Year: 1876




wish and the conscience and tho heart of the
republican party except must quote my own
Moras uttered this morning, 10 express what l
would say-except we are, we are. the free,
unbought uncoerced, untrammelled, unrequested un-
pledged voice OF the republican party In every state
there are republicans who are justly honored In
many States there republicans whom their friends
would gladly prefer 20 the highest honor IN this gov
ernment But, sir this is not in its nature state
question, as you know. is IL one which onsidera-
tons OF Sta'e pride OF local preieEencc should Tor
moment disturb fthe republicans Of this country, in
every state, are resolved TO give the CHIEF ONCE IN
their gin TO the man who represents most widely, most
uuy the rising the rcgenerae sentiment OF that
enthusiastic victory II they are resolved upon that
will be their first effort their last effort their effort
always and everywhere, TO remove any KIND OF i'm.
pediment from the free deberation OF the National
Convention.


Now, sur very properly and very justly the unit or
the basis OF representation in the National Convention
is the Congressional district OF the State and why
Tho reason Is most obvious. II IL that In that
manner mann tr the drih % Of he sentiment Of the the
other can best be ascertained New York Will
send, think, seventy delegates 10 the Republican
Convention at Cincinnati We have followed this after
noon the usual practice IN their selection. They
selected by the district delegates The relation OF this
State Convention 10 those district delegations is merely
ceremonial This Convention ratincs, OF course, the
nominations which are presented TO II by the
district delegations. Now sir. some of these deega-
tions may have one preference somo of them may
have another majority or tho district delegations
may indeed, be united upon man. and il Is obvi-
ous ask the attention of every delegate in this Con-
vention-and yet IL Is obvious the votes OF the
minority OF the delegates tha shall be sent from this
Convention might IN the National Convention deter
mine the nomination OF the President of the United
States and therefore, II you lay upon those delegates
the weight, the STRAIN; If you do not send those
delegates perfectly freebut II you send them morally
bound, or supposing they are morally bound, to the
voices of the majority of this Convent on-then
In taking that course the majority OF this Convention
intereres with what otherwise. in the case
suppose. would be plainly the choice, in the
selection of candidate Of great majority OF the re-
publican party Of the Union. applause The
ton for which have offered substitute, or the two
resolutions for the latter recognizes in its the
previous one and implies the previous one-tho resou


on which Is submitted for the action of this Conven-
ton, have been told, is submitted In some
compromise TO the views OF some gentlemen upon
what supposed to be the view Of the majority OF tho
Convention. Sir, compromise Of whats Plain words
are best What is the object OF the gentlemen speak
plainly OF the gentlemen-who represent tho majority
In this Convention. What is their object? Gentle
men, do you think that sitting here seen only
by our friends In the galleryY Do you think at this
juncture of political and national history
pubeans OF New York about to express by their
action their position, seen at this moment
by the whole country DO you know that to NOR
row morning your action will be bazoned and
flashed abroad from this little town until on
the Pacific Coast they shall know what that
action isY Now. repeat my question, What Is the n
tenton of the resolution for which mine is presented
as stituteY Gentlemen, it is called compro-
mise We told that 1t does not instruct the decga-
lions; that it docs not pledge the delegations. Very
well.


THE PARTY IN NEW YORK DIVIDED.


