When Mr. George stood for the mayoralty of New York, he had 68,000 votes to his opponent's 90,000; but he had on that occasion the assistance of the Socialistic Labour Party, who are said by Mr. Ely to number about 25,000 in New York, and who certainly constituted a very considerable element in the United Labour Party, for they were expelled at the Party Convention only by a vote of 94 to 54. On the other hand, Mr. Ely's estimate of the strength of the socialists is possibly too high, for they ran a candidate for the mayoralty of New York themselves in 1888, a leading man of the party, one Jones, and he only secured 2,000 votes.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
And both before and after his mayoralty he was a distinguished soldier,-rising from ensign to captain in the Basel contingent which served at different times among the Auxiliaries of France and of the Pope.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
He is a millionaire, or something very like it; and, being an ambitious girl, as she understands ambition, she got him to stand for the mayoralty, I don't doubt, in the year when the Prince of Wales was going to open the Royal Incurables, on purpose to secure him the chance of a knighthood.
"Hilda Wade A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose"
Grant Allen