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NEW JEESEY. 



was held in Trenton, and resolutions passed, 

 thanking President Grant for his economical 

 policy and his devotion to the colored people, 

 and pledging him their support for the presi- 

 dency. After the renomination of President 

 Grant, the Republicans again assembled in 

 convention, to choose presidential electors, and 

 adopted resolutions as follows : 



Resolved, That the Eepublican party of New Jer- 

 sey, in convention assembled, do hereby declare 

 anew their adherence to the principles of republican- 

 ism, as so often proclaimed in former conventions, 

 and acted out wherever power has been intrusted to 

 us by the people in the General or State govern- 

 ments : equal rights for all men before the law and 

 at the ballot-box ; a thorough and economical admin- 

 istration of public affairs ; the intrusting of places of 

 honor or power only to worthy men ; and the prompt 

 removal of those who have proved themselves un- 

 worthy ; and we cordially indorse the platform 

 adopted at the Philadelphia Convention in June last, 

 and commend the same to our fellow-citizens of New 

 Jersey for their support. 



Resolved, That the best interests of New Jersey 

 demand the continuance in power of the present Ad- 

 ministration, under which all our material interests 

 have prospered beyond all precedent, and of a Con- 

 gress that will be in harmony with that Administra- 

 tion, and will carry out its policy of peace at home and 

 abroad : a thorough enforcement of the laws, and the 

 removal of abuses that have gathered about civil ser- 

 vice during the last forty years. 



Resolved, That the great political parties of the 

 country to-day are substantially the same as they 

 were four years ago, whatever attitude the Demo- 

 cratic party may to-day assume, or whatever candi- 

 dates it may put in nomination ; and we confidently 

 point to the present prosperous condition of our 

 country as a strong argument for the continuance ^ in 

 power of the Eepublican party, and we cordially in- 

 vite all honest voters of the Suite to cooperate with 

 us to this end. 



Resolved, That we pledge our best endeavors to 

 imitate the example of our gallant brethren in North 

 Carolina, and to roll up for the whole Eepublican 

 ticket a handsome majority in November next, and 

 cast our nine electoral votes for Grant and Wilson. 



The following from the State Committee was 

 adopted after a lengthy discussion : 



Resolved., That the basis of representation in all fu- 

 ture Eepublican State conventions in New Jersey b.e 

 one delegate for each 200 votes cast for the Eepubli- 

 can candidate for President at the preceding presi- 

 dential election, and one delegate for each fraction 

 of 200 votes exceeding 100, and that each township 

 and ward shall be entitled to one delegate. 



Conventions for the selection of presidential 

 electors were held in Trenton on the same day, 

 September llth, by the Democratic and by the 

 Liberal Republican parties. The principles 

 affirmed by the former were : 



Whereas, We believe that the present Administra- 

 tion at Washington has destroyed the trusts com- 

 mitted to its charge by the people of this nation, by 

 ceasing to regard the power and service of the Gov- 

 ernment as agencies to be employed for the good of 

 the nation at large, and the well-being of each indi- 

 vidual citizen, and by prostituting them to promote 

 personal profit and party advancement ; by openly 

 and defiantly disregarding the express provisions of 

 the law, when found antagonistic to the success of 

 schemes for partisan aggrandizement ; by pursuing a 

 course of reckless and improvident expenditure of 

 the public funds ; and by the whole tendency and 

 effect of the Administration, which has been to weak- 



en the minds of the people, the tespect for and the 

 binding authority of legal and moral obligations : 

 therefore 



Resolved, That in Horace Greeley and B. Gratz 

 Brown, our national standard-bearers, we recognize 

 true and unflinching patriots, who, if elected, will 

 administer the Government upon strictly constitu- 

 tional and economical principles ; recognizing the 

 just limitations of power imposed upon all officers of 

 the Government, and the reserved rights of the 

 States in the control of their internal affairs ; who 

 will maintain the proprieties and dignity of the ex- 

 alted positions which they occupy ; preserve the 

 honor and influence of the nation at home and 

 abroad ; and secure the rights and privileges of each 

 individual citizen, and the best interests of the whole 

 nation. 



Resolved, By the Democracy of New Jersey, in con- 

 vention assembled, that the salvation and perpetuity 

 of our free institutions, in which are involved all our 

 dearest interests as American citizens, demand a 

 change of the administration of the Government, 

 and we call upon all patriotic citizens to unite with 

 us in a sincere, unselfish, and non-partisan effort to 

 effect it. 



Resolved, That the open and shameless use of 

 money to control conventions and elections, of which 

 the General Government and local candidates in its 

 interest afford numerous instances, is an alarming 

 and growing evil of the times, tending to the utter 

 extinction of all principle of political morality among 

 the people, and we hereby protest against it in the 

 present campaign, and pledge our sincere and contin- 

 ous efforts for the eradication of so great an abuse 

 from our politics. 



Resolved., That the principles enunciated at the 

 Cincinnati Convention, and reaffirmed at Baltimore, 

 meet the cordial approval of the Democracy of New 

 Jersey. 



The sentiments of the Liberal Republicans 

 were thus stated : 



Be it resolved by the Liberal Eepublican s of the 

 State of New Jersey, in convention assembled, That 

 we reaffirm the principles set forth in the Cincinnati 

 platform, and the letter of acceptance of the Honor- 

 able Horace Greeley, and do hereby adopt them as 

 the platform of the Liberal party of New Jersey. 



Resolved, That we recognize the Honorable Horace 

 Greeley and the Honorable B. Gratz Brown as the can- 

 didates of the great union elements of the nation and 

 the ^representatives of a union of all the States, in 

 spirit and in truth as well as in name ; as a union 

 cemented by genuine peace and the prosperity and 

 well-being of our entire country, and of all its citi- 

 zens. 



Resolved, That the creation of commissioners by 

 the Legislature, for the regulation and government 

 of municipal corporations, is hostile to the principles 

 of republican government. 



Resolved, That we are in favor of a system of gen- 

 eral laws for the creation of corporations. 



There was, however, a class of Democrats 

 who were styled " straight-outs," who did not 

 indorse the course of the Democratic party 

 with reference to the nominations made by 

 the Baltimore Convention. These held a con- 

 vention in Trenton, October llth, and, after 

 choosing an electoral ticket, adopted resolu- 

 tions as follows : 



1. Resolved, That the sight of a Democratic party 

 without Democratic principles, which is attempting 

 to conduct a Democratic presidential campaign with- 

 out Democratic nominees, is not more ridiculous than 

 it is abhorrent to the sense and judgment of evr:y 

 true Democrat. 



2. Resolved, That the natural and just consequences 

 of such an illogical and degrading policy are fully 



