New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-17
REVIEWED BY MIR. PHELPS.
MR.. CLEvELAND's CAREER TOUCHED UPON.
THE CONGRESSMAN ADDRESSES THE NEWER
sEY CONVENTION WHICH RENohI-
.,Tra Mr.
sBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRrBrSEl

New Brunswick n. j., Oct l6.-1he RepnDlicans
went Wild with enthusiasm to-day at the convention IN
which they rcnomlnatcd Congressman kean ana were
addressed by Congressman William Walter Phelps.
The convention was that Of the lid Congressional
District which includes Union, Monmouth and Middle
sex Counties The assembly hall was iled with dele
gates and visitors and In the afternoon "heh Mr.
Phelps spoke there scarcely Dreaming room' Inc
convention was called to order by j. H. l. Martih, on
Woodbridge and John II. Russell, OF New brunswick,
was made chairman John Kean, jr, OF Elizabeth,
was renominatcd by reclamation. MI kean accepted
the nomination in brief speech Then Congressman
Phelps was introduced Mr.. Kean's opponent Is Jacob
A. Gessenhalner, a ew-Norksr, who spends his
summers at Freehold, and who has voted but once
In New-Jersey and nominated solely because
he was a millionaire. All this gave MI Phelps ino
chance for opening. lie SAID
Who this acknowledgements VINO Is
this Phistne who comes before and dees the armies
OF the Living Godl A New Yorker. Can he depend on
the OF his New-York friends to elect NM And
he have friends here where nobody knows hlmi NO
New-York votes good only in New fork-and Jersey
City They good only on the two shores OF the hud
sou. and the IIId Congressional District here
Mr. Phelps devoted himself TO Gcssenainer for
time, and then opened his batteries upon Grover
Cleveland and the Democrats, saying:
Let W examine career OF this man who has ben
nominated oppose Mr. Harrison for the Presidency
his public mean. for his private career must
be brought 10 light There has been an agreement
80 to speak OF dccency between
the respectable Republican respectable
Democratic orators IL the Democrats will not tel
lies about Harrison we Will tell the truth abort
Cleveland. But let examine his puCdlc career ~
the beginning great for nationality ale Ei
reached mans estate yet while Harrison was bshnr AZ
the lighting the bar in Buffalo sa- oh
There is not word that said, not word thai he
wrote not thing that he did, cXiant In hisory'
that shows him TO have Of the existence OF
this great struggle
But though he was patriotic our Democratic and
Mugwump friends may say he is courageous sufcre'
strong ana not to be from what he believes Do
right. Sol When he for President four years ago
himself to be unutteTaby opposed as was
the Confederate Constitution itscf 10 second ernl
Yet here he s using the whole power Of patronage to
STAY az the White House four years Does that
show the courage his convictonsf -Four years ago
he sincero-Oh how sincere! in his advocacy Of
Civil Service Reform. To-day we look upon the sweet
and angelic eountenance Of George William Gurus to
find how he has kept his promises. Poor Curtis like
Marus before ruins 81 Carthage he sits and httlng
his heavy head ne says mournfuly This IS tine FOR
thought and for speech" The Administration has
not been lifted the plane whore angels dwell There
has teen sweep Of the oniccs and not only that
but been what Jackson would not have con
ceivei what Pierce would have dared 70 put
in practice has been issued an order which con-
tains words something like these:
Here Mr. Phelps quoted the famous War Depart
ment order, which applied ALIKE to men ana women
and children Then he continued
If these things show Cleveland and sincere let
us see how patriotic he IL His 300 pension veoes
show that. There we're 900 when | stepped upon THIS
platform; there may be 3O1 His fisheries eseapade
shows It, After long remaining inactive when our rights
were attacked vessels fired upon by British gun
boats he does what Appoints commission empowered
to bargain with Canada the purchase OF our own rights
Buys these rights-our own-of Canada, and pays for
them 100000 In the Of duties Canadian FISH
Ana when to close that bargain which
he has negotiated 20 purchase what already belongs TO
Ms learns what he should have before that they
are ours without purchase reyerses his engines goes
back on himself his party and asks for power to
retaate-asks for power when power given him Il
say 1t sweet humility but with resoundins truth
two years before.
Mr. Pelps then touched upon the Mills bill and
the Presidents tariff views, and questioned IL such
q man and such pOkcy could be sustained