, 1880-09-19
10 Maintain the Free Expression Of
:: Free Though Mistaken
:; Thought,
Bid MOI to NEEDLE with Matters with
1 =" Which II Had Nothing
< to Do.
A Majority Of the Convention
> Voted Steadily Against
Him,

And Hs Resigned His Office as Vice
President and Withdrew
Disguised.
MORNING SESSION.
TIE SECOND DAYS SESSION
of the fourth annual Congress Of tho National
Iibeeal League opened yesterday morning at
Hersney Hall, the Hon. Eltzur Wright presiding.
The audience for some reason or other WIS
hardly as large aB that OF Friday night, but the
hrebsands and war-horses were ail there, and
the proceedings promised 10 be fully as inter
esrtng as at that time.
The Convenaon was something like half an
hour late in getting down to business In call
fpg the gathering to order the President e1-
plained that he had lost little time in meeting
Col. Ingersoll, who would probably address them
IN The afternoon.
4 pETEnsE cosn611TEE.
Reports Of committees were called for, and
Mr.. Green proceeded to deliver that Of the Com
1nif1ee on Nominations. The first recommends
t1on Was, that A. L. Rawson, Of New York, act
as Chairman Of Defense Committee, whose
duty, as defined BY the Constitution of the
League, Is to defend through the courts, by the
combined efforts and means of the Liberals OF
the country, any American citizen whose equal
religious or moral rights are denied, or who Is
oppressed On account OF any opinions he may
hare held or expressed On the subject of re-
ligion or morals-'
The Committee further submitted list OF
officers for the ensuing year.-Etizur Wright for
President and Col Ingerson for Senior Vice
President
The report Va accepted, and Mr.. Wright Was
reelected. though he fought hard to yet rid OF
an honor for which bis age hardly lifted him.
Prof. Rawson, Of New York, gaya an account
of the Confederation Of Free-Thinkers, which
progress Of LIBERALISM on the Continent.
Louis Wilhelm, of this city, read IN address to
The League from au organization known as
TEE UNION OF RADICALS.
part of Liberals in opposition to the two great
political parties Of to-day, and a thorough
breaking away from old party practices, to the
divide certain principles or issues. instead Of
on the questions of persons and spotls. Such q
party, II was asserted, would, after few de-
feats, soon draw into its ranks the most intelli
gent, moral, and patriotic men of the
Nation. The orgauizat1ons set down as ready
5@ @ as9s IN fes EEK Par1y
ers. the Woman Suffrage Associations, the Freie
Gemeinden. the Free Religious Associations, tho
o1 thn 1 atfer
ready to desist from attempts to force Comnun-
ism into the platform. {I1isses from Parsons
eI 70 ae
sert1or Of the following demands In the platform
Of the party sometime to be founded:
dependent Executive, which IS the main source
OF corruption and the fulcrum Of the tyranuical
power Of standing parties The Executive
departments, who shall be chosen from among
all the citizens By Congress and who shall be re-
Bponsihle to and levocab1e BY said body.
:. Abolition Of Legislative. dnalism and
"States-rightism," I" as expressed by the National
8. Equality before the law of naturalized and
native citizens, at home and abroad. Amy treat
les IL contradiction to such equality to be an
nuicd.
seutatives from among all citizens within or
5. Protection Of labor against the unjust pre-
.t tensions Of capital BY securing to the former
labor associations. Further reduction Of the
maximum length Of working time Free asso-
teress. 6anitnry projection of citizens by
controlling supervision Of factories, provisions.
and dwellings, Statistical facts bearing upon
the condition OF lsborers to be ascertained by
.. Prohibiuou of the employment Of children
for industrial purposes.
and heritage Exemption Of the minimum re-
quisit for the support Of family. Az other
8. Aboliuon Of all monopolies and Of institu-
ttous tending to create them. Public control of
railroads and other corporations which are or
may become engines of extosdon or sources Of
public danger on account Of tho political and
social power they WELD.
.. Repeal and prohibition by constitutional
provisions Ut so-called temperance-f. e., pro-
hibitory-laws. They are rcsuitless measures Of
coercion against those at whom they are d.
Escted, and insulting restrictions Of the personal
10. The designation of Sunday as the legal day
for elections, So that the futfitiment of the cih-
zens duty. will no longer prove costly and
ouerous sacrifice to the honest poor man.
ONE d. ]. GROVER,
of this city, tnstnuated himself into the program
and on to the platform. Pulling out ream or
more Of u,anuscr1ptM b be began ante to iEe OF paper
the people of the prescntday growing tendency
towards a stronger Government The Chair
man begged him r9 ID desst 9n1 some Other time me
that he must have his say now or never. He
finally promised, however. to speak only twenty
ea t. oqder o
members who were hungry and didn't
care to hear m z very poor , quality OF
him Ut the expiration OF the twenty minutes
and Grover went OF in high glee at having
worked OF his spleen against Garfield.
He was succeeded by Mr.. NJ McCr1c1en, Of Mich
Congress held at Detroit. Before presenting any
report, Mr.. AcCracken said that be Ind NOT sup
to involve the smuggling ia Of q political
stump speech, and he felt It his duty to rcharac
1erize the action Of the gentleman who had Just
taken his seat as piece of unparalleled and
unpnrdonable tnsolence and tmpudence, and an
insult to the Congress and TO the common
ecnse and intelligence OF any wcli-regu-
Intel body. (YeIls Of approval-1 He was
in order. and went On to say that ho
WIGS in favor Of cen1alization and strong
to be used In the interest of the
people. The gentleman who preceded him had
enough forgotten to ar1aiGn the other
party for having visited violence upon the cit
izens In the South lAppIanse and cries of
= +Stump-speech' .--.....-
The Chairman again called the gentleman to
order, and the gentleman, having had his eay,
proceeded with the reading Of his report.
At the conclusion of the report, delegate
|oundly dismal voice groancd out the unpleas-
of a from 1tRFmaQH.