The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-23

courage In resisting party pressure and public outcry,
his great experience in the details of administration
and his commanding executive ability and independ-
ence are precisely the qualities which the political
situation demand In the chief executive officer of the
government to resist corporate MONOPOLY on the one
hand and demagogue communism on the other, and,
at home and abroad, without menace or fear, to pro-
teet every right of American citizens, and TO respect
every rightof friendly states by making political moral
ity and private honesty the basis of constitutional adj
ministration. He is a 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,
and, coming into public prominence at a time when
official purity, courage and character are OF
chief Importance, presents the qualities and promise
which independent voters desire and which the great
body of the Republicans, believing those qualities to
be absolutely Indispensable in the administration OF
the government at this time, do not Ind In the can
didate of their own party.
Such independent voters do not propose to ally
themselves inextricably with any party. Such Re
publicans do not propose to abandon the Republican
party nor to merge themselves in any other party. but
they do propose to aid in defeating the Republican
nomination wheh-not for reasons of expediency
only, but for high moral and patriotic
considerations-with due regard for the Republican
name and for American character was unfit to be
made, They desire not to evade the proper RESPONSE
bihty of American citizens by declining to vote, and
they desire also to make their vote as affective as pos
sible for an honest, and pure, and wise administration.
How can such voters, who, Of this election. cannot
conscientiously support the Republican candidate,
promote the objects which they desire to accomplish
more surely than BY supporting the candidate who rep
resents the qualities. spirit and purpose which they
"a agree IN believing ito t. Be s1actio o.
No citizen can rightfully avoid the issue, or refuse to
cast his vote. The ballot is a trust, and every voter
desiring good government is bound to answer to his
private conscience for his public acts. This conf
dence, therefore, assuming that Republican and lnue-
peEdent voters who. for any reason, cannot sustain
the Republican nomination, desire to take a course
which, under the necessary conditions and constltu-
tional methods of a presidential election, will most
readily and surely secure the result at which they
We respectfully recommend 10 all such citizens to
support the electors who will vote for Governor Cleve-
land in order most effectually to enforce their con-
viction that nothing could more deeply stain the
American name and prove more disastrous to the
public welfare than the deliberate indifference Of the
people of the United States to the increasing public
corruption, and to the want of official integrity In
the highest trusts of the government.
Mr.. Curtis, during the reading, was frequent
ly interrupted by applause, and when he had
finished the resolutions were adopted without a
dissenting voice.
Mr.. Williams, of Massachusetts, in a few re-
marks, criticized the action of Governor Long,
of Massachusetts,, and Theodore Roosevelt, of
New York, for indorsing Blaine after having de-
nouneed him in the convention, and he de-
nounced the rule of the convention which com
PEELED delegates to stand by the choice Of the
party.
William Everett, of Massachusetts, offered a
resolution naming Cleveland and Hendricks as
the nominees of the conference. 1t was laid on
the table, and soon after the conference ad-
iOurned
After the adjournment of the conference, the
national committee went into session and dis
cussed a plan for permanent organization,
but no definite action was taken, and
the matter was referred to a sub-com
mittee, consisting of Messrs. Deming and
Miller, of New York, and Pearce, of Masschu-
sets, to report a plan. 1t was also decided to
have an executive committee of ten, who shall
have power to increase their number. They
will be appointed in a day or twos
Reports from the general committees in Tari