn't Let Reporters In,

Tranchises-Souldn't Let Reporters In.
The Cts Committee on Labor and Social Re-
form. with their body of tame labor men to as
,Ist them. tackled the wild Henry George Dis
,,ict Assembly 40 crowd again last night. The
Gid men we're armed with the initiative" tho
referendum" and the "unearned increment"
and before these deadly weapons the Cts and
their tame ones fell like tender blades Of grass
before the lawn mower. The Cts swallowed
snough "unearned increment alone to make
the Hon. Charles Stewart Smith and some OF
his co-workers sick for q month.
Al the first of these remarkable conferences
last week tho reporters wero admitted, and the
Cts and their tame allies took up all the time
for speechmaking, and got thoir names in tho
papcrs.' They promised that the wild ones
should have u show this time, and then what
did they do, but exclude the reporters
The better to get the confidence of the wild
ones they took n wild one for Chairman, and
they put In a week tanning him, and they had
him tame enough to preside when the meeting
was called last night His name was ]. w.
Sullivan. He had q typewritten speech. In tho
course Of 1t he apologized for tho Cts ~gobbling
up all tho time at the first meeting, and then he
told what a lot OF noble fellows he thought the
Cts were. He hurled the Initiative. He declared
that tho methods tho Gifts had adopted was q
perfect demonstration Of the initiative, and he
quoted from planks of their platform to provo
II. Finally he shouted:
THE Citizens Union may yet give us a Pin
gree, with his cheap railroad fares and his po-
tato patches"
Mr.. sullivan enumerated a lot OF other things
that the Cts might give the wild men IL they
would only consent to be tame q little while,
After he had made his speech the meeting
was announced as open, and 1t was declared
that the proper thing to do was to take up the
PLANK by plank" said the wild ones. They
had set out to capture the Cts and the tame al
lies and to bring them right into the Bryan
for the separation Of municipal and national
Mayor regardless Of any political orsanization,
and the demand for the enforcement OF the civil
got along swimmingly. Then came plank 4. 1t
reads:
ship Of its franchises and that ali grants thereof be
for limited periods in order that increases OF value
supervision Of gas and raiiFoad companies and Of ali
other sOrporations, using city t5ss ernhitsssss SO as to in
Here the storm broke. 3. J. Hawkes.. q men,
ber, Of Big Sly. had a referendum plank in his
BBS Sft q ae sSs e siid ones he sS ON tS get i ts sae 'e Sns s Msss
s ,Ps miIsI they 81 FS n1nnt Of H iRSaigndH sm.pp% ESStsss m,I at
e ehS nt o%ners 81 pi not only IN i of fr qS@Snesa b @sH Of
all railroad,, all gas companies, of all electric
ltshtinSS isoB% ns manici hnd o Res GoIy T TSeI sPia
that that ! i,v was H,t what the people demanded Nled and
the union and wanted their votes they'd have to
put put. that II plank sadS. in; Hibs Her, Z White Whit ss one sn Of the
was unlocked and he could get out. j. Fl. Smith,
one Of the wild ones, who lives in Twenty-hrst
Not so fast there. now. There isn't any rea-
son why we should get out at all" Then he de-
ones some things they didn't want to hear. and
told them there wasn't any use at all In putting
get down to business, to get every independent
Republican and every Independent Democrat
that would vote to beat Tammany.
No use your putting up an indepsndsnt
Hawkes. fingered his referendum; but again no
Twas a little slow. The demands for municipal
fling Under the sun We're renewed. At last NJ.
Hawkes. drew his referendum and read it:
so MhiI ss T is2 apPt sSs .s e sas d 5Ga a ret elsnd oi r 'Ss P PIss,
the operation OF railroad, gas and other franchises by
This was greeted with great applause, and
finally it was voted to recommend it to the Cts
They were Just about to get to the next plank.
I Mhish M ds g 81 pf bfstri esP asss sransi': az sh %Itb %llt
amoment's warning, pulled an unearned mere
ment plank from his pocket 1t read:
We believe that all sources of wealth which are
one place bsions q the Whole People and should ~ not q
Se H sssrt as an ta iRstI n u only Of m nlaEaIs gavin cMn or Ripn IT
management by the municipal Government
This was greeted with moro applause than
Mr.. Hawkes. referendum had received. The
Cts ,gasped; They thought when they had
fifteen minutes for the wild ones to have this
handed to the Committee on Organization.
In the course Of the talk over the next four
sSsked once or twice BY the Wild ones Whether
the Citizens Union should keep aloof from other
and by a number of the tame ones. too, that the
Cts stood entirely separate as a political organ
fuse with anybody S' Il '"A 'He' "0u'0n !
ling Of the referendum, the initiative and the
1neerned Increment were Mr.. Patrick Doody,
layer; Mr.. J. j. Hess, Mr.. James I. Quinn, Hen
~ weismann, and James 4. fitzgerald.
the Cts said plaintiveIy that It was nearly is
o o,s.0f fAn6 but ey " snd time s.,d they ISnaiidt IL some wild
want to Jay something ON and ike as not he had
an initiative or a referendum or an unearnod
these were m me- Il The P missiles ess we're ea s1c s.asr
. ~. ~ do tbsnitn The meeting let 1Ss wound Si1s uP5 With iha pray,
ones. and with the adoption Of resolutions
providing for the formation of q sub
Assembly, district in the Greater New York and
for the reference to such sub-committees of all
l %eisfr' r pffGt4an'nff h be 'h res a9tsfesas OF also iso0f e %Rs
to these committees the work Of organizing
s %sf' Of IaSais;hlhF s%p sasEtass'' AND ! nsssa!HGs;
, nsos interests T Of labor poro, and, and social reform m"
the Chairman, or in his absence the Secretary OF
each Assembly District Committee, a member
OF the committee OF tho whole which is TO Co
, operate with the Central Committee Of the
union. The committee Of the whole is to be or
birds Of the Assembly districts OF the present
New York city. These chairmen and secrer
Union,. and they are to. work in conjunction
with the regular Assembly district organiza
ton OF the Citizens Union.
W. II. Farley. Secretary of the building trader
section of the Central Labor Union, tried to gel
Into the meeting as a representative working
man. His credentials were demanded. He had
nOne-that il, he had no invitation. After ar
argument he was let in, but could not talk OF
take part in any discussion. He counted forty
five men there, and he says most of the labol
men there were fossilized labor leaders who
have not been active in the labor movement fo
years.
The whole thing is a farce" he said, "anc