The daily gazette., 1882-05-02
rn1LApEI.pH1A RErupL1cANs.
Result Of the Conference Between til
stalwart and independent Committees.

Result OF the Conference between the
stalwart and Independent Committees.
The conference of the Independent and
Stalwart Republicans of Pennsylvania, in
the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, came
to an end at 11.80 last night, after session
of nearly six hours. The result, from an
Independent standpoint, was summed up in
a few words by Charles 3. Wolfe, chairman
of the Independents, after the dispensing of
all the members, when he sat quietly talk
ing TO several friends at midnight in the
Girard House. t'The result Is substantial
triumph for the Independents, said he.
"The Staiwarts have unanimously adopted
our views as their own. If they do not act
up to them in their convention of May 10th
we shall know what to do in the Inde-
pendent convention of May oath. Their
candidates have got to come up to the
highest expectations of the National indie
pendent Republican voters or they will not
be supported"
It was about z o'clock before the con-
ference got fairly under way. Wharton
Barker presided and Francis B. Reeves
acted as secretary, Interest centred on the
report Of Mcssrs. Quay and Wolf, the chair
men of the Stalwart and independent
clements respectively, to whom were re-
ferred the two papers, the independents
ADeelaration Of Principles" and the Stall
warts Recommendations for the future gov
ernment of delegate elections and changing
the time of holding State conventions.
These papers were woven together as one
whole and wero submitted to the conference
through Mr.. Quay with a favorable recon-
mendation. ..,l.---.
The secretary read them and after con-
siderable time occupied in their discussion
they were adopted unanimously by the con-
a. al Iuf hn tfaa1.r
They constituted the sum total of the results.
Messrs. Quay and Wolfe had been for hours
together In a private room in the Girard
House, considering the propositions of the
two papers Certain changes III the prase-
ology Of the Stalwart provisions were made
In passages which look like dividing the
the ticket between Independents and Stall
warts. M
The cardinal propositions of the Indepen-
dent element, as contained in the commit
tees report, are as follows:
The Independent Republicans will claim
the right 70 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 a condition of in
dorsement of any candidate for their suf-
frages; and, on the other hand, they will
reserve the right to reject any candidate who
will not unequivocally and cordially indorse
| them.
They will demand that the candidates oi
| the party shallbe men whose character, asso-
Citations and antecedents shall be in them.
selves an unquestioned guarantee that theil
Offices will be administered solely in the In
terests of the people at large, and of pure
government entirely free from personal and
| factional influences.
i ..rNII t,k hat In N d
strong and growing public sentiment, 1t viii
be unwise and impolitie for the convention
to nominate ticket which has previously
been determined upon by party manager
and which has not the Endorsement of th'
people.
In the opinion of the committee these ar,
| the views Of majority OF the Republican
voters, repressed hitherto in their expression
only by considerations Of party fealty
Further disregard of these sentiments can n
longer be tolerated. A manly and inde
pendent spirit, without which parties degen
crate into mere instruments of oppression
and corruption, requires that they be re
spected.
If the action of the convention of May 1
is such as to evince a sincere purpose t
meet the higher aspirations of the party, a
above indicated, this committee will b
pleased to recommend to the convention @
NAV "a its ratification and thus to aid in til
work of securing enduring harmony upon
consistent and honorablesbasis!
After the reading of this report the join
committees united in signing a series {
resolutions, embracing nothing but vagu
platithdes which represented indepeht sent
ment, but enforced no practical measures {
relief from ring rule. The most signitcar
of the resolutions were as follows: "W
condemn compulsory assessments for polit
cal purposes and prescription for failure
respond either to such assessments or to n
, !, quests for voluntary contributions, and thi
|, , any policy of political prescription is unJu
and calculated to disturb party harmon
eThat every person who voted the Repu
lican editorial ticket'at the last PRESIDENT
election next preceding any State Conve
ton shall be permitted to participate in q
; election of delegates to State and Nation
!, Conventions, and we recommend to .
: county organizations that In their rules tn
!, \ allow the largest freedom in the general pf
4 ticipation in the primaries consistent wi
J the preservation of the party organization
= A resolution offered by Wharton Bark
/ for the pestponement of the State Conve
!, ton from May 10 to August 30 was 10
= and the Conference adjourned.