LIBERAL PARTY

political party in| Gt. Britain; aeeeaion of Whigs; name definitely adopted in Gladstone’s time; original motto, ‘Peace, Retrenchments, and Reform’; aimed at social progre and at bettering condition of lower cla es; supported Free Trade, Irish Home Rule, and Welsh Disestablish- | ® ment. political organization which had _ its origin in Mi ouri in 1870, and which| first participated in a national election in 1872. It was composed chiefly of those | Republicans who were di atisfied with the personality and policies of General] Grant (then President) and who were to his renomination for the| Elney tn 1872. In January of that!a year its first national convention was heid at Cincinnati, Ohio, with Carl Schurz presiding. The convention nominated Horace Greeley for President and B. Gratz Brown of Mi ouri as vice president, and adopted a platform vigorously condemning the Grant administration. The Democratic Party subsequently adopted the Liberal Republican candidates and platform, but at the polls in November the fusionists were badly defeated, Grant receiving 286 out of the 349 electoral votes. With this defeat the party pa ed out of existence. L ‘ i extending S8.K. of Sierra Leone for 350 m. along coast to Fr. Ivory Coast, and claiming the country for c. 150 m. |inland. Liberia was established as 2 home for freed slaves in 1822 by a number of Amer. and European philanthropical societies. Boundaries were defined by treaties with Britain (1885) and France (1892 and 1907-10), by last of which a strip of territory was transferred to France; and in 1911 the Kanre-Lahun dist. was ceded to Sierra Leone. Coast is low and swampy; interior rises, and has excellent timber; watered by Cavally and other streams; soil very fertile; produces coffee, palm oil, and kernels, rubber, cocoa, ivory, sugar, arrowroot, pia ava, hides, kola a|nuts. Cap. is Monrovia. Constitution resembles that of U.S.; executive power held by president, a isted by vice president and cabinet of six ministers; legislature consists of two houses, senate and house of representatives. Owing to an unsatisfactory financial position an international loan of 1,700,- 000 dollars was agreed to (1912), secured by custom’s rubber and head taxes, under administration of an Aner. controller and Brit. Fr., and Ger,’sub controllers. ‘The inhabitants are ail, of negro race, and ances of ar oo Christian religion. Area, c, 40, sq. |m.; Pop. 1,500,000-2,000,000. See Mar AFRICA. 78° 30’ W.), maritime department, Peru, 8. America; area, 10. sq. ae roduces cereals, cotton, coffee, fruits, cocoa. Pop. 200,000.