New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-15
ROOSEVELT AT ULMER PARK.
HE SPEAKS AT THE RALLY OF GOOD
GOVERNMENT CLUBS.

THE STATUTES OF THE STATE
MAYOR STRONG PRESENT.
rsu .rv ~ Good Government Clubs at Umer
park Gravesend Bay Long Island. yesterday AFTER
noon and evening did not attract many peop.e ih's
was partly because OF the extraordinarily cool
weather and partly because the park is a long dis
lance from this city
The programme announced for the rally Included
speakng athletic games bowling, bathing and other
amusements The speakers were to have been mayor
Strong Acting Mayor jackson Wallace OF Brook
:vn. Theodore Roosevelt president OF the Police
Board and Andrew ID. Parker Police Commis-
.,oner: Frederick w. Hnrchs. Brooklyn's Register
of Arrears James w. Pryor. secretary OF 'ne wy
Club: John Brooks Leavltt. OF the Ath D's'r'c'
Good Government Club, and others banquet was
aso the programme
NOT DAUNTED BY COOL WEATHER.
or the speakers. Mayor Strong. COMMISSIONS
Roosevelt Register Hinrchs and Mr. LeaVi't SPOKE
IN the afternoon, and few others at the oahque'
last night 1t needless TO say there was no pa'n-
ting the athletic games consisted mainly OF certain
warming-up exercises and the dancing moor III lhe
s,ternoon was as bare as Mordreds Shield Inc
,arv had been arranged somewhat hastily, ana
while those in charge felt somewhat mortineo d. INC
slim attendance most OF the audience determheo 10
have a good time In spite OF the elements ana re-
yarded the frost" as a good joke The speeches
interesting, the banquet was NOihAN''"'o 49,
the Spartan bravery shown In dlsregardihg the
xeather NAV be significant OF that steadfastness
which the Good Government Cub members VIII
show in their struggle with Tammany Hall
When a Tribune reporter got to the park about
o'clock yesterday afternoon he found members Oh
the Committee Arrangements waiting TOT Mayor
Strong and other invited guests to arrive from inns
city The committeeman were Julius BumDerg'
chairman: Jacques Belser. Benjamin Reass' Arthur
H. Ety. Edward d. Page. Solomon A Conn. Oicot'
Payne Alexander S. Drescher. Z. A. Petit. LOUIS
Jnman John r. Eustice. Dr. Robert kunitzer' me
Rev William Ware Locke. Louis LIGHTER. James W.
PRYOR Joseph Sternberger. George W. Miller ignace
Steiner Gregory Wensten, DIR. Sternlichter ana ).
" Wing Some of the committeeman met mayor
Strong and the other guests In this city ana escorted
them 10 the Battery Slip OF the Th,rty-nnth-s''
tBrooklyn) Ferry. whence the party proceeded 10
Brooklyn and took specially decorated troliey-car
for the park.
ARRIVAL OF THE SPEAKERS.
II was after o'clock before this car. crowded
with shivering guests, was brought 10 STOP oppo-
site the park entrance. after long trip through
omen country over which a cold wind was sweep
ing Several other cars brought members anu
friends, and when everybody was mustered III
big bare dancing pavilion 1t was found that ABOUT
one hundred and fifty had rallied" Among these
were Mayor Strong. Commissioner Roosevelt neg
lister Hinrchs, James w. Pryor, Prehle Tucker
L. j. Callahan. S. Carman Harriet. Thomas A. Full
ton F. J. Mosentha. Maurice J. KATE, isaac H.
Klein John Brooks Leavitt. +. A. Petit Assembly
man Lawson. Alderman Benjamin h. Hail. Il.
Latham Gordon Wendell Louis LIGHTER, Assem-
h,vnan Niles Mr. Nevins and Police Commissioner
Welles of Brooklyn
chilling wind was blowing from the Bay "here
were anchored the sloop-yachts Eclipse and Nina
T. belonging to Messrs. Callahan and Miller OF 'he
Good Government Clubs. 1t was cold In the pavii-
ION and most of the male members and guests sat
md
nockets talking about the recent yacht races ana
the coming battle against Tammany Hail. ana
wondering whether the rally would De pos'poheu
or the rallyng point changed to this city Inc
women in the party shivered and talked 10 ther
shiyering escorts. Away at the other end OF the
dancing floor a lonely brass band played melodi-
ously. Two couples began dancing. but felt they
were conspicuous and gave II up some OF the
men found nourishment and refreshment at the
pavilion bar.
Mayor Strong surrounded by friends. sat In the
sunshine at a table placed at the Bay end OF the
pavilion. Presently Chairman Blumberg announced
that the speeches would be made In a smaller man,
where there was some shelter from the cold breeze
In this hall there gathered the siout-hearted Few
VINO had cheerfully defed distance and weather
that would have turned Tammany picnic INTO
absolute desolatOn.
COMMISSIONER ROOsEVELT'S SPEECH
The first speaker was Police Commissioner Roose-
welt On the platform with MIN were Mdsoi S'iN'ie
and Chairman Blumberg. The Commissioner, In
his STRAIGHTFORWARD earnest way. said in part:
| believe 1t is greatly TO the credit OF the Good
Government clubs that they believe more In work
than In play. We know the good work they nave
done. and hope they will do more good Work at
the % me- eee k%r Su aoG Sou ses
You'll be in the fight TO the hnish' WE'LL
have only one thing to say to you; notice
that Senator HI dd r not IKE, what bo said He He
honest enforcement
question Of it's ns" ENFORCEMENT When the Senator
says ne is against the Police Commission and for
now S sa Se he
is in v9s Of crime Shall DO mot mot S Snon b the
books and not enforced
concerned the me commssioners would take the same
course they have taken u they had to DO It anew
zens in favor OF honest government. yet he result
OF the coming elections will not affect these views
faithfully our official oaths and II they want to
stop us they'll have to get us out Of office FIRST
missai. or in one single measure, have we paid at
city and II the common veal Ne do not regard the
adin;s,stratlon Of the. Police Department in any
Questions We deal with have a relation to city or
stand Tor honest election officers II i bad not
been for that stand. you would have had many
bic result
IMPARTIAL EXCISE ADMINISTRATIONS.
have long been accustomed to receiving the
inverted benedlctons OF the saloonkeepers. We are
not responsible for the Law, but we are going to
try 10 enforce II on Ffth-ave well as on the
Bowery II II the wealthiest club In the
land we would proceed against IL In one as
we would In the other. We are trying 10 act In
perfect equity. toward one person az well as an
other No threat cajolery will alter de-
termination. II the people object TO what we do,
they will have to put US out.
he'd
left for this city Mayor Strong did not speak in
the hall.
John Brooks Leavi,t. being introduced. then spoke
OF the fact that the Police Commission was for
six years, and that that meant dry Sundays for
six years Continuing. he said In part: