New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-10-07
THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN.
AGREAT MEETING IN BERGEN COUNTY.
THE LARGEST REPUBLICAN GATHERING foR YEARS
SPEECHES BY MIR. PHELPS AND GENERAL
MERRITT


A great Republican demonstration took place
last night in the Democratic hot bed of Tenapy y j.
which WAS perhaps the largest that has been hcd III
Bergen county since the stirring times OF the war. II
was held near the country house Z" D. nun
Browning. president of the Northern ral""E VI
New Jersey whose public spirit led MN 10 pr".i"'
rye tent in which the speaking took place. Beroc
the meeting there was great torchligh procession oi
fnv 500 men IN uniform who came by special trains
from all parts Of Bergen County There were also heaI
COO from Nyak. Piermont and sparkbil They h"',"'u
TO MI Browning house where they were revieWe" ny
william Walter Phelps whom they then escorted 10 'n'
MIR Browning presided over the meeting Before the
arrival Of Ms Phelps Francis Rowland and "lDer H.
HAYES made short speeches.
when Mr. Phelps was introduced he was received win
lon,coutnued and hearty applause. He reviewed MI
Blaines private record. and In speaking oil the el"c
ndications which lac had received from the people SAID
These were the charge, made in the spring o l-to
This was the ne carried to the jury OF ~ cof
men The charges came first before Democrhtlc
Con,mittces of a Democratic House and all those com
mttees either acquitted him dropped The
What /. the Democratic explanation That he hed rom
Me House 70 avoid an adverse report from the last com
mitee WHITTIER Into the senate chnn'r ih1 H. -
ro fge and hundreds of my couniryin"n wouu ilh !"
rs TO- Laughter and applause But 80 lie" Re' 'n'
chance ,--.,...... ~, ,,,,ro
Lei me tell YOU how he fled The Legislature o. Malnc
I'm its haste to confirm the yndication when Cohkrs
had just made. begged the Governor ana we @ ~
sent promptly to vacant seat III VI. Sen'c T.,
blaine the author of the Mullgnn letters heet.1 a.
the meantime the Republicans OF the lhlteu NlH"r
their National Convention were having tsolr ,don,ia
James q Blaine lacked but 81 votes of fresin"h'iH
nomination, and could anyone have tod ne uoi,saes
aat they were not voting Tor uyllE h,' tts would
the Mulligan letters and not R!therinu u vi,d
eight yonrs ago have been the President ot m" lun
| sIaies iCh""ra Tor plainrl In the Republican Con
vcn,on I'm t4so htcofouttha ~ the dol"Ea"' ftnh -.
unbcnn dlstrioia voted for llnuo and when tl" con
MENTION failed u nominate HIM they nomh,'u VI ~" H.
re, friend and wnimc't nlN. Nh'n "h,rn,l" , ,,,L
author otthr Mullisan lctt'tn th' b'hn ~ hl gn,nf
administration the county rhoefrd, anu not 0'h'"'
! horitated to- confirm The select , t.,.t t, ,,,
i,ttt hon fiig
| woflhlc.i man to speak the wnida Whi,n
should place Garfield In the promo, niche IT. H."
! Wnihnn of history, n selected James " n n
aud The urnpir shouted Amen Itfrh applause in''
nfr the successive Answers his country i,h nay, sN'
| Go .hc charges which mac" ANA envy maui ~ @
ago which mnlicr and riNt repeat To-Day. \ ic ~"
nir m, Given ever, yiud,H tom hd every honor "lihh
H. gift save one, Ia jaime, g. ihilhr' IL Pi"P"''' "
| give that Long continued applause
! Edwin A. Merritt Consul General al London wa"
arrived in rh- city on Friday last short leave oil an
sence said. IN part:
Throu,h the courtesy Of the Department OF state
have been permitted 10 take my short vacation i'll ,hC
United STATES. In consequence oil Ur "p,c1'v H.
nr,-cut time do not much u gIct the u'h! a.
| / shall have the opportunity 10 use my influence III
my for Blaine ana LOGAN ncIoI1 t't. ~
principal most seriously Mtrctt- 'i- ll
| American Industry and American labor mus
OF necessity be Of paramount inPE Pc, '' ih. ~
only IN the present campaIsn 9i III inc" ,'.
tho future also. English mauuld l"ill4 , ~
! greatly depressed notwithstanding the chel,h'-S ="
labor and the manufacturer ana merchants "l I'-l
mn, wutchiug with the krcnc-f interest ilr W"-~S
~. ,.pn,,u Tin. frc. trade ORGANIZATIONS OF EA-lu
are sustained and encouraged with the nope Hll ui
view, be adopted III other countries auu '7l-sf
rnusdrrion o. subject that thcrZcal ln prom
their view. /, due 90 the pecuniary interests
and IA desire for the supremacy OF England anu hp' ~
any broad hunauitarian principles OF Importance OF
| value to the United -lat'-