Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-07-10
THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION.
AFTERNOON SESSION YESTERDAY
Permanent Organization Effected
The speech Of Mr. DooIittie, &c.
AFTER ADJOURNMENT.
Serenade to the District Delegates, Il


dent James r. Doolittle, of Wisconsin; also, a
list of vice presidents and secretaries, one o.
each being chosen from every state and the Dis
trict of Columbia. Mr.. Il. T. Merrick wa
chos, vice president from the District of Co
lumbia. and Robert Ould from Virginia. Mr.
VIM. Dickson was appointed secretary from the
District OF Columbia The report was adopted,
and subsequently Senator Bay2rd Of Delaware,
and Governor Hoffman, of New York, were
appointed by the chair to escort the permanent
president to the chair.
MR.. poOLITTLE's ADDRESS.
Mr.. Doolittle, on taking the chair, delivered
speech, in the course of which he gave great
credit TO the Missouri republicans for inaugu-
rating the liberal movement. He referred to
the Cincinnati convention and the Greeley plat
form in eulogistic terms. and spoke of the pro-
posed union OF democrats and liberal repub-
licans as follows Instead of prescription, test
oaths, suspension of habeas corpus, and military
despotism, it mesns personal freedom for the
Individual and republican government for all.
loud applause.l Instead of negro supremacy,
upheld by prescription and the bayonet, it means
equal rights to all men, white as well as black.
ments organized to plumber subjugated states,
it means the domination once more of intelli-
gence and integrity. [Applause.l Instead of
strife, hate and robberyit means justice, lib
erty, peace, loyalty, and goodwill And, gen.
tiemen, for our whole country, east, west,
north and south, it means, instead of q war
President, trained only in q military school,
and whose whole character has been formed in
the ideas, arts, habits and despotism of military
nfe-1nstea0 OF this II means the election OF
peace President lcheersl trained in the ideas,
arts, blessings and republican simplicity
OF peace and universal freedom, loud cheer
ing; OF peace not enchanted; OF liberty, not
under arrest awaiting trial, sentence and exc
cution by drum-head court-martals, but that
liberty and that peace which the constitution
secures by placing the civil law above the sword,
loud applausel, by preserving In full vigor the
sacred writ of habeas corpus, and the right of
trial by jury. Applause.l 1t means another
thing, and perhaps the most important of them
oil %. al; xaN,a -.
power in the federal government Loud cheer
ing.l 1t means to assert the vital principle of
our republican system, IN which 1t lives and
moves and has its very being-that constitutions
are made by the people in their sovereign ca
pacity for the express purpose Of defining and
limiting the powers of government-[applause,
1t means that we are determined that Presi-
dents and Governors, Congresses and state leg
islatures, and every department OF the govern
ment shall obey the constitution. prolonged
civil service reform, beginning with
the presidential office. lApplause.] 1t
means to put an end forever TO certain prac-
tices which have grown up with this administra-
ton, which have driven so many Of the ablest
republicans to join in this liberal movement,
and which have deeply wounded the hearts OF
country [applausel, practices which never ex-
listed under any other administration, which are
but too well known to all the world, and which
our nations good reputation will be best con-
suited by not even naming. [Cheers.] 1t means
also to give strength and ability to our financial
affairs and our national credit by bringing hon
esty and economy and fidelity to every position,
federal, state and municipal, where public mo-
neys are collected and disbursed. lCheersl 1t
means also the honest payment Of all our obli-
cations. [Renewed spplause.l 1t means to
give higher tone and greater vigor to the ad-
ministratiOn of our foreign and domestic affairs,
so as to command the respect and the confidence
OF our own people and of all the civilized world
1t means to place in the highest Offices or our
government men of whom all the world will say
they are honest and they are capable. (Ap-
plause.
Gentlemen, l have thus briefly stated the sit
uation, the duties and the purpose which bring
us here. A great responsibility rests upon this
convention. III its action shall be such (snd /
doubt not it will BEL as TO put an end to the
misrule which for the last few years has afflicted
our beloved country, this generation and gen.
erations to come after us will remember with
pride and gratitude the convention at Baltimore
of the 9th of July, 1872.
