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me Member nom san JOaquln.
The Chairman then read the follnwino


thizes with the object and aims of this Con
l yention- Therefore, she has acted with the
Republican party and believes in common
with the members of this Convention. that
there are grave errors to correct and MANY
reforms needed Ia said party, -and. is desir-
Gus Oh Uniting her action practically
with them for the accomplishment
OF 50 = desirable an object. She
repTesents further that according Go the an
pointment California is entitled to ten dele
gates and ten votes ia the Convention, but
besides herself there are only four citizens
of that State presentto REPRESENT. lthe Gill
Zens thereof, and being DESTROYS that Cali
! fornia shail1be as fully represented as prac-
/ ticable, she has applied to one De tive pre-
sent from that State to be recognized as a
| delegate with themselves, and finding them
Indifferent to her claims or doubtful of the
! Convention accepting female citizen as a
member, she therefore appeals directly to
1 the honorable officers and members of the
Liberal Republican Convention, and re-
1 specially asks to be admitted as member
and delegate to the Convention from the
State of California and entitled under the
rules therefore to all the rights and privileges
of such. l am very respectfully, etc,
~ LAURA DEFoRCE GORDON.
Tho reading of the letter was received
with cheers. 1t was moved and seconded
that the paper be referred to the Commit
tee on Credentials. Carried with a ire
mendous "aye.p - e
The delegation from Pennsylvania moved
the appointment of committee of one
from each State and Territory, to whom
shall be referred all resolutions, and which
shall report resolutions for the action of
this body. The delegation moved to amend
by making it two from each State. Not
seconded. The original motion was put and
carried. 10 90
The New York SecessIOnfsts.
Judge Seldom, of New York; hold in
my band protest from some of my friends
of New York against the action of the ma
jOrity Of the delegates of New York, by
which some delegates were improperly ex-
Guided, and which 1 ask to have referred to
the Committee on Credentials. Permission
was granted.
Mozart Hall, Cincinnati, May 2.-To
the Committee on Credentials: We, the
undersigned members from New York, of
the Convention of Liberal Republicans, who
are opposed to the nomination of Horace
Greeley, present respectfully this protest
against the manner in which the represen-
tative delegates have been chosen by the
whole body of members Of the State of
New York, and against their recognition
by the convention as a proper delegation
from this State. A committee was APP
pointed by the whole body of members of
one from each judicial district, making a
committee of eight, instructed TO report the
names OF 6S representative delegates, the
said delegates TO be nominated by the dele
gates present from. the several districts.
From this committee every person sharing
our views concerning the nomination of
Greeley was studiously excluded, althoughin
the first judicial district alone we
numbered twenty persons. The del
egates then present from tie entire
State numbering but 81. We further state
that in the First Congressional District Ed
ward II. Seaman was nominated by the del
egation present from that district as one of
the representative delegates, and after it
was ascertatned that Mr.. Seaman was op-
posed to lhe nomination of Mr.. Greeley,
another person, known as 'gSocl1y Moore"
was substituted for him by the committee.
We further state that the delegates present
from The Eighth Congressional District met
as directed by the chair, and nominated by
vote of S out of l3 delegates then aud
there present, James d. Bishop and Thos.
Duffy as their representative delegates, and
that this choice was duly reported to and
disregarded by said committee, aud by the
whole number of members in its election,
and that the representative delegates re-
ported by the committee and elected by the
whole body from this district were never
nominated at any meeting Of any resident
delegates thereof, as required by the in
structiOns of the Convention and by reso-
luton of our members. We further state
that in the TWenty-ssventh Con-
gressiOnal District one delegate
present recommended himself aud Theo.
Bacon as representative delegates, and that !
upon ascertaining that Mr.. Bacon was OPP |
posed TO the nomination of Greeley, the |
committee substituted without consultation |
with any resident Of the 9th congressional |
district, the name of a person known to |
concur in the views Of the majority. We |
further state that no persons were present !
as members of the convention from several |
congressional districts and that in the cleo !
ton of representative delegates to fill these |
vacancies, all persons understood to be OPP
posed 20 the name of Greeley were studi-
ously ignored. We further state that at a
meeting Of the whole body of |
members, motion was put and carSed in
strUctiDg the entire representative delega-
ton to cast their vote solid for Greeley I'M
til twenty delegates request that they
should retire for consultation and even af-
ter that, the vote of the whole State was 10
be cast as the majority should direct, disre-
garding entirely the preferences Of particu-
lar districts; and that we protest against the
vote of the State of New York being re-
ceived in shat manner. We further submit
that the representative delegation as at
present constituted does not represent the
mass delegation of the State"
This document was signed by some
twenty-odd New Workers and was referred
to the Committee on Credentials.
Chairman. There are three committees
that are now to be filed by one delegate to
be appointed from each Slate and territory.
The Committee on the Order of Business,
the Committee on Permanent OrganiZa ion,
and the Committee on Resolutions and
Platform.
A delegate-Before the roll is cal ed I
suggest that the Committee on Cred ntials
be requested to prepare their report for ac-
ton.
The Committee on Credentials were
then requested to retire.
Col. Nichols called the roll of States and
territories on which the names of the COM
miLtee men were reported. We give the
committee men from leading States:
Committee on observation-disclosures, S. F.
Rice; Illinois, Horace White; Indiana,
Thos. G. Whitesides; Kentucky, John
Mason; Missouri, VIM. J. Grosvenor; New
York, -; Ohio, George Hoadley;
Hon. VIM. NJ. Bull; Ten
nessee, @. P. Thruston.
Committee on Observation-Disclosures,
-; Illinois, L. Walden; Indiana, W.
Il. Weiss; Kentucky, F. w. Campbell; Mis-
souri,, Jas. n. Burns; New York, Edward
r. REYNOLDS; Ohio, Rufus p. Spaulding;
Pennsylvania, Daniel Barclay; Tennessee,
Julius Ochs.
Committee on Rules-Aabama, w. F.
Hatchell; Illinois, Jesse o. Norton; Indiana,
r. n. Hudson; Kentucky, VIM. kriegshob-
er; Missouri, Geo. Anderson; New ork,
Theo. Tiltou; Ohio, II. i. Barnett; Penn
sylvania, Thos. j. E. Beyer; Tennessee,
Hon. J. S. Fowler.
a Delegate-In order to afford these COM
mittees time to prepare reports, and the
delegates time to get dinner, L move that
this convention now take a recess till 2
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