Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-12


 both these evils and to restore the gov. ernment to the people was the object, said he, of the Independence league. Neither of the old parties could be trusted to enforce the needed remedy.
 The remedies to he applied should injure neither honest capital nor labor and involved, said Judge Seabury, the equal enforcement of the law upon rich and poor.
 The achievements of both the old parties, he declared, were not the prop erty of any political bosses, but were the common heritage of all the people.
 The reforms needed, the speaker went on to say. included honest admin istration of the public affairs and the casting out of corrupt men now In of flee.
 Justice Seabury called attention to the political conditions existing in this city last fall and in this connection made the first mention of the evening of Mir. Hearst's name. Then followed demonstration which eclipsed even the remarkable outburst of the open ing. The delegates jumped on chairs, screaming at the top of their voices, waving hats, coats and county stanch- Ions in the air. Finally in their enthu- siasm the delegates tore down the large American flags which were so profusely used in the decorations and waved them aloft as the band played '"rhe Star Spangled Banner"
 Suddenly at this juncture the cheer ing ceased, and the vast audience join ed in singing the national anthem. Then the cheers began again, and the demonstration, which started at 9:22 D. m., was not at an end until O:52, when Justice Seabury finally secured order by diligent rapping with his gavel. The cheering, marching up and down the aisles. the blowing of horns, ringing of bells and singing had con tinued for just half m hour.
 Justice Seabury declared 1t no won- der a reference to Mir Hearst's fight for the mayoralty last fall should call forth such a demonstration and re- minded the delegates that their leader was about to undertake still greater fight at this time for the governorship. In an effort to preserve the sanctity of the ballot and secure an honest count of the votes cast in New York city last November Justice Seabury said Mfr. Hearst had spent $10O.OOO of his own money. Justice Seabury concluded with an enunclation of the principles of the Independence league.
 The committee on resolutions and platform then reported through Clar- ence J. Shearn, its chairman. Mir. Shearn was accorded an ovation. He was cheered as "our next attorney gen eral." Mir. Shearn declared that the committee, consisting of 150 members, had adopted the platform without one dissenting voice. The platform, doc ument of about 2,OO0 words, sets forth the fundamental idea of the league as independence of boss rule or corpora ton control and of any party subject to these. It declares for "a free vote and an honest count" and demands revision of "the present dishonest and complex election law. simplifled bal lot and law providing for recount in cases of fraud or mistakes in terms so plain and. mandatory that they can be neither dIsregarded nor clrcumvented in the courts;" demands also that the attorney general be stripped of his present control over proceedings to test title to opublic office.
 "The Independence league believes In the public ownership of public util- ities that are natural monopolies. It stands neither for private confiscation of public property nor public confisca- ton of private property. It believes in upholding and enforcing every; prop erty right. Holding that no person or corporation Is privileged to confiscate what rightly belongs to another, 1t stands for irreconcilable hostility to appropriations by corporations of fran chlse values created by the community and belonging to the community.
 "The first essentials for public own- ership are honesty in office and inde- pendence in voting."
 Honesty In public service. the rule of the majority, equality before the law, regard for the welfare of the whole people. independence in politics. opportunity in business. freedom of government from the grip of corpora ton control-these are the principles for which the Independence league is prepared to battle"
 Temporary and permanent organixa- tions were perfected amid much en- thusiasm.
 The convention declared positively in favor of the nomination of full state ticket and instructed the committee on resolutions to draft suitable reply to W. ]. Connors and other delegates to the Democratic stnte convention at Buffalo on Sept. 25. who presented memorial asking the Independence league to defer nominating a state ticket until conference could be had with the Democrats.
 There was much disorder In the con- vention when motion to adjourn until tonight was made nfter the routine business had been concluded. Many of the delegates did not want to ad- journ and protested. half hundred or more clamoring for recognition. while just as many cried for an adjournment The motion was finally carried with a