Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-21
ANOTHER SEEKS PRESIDENCY
SIDNEY c. TAPP Is CANDIDATE
OF LIBERAL PARTY.
Receives Formal Notification Of
Nomination in Chicago Last
Evening-views Of Speakers.

CHICAGO. October 21-Sidney G.
Tapp. presidential candidate Of the lib
.eraI party. whose platform. among other
things. demands woman suffrage. was
formally notified Of his nomination at a
meeting at Hull House. in this city. last
evening.
Mr.. Tapp. whose nomination was made
at a convention in Chattanooga. Tenn,
in accepting the honor bestowed upon
him by members of the new party, ad-
mitted that the campaign had been be-
gun too late by them TO admit OF sue
cessful organization this year in num-
Der of states. but he said:
AT this time and this place may | not
ask those who believe in our principles.
in states where We have been unable 10
name presidential electors on account Of
our limited time. to go TO the polls on
election day and cast their votes for
these principles by marking off names
OF electors OF the other political parties?
May ! not ask that the women OF this
land who believe that they should be
legally free meet on election day and
vote for us by declaring their faith in
our political creed? May l not ask those
who believe in these principles to COM
municate with you Chairman c. j.
Moore of the liberal party national COM
mittee) as the official head Of the party
and aid in perfecting state organization
in every state in the Union. that We may
go forth and battle for purer and bet
ter republic. republic of which the
fathers dreamed?'
Purposes of the Party.
John Madeock. speaker at the meet
ing, epitomized the purposes Of the liberal
party as follows:
"Reformers, as rule. have always
waged war against some particular class.
but the high Office of the liberal party Is
to take the lead in the defense of all
classes and to create peace on earth and
good will among men: to create class
harmony and to establish a sympathetic
socialism which will cause all classes to
unite in one grand economic system for
the good of the whole, that which class
war can never do"
c. J. Moore. chairman of the liberal
partys national committee. in his speech
of notification referred to Mr.. Tapp In the
following words:
I'm nominating Mr.. Tapp the party has
man who is an historian. scholar and
a statesman, who has ever stood for the
cause of the common people in the po-
litical arena and at the bar Of public JUS
tice. and he will ever turn an attentive
ear to the cry of humanity. He is a man
to whom has been vouchsafed the power
Of kindling the people to action and light
ing the fires on the altar of freedom"
Candidate Tapp Accepts.
Mr.. Tapp. who is native of Georgia.
rose we'll over six feet when he aban-
doned his chair for the rostrum and began
his address of acceptance.
I'VE believe the hour has come i'm the
history Of this country when the twofoid
political parties will decay" said Mr..
Tapp. ''Disintegration has set in: disso-
luton and death must follow. They I've
served their day." The political creed of
the liberal party Mr.. Tapp referred to as
a second Declaration of Independence.
Touching on the right OF women to vote,
he said:
THE world cow recognizes that every
member Of society that is made amenable
to law should have a voice in making the
law; that every member of society who
supports the government should have q
voice as to how the government should be
conducted. The mcnarcties of the old
world have recognized this political truth
and are granting unto women the right
to vote. 1t is the living and burning is
sue In England today. Shall there be less
freedom in this republic than in the
monarchies Of the old world?
For thousands of years woman was
the slave of man. for centuries she was
held as his property; for generations she
was denied the right to own property.
barbarism of other times. But while
woman is now physically free. she is not
legally free. The liberal party declares
that she shall be made legally free, and
given all the rights under the law which
are given to men,
Mr. Tapp In closing declared in favor
of the initiative and referendum and for
direct taxation