The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-05
ORGANIZED.
The "New Party" No. z.
tCbioago Times

WASHINGTON, May 2s.--The proposed new
party movement, with its headquarters in
New York, appears to have a very good basis
of fact. It's at present u secret society, and
has for it's object the formation of conserva-
tive political party. Ono of the members of
this new organization furnishes the following
statement In relation to it's makeup and
membership: The gentleman who furnishes
is sufficiently good TO vouch for the truth of
what he says. Upon tho subject of this or
ganization he says:
II is not composed of disappointed office
seekers or earpet-baggers. There arc at least
two editors connected with tho movement
one from Massachusetts and tho other from
New Jersey, and neither of them have over
held a government Office. New England Is
strongly represented; New York, Ohio Penn
sylvania, Indiana, Illinois Iowa. Michigan.
Wisconsin and California are represented by
active workers; The Virginias, Georgia. the
Carolinas, Louisiana and Maryland are rep
resented by sound Republicans No such
men as have been sarcastically named in con-
could be admitted. The members from the
District of Columbia were chosen with q great
deal of care and are business men entirely
outside Of the departments.
In the organization of the new league the
nomenclature of the executive officers of the
government has been adopted. The officers
are from the following States: President.
Massachusetts; Private Secretary, Maine;
Vice President, ONO; Secretary of State,
Pennsylvania; Assistant Secretary of State,
Illinois; Secretary of the Treasury, District
of Columbia; Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, Indiana; Attorney General New
York: Marshal, Connecticut; Assistant Mar
shall, Virginia; Sergeant-at-Arms, Iowa; AS
sistant, California; messengers, Louisiana.
The initiation fee for the present has been
placed at SIS. The organization is to be run
on business principles. The society is in no
way connected with the Southern or any
other Republican associations.
The originators of the new movement be-
lieve that the Republicans have been duped
effectually by so-called Republican leagues
and clubs composed of questionable charac-
ters, and are determined to unite the friends
of universal liberty into a united brotherhood.
The President of the organization, accompa-
MED by his private secretary, leaves for New
England tomorrow for the purpose of organ
izing the New England States. A special
officer has been authorized to organize the
South. He is a newspaper man.
The Vice President goes to Ohio on Monday
morning, and will be joined there by the AS
sistant Secretary of the Treasury from In
diana. The Assistant Secretary OF State will
remain here in charge of headquarters and
will attend to correspondence. The Secretary
of the Treasury, who is a prominent business
man. will attend to all bills. The society is
said to have been organized in the interest of
Senator Blaine. 1t is no more in his interest
motto of the society being Universal Lib
erty," and at a proper time it is their inten-
ton to act on the basis of those principles.
The society has already $1,000 in the treasury,
$500 of which was furnished by two of its
members