Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1886 — HENRY GEORGE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HENRY GEORGE.

His Admirers Announce They Will Run Him for President. Henry George, the Workingmen’s candidate for Mayor of New York Ci y, polled nearly 70,000 votes, or within 23,000 of the number cast for Abram S. Hewitt, the successful Democratic candidate, and nearly 8,000 more than were polled by Roosevelt, the Republican candidate. George’s friends are enthusiastic over this Large following in the metropolis, and announce their intention of running him for President in 1888. A recent dispatch from

New York says: “Henry George, the defeated labor candidate for Mavor, was given Repath and John Kwinton occupied seats on the platform. Resolutions were adopted calling on tho district organizations to com tinue their work, throw open their doors to new members, and prepare by organization and education for future contests. The Central Labor? Union is called upon to issue an address to organizations in other cities, asking their co-operation by similar movements that a national party might be formed. Henry George made an address, in which he predicted that the movement inaugurated here would spread throughout the countiy.”