Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-07-23
EASTERN NEWS.
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Meeting OF IndeDs ndenfa.

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Meeting OF Inde pc Rdents.
NV YORK, July PA meeting of
independents opposed to Blaine and
Logan was announced for today at the
lnIversltv Club Theatre, in this city.
For an hour before the time fixed there
was an unusual STIR In that generally
quiet locality. and inside the corridors
of the little theatre consultation of
Independents Was busily carried on.
Among the mole prominent faces no.
ticeable were those of Geo. VIM. Curtis
and Carl schurz, The latter was the
centre of an Interested and animated
group. Clarence Bowen, of the Inde-
peHdeHf, and other members of the
Brooklyn Young Republican Club, were
present. lie Secretaries made up the
list of those who were to be present.
which showed Massachusetts to be
more nunerously represented than any
other State except New York. A few
from New Jersey and Connecticut, and
some from more distant States, were
on the roll, which at ii o'clock, was
still incomplete.
No resolutions have been agreed upon,
bet 1t Is understood several platforms,
either IN full or in part, have been pre-
pared. hese will be offered to the
Committee on Resolutions. and that
committee will prepare a platform which
the Convention will debate and upon
which II will act. Admission to the hall
IS by ticket, but anyone signing the fol-
lowing form furnished or printed slips
TO each application is admitted without
question Disappearing of the nom-
nations by the Republican National
Convention at Chicago as unworthy of
support, and believing the interests of
good government and public morals de-
mand the defeat of the Republican can
didates for President ami Vice Presi.
dent, and being therefore resolved not
to vote for Blaine and Logan, l desire
to take part with other Republican and
independent voters in the conference to
be held at the University Club Theater,
Madison avenue and Twenty sixth
street. New York, Tuesday, July I'D,
at III a. m."
Geo. William Curtis called the meet
ing to order. The attendance was
largely made up of delegates from Mas
sachusetts. Charles s. Goldman was
elected president. A list of vice presi
dents and An enrolment committee was
read, including Carl Schurz, General
Barlow and Q. j. Bonaparte of Mary-
land. The nominees we're all elected,
Colonel Goldman made an address. in
which he said: You confer a great
honor on me in choosing me to preside
over the deliberations of not BODY of
officeholders, but Of citizens, whose only
desire is for the good of the whole coun-
try. We have decided to cast aside
party affiliations for the time heing.
The nomination of the Republican rar,
ty for the Presidency is an insult to |
American manhood. Blaine has not |
cleared his record from the charge that |
he used his public Office for private |
gain, and We fear he will continue his |
usual methods: that he will prJve no |
deadhead IN any enterprise he may en-
bark IN. We make no charges against |
private character, but Blaine is not at |
TO be President of the United States. |
There is no great issue clearly defined |
between. the two parties, so that we /
have TO contine ourselves to the ques-
ton of fitness OF candidates" The
speaker was frequently applauded. In
continuing his address Goldman de |
clared that the issues of the war were
are incorruptible, and if be be able and |
energetic. SO much the better" He de-
clared the present Governor of the State
of New York such a person.
When Goldman concluded, Schurz
moved that committee be appointed
to act on resolutions and address. Car
ried. Theodore Lyman, of BROOKLYN,
NJ Massachusetts,, declared the people
wanted an honorable and able man for
the Presidency. He believed Grover
Cleveland was sHch person. Thomas
Bacon, of New Haven, said the Inde-
pendent movement had grown to enor-
NOUS strength. Ii had twice defeated
Blaine IN Convention, and hoped now to
defeat him outside the Convention.
Co,onel Thomas W. Hipginson said he
had severed all allegiance for the time
being to the party to which he had be-
longed since its birth, owing to the
character o. the nominees this year pre-
sentsd. The Committee on Resolutions
not being ready 10 report. a recess was
taken.
Conflicting Opinions.
New YORK. July pat the headauar-
ters of striking brioklsyers and laborers
tonight it WAS stated that the eight was
over, and that nearly all build
ers had given in to their demand. Only
100 men, it is said, are now on the
strike. The Builders Association, on
the other hand. announce that only two
firms have given in, and these were CON-
PEELED to in consequence of their con-
tracts, Twenty-six members of the as
social ION and eight firms of non mem-
bers had agreed to resist all demands.
Builders were in their busiest season
now, bat in almost every case their CON-
tract clauses provide for an extension
of time in case of strike.
Message from the Queen.
WASHINGTON, July 22.-The President
has received the following cable meg
sage from Queen Victoria:
LONDON, July q.
The President Of me United States,
Washington The Queen heartily con.
graduates the President and people of |
the United States on the rescue of Lieu
tenant Greeley and the gallant Survivors
of the Arctic expedition. Soc trusts
favorable reports have been received OF
the sufferers. (Signed)
The QUEEN, Windsor Castle.
The President sent reply, in which /
hs again THANKED the British nation for /
the gift of the Alert.
The Greeley Partys Dead.
Secretary Lincoln had . conference
with General hazen this morning as to
the disposition of the bodies of the dead /
of the Greeley expedition. 10 10 proba-
BILE that they will be taken 10 Cover
nor's Island in New York harbor, and |
placed in charge of Major General Han
cock, until decision shall be reached |
as 10 their final disposition.
PACIFIC COAST.