The New York herald., 1874-09-10
lRRAICNMENT OF TIE OLD PARTIES
The Extravaganza, Corruption and Tyr
amy Of the Administration.
OPPOSITION TO A THIRD TERM
An Adjournment to Await the Action of the
Other Conventions.
ALBANY, Sept. o, l87

The Liberal State Convention met In Tweddle
Han at fifteen minutes past twelve p. NJ, and was
called to order by General Cochrane, who ad-
dressed the Convention at great length critiising
the republican management OF public AFFAIRS He
said:-
ADDRESS OF GENERAL JOHN oocHRANE.
affairs the pTeSursor
10 s e which the has psa
by the opportunities OF unchecked power to gray
Pregnant with social anarchy. The mildes
H ns by o e
Possession Of power by venal and selfish rulers The
IN n the The % WITH hc
public treasure VIII hardly be restrained from amper
is Ssssnsrssy S;sssns lIe%
We SeGa
& Ss 81 he sns 1T sS the
tSe % s e ss ee nSas 81 e Of
servant There was only one rule then for the officer
cuniary competence the product Of private enter
fss @ n % MATED pHe
government frugalty Of expenditure the result No
s's@
no asscye etc cs tolls to csh @ an and
An this Is changed oontsntmsnt with moderate and
ssy ss s Ssss asss: sss
dOned tSr the brilliant schemes Of the political aaven
mate employment thousands pensoned the pub:
S The n G Is the re Of
SsTss parasites d the ls eoieston disrists IN % the
ssh the Of ts ss'
n s cost in @ Of them the RECEIPTS
msS Tssr Sss s rated at tie Setween ssSoo
poteststy Of the % peEqusites Of pseuia
ion ana pander to untold millions more In tnsse
encins popular ELECTIONS y enormousy mYplisd The
s s9d s
ns Hsnay public hs or Ssi pubic psn S
sa antn @ int 5aseslity and at each remove The
the primary osa0n otts chief ocsF to he
public shTonsS s!adss !. d!sserssd
& s
gard Tor self presides above the general welfare The
power pandsr Hence o9s ssnTsetS DTxats
s1rIspatiSasy iS criminal ssidss Tor aorshaS tSsa
ssis
eral kennei they sank their angs The body Of the
and
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this sum the moiety system. vciousy worked with
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o I hs s po % sa New York Ins
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the
corruption fund Of formidable dimensions and when,
podae Of and Now
1.-THE mysterious man" sanborn and: with treasury
% ssis5 !sag'Ss II %ss %S5S f
@ Is Su ssss wR s IN o
Of contribution toward the taxes which constitute
sssssns% Ssss sss %Sse
eses taxes ak s snnua @ eff of soo e every %as
lnbabtant of sound mind and ordinary good health.
asa of
the people Of tSe staie Of New YORK or more than $50
good Ss
Ss
the Custom House moiey millions, the problem s
the load now great tito Se
A%s ese are @ " % hardly
ecptona and without dispute directly attributable
sS% s e
n epa a s @ a he Se y
means complete, the catalogue of its offences :. :
Sh aois1Ss assied Win SPIES and whose 6rsSssy
icans Respectable mercantile firms stretched to the
Si law ana thsSseyes dishaye pv terrorism diii
wra @ na enaf o Of
New York Consider the inancla distress ensenaered
armed interference with the sovereign rights of
on aaa s d s dmand tor
purified civil service and refusal the
@ @e the III oSS ana as ~s'; |
sna @ s tain the in as SDih OF the
%sns ne pS5lc pecaIaSTs ana then pardon
nn se nDa sS Gw Uw
Iarous breath has Infested all intercourse public and
answer It's early aisi eSSrd Of popular rights; is
sn % na
cnsed and even partially forgotten lhe eXponents Of
sanborn ciphers though they were they expressed 4
Gd not a to an S Of ugsh
rnption and stagnant decay Time was when Washing,
OF equal weight with consutional inhi6Ition was
couple w h & Sp
and esserly pressing his CLAIMS to the honor 1t is
tSresa by she hondon % fserc can be
the ' the
President Grant ,nird term ct Ses
not intended by those who have sugge sted IL A third
term man sye % SwsS sy 5 G "n @
minated by falling heafh, the termination OF the life
oi the holder of the office. II may well come in THIS way
10 be an understood thing that the American President
shall be elected for te and that his election taken at
the end four years of the period, will be merely
nominal at most safeguard against the perpetra
tion OF any scandalous abuse OF power II would be a
great and important change If this were TO occur-one
ot politics In American
Ulysses 3 Grant-iortu nate cheftan-General of the
Afmy-iTesident Of the United states Tor one terntWo
.srmsthree & &erms--tor life Indeed would such change
lHnucncc the general state Of politics in America
! IL should certainty seem that the most urgent ma
tona need ~ the resumption of interrupted rea-
tos VIII me conirerciai woridspecie resumpton the
direct way TO which is clearly through the gradual
oees o god gold of It's uses here necessarily
remttba elsewhere to the foreign market. Upon their
withdrawal from circulation gold must as inevitably
turn from abfoadas supply is inevitable upon demand.
Thus tne Rradull temperance gold would
rly follow the disappearance the legal tenders in the
natural pain 10 specie resumption, without violence
ne mgses.ry nereS,s I which would nscnsDy adjust
process Of banking may 20 safely committed TO its i'm.
muable laws Tho statute should not trammel II.
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