Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-08-02
FOR HAYES AND WHEELER.

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FOR HAYES AND WHEELER.
Address of Chairman Allen AnnulIing the
eral Republicans-Approvalo of the Cincin-
natl Nominations. 'iba
I The following address to the Liberal
Republi cans, annulling the call for
National Convention to be held at Phil
adelphia, July 26, and supporting the
Republican ticket, has been issued by
Ethan Allen, chairman of the National
Liberal Republican Committee:
New YORK, July 20, 1876.
TO the Liberal Republicans Of the United
States:
On the 9th day of May last meeting of the
National Committee of Liberal Republicans,
having been duly called, was held at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, in the city of New Yerk. At
such meeting 81 States were represented. At
ter due discussion it WAS unanimously resolved
to hold National Convention of Liberal Be
publicans on the 26th day Of July, 1875, in the
city of Philadelphia, and q call for such con-
vention was issued to the public, reafirming
the principles of the platform adopted Ly the
Liberal Convention held in Cincinnati in 1872.
subsequently to this action by the National
Committee, and without dissenting voice, the
following preamble and resolution were adopt
ed:
Whereas, The hope that ia entertained by
many patriotic citizens by their continued agi-
tation 'swithin party lines one or both Of the
dominant parties may be led in platform and
nominees to gran 1.-the political reformation
required by the beral Republican organiza-
ton; and
Whereas, The LIBERAL party, desiring only
the public good regardless of parties, does not
favor causeless independent sction. if it shall
certainly appear that all which it seeks in the
way Of political publication can be as we'll
secured through other Organizations; there
fore
Resoloed, That if after the Republican and
Democratic Conventions have been held in
June next, one or both of these parties shall
seem, in the judgment Of our chairman. Mr..
Ethan Allen, to have responded to the princi-
pies and aims of the Liberal Republican Or
ganiZation both in measures and men, in that
event our chairman is hereby authorized after
further conference with this committee, by
proclamation, to annul the call for National
Convention this day ordered; but after said
conventions, and their actions being unfavor-
able to reform, our chairman is empowered to
take such action in furtherlng the call for
Liberal Convention this day ordered as he
may deem necessary.
The Republican and the Democratic Con-
ventions have both been held, and as COM
manded In the above resolution, I have since
conferred, by correspondence With the mem
bers of the National Liberal Committee, and
the response, which is in entire harmony with
my own views, is almost unanimously to annuI
the call for the Liberal National Convention
above referred to, and to approve, in the
name of the Liberal Republicans of the
United States, of the nominations of Ruther-
ford B. Hayes, of Ohio, for President, and
William A. Wheeler, Of New York, for Vice
President. rs
1t is a logical result of the Liberal move
ment that those who still adhere to it should
at this time cordially support Hayes and
Wheeler. More decided than the platform
ally declared for civil service reform, for the
return to specie payment at the earliest posi-
BILE day, and for the rule of one term only for
the Presidency-the latter principle being
found only in the Liberal Republican platform.
The characters Of the nominees guarantee the
principles they profess. II the Liberals in
1872 sustained Horace Greeley, who was the
foremost Republican of his day, because he
was an unselfsh patriot and an honest man,
they must now sustain Gen. Hayes for the
same reasons; and to do otherwise would be
an inconsistent action. The opposition of the
Liberals has never been against the Republi-
can party, of which they formed part, but
rather against those who,s unfortunately for it
and for the nation, have had control of it's
destiny to its diecredit.
The good results which have been gained by
the inaue rraticn OF the Liberal movement of
1872 are l1atters of congratulation. It was
then that the demand for reform was made
against existing abuses by those who had be-
fore acted within the Republican lines. Sub
sequent events have more than confirmed the
warnings OF ths Liberals then given, and have
indicated their efforts then made for national
reform. Firmly maintaining their stand for
the past four years, they have seen the "inde-
pendent voter !" Of all parties adopt their
views, and at the eleventh hour they have seen
the Republican party, in convention assembled,
in entire harmony with the demands OF the
Liberals, disregarding the "machine politi-
clans. " so-called, place in nomination men
whose great distinction is that they are thCr-
oughly honest rs well as capable. The con-
science of the nation, which, rising above
party, revolted sgaint the Republican organl-
cation in 1872, must now endorse this action.
The Liberal movement will be remembered
as an evidence that when the hour demands it.
| the people are capable OF making party mana
gers subservient to their will. The protest,
In defiance of party discipline, originally made
at Cincinnati in 1872, is a proof that the citi-
zen remains faithful to an honest discharge
of his political duties, though party leaders
become corrupt. a
1t only remains Tor me to declare, by virtue
of the authority given me as above, that the
Liberal Republicans OF the United States,
through their National Committee, approving
of the nominees of the. Republican party, the
.call'' for National Convention of Liberal
RepuDlleans, to be held at Philadelphia on
the 26th day of Jnly, 1876, is annulled
! ETHAN ALLEN,
Chairman National Lib. Rep: Committee.
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RAIN-M-THE-FAcE was present in the
battle of the Rosebud, but where and
oh where we're Old-Man-Afraid-of-His-