Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-24
The Liberal Republicans of Ar
kansas in OOnventiOn-JOseph
Brooks is a Candidate for
Governor.
Preamble and Resolutions Passed
DenOuncing Grant, Clayton,
and the Greedy Office
Holding Ring.
Horace Greeley, B. Gratz Brown
and the Cincinnati Platform
Unanimously IndOrsed-
A Counter r-RepOrt.

LITTLE Rock, May 23.-The Liberal
Republican State Convention of Arkan-
sas assembled at ten o'clock this morn
/ ing. Colonel John A. Williams, of Pine
! Bluff, was elected permanent President
| Joseph Brooks, of Pulaski county, was
nominated for Governor by acclamation
1 He accepted tine nomination in a short
I speech, when the convention took a re-
cess until two O'Clock in the afternoon.
Upon re-assembling, the committee
submitted, as follows,
A SERIES OF RESOLUTIONS.
The ring which controls the State
! Government has inflicted on the people
| the worst government ever tolerated by
people. They have robbed the people
of the benefits of the ballot by fraudu-
| lent registration, ballOt-box stuffing,
etc.; increased taxation and our State
| Indebtedness to millions, without any
corresponding benefit to the State; have
prostituted the courts of the State until
they have become the engines of oppres-
sion, ETC.; therefore,
RESOLVED, That we are in favor of uni
versal suffrage, universal amnesty, and
honest men for officers; in favor of hon
est elections, reduction of taxation, re-
form in the courts; opposed to the
enormous appointing power of the Gov
ernOr; opposed to the corrupt manage
ment of the finances; in favor of civil as
against military government, and un-
qualifiedly condemn the use of the mil
itary in times of peace TO carry elections
against the choice Of a majority of the
legal electors; oppose the reputation of
any honest debt, but are equally deter
mined to shield the State against all pre-
tended debts imposed upon our people
by the fraudulent issue of levee and rail-
road bonds; reiteTate relentless adher-
ence to republicanism; that all men are
entitled to equal civil and political
equality, and favor the removal of all
civil and political disabilities.
And whereas a large number of per-
sons were indicted in the Federal Courts
in this State for a most fragrant viola
ton of the election laws, and President
Grant, upon the application and in the
interest of such indicted criminals and
their accessories, suspended honest and
efficient officers for no other reason than
that they would vigorously enforce the
law, and allowed and permitted such
indicted criminals to designate and name
the Marshal to select the jury by which |
they were to be tried, and the attorney
to prosecute them for such offences, |
whereby the criminals were turned loose |
without punishment and the law |
trampled under foot; and fraud and |
crime encouraged, and has seen fit to
take sides with and support and sustain
the corrupt statehOuse ring in their in
iquities against the people;
And whereas, il is now evident that |
President Grant will receive the nomi- |
nation for President by the convention |
of Otfice-hOlders to be held in Philadel- |
phia; therefore be it
ResOtUed, That we emphatically con- |
denim the course of the President in his
with Arkansas affairs, in
the interest of crime and disorder, and |
decline to send delegates to the Philadel-
phia Convention.
And whereas, Horace Greeley and B. |
GratZ Brown are now before the Ameri- |
can people as Republican candidates for .
President and Nice-President, upon .
platform which we heartily approve, and |
that they are men of unquestioned abili-
ty, integrity, and patriotism, and have
for many years been the earnest and |
consistent advocates and champions of
and universal freedom:
therefore be it
Resolued, That we cordially indorse
the nomination of the said Horace
Greeley and B. Gratz Brown, and the
platform upon which they stand; and
pledge ourselves to cooperate with the
friends of civil government and reform
throughout the land in securing their
election.
A MINORITY REPORT
was presented by one member of the
in favor of sending delegates
10 Philadelphia, but it was voted down
BY a large majority, and the majority
report adopted finally by rising vote,
and made unanimous.
The convention then took a recess un-
i'll eight o'clock this evening.