Show HENRY GEORGE Henry George the exeditor and author of that interesting and instrucive book Progress and Poverty yesterday accepted the workingmens nomination for Mayor of New York City and by that act placed himself squarely on the public stage and subject to criticism as a politician poli-tician While George was content to write his abstruse essays and take part in theoretical government he was not of importance as a political factor but now that he has obtained the promise of the workingmen of New York to give him control of the affairs of that metropolis he will find that the press on which he himself was a powerful writer will turn its arrows against his ambitious desires and in the language of the street do him up Every city town and hamlet in the United States is more or less affected by matters in New York City and if that great entrepot were once in the hands of a shrewd theorist there is no telling what troubles would result Such a condition of things could not last long even if made but the great danger to the stability of government threatened by such a move should make every good citizen in that city stop and think before he gave his vote to it Henry George is decidedly a man of theories and all of his theories are of mushroom growth and he has never been schooled in any practical matters other than the publishing of a newspaper with disastrous results to himself and partners He has no knowledge of the wants of such a gigantic community and nothing in his record promises that he could adapt himself him-self to the requirements of such a position posi-tion He would work more harm to labor than to any other interest in arrav i ing against it for selfprotection the millions of business men whose bread and butter depend upon the proper government gov-ernment of that the greatest city in the Union George is shrewd enough not to make any pledges or promises and if elected he would be free to follow out his whimsical ideas of government and no man could call him to halt The DEMOCRAT DEMO-CRAT believes however wever that there are more than enough solid business men in New York City to spoil this revolutionary attempt and teach George that great communities cannot be governed by men whose stock in trade is only theorv |