Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-20
Reform Republicans in Council.

Retorm Republicans in Council.
NEW YoRK, May l5.-In pursuance OF
a call issued on the 9Th day OF April, by
William Cullen Bryant, Theodore ID.
Woolsey, Ex-Governor A. II. Bullock,
Horace White and Carl Schurz, the re-
the Fifth Avenue Hotel to-day. The call
stated that the meeting was to consider
what may be done to prevent the national
election of the Centennial year from be-
coming a mere choice Of evils and secure
the election OF man to the highest Of
flee OF the republic whose character and
ability will satisfy the cxigcncies of our
present situation and protect the honor
of the American name. The following
arc the Eastern delegates who were pres
cnt:
Maine-W. Gilbert.
New lIampshire-Georgc Gilman Fogg,
William 3. Small and Amos Tuck.
Vermont - Edward L. Phelps, Fred
erick Billings, Charles w. Willard, John
Prout, Willard harrington and c. NJ.
Bliss.
! Massachusetts - Martin Brimmer,
George A. Kittredge, A. G.. Snowden,
! Howard Stockton, II. L. Pierce, ex.Gov-
ernor a. IL. Bullock, the Rev. II. Blanch-
ard, Julius II. Seelyc, Professor w. II.
Tyler, ex-President Mark Hopkins, and
Professor Perry of Williams College,
| Marshall Wilcox, William b. Hale, L.
Maltby, Benjamin +. Mills, c. F. Adams,
Jr, Brooks Adams, II. E. Alvord, Ed
mund L. Sawyer, Samuel j. Spaulding, ].
NJ. Stearns, ]. S. Farlow, F. NJ. Stone,
George p. King, and E. d. Haskell of the
| Boston Herald
Connecticut-David A. Wells, Lafay-
cite S. Foster, cX-president Woolsey OF
Yale, the Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon, Pro-
fessor w. G. Sumner, J. +. Platt, ex-
President james Cummings of Wesleyan
University, C. F. McCurdy, NJ. S. Dudley,
John T, Adams and Nathan Hart.
Rhode Island-Rowland r. Hazard,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Alex.
ander Farnum.
The conference adjourned this after
noon until tomorrow morning at ten
o'clock. Theodore d. Woolscy of Yale
College is chairman of the convention
and Carl Schurz at the head of the Com.
+ mittee on Resolutions.
TIE CONVENTION TAvoRs BRIsTow.
Ex-Governor Bullock said to-day il
would be safe to predict no preference
would be indicated by formal action Of
the conference for any of the Presidential
aspirants, but it was also true that a ma
jority of those who were in attendance
would probably favor the nomination OF
Bristow.
! NEW YORK, May 16.-The Reform Con-
ference assembled this morning in Tho
Fifth Avenue Ho.el, as per adjournment
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Of MaSSa
chusetts was asked to address the men.
| bers, and he made q somewhat startling
speech advocating BriStow for the Presi
ucnCI, dS tHc OHly HAL WIZ COulu COUl
mand the support of the best men in tn,
Republican party and the Independent
voters. He would vote for Bristow. i
nominated and if Tlden were against
any other Republican he would supper
Tilden, In case neither were nominated
! he would be in favor of an independent
candidate, for whom he could vote con
Scienciously. Parke Goodwin followed in
the same strain. He believed there wcr,
! good men in the Democratic ranks wht
could be supported by the independeH
voters, in case an honest Republican
were not nominated. He had been ut thu
birth of the Republican party, and hat
supported it as long as it stuck to it
principles and practice, but if it PROVED
recreant he, for one, was ready to drive
nail into its cofli2. At the close of tn
speech-making, Carl Schurz read the ad
dress to the people.