The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-10
NEW YORK STATE.
Liberal State Convention.

ALBANY, September 9.-The Liberal
to-day, and was called TO order by Gen.
ersl Cochran, who made q long address
criticising the Republican management
Of public affairs. he also argued that
the Democrats had affiliated with cor
rupt Republicans in Congress to carry
out disreputable measures, and claimed
that a new party was demanded. At
ter temporary organization was effected
, and committees appointed, the Conven-
tion took recess.
The Liberal Convention reassembled
at P. NJ, and completed a permanent or
ganization.
Pending the arrival Of the Committee
on Resolutions, Isaac H. Hunter, colored,
Of New York, was called for and spoke
at length, declaring it their duty to NOM
mate a ticket and naming Sanford Z.
Church and Thomas E. Stewart as his
choice.
General Merritt, from the Committee
on Resolutions, reported the following:
Resolved, |. That the Liberal Republi.
cans of the State of New York stand for
the defense of constitutional liberty,
for the right of local self-gov-
drnment, for the restoration of the
delegated power to the separate
States; for strict accountable
ity on the part Of the public officers; for
realization Of the Constitutional curren-
cy, and for the rights and interests Of tho
masses of people.
2. That the administration Of Presi-
dent Grant has failed to fulfill the reas-
enable expectation of the people, that it
has pursued
vac1Iiating and ImbeciIe Financial
Policy,
which has plunged the business of the
country into bankruptcy. That it has
invaded the rights of sovereign States, by
imposing upon them Governors by the
means of bayonets, whom the people had
rejected at the ballot box. That it has
employed spies and infOrmers to plundOr
our merchants and established system Of
terrorism paralyzing enterprise that
it has conspired with corrupt men and
monopolies to press upon the community,
and has kept in existence, in the District
of Columbia, an infamous ring, in whose
thefts, although carefully screened by
their confederatcs in Congress, high
officers Of the government have been
proved to be participators.
3. That the liberty of the press is es
Sential to the security Of freedom; that
the sedition law of 1898 abridging the
freedom of speech and press, was an in
fraction of the constitution, which justly
exasperated the nation, and should
be resented by exiling forever
from power the party respon-
sible for its enactment; that the
Poland-Frelnghuysen bill Of 1874,
under which an Immediate attempt was
made to procure the indictment Of An
obnoxious editor, is measure Of like
character and even greater peril to our
liberties, dcpriving us, in many cases, OF
the benefit of trial by jury, and trans
porting citizens away from home and
from witnesses by whom innocence
might be established to a distant place,
to be tried for pretended Otfenses; that its
precedent is to be sought in the tyranni-
cal acts of the King of Great Britain, as
enumerated in the Declaration of lnde-
pendcnce, and that its enactment can
only be effectually met by eIpelling from
power both the men and the party guilty
of such treason.
The Third Term.
4. That while we believe that sound
policy requires that no President should
be reelected, we further declare our un-
compromising hostility to every preten-
sion towards perpetuating powers in the
hands of the same person beyond the
second term. Such pretenson deserves
and should receive the indignation of the
people. who should demand Of any party
expecting their votes, an explicit declara-
ton against the claim Of any man to be
come President of the United States for
the third term, or against the conduct Of
any man tolerating the use, by others, Of
his name for any suchGandidscy.
8. That the retucn OF the country to a
specie basis, is An object Of paramount
importance; that us the great purpose Of
money is to serve as a medium Of e1-
change, national integrity demands a
speedy return to the common standard OF
the world, and that the business interests
of the country require that free banking
system should be established.
6. That the acts Of Congress providing
for the Supervisors of Elections are oP-
pressive, and should be amended or re-
pealed.
!. That experience demonstrates the
injustice Of governing the cities of State
bv legislative commissions, and we advo-
cate the restoration to them of the right
of self government.