Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-05-09
LIBERAL CONVENTION
Greeley Nominated for President
Gratz Brown for Vice President.
A VERY Observation-Disclosures.

Gratz Brown Tor Vice President.
A VERY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Liberal Convention held al
Cincinnati last week closed its labors on
Friday. Wednesday and Thursday were
spent in speculating upon the chances
of candidates and by committees ma
king up their reports. Il being known
that Friday would be the great decisive
field day in the Convention, the CALLER
les were densely packed, with every
inside spot to which access could be
gained by spectators, among whom
were a larger proportion of ladies than
at any previous session. Seats of dele
gates were also much more than usually
full at the hour of meeting. Lockers
on employed the interval between the
arrival and commencement of business
in surveying notabilities on the floor,
many of whom became centers of optics
aided by opera glasses.
At precisely 10 o'clock Mr.. Schurz
whose appearance on the platform wa;
greeted with some demonstration o.
applause called the Convention to order
The President desired to make state
ment to the Convention. lie said:
My attention has been called to the
fact that morning newspaper of thi:
city published q dispatch alleged to
have been sent by me to one of the can,
didates before this G Ive. .,.iul, Idesirt
to say the e-Siatenl 'sIt is Itt, riy untrue
TApplause. Ideciii it Incumbent or
me, in the official position L here oc
cupy, to act with the utmostimpartial,
ityi and moi. to take any part in the
contest between candidates for nOmina
ton, but to use whatever influence
can exercise for the sole object of pro
noting harmonious action of this Con,
vention. [Cheers. 1t has also been
stated that this dispatch accounted: fol
the anxiety of the Chair to prevent the
nomination of candidates last night. ]
desire to say that verystatement which
proceeded from the Chair last might
was made at the express request Of The
committee on Resolutions. fApplause.
Mr.. Gilmore, of Missouri, offered
resolution that when the Convention
reaches the point of balloting for can
didates there shall be no formal pre-
sentation of candidates, but the Con
vention will proceed to vote. a';fs
Mr.. Dexter, of Illinois, sustained the
proposition, He wanted to proceed II
business and avoid mare personal eulo
gies. The resolution was carried.
Horace White, from the Platform
committee, reported the resolutions
unanimously adopted by the commit
tee, and also an address to the people
as fOlloWsI 5t...s
Address TO THE PEOPLE. :.
The Administration now in powe
has rendered itself guilty of wantoI
disregard of the laws of the land, anC
of powers not granted by the Constitu
ton. It has acted as if the laws hal
binding force only for those who ar
governed, and not for those who govern
1t has thus struck a blow at the funda
mental principles of Constitutional Gov
ernment and the liberties of the oiti
zens. The President of the United
States has openly used the powers an6
opportunities of this high Office for thu
promotion OF personal ends. He hai
kept notoriously corrupt and unworthy
men in places of power and responsi
bility, He has used the public servic'
Of the Government az a machinery o
partisan and personal influence, and in
ferfered, with despotic arrogance, il
the affairs of States and municipalities
He has rewarded with influential anC
lucrative offices men who had acquired
his favor by valuable points, thus slim
lulating the. decentralization of our po
litical life by his conspicuous example
He has shown himself unequal to tn,
task, imposed upon him blythe neces
sities of the country, and culpably care
less of the responsibilities Of his higl
Office. The partisans Of the admins
tration, assuming to be the Republican
party and controlling its organization
have attempted to justify such wrong
and palliate such abuses to the end 0
maintaining partisan aseepdency,-
They, have stood in the way of neces
sary Investigations and indispensable
reform, claiming no serious fault cOuit
be found with the present administra
ton of public, affairs thus seeking t
blind the eyes of the people. The,
have kept alive the passions and resent
/ ments of the late civil war, to use then
for their own advantage, They hay
resorted to arbitrary measures In direc
conflict with the organic law, instea'
of appealing to the better instincts ant
latent patriotism of the Southern peo
pie, by restoring to them those right
the enjoyment of which is indispens
able for successful administration O
their local affairs, and would tend t
renew patriotic and hopeful Iiationa
feeling. They have degraded them
selves and the name, of their party, on
justly entitled to the confidence of th
nation, by base sycophancy to. tn
despot OF Executive power and patron
age, unworthy of Republican freemen
They have sought to silence the voic
OF Just criticism, to stifie the mora
sense of the people and to subjugat
public opinion by tyrapnical party dis
cipline. They are striving totmaintail
themselves in authority for selfish ends
by an INSCRIPTIONS use of the powe
which rightfully belongs to the, peopl
and should DE employed only in tn
service of the country.
Believing that an Organization thu
led and controlled cannot longer be G
service to the pest interests of the Re
public, we have resolved to make al
independent appeal to the sober judg
ment, conscience and patriotism Of tn
American people. - ... -, 49,,
THE PLATFORM. 4.tE
We, the Liberal Republicans of tn
United States, in National Convention
assembled, at Cincinnati, proclaim tn
following principles as essential to jus
government: ssgF
1st. We recognize the equality of al
men before the law, and hold that it
the duty of the Government, in il
dealings with the people, to mete ou
equal and exact justice to all, of what
ever nationality, race, color or persua
sion, religious or political,
I'd. We pledge ourselves to ,naaintai