Amid loud and long continued applause Mr..
DoOlittle took his seat.
THE DISTRICT sNUBBRD.
After the appointment of a committee on res
olutiODs, consisting of one from each state, a
delegate from Connecticut moved that there be
added to the list Of states already called the Dis
trict Of Columbia, and that she be allowed q
member on the committee Oh resolutions.
Another delegate moved to amend by adding
s. and from each OF the territories" which
amendment was accepted by the mover of the
resolution. After considerable discussion, the
resolution was laid on the table.
THE WOMAN QUESTION.
A number OF resolutions were sent up to the
chair, and referred to the committee on resolu-
tons without reading. Among them was the
following, offered by James Gallagher, OF Con-
necticut:
Resolved, That accepting the constitution as
it is, with the fourteenth amendment declaring
all persons born or naturalized in the United
States, subject to the jurisdiction thereof, citi-
zens, and concurring in the opinion Of Judge
fancy, that "a citizen is one who has entire
equality OF privileges, civil and POLITICAL" we
lnfxtp Ala
being citizens, possessed of the right to vote,
and entitled to national protection in the exer-
else thereof.
ALL here.
The committee on credentials reported every
state fully represented, there being in all732 del
egates present. The following names were read
THE NATIONAL RxECurIvE COMMITTEE:
Alabama, Thos. III. A. Walker; Arkansas, s.
X. Cockrell; California, Frank McCappin; Con-
necticut, VIM. H. Barnum; Delaware, Charles
Beasten; Florida, Charles T.. Dyke; Georgia, A.
X. Wright; Illinois, Cyrus II. Mccormick; Ind-
ana, 1hos. Bowling; Iowa, M. M. Ham; Kansas,
Louisiana, Henry d. Ogden; Maine, L. D. Nj
SWEET; Maryland, A. Leo Knott; Massachusetts,
Frederick U: Prince; Michigan, VIM. A. Moore;
Minnesota, VIM. Lochren; Mississippi, j: II.
Sharp; Missouri, John g. Priest; Nebraska, Geo.
l.. Miller; Nevada, Thos II. Williams New
Hampshire, NJ. v. b. Edgerly; New Jersey.
Thee. F. Randolph; New York. Augustus Schell;
North Carolina, M W. Ransom; Ohio, j. G.
Thompson; Oregon, Robert j. Ladd; Pennsyl-
vania, James ID. Barr; Rhode Island, Gideon
Bradford; South Carolina, Thomas Y. Simons;
Tennessee, VIM: b. Bate; Texas, F. $. Stock
dale; Vermont, h. b. Smith; Virginia, John
Goode; West Virginia, John Blair Hoge; Wis
consin; Geo. H. Paul.
When New York was called Governor Hoff-
man arose and said: "Mr. Belmont has pre-
scented to the New York delegation q letter de-
Ginning reappointmenf npon the national ex-
ecutive committee, and the delegation with en-
tire unanimity present the name of Mr.. Angus
tus SchelL" The name of Ar. Belmont was re-
ceived with cheers. Adjourned.
At q meeting of the committee on resolutions,
on Monday night, it was agreed, after consider
able discussion, to submit the following
PkEANBLR TO THE CINCINNATI PLATPORN:
"We, the democratic electors OF the Cnited
States, In convention assembled, do present the
following principles, already adopted at Cincin-
natl, as essential to just government"
A MASS NETTING
was held In Monument square last night, vhsD
speeches were made by John p. Irish, Of Iowa.
General McLain, OF Arkansas. and otherr'
During the evening the Americas club of Phila-
delPhis, serenaded Hon. Thomas Swami, Who
made aspeech In response.
eHRKMADE TO THE DISTRICT DRrHoArpe
At half past ten O'Clock the Young Mems
Democratic Club OF the District of Columbia.
and the Americus Club, Of Philadelphia, com,
plmented delegates from the District Hons, r.
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