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NEW YORK. 



Bowers, including those belonging to the courts of 

 justice and directly affecting the liberty of the citi- 

 zen as well as the authority of money in controlling 

 and corrupting legislation. 



8. It has refused to remove or modify obnoxious 

 statutes of its enacting, when protested against and 

 appealed to for that purpose by the temperance peo- 

 ple, treating their petitions and drafts of bills with 

 undisguised indifference and contempt. 



9. It has shown itself, by its entire administration 

 of public affairs, to be a friend of the rum-dealers, 

 and chiefly concerned in the securing of their sup- 

 port. 



Resolved, That for the reasons assigned in the fore- 

 going resolutions, we approve the establishment of 

 a distinct prohibition party in the State of New 

 York, and thereby declare our abiding purpose, and 

 persist in its maintenance until, with God's help, we 

 put the State into the hands of well-known, publicly- 

 pledged prohibitionists. 



Unsolved, That we are unalterably committed to an 

 amendment to the constitution of the State, forbid- 

 ding the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages 

 within its limits. 



Resolved^ That while we hold it to be equally the 

 duty and interest of both sexes to work for rum's 

 overthrow, we cannot refrain from grateful com- 

 mendation of those women who have set an example 

 of devoting all the powers and influence they pos- 

 sessed, an example which we regret there are so 

 many of the other sex to applaud and so few to imi- 

 tate : and we would call upon the temperance wom- 

 en of the land to continue their efforts, and espe- 

 cially until such time as they will be endowed with 

 the same legal privileges as their fellows, to employ 

 all their influence and power with husbands, fathers, 

 and others who have the ballot, that it may be used, 

 on the side of sobriety and good order. 



Resolved, That a State Central Committee be nomi- 

 nated by a committee named by county delegations. 



Resolved, That we hail with devout thankfulness 

 to God the great uprising among the women of our 

 land to put away the liquor nuisance from among 

 us, and that we renew our pledge to put the ballot 

 into the hands of women when we shall have power 

 to do so, thus enabling them to vote as well as pray 

 against the giant curse of the world. 



A State ticket was then nominated, as fol- 

 lows : Governor, Myron H. Clark ; Lieuteuant- 

 Governor, J. L. Bagg, of Onondaga ; Judge of 

 the Court of Appeals, Horace V. Howland, of 

 Cayuga ; Canal Commissioner, Daniel Wai- 

 ford ; State-prison Inspector, Ira Bell, of St. 

 Lawrence. 



In the same city, on the same day, fifty 

 temperance Republicans from various sections 

 of the State assembled upon invitation of B. 

 E. Hale, of Brooklyn, to consider the expedi- 

 ency of renominating Governor Dix. David 

 Dicker, of Chemung, presided, with Judge 

 William H. Van Cott, of Westchester, as vice- 

 president. Among the resolutions passed were 

 the following : 



Resolved, That the unanimous passage by the Re- 

 publican State Convention of resolutions indorsing 

 the principles and policy of prohibition inspired ad- 

 ditional hope for the triumph of the cause, and se- 

 cured to the party for several years almost the entire 

 temperance vote of the State ; that we have sup- 

 ported in good faith and earnestly General John A. 

 Dix as candidate for Governor, believing that, stand- 

 ing gquarely upon the platform of his party, he 

 would justify the confidence of temperance men by 

 his official acts. 



^Resolved, That by his veto of the local prohibition 

 bill in the 'interest of the liquor-traffic, Governor 



John A. Dix forfeited all claims upon the support 

 of the friends of temperance and of the Christian 

 Sabbath, and that the Republican party by reuomi- 

 nating him for reelection will deliberately assume 

 the responsibility of that act and detach from its 

 support thousands of earnest men who have been 

 among its most faithful adherents. We therefore, 

 as Republicans and as temperance men, solemnly 

 protest against such renominatipn as in violation of 

 good faith, and endangering the integrity and success 

 of the party. 



These elicited a warm discussion, hut when 

 it was understood that their main object was 

 to influence the nominations of the Republican 

 State convention, they were passed with only 

 two dissenting voices. 



The Liberal Republicans assembled in State 

 Convention in Albany, on the 9th day of Sep- 

 tember, and passed resolutions, but made no 

 nominations. Charles E. Hughes, of Washing- 

 ton County, was made chairman. Two hun- 

 dred and twenty-eight delegates were in at- 

 tendance. The resolutions, which were unani- 

 mously adopted, were as follows: 



Resolved, That the Liberal Republicans of the 

 State of New York stand for the defense of constitu- 

 tional liberty, for the right of local self-government, 

 for the restriction of delegated power, tor strict ac- 

 countability on the part of public officers, for the 

 restoration of the constitutional currency, and for the 

 protection of the rights and interests of the masses of 

 the people. 



Resolved, That the Administration of President 

 Grant has failed to fulfill the reasonable expectations 

 of the people ; that it has pursued a vacillating and 

 imbecile financial policy which has plunged the 

 business of the country into disaster and bankruptcy ; 

 that it has invaded the rights of sovereign States by 

 imposing upon them Governors by means of the 

 bayonet whom the people had rejected at the ballot- 

 box ; that it has employed spies and informers to 

 plunder our merchants and establish a system of 

 terrorisnij paralyzing enterprise ; that it has con- 

 spired with corrupt men and monopolies to prey 

 upon the community, and has kept in existence in 

 the District of Columbia an infamous being, in whose 

 thefts, although carefully sceened by their confed- 

 erates in Congress, high officers of the Government 

 have been proved to he participators. 



Resolved, That "the liberty of the press is essen- 

 tial to the security of freedom;" that the sedition 

 law of 1798, " abridging the freedom of speech and 

 the presSj" was an infraction of the Constitution 

 which a justly exasperated. nation resented by ex- 

 iling forever from power the party responsible for 

 its enactment; that 'the Poland-Frelinghuysen bill 

 of 1874, under which an immediate attempt was 

 made to procure, the indictment of an obnoxious ed- 

 itor, is a measure of like character, involving even 

 greater peril to our liberties, "depriving us in many 

 cases of the benefit of trial by jury," and transport- 

 ing the citizen away .from his home and from wit- 

 nesses by whom his innocence might be established, 

 to a distant place "to be tried for pretended of- 

 fenses 5" that its precedent is to be sought in the 

 tyrannical acts of the King of Great Britain as enu- 

 merated in the Declaration of Independence, and 

 that its enactment can only be effectively met by ex- 

 pelling from power both the men and the party guilty 

 of the treason. 



Resolved, That while we believe that sound policy 

 requires that no President should be reelected, we 

 further declare our uncompromising hostility to every 

 pretension toward perpetuating power in the hands 

 of the same person beyond a second term. Such a 

 pretension deserves and should receive the indig- 

 nant condemnation of the people, who should de- 