Now, ask you as republicans If am not right when
that tho republican party of this State is to-day
divided into three parts. | appeal to your
consciousness There the first part, that prefers
Senator Conkng as its candidate for the Presidency
There second that part Of party which has
choice OF some other gentleman than respected
Senator There is the third that large part OF the
publican party whose voice Is always heard at the polls
either for against that large part OF the republican
party which represents the courage OF its opinions
which darcs defeat chassement; that large part
of the republican party, who would recognize IN the
Senator representative Of those nGuences-ustiy or
unusty 1t Is not for me to say but 1t Is in your hearts
TO know-would recognize HIM as the representative
OF those influences which the party in many of its
parts deplores Now, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen
II this be true exposition OF the condition. of the
publican party to-day, what is the scope OF this
The compromise Is this, that the
riends Of Senator Conkng IN this Convention go 10 the
other two classes OF the republican party the State
and offer, as compromise, the unanimous voice. for
Of course, must be supposed that is the unanimous
voice of the New York Republican Conven-
lion, favor Of Senator Conking and tomorrow
rom end TO end OF the country, IL you adopt
The resolution which has been reported to us
from tho committee, you VIII have committed the
voice Of the republican party OF New York, If you
adopt that resolution without exception, for the
orty governs this Convention will have declared
what know Is not true. what hundreds of those who
hear at this moment know is not true, what thou
sands and thousands outside Of this hall IN this State
this Convention that Senator Conkng is


THE UNDIVIDED CHOICE FOR rHE PRESIDENCY
Of the republican party OF New York. Now, Mr.
President and gentlemen Of this Convention, oppose
this resolution, and propose my substitute because
conceive that have moral right with the that
j
floor WHO shares my views, | have moral right
10 bctray the sentiment which is connded to me
by lending my sanction 10 declaration that the re-
publican party o this State unit In Its Presidential
preference. Why sir IL 1t be so, If the Senator in
whose behalf this resolution is sought to be Is
indeed the undisputed and unanimous choice OF the
republicans OF New York, where the need of your in
structons where Is the need OF your request where
the need Of the declaration from this Convention to
the minority OF the districts that going from this
and who WILL you know in the Cincin-
natl Convention, support the candidate, not whom
they may learn is the choice of this Convention but
whom they believe to be the choice OF the constituency
whom they represent You have no right, Mr. Prcs-
den. den, aud gentlemen sa. Of the Convention to
States, or to declare TO the National Re
publican Convention that the State OF New York is
divided Ia its preferences upon Presidential
didae Mr. President, do not question the power OF
the majority or this Convention; but sir remind the
Convention that the right OF majority Is somewhat
different Its power in the old squatter sover-
eighty settlements. We republicans, IN those juba
aud beginning days OF our triumph did not deny, you
= Territory might by the brute force of
their numerical power, enforce human slavery:
but we stood last and presently the country rallied 10
eur views and deprived them of power (Applause.)
And can easily, sir, conceive that If this reso-
luton should pass by majority vote in this Conven-
lion, many delegates meeting with you at the Cincn-
natl Convention would gently detach your hand troa
their shoulders, feeling that the highest obligation OF
honor Of pat pa.rioi% so1sc,,o Of moral duty was
candidate for the Presidency to the majority OF the
votes o the districts OF the thirty States





he districts OF State assembled in It's State Con-
Vention- Now, Mr.. President submit to the majority
Of this Convention that the exercise OF its power Is
question TO be determined solely by


CONSIDERATIONS ExPEDIKNcy
You have called It, sir, the centennial year. Well,
a hundred years ago Edmund Burke did deny the
power he did not question the right OF the Parliament
of Great Britain TO tax America but he simply de-
clared the exercise OF that power as highly nexped
pDt and u IS In that same seise sir that hero
10 appeal to these republicans who surround tins
moment with unanswerins faces and unauswcrng
hearts II upon this point differ speak brother
70 brethren, AS republican 10 republicans beg the
majority OF this Convention, If indeed II differs with
The sentiments that have cxpressed-I bog that
orty TO remember that II noe the trustee 81 the
efests OF an individual, but of party-tap-
cause-and, whatever our party
lines, that cause is the good old cause
that has always been known in the history Of
he race from which we chiefly sprung-the cause
Dt fair play, OF equal rights OF justice, OF frecdom
applied IN this instance to the district delegates gong
rom the state OF NeG York tho Cincinnati Conven-
lion. beg you, therefore, gentlemen, possessed Of
great powcr-ior the majority OF this Convention
and bol in ifc han