Year: 1875

on Tuesday, the 2sth inst.


On motion the report received and adopted


II was also decided that the Committee on organzs
tion for 1876 shall consist OF four members from each
district and four from each ward


The several districts then submitted the names o.
inspectors and the places for holding the prmaries
which were accepted long address TO the party
then read by the secretary in which, after review
political history down to the last election proceeded
follows:-


For twelve months the Empire State Of the Union
has been governed by the democratic party The SEN
ate, holding from former year, alone remained
In the hands OF the republicans The democratic As
sembly reduced the public expenses by system OF re
tronchment more rigid and searching than had been
practised in the Legislature since 1860.


The exorbtant salaries of county officers, which had
grown year after year by successive exacons OF cor
ruption, cut down in this city alone almost
500 900 per year. Special legislation the parent of q
thousand frauds, killed by constitutional amend
ment The railroad monopoles, which for many
years had entered the lobby purse in hand thwartng
the will OF the people in a hundred ways their first
great defeat in the democratic Legislature OF 1870 10
the memorable struggle over rapid transit


II the deprecated value of real estate in this city
and the angushng prosperity of all business interests
should be traced TO their causes it would be found
that chief among them tho underlying cause OF tho
retarded growth of New York is the want Of ade-
auate terminal facilities The stream of population
has poured so steadily outside the city limits, es-
pecialy into New Jersey in quest OF cheap homes that
hundreds of millions OF wealth made here and belonging
here have been diverted from the legitimate channels
of the metropolis and have gone to the enrichment
of otner places. This hemorrhage of the life blood
OF New York could be stopped but in
way, and that way barred for the past
ten or fifteen years by the railroad kings OF
the lobby, who held in their grasp the trading
politicians Of successive republican Legislatures Rapid
transit which, by fixing the population to the soil,
would nvigorate the energies of tho metropolis with
ife which would build up the waste places Of tho
whole island and from universal paralysis the


interests of real estate This has been for the past de-
cade our crying want and paramount necessity. IL
by the representatives OF the democratic party
that this great exgency was met the LOBBY defeated
and rapid transit secured TO the city OF New York We
point TO the record Of single year Of democratic rule
Tho old tactics Of the Tweed Ring and the Custom
House republicans wero Brought to bear against tho
democratic party al the reevns SETON 20 10y Hen
whose names are an evil and reproach to the DOM
munty and who figured las the records of the courts
abundantly show in nearly every raid the treasury
during Ring rule, have renewed their former terms
OF intimacy and union with the Custom House repub
The cant and hypocrisy of principles Is at las
! boldly thrown off by the latter A Presidential
pagp approaches, and the party of great moral deas
again falls into limo behind the political tramps whom
Tweed bequeathed to New York new political alias
Is adopted by these Ring politicians and this time IT IS
sAntTammany.p Their monumental infamy is already


Inscribed in the official tones Of this CITY The utmost
vigilance of the people will be required 10 prevent
repetition Of their crimea


At the time the democracy OF New York efecting
the purihcalion OF Tanmany Hall the conduct OF
national affairs under republican administration had
brought the American name into byword Of reproach
and shame throughout the civilized world. The de-
moralzaton caused by the war had become, after
seven or eight years OF peace, more widespread
than ever before; the Of Credit Mobilicr stock





highest officers of the governments; ''cornersn IN
gold, IN vhiskey, in gram, iron in worthless
railroad stocks multiplying on all sides but
step by step with their growth was the progress OF
special legislation, the increase OF corrupt subsidies
the accumulation of giant monopoles. the spread OF
egalfzed swndlng and licensed robbery, like that OF
Jaynes in the customs and Joyces and McDonald's in
the revenues Why continue the black oil Of shame
and dshonor which the military party has introduced
the administration OF federal anirs2 Is IL matter
OF wonder that this saturnalia OF centiousness and
national debauchery should have eliminated in a crash
ag fprrfh hfp aG VA me an dpgQ


Bafied and defeated IN every previous scheme to
strengthen his political fortunes the President last
changes front in the face Of his victorious opponents,
discards the bloody shirt" obsolete rag nail
ing the the black dag of Know Nothngsm un-
sheathes his sword Tor a religious war. "


The Republic Of the United States for hundred
years has enjoyed the blessings Of civil and religious
liberty. Religion having descended dovo-lke on white
wings from heaven sits peacefully brooding the
land where conscience IS free and liberation is inter-
among the sacred miniments and titles OF our
social and political compact Suddenly ana without
warning the Chief Magistrate Of the Union sounds the
sire bell IN the nigh" " from the regions Of persecu-
tion he nvokes the spirit religious intolerance and
bids 1t erect its sable throne this land Of liberty
and in this age of enlightenment and vaunted progress


mas history no terrors for his ion as he looks
back tho sangunary fields the blocks the gbbets
the stakes, which stand Ike grim mestones OF blood
the religious track OF tho past 300 yearsY is
the historic as sealed book to the unletered soldier
who has from the tented field 70 the Presidency
and who would clutch at power and hold to 1t with
bulldog tenacity the ruins of his country2


We denounce this atroclous attempt OF the President
recall from its dishonored grave the howhng derysh
Of Know Nothngism The successful soldier, in his
ambition to enjoy third term in violation of the
mon law OF America has seized the torch of religious
persecution and would apply to the temple Of the
Most Hugh less than to the fabric OF our civil liber
ties


We arraign President Grant for the prostitution or
his great Office to the promotion Of his personal and
political designs and for seeking 10 incite religious
war among brethren who dwelling together in
peace and who prepared TO uphold each Others
right worship God according TO the dictates OF their
own conscience to the utmost extremity and against
all comers That sacred right was from tyranny
Wash Thn fft.l lie
pronounced by Franklin Jefferson, Hamilton and
Adams, and General Grant is just century too late in
his attempt strike il down


In conclusion, we congratulate our countrymen
the favorable augures for a brighter future. The
House OF Representatives has been handed the
democratic party by The American people.


The change means legislative and administrative re-
form. IL means equal and exact justice to all men
without regard 10 color and the oblteraton OF
the passions and anpathies which designing politicians
have tomented and kept alive at the South. IL means
purity Of government and sacred observance of faith
with the public creditors


Daniel r. Lyddy seconded tho motion to adopt tho
address telling speech, alter which the committee
adjourned sine die,