Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-23
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICANS,

the conference OF Independents opposed TO
Blaine and Logan took place in the Uni
versity Club Theatre, New York, yesterday.
George VIM. Curtis called the convention
to order He read the call for the confer
ence, and was interrupted by hearty ap-
plause at the part which referred to the
republicans "who will not vote for Blaine
and Logan" Col. Charles h. Goldman, of
Massachusetts, was chosen president, and
the list of vice-presidents included Carl
Schurz Gen. Barlow, and G.. ]. Bonaparte.
of Baltimore. Col. Goldman made an adj
dress.
He said: "The nomination of the republi
can party for the Presidency is an insult to
American manhood. Mr.. Blaine has not
cleared his record from the charges that he
used his public Office for private gain, and
we fear that he will continue in his usual
methods Mr.. Blaine is not fit to be Presi
dent of the United States. We desire first
of all q President that is incorruptibe, and
if beside that he is able and independent,
80 much the better. There is certainly one
democratic official who has shown the abil-
ity to successfully resist all pressure that
ance of official duty, and he is now the
democratic candidate for President Of the
United States"
Thomas R. Bacon, Of New Haven, said
that the independent movement had grown
TO enormous strength. 1t had twice defeat
ed Mr.. Blaine's Presidential aspirations
within the party.
Col. F. W. Higginson, of Cambridge,
Mass, said: 81 have severed all allegiance
for the time being to the party to which |
have belonged since its BIRTH"
The platform declares the paramount
issue of the Presidential election this year
is moral rather than political. 1t concerns
the national honor and character and
honesty of administration, rather than gen.
eral policies Of government, unpon which
the platforms of the two parties do not es
sentially differ.
1.-The most threatening national peril is an
insdious political corruption, mercenary
and demoralzing spirit and tendency, the
result of what is we'll described by Senator
Hoar, Of Massachusetts, as the shameless
doctrine that the true way by which power
the people with the offices created for their
service, and the true end for which it should
: be used, when gained is the promotion Of
selfish ambition and the qualification of per-
sonal revenge
eff the republican convention had present.
ed candidate who had promised intexible
honesty of administration, publication OF
the government and elevation of the party
standard, every republican voter would have
gladly supported the nomination.
"But these are precisely the anticipations
which the nomination torbids. 1t offers q
candidate who is an unfit leader, shown by
his own words and his acknowledged acts,
to be unworthy of respect and confidence,
who has traded upon his official trust for
his pecuniary gain; representative of men
methods and conduct which the public
conscience condemns, and which illustrates
the very ills which honest men would re-
form.
independents cannot support nomina-
ton which is the elimination of the ten
dency that they would correct. Republicans
cannot hope that under such leadership as
we have mentioned the abuses of the past
can be corrected or the party reformed.
While the republican nomination presents
party whom we cannot support, the demo-
cratic party presents one whose name is the
synonym ofpoltical courage and honesty
and of administrative reform. He has dis
charged every official trust with sole regard
to the public welfare and with just disregard
Of mere partisan and political advantage.
His unreserved, intelligent and sincere sup
port of reform 10 the civil service has firmly
established that reform in the State and the
cties Of New York, and his personal con-
victions, proved by his official acts more
decisive than any possible platform declara-
tions, are the guarantee that in its spirit and
in it's letter the reform would be enforced in
the national administration.
His high sense of duty, his absolute and
unchallenged official integrity, his iutlexible
courage in resisting party pressure and pub
lie cutlery, his great experience in the de-
tails of administration, and his commanding
executive ability and independence are pre-
cisely the qualities which the political Stu
alton demands IN the chief executive officer
of the government 10 resist corporate mo-
nopoly on the one hand and demagoguc
communism on the other, and at home and
abroad, without menace or fear, to protect
every right of American citizens, and to
respect every right of friendly States
by making political morality and private
honesty the basis of constitutional admins
tration.
HE is democrat who is happily free
from all association with the fierce party
differences of the slavery contest, and whose
financial views are in harmony with those
of the best men in both parties. ludepend
ent voters do not propose to ally them
selves inextrcably with any party. Repuh
licans do not propose to abandon the repub
lican party, nor to merge themselves in any
other party, but they do propose to aid in
defeating a republican nomination which.
not for reasons of expediency only but for
high moral and patriotic considerations was
unfit to be made.
This conference therefore respectfully re-
commends to all independent voters to sup
port the electors who will vote for Grover
Cleveland"
Mr.. Schurz, in reporting the platform,
said it was not a platform for new party,
but an appeal for honest government.
The committee on permanent organiza-
ton recommended the appointment of a ma
tional committee.
After adjournment the national commit
tee appointed Messrs. Deming and Miller
of New York, and Pearce, of Massachusetts,
to prepare plan for permanent organza-
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