, 1876-07-23
TEE EIIBERALREP
THEY HEARTILY FAVOR HAYES AND WHEELER
THEIR CALL FOR l. NATIONAL CONVENTION

| LIE lBEItAL kEI u UBL1CANS.
| THEY HEARTILY FAVOR HAYES AND WHEELER
| THEIR CALL FOR 4 NATIONAL CONVENTION
| AENULLED.
New YORK, July %, 1s76-Io the Liberal Re
pub!ieans Of tn: United States: On the 9th day
! OF May last meeting of the " National Com
mitt0e OF Liberal Republicans, u having been duly
called, was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in
the City Of New York. 1t such
meeting thirty-one States we're repre-
sentcd. After due discussion it was unani-
] mously resolved to hold National Convention
OF Liberal Republicans On the 26th day of July,
1Ss6, in the City Of Philadelphia, and tscall ~
for such Convention was issued to the public,
reafhrmine the platform adopted by the Lib
eral Convention held in Cincinnati in 1S7o
Subsequently to this action By the National
Committee, and without dissenting voice,
the following preamble and resolution were
adopted:
WHEREAS, The hope is entertained bv MANY
patriotic citizens that By their continual agitation
within party lnes7' one or both Of the dominant
parties may be led, in platform and nominees, to
Liberal Republican organization; and y wv
WHEREAS, This Liberal party, desiring only the
PUBLIC good, regardless Of parties. does not favor
apPear that all which it seeks in the way Of polti-
ca! purahcation can be well secured through
QtIcI OEy1ulzdLlOnSS therefore,
R<soIrtd, That il, after the Republican and tha
democratic Conventions have been held in June
ne3t one or both Of these parties shall seem in the
Judgment Of our Chairman, Nr. Ethan Allen, 10
nave responded to the principles and aims Of the
Liberal Republican Organization both in meas
ures ana men, in that event our Chairman is hereby
authoflzeu after further conference with this Com
n1ttec, by proclamation to nnnul the cali for q
National Convention this day ordered; but after
said conventions, and their action being unfayor-
able to reform our Chairman is empowered to take
such action in furthering the cali for Liberal
Convention this day ordered is he may deem nee
cssary.
The Republican and Democratic Conventions =
have both been held, and, as commanded in the
above resolution, I have since conferred BY cor
respondence with the members OF the National
Llbera1 Committee, and the response, which is
IN entire harmony with my own views, is almost
unanimous to 2nnul the call for the National
Convention above referred to, and to approve.
II the name OF the Liberal Republicans 81 the
United States Of the nominations of Ruthcr
ford B. Hayes, of Ohio, for President, and Of
William A. Wheeler, of New York, for Vice
President.
It is logical result OF the Liberal movement.
that those who still adhere to it should at this
tine tine. cordially support Hayes and Wheeler.
stands, Gen. Hayes has personally declared for
civil service reform, for the return to snecie |
payment at the earliest possible day, and for
the rule OF one term only for the Presi- |
in the Liberal Republican platform The char
acters OF the nominees guarantee the prin-
cp1es they profess II the Liberals in 1877 srs-
tanned Horace Greeley, who was the foremost |
Republican OF bis day, because he was an uuself- /
ish patriot and an honest man, they must now
sustain Gen Hayes for the same reason, aud to |
do otherwise would be inconsistent action, The |
opposition Of the "Liberalsn II has meyer heen
against the Republican 7arty, Of which thev
formed part, but father against those who,