Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-03
CHOW CHOW.
What Is the Matter With
New Jersey?
THE FISK OGRE THREATENS 1T
William Walter Thinks He Sees q
Chance for Phelps in
the Future.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, July 2.-Congressman
William Walter Phelps has returned to
the city, and reviewing the work of the
Chicago Convention says: After five
days of incessant discussion, and having
established the correct principles OF
choice, the Convention chose Gen. Harri-
son with surprising unanimity. They
wanted doubtful State; Harrison lived
in Indiana. They wanted Western
candidate Harrison was in the West
and not far enough from the East to be
out of knowledge and sympathy with
Eastern thought. Harrison lived near
the center OF population and was almost
COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH
OF the nations wants. He was neither
a granger nor an anti-granger. He had
good running qualities of another kind !;
had home and cherished it. He had
all the homely qualities which are
the best gift to an American
who seeks Office by popular vote. He
had good record and not too much Of
it. He had ancestry, but did not depend
upon it. These were the reasons which
influenced the Convention, after six
days of honest and conscientious
examination, to nominate General
| Harrison. 1t was the best
possible outcome. He was the one can
didate had personally urged for many
| months as one of the easiest to elect,
and was entirely sincere when 1 tele-
graphed to General Harrison that he was
| the one happy issue out of all our
troubles, and that the Convention was
very fortunate to have found it out.
ABOUT THE vICE-PREsIDENCY,
/ am afraid l am an interested witness
there. l can say that, though heartily
approve of Morton's selection and will
loyalty work for him, ought to, for he
has been my friend from boyhood. 1
am proud of his business career,
and still prouder OF his poll
tical career. have watched
this carefully from the beginning, and
| must confess never knew man who
grew faster than he, unless possibly
Warner Miller. Both seem to have had
high aptitude in this election, so that
both are continually surprised and pleas
ed by doing each task even better than
you expected they would. Morton makes
the ticket very strong in New York, and
when New York, for the first time in the
history of the Conventions. united its
vote and asked his nomination, he was
entitled to it, and the Convention would
have done wrong to reject the request Of
for the nomination and my only
fo ~,
New York did not agree on a candidate.
In that case the New Jersey plan was,
as New York cannot be carried without
dency to us.
We will carry our State. Indiana and
New Jersey will elect the ticket. l don't
Jersey without having a Jersey man on
the ticket, but it will be harder, for the
Jersey people are clanish and love their
folks. 1t would not be hard in any case
EXCEPT FOR FISK.
And he ought to be ashamed
of himself, for he used to be a good Re-
publican and as anxious for the pros
perity of the State as any of us. He
knows that tariff is all that keeps half of
our people from starvation, and he is 60
| ing to get his followers to throw away
their votes and livelihood at the same
time, and how he dare ask them to do it
l can't understand. If they refuse to do
SO, and indications are strong in that
direction, we shall carry the State.
The Jersey delegates as they journed
homeward, all cheered their way
with this conjecture If Miller and Nor
ton should not carry New York after all,
and Sewall and Phelps should carry New
Jersey and save the Republican ticket,
what could the convention then do? So
you see we are not discouraged, and have
new motive to urge us to carry New
Jersey for Harrison and Morton.