The Bolters From Cincinnati In Council

NE-w YOKK, May 30.- A meeting of Pree Travers was htld in Steinway Hall to-night to take counsel in referen the Cincinnati Conventicm. William Callen Bryan't prended. Abont two thousand peraona were present. Charles H. Marshall, Secretary, road a list of eighty-four Vice-Prt-sidents, aiuong whom were Stewsrt Brown, 0wald Ottendorfer, Theodore Koosevelt, Charles O'Connor, Hou. John A. Dix, S. D. Baboook, Hahlon Sonda, P. Lorillard, W. W. 8herman, O. F. Sherm.m, Doñean & Co. and Samuel McLean, of Brooklyn, ïhe chuiriimn, in a brief opening address, said our rovenuo laws havo growu into a system of gross abuses. Four out of every fivo wise men would pronounce them oppressivo and a burden on tho eommunity. ïhe people are now deterinined, afad it would be dangerons for any politioal party to disregard their demand to put asido tuo indirect taxes which are so burdonsome. ïhe öecretary, C. II. llarshall, read a letter to Mr. Bryant, signad by J. D. Cox, George Hoadley, and nunierous others in Cincinnati, asking either that tbo meeting nomínate candidates for Presidenr aad Tice President, or that a meeting of representativo men bo called not later than tlio JTth.of .Tune. Mr Bands tlien rèad a series of resolu tionp, as follpwa : Remlrxd, That with the disappearanoe ot the prolitioal issues arising out of ths institution of slavery, and reauiting from the war which slavery ebtailed, the haa made itself feit among thoflghtínl men of both partios for a governmental policy based on the material intorests of the country, and contemplating broad, practical reform in tlie collection of the revenue, tho organization of the civil service and in all branches of the governmont administratron". Resoloed, TBat with the general relaxaron of oM party tics, and with growins distruot feit toward' professional politioal leaders, fchïe oountry turns for counsel to the independent tbinkera from the ranlcs of either party, and thereforo the late Convention at Cincinnati was regarded hopt-fully, in the trust-, that it #oold lay down a sound and adequate platform of principies, and would likewise nomínate íidate whosü freédom of assooiatjon with odioue poVitical rings, and whoso whole record on the questionsof the present and future, should giye the assurance that his eloction would bring with it radical chunga for the botter. Raofoid, That both the platform and candidatos of tho Uincinnati Conven+um lused deep disappointment in the mind of tho community, and have rendered impoesible that oo-operation of all reforming inffnesoes, without the union of whioh suocess is impossible. i: ■■'■■ ', That the late Convention at Cincinnati, having been held nnder caliwhich specifled free trade as one of its lea:ling principies, and that issue having been ignored in its platform, while the most prominent protectionist in the country was oamed as ita oandidate, no obligation to support him rosts on those freo traden wlio participated in tlie convention and uudor whoso auspices tho convontion was oonvoked. , ïhat thosé who havo labored in the past to redress tho v.-ronirs and to ftbolish the aboses of onr tanff system Bhould not permit thiir exc.-tions'to ba diminished by the rebutf whinh they havo received at Cincinnati. On thocorïtr :i y, the present dissolution of former party üesoffars an oppertnnity fornffortsin ina-.y districta iu which it has horetofore been hopeless to attempt to break t!i! old party luii-s on the question of t:iriff reform. Resolved, That -n-hile ttús preparing for tho aclivo contost in individual ñuna] distriets, we cannot forge that in :i Presidenttal oampaign the íeading motives which cuides the coane oí raatiy v t ira must be íound in tho public ohara i er and record of the -candidatos for tho Prosideney. We therefora c:ill on all f iendsof free trade and bindred reforma t traite with us in our effort to socuro t ;o nomination of a candidato who shall adequately represent our principies ; and, further, )■;?, That for this pulposo the Present of this meeting be einpowered tu appoint a oommittee of ten, which s! all havo pmvor U add to iN number, and whose ilnty it sh'all bo to put themsolvcs in communioation and to concert offöctivo co-oporation with all associations and individuals having a liko object in view. Prof. Perry, of Williams Colloge, criticised the qnalifloations of caudidates for the Pn-.idciii'y and intimated that tb ere nii;_rht goon bo another candidato in tho fiold whose name might also begin with David A. Wells was received with cheers, and in hia remarles advised fn o traden to p:rfi'ot tliöir organizatiotj and be ready to strike with effect. His disappoinment ut what oscurred nt Ciucintiati wás deep and bittor. People w . qualiifoatiöns than splittin rails, wearing white hata, monding old breeohcs oml getting drunk occasionally. EdwanJ Atkinson süiil that if GFreeley were President his icdillesome disposition would load to greater oomplicatious than tho present. AVhatoonld bo expocted of a man whoso ad visor, lL'iiry ('. Garry, declared that a ten years' war with Great Britain would bonefit this country more than anvthing elso, and to whom all foreign nations stand as enomios. If the freo traden want leaders they havo Bucb men as Charles Franois Adama, [loud and re] eated oheering.J Win. 8. Groesbeck, Jacob I). Cox and Wm. C. Bryant. Addressef were also delivered by Siraon Steine and Henry J). Lloyd, Th; resolanos was oamed, and tho follówing committoo appointed to carry out their object: J. J. Cisco, Eoyal Phelps, It. 15. Minturn, Mahlon Sands, Howard Potter, Alfred Peil, II. D. Lloyd, Simon etoine, ('. II. Marshall and E. B. Itobin8on. Adjournod.