New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-06
GENERAL POLITICAL NEWS

MR.. PHELPSS LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.
PERSONAL CANVASS TO BE MADE BY HIM-Hs
VIEWS ON LIVING ToPIcs--ATTIrUDE OF THE
SILK MANUFACTURERS.
PATERSON, n. j. Oct. 5-There is not the least
truth in the report published in one Of the
Nrw-York papers TO the effect that the Silk Asso-
citation of Paterson, although composed almost
wholly of Republicans. have unanimously declared
themselves in favor of the Democratic candidate for
Congress. The Democracy in this district, in nomi-
mating John Ryle for Congress, undoubtedly ex-
pected to get the support of the wealthy silk
facturers. On Tuesday, at meeting of the Silk
Association, effort was made to secure formal
Endorsement, but it failed. there being decided
adverse majority. 1t is believed that the greater
number of the silk manufacturers including nearly y
all the younger ones, are in favor of Mr.. Phelps.
Mr.. Phelps, in accepting the nomination has
written the following letter.
TEANEcK, NEAR ENGLEwooD, !
Sept. 20, 1882.
To Messrs. WATTS COOKE, I. W. ROBERTS and
WILLIAM NJ. JOHNSON, Committee.
GENTLEMEN: have received the kind letter IN
which you communicate to me the honor which the
Vtb New-Jersey Congressional District Republican
Convention have done me. In unanimously nom
mating me their candidate for Congress And
md lncl"sed copy OF the resolutions which the
convention adopted the sense of the party In the
district.
| accept the nomination so generously offered
without solicitation effort on my part, did not
think il right TO seek 1t, but | should think il
wrong, after receiving 1t, to omit any honorable
effort 20 secure election. Striving 10 follow the
example Of the young men OF the district, TO whom
am informed owe in great measure my present
position, shall Immediately begin personal can
v8ss the hope OF meeting IN each school district
the people whose interests seek the opportunity TO
represent. The frankness with which in an earlier
Congressional experience expressed my sentiments
on most National issues, and the industry with
arA Iln
succeeding years have canyassed any puDlc express
SION have since had occasion to make of them rem
der it unnecessary for me TO do more than to say
that still advocatei
A fair free and full election everywhere, no mat
ter which party it helps or hurts
A reform of the Civil Service which shall make
tho tenure of office during the term or appoint
ment coeval with the capacity and honesty OF the
ofice-hOlder.
guard Its moneys, its lands, all Its assets against
private and corporate assault. .
An improvement of the currency, so that no credl-
shall forced to receive any dollar worth less
than dollar III gold.
4 protection, III the interest or LABOR, tor our
young and varied Industries.
On reading your platform, see nothing IN 1t at
variance with these my lifelong sentiments, and
nothing therefore which cannot approve and work
for.
of doctrine constituted the whole duty of the rep.
resentatIye But the phenomenal appearance or
the young men III this movement makes IL proper
for ne, VINO seem so strangely to have won their
confidence to give them "A word of warning against
the fascnatIOns of free trade. Its theory Is espe-
ciay attractive TO the ardent, generous mind
of youth. And its advocates recognizing ther
strong points, never fail to present IT to
the young the intelligent manly, liberal, lotty,
fashionable and En- Sllsh sentiment which Wll marx
them as superior men. But the trouble with lt-as
with many other beautiful theores-ls that 1t does
not work. The world as yet cannot be managed on
theories that assume that all its inhabitants are
uuselhsh and Christian but it is in this world or
To -dav rhat X live and Republic, where TIE
content and prosperity OF the laDorlng men, VINO
form the great and broad foundation Oh
lneir welfare therefore, becomes the hrst duty
of statesmanshIp, and statesnanshlp has never
yet devised more efnclent way Oh seGuralg sci ~, *
II than protective tariff lt Is the best or all WAYS
for taxing capital in the interest OF labor Its re-
strasons give the manufacturer the nome market
where be meets with only home competition, and
where he can OBTAIN such prices for bs pr9ducts az
enables him to pay his WOrkmen wei. Unuer its
protection the factory the MILL and the mine seize
and occupy points all over our land, "Hlcn % tn9y
make centres OF heat and hgnt and LIE to the neigh
borhood The capitalist finds a fair return for the
| money invested the landowner sells his land 10
the operatives, who seek 70 own tneir own nolnes
his door: the tradesman supplies IN his
shop the wants OF a growing population, AS the
result, thanks to kepuoncan taIlu wn ~ Ia na nO
| twenty years resisted the assaults OIL the Demo.
cratic party, We behold natlon OF
ffty millions, whose general prosperity ana
happiness Is the wonder or modern
history. In this district especially men can be
ree-traders only in spirit OF sublime sef-sacrlhce
that ,yould destroy tneIr own homes. Our varied
interests now so prosperous were called latO Deng
by the tariff and by 1t are being nurseu
| into stalwart maturity the mine IN MOTIFS, the
mapufactory and mill IN Passalc ana arounu Inese
great nteress centre the prosperity Oh US all orKe
down the tariff and you ST. Ike down the SIX mills
and iron mills the locomotive WORKS, ana nusn Tue
hum OF all our industries forever Protectloh Ior
revenue-which ignores the superior claims ot labor
To the protection of the Government ana would leV
| lahor lake an equal chance with odpltal III tne
strnggle for lte-would remove the duty on every,
| tbinT that we manufacture IN this district Ana
vet ihis-and TINS reluctantly-is all the AID that
iiftv wears of prayer has enaUed the poor man 10
| wiring from the Democratic party IN his struggle
for bread Ii stl remains true TO the policy when
southern statesmen who egisaed Tor lahdeu gentry
and desplsed mechanic aOOr, llnpIesSeu upon lp,
Just as the Republican pa-tY, sprngnB into LIE W
protect the interests of + whlte or DlacA' chose
as policy and still eIt II, protection 10 Amer
lcan Industry Whethel Ie shall nave protecuon
for revenue or protecuOn IN the interests Oh laoor
is among Ire differences that sui dlN9e inc Deno
cratic and the Repub lean party, ana any yV49hs
man Who hesitates thinking IL matter OF ln9iner-
ence TO which he gives his allegiance, shOuId re-
mem er that the policy of the Democratic parry on
tins subiect youd In this district be harmful III Ine
extreme. - .,r.+as,, aud
| thank YOU. gentlemen, for your courtesy anu
am with respect, your telloW-clt%Ten, % ,, p,,,rpo
THE ELECTION IN GEORGIA.