Evening star., 1869-09-08

Of 0bscers-The Fourth Ward -ReunsIicsn
Club held meeting last night In the Council
Chamber, City Hall with Mr.. J. H. Orossman
in the chair and Prof. A NJ. Green, Secretary.
The object OF the meeting beng. ss stated Nv
the Secretary, 20 hear the report Of the commit.
tee appointed TO DRAFT constitution and by.
The proprtety OF going into the semi.annual
election Of ofhcers was discu ssed In q con YER
sational manner. after which, on motion or Mr..
A. X. Browne, the subject was postponed for
one month. Subsequently the vote was recon.
eidered, when Major Morse made an earnest
speech in opposition 10 going into In election of
permanent officers Of the club. He thought IL
the club went into an election now, It would
create division 10 the ranks OF the Rspubli.
cans Of the ward. Let ms wait for one month
in order that good Radical Republicans may be
chosen.
Councilman 8eorgeIw Ha,ton took excep.
tion to the remarks o. MAJOR Morse. whereiu
as he conceived, the meeting bad been branded
as being composed OF dis senters.
Mr.. Morse.-I deny having made uch an
sertion
Mr. Ha,ton said that NO other construction
could be eiven his (M.'s) remarks. The meet.
ing had been properly called, and It was no
iault of Major Morse that large crowd wa3
not present for he had never seen the time
man to attend, and he honored him for it The
speaker then addressed the meeting at some
length In favor OF an election at this time, and
In the conrse OF his remarks gave 1t to be un-
derstood that he would NO longer be kept still
for party expediency when his con scienc ce
prompted him that such course was wrong
II an attempt was made to postpone the legiti.
mate business OF the meeting on the plea that
these present were dissenters, ne would sly
"away with any such policy" He was a Re-
publican, and his freedom consisted in free
ever say to him. .'keep your seat" He would
not be dictated to by any plrty or party lender
Major Morse replied that he needed no other
evidence than Hatton s remarks had furnished
q hp lioft IA tharo a;
sion IN the meeting. 1t showed that there was
something behind the scenes, and that there
was wide.mouth dissension. He then pro.
ceeded TO address the meeting, asserting that
the constitution submitted was a new one, and
the members OF the club should have been
apprised OF the fact. and meeting not called
TO the erect that "important business was to
be transacted, without stating what that I'm
poriant business" was. He said 1t was too parIv
In the campaign TO call me etings to "bicker',
about matters not calculated to advance the
The Sccretory called Major Morse to order
ana contradicteo his assertions, saying his
position was entirely untenable.
Major Morse, continuing, said that he had
never yet descended so low as to be choked Off
The reading Of the constitution, he said. did
not enforce its principles or necessitate an i'm.
TO change the constitution without notifying
the member of the club that q new one was TO
De adopted II was evident to him that sucn a
course onsS W. Would 6e morally wrong and its effect
party could NOT succeed IL 1t was precipitats
IN action No man had a right to claim that an
absent republican would endorse q constitu-
fion adopted without his knowledge. The
early meetings of the Republicans, he SAID, had
peen cnaracferized by the local press as "dis.
graceiuI, and God knows the charge was too
tIue; ior their proce: dings were a disgrace to
tine party, and such scenes should not be
enacted again. He moved that the election be
postponed.
Mr.. Haiton move1 that the motion to pos,.
Prof Green then offered the following:
whereas difference OF opinion and divI.
sion c. sentiment within our ranks as Repub.
hcaus has well nigh worked q di vision of t1s
party and paraly Zed Its influence OF future sue.
cess and usefulness;
And whereas this state Of affairs has been
10 a great extent superinduced BY the coun-e.
nance and encouragement given to the worst
enemies OF our party by those whom we have
entrusted with the highest and most honored
positions within the giit of the people;
And whereas there seems to be determined,
obstinats, and studied disposition on the part
OF some of those so entrurted by US with power
and position TO even shut MS OF from the poor
privilege of criticising their official conduct;
and IN other cases to impugn our motives and
deride us for respectfully Indicating our pref.
erence with regard to Questions involving our
dear interests; therefore be 1t
Resolred, That we regret the necessity that
compels us even tor one moment to question
the tGgrity Of any of our leaders, their
firm adherence to those principles which must
objections, AND sun D0re 40 We stneersly re.
gret that spirit OF huakyism within our ranks,
which invariably allies itself with the breai
aud butter brigade, and on the side which for
the time being may seem to be the strongest and
most popular, and who when the scale turns
sre the most rabid aud fierce in denouncing the
position they hid previously occupied.
Resotred, That with regard to the difYerencfs
existing between his Honor the Mayor and the
leaders OF our party In the Fourth Ward, the
sy mpathies Of this club are Of necessity aud
from force OF circumstances with those scho
lcere E.h as. and who most aided us in the
hour OF our greatest need during tbs recent
well ted elec tion: and we repudiats every
iDsinuation, from whatever source, that we
have shifted quarters or changed our bIse IN
this contest, which has been kept up since that
time, when we defeated all whom we could
poss bly, get in our front on that memorable
occasion. Where lce stood then ne stand n0u, on
every Issue then and at present involved, and
come what Will, we shall never abandon those
principles or the men who valiantly stand up
in their defence, and we warn those men in
our community who seem willing to compro.
mise every principle OF honor and OF integrity,
tnat with and by the use they make Of the pres.
ent trust confided to them will they be iudEsd d
by the people, whose right 1t is to cit IN judg.
ment at the proper time in vindic1tion OF im.
partial justice and the integrity Of our party,
and of the purity Of its principles.
Resolred, That as regards the question of
charges preferred against his honol the Mayor
opinion at present to express. We believe the
axiom in most cases (and especially in t1Is
onej verify that "Suffieicnt unto the day IS
the evil thereof nevertheless, we regret ex.
ceedingly for the honor Of our party. that he
who labored to defeat the exposition of the
statement In the Board Of Aldermen, and who
has clearly evidenced a determination to de.
feat, II possible, the reasonable and Just de-
mand for an impartial Investigation, should
have been made chairman Of the committee OF
investigation, IN violation OF all the parlia-
mentary practice, a member Of the ward from
which said charges come having moved the
reference TO a special committee (aud simply
expressed the hope that the investigator be
conducted with lmpartiality and fairness) he
being thereby entitled TO its craftsmanship.
Resolred, That the only way to disabuse the
confidence OF the leading and tried RepGbli.
c1us OF this ward Of the opinions they are az
present compelled to entertain is, first to pay
The laboring men, who are now suffering for
the necessities OF life. the wages now due them:
and, second, tor his honor the Mayor and those
who are In his confidence to select and appoint
as commissioner OF this ward man who (from
his antecedents and by his present sympathy
with the best interests Of the party, who for
the hrst time In its history carried this ward at
the late eiection) will command the e7pect,
We must depend for success In the ensuing
municipal election.
Mr.. Green earnestly urged the adoption Of
the resolutions, as II was much better to meet
the issue al once. The people had kept silent
long enough, and II was now time that they
shonld speak out. Insidious silence meant
something, and he should shrink NO longer
from free expression OF his sentiments.
The resolutions were then adopted, after
which Mr.. Hatton reminded the meeting that
the half-hOur fixed upon for the election of