Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-02
VICTORY FOR CAMERON.
Refusal OF Demand for the POstpOnement
Of the Convention and Unanimous Ap.
PROV al OF Resolutions Telling What
IcdenendenfS AIuSf Eaya

Future Gears.
Tho Independent and Stalwart Repub-
lican conference at the Continental hotel
came to an end at 1870 last night, after
session of nearly six hours. After long
conference the Independents submitted
the following:
"This committee lay no claim to the
right of making nominations, but believe
that nominations Of candidates should
proceed freely from the body Of the party,
and that ticket dictated by a self-per-
petuating leadership long in advance of
the party's consideration of the subject,
and then imposed upon it by the methods
commonly known as those of the machine,
is justly regarded as offensive by inteli-
gent Republicans, who value their rights
as citizens and that submission to such
methods, rewarding such usurpations and
thereby encouraging their repetition
| is necessarily an act Of unfaithfulness to
| the form of government under which We
live.
A state convention intended to give the
| cover of party Endorsement to such 4
ticket, and largely composed of delegates
| not directly chosen by tho people, or
| chosen at time distant from the meeting
| of the. state convention, Or otherwise SO
chosen as not to be representatives, Of the
party's present mind, is also highly objec
tionable.
The Independent Republicans will claim
the right to formulate the fundamental
principles which they are commonly known
| to hold, to present them to and advocate
| their adoption by the state convention,
and to make their acceptance condition
of Endorsement of any candidate iG- their
su!frages and, on tho other hand, they
will reserve the right to reject any candi-
date who will not uncquiyOcally and cor
daily indorse them.
| They will demand that tho candidates
of tie party shall be men whose character,
assoc;ati ions and anteceLents shall be in
! Themselves an unquestiOEed guarantee
| that their offices will Dc administered
solely n the interests OF The people at
large, and & pure government entirely free
from personal and factionai influences.
They viii insist that, in Difference to =
strong and growing public sentiment, it
will be u:lw:se and iinpolitic for the con-
ventiOI 20 nominate u ticket which had
previously ic.n determined upon by party
managers anG which has not the endorse
ment of the people.
In the opinion of the committee these
are the views of 4 majority Of the Rcput-
lican votes, repressed hitherto in their e1-
preston only by considerations of party
fealty. Further disregard of these senti-
ments can no longer be tolerated. A manly
and independent spirit, without which
parties degenerate into mere instruments
of oppression and corruption, requires that
they should be repealed.
If the action of the convention Of May
| ID is such as to cvincc a sincere purpose to
| hi Dc l,<
| as above indicated, this committee will be
| pleased to recommend to the convention
! Of May "a it's ratificatiO aud thus to aid
in tho work of securing enduring harmony
upon a consistent and honorable basis
Standing upon the above platform, this
committee recommended to the conference
| that they adopt the following resolutions,
| to be submitted TO the Republican state
convention and recommended for their
| adoption. The Sialwarts then agreed
with tho Independents upon the following: !:
Tho RESOLUTIONS.
I. That We uncquivOcaiiy condemn the
use Of patronage to promote personal pO-
litical ends, and require that all Offices
| bestowed within the party shall be npOn
the solo basis Of fitness.
2. That competent and faithful Offices
should not be removed except for cause.
3. That the noll-clcctivc minor officers
should be filled in accordance with rules
established by law.
i. That tho ascertaincd popular will
shall 10 faithfully carried out in state and
national conventions and by those holding
Office by the favor Of tho party.
5. That VIC condemn compulsory ASSESS
ments for political purposes and proscrip
tiou for failure to respond either to such
assessments or TO requests for voluntary
contributions, and that any policy of
political prescription is unjust and calcu-
lated to disturb party harmony.
6. That public Office constitutes . high
trust to be administered solely for the
people, whose interests must be para mount
to those of persons or parties, and thaC it
should be invariably conducted with the
same efficiency, economy and integrity :.s
arc expected in the execution OF private
trusts.
:. That the state ticket should be such
rs by tho impartiality of it's constitution
and the high character and acknowledged
fitness of tho nominees will justly COM
mend itself to tho support of tho united
Republican party.
R6SOtUed, That we recommend The a,lUD.
tiOn Of tho following permanent rules for
conduct of the party.
l. That delegates to state conventions
shall DC chosen in tho manner in which
candidates for the general assembly are
nominated, except in senatorial districts
composed of moro than one county, in
which cOnferccs for the selection of scn:.-
torial delegates shall DO chosen in the
manner aforesaid, and tho representation
of each county shall be based upon its Re-
publican vote, cast at the presidential
election next preceding the convention.
=. Hereafter the state convention of the
Republican party shall be ilc!d on the sec
ond Wednesday of July, except in the
year Of tho presidential election, when it
shall bc held not moro than thirty days
previous to tho day fixed for tao national
convention, ana ut least sixty days notice
shall DO given Of tho date of the state con-
vcnt!On.
.. That every person who voted tho Re-
publica! electoral ticket at tic last presi-
dental election next preceding any state
convention shall be permitted to partici-
pate in the election of delegates to state
an national conventions, aud VIC recon-
mead t" The county organizations that in
til. t";%7 they allow the largest freedom
i'll the .'.c.-,! participation in the prima-
ries consl:, .'a: With the preservation of the
party organization.
The G.i;gy.iaG resolution Was adopted
by the ;''i.t conference:
Resc.t'f.! lat VIC disciaim a2y authority
to speak VI act for other pcrscns than our
selves, and simply mac these suggcs-
tlons rs i'll our opinion: essential to the
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