The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-23
THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB.
It's Overwhelming Endorsement
Of the Republican Ticket
Despite Opposition.
Ringing Resolutions Adopted Setting
Forth the Reasons for Such Action
In Unmistakable Terms.
New York special.l

disappointment waited upon the opponents
OF the Republican national ticket who were
hoping thai at the regular meeting of the Union
League Club this evening formal approval OF
the nominations might be defeated IL was
intensified by the TACT that not even was there
developed the hostile wrangling that they
iongod for In case the complete success or the
opposition was not realized. Not only was the
Republican ticket STRONGLY approved, ana by an
overwhelming majority, but the large attend
anee. and the character OF the men present, and
the enthusiasm shown proved that the club was
as heartily united in the support OF the party as
IL has been in the past. The attempt TO defeat
ratification OF the ticket was confined TO tech
nical objection, which was overruled by WI liam
NJ lfvarts, presiding officer and the sentiment
of the meeting 30 strong that no appeal
from the decision OF the Chair was taken.
The meeting of the CLUB had excited the ut.
most interest among the members because or
the reported intention OF some OF them To stine
the voice Of the organization, and the result was
an attendance that had never been equaled at a
previous meeting. At an early hour the arrivals
were numerous, and by O'Clock the spacious
room on the second floor OF the building was niled
with about 700 men, out OF an enrolled member
ship OF l,2O0 No doubt was expressed by the
older members that full force or the opposi-
ton was present, as IT was known that diiigent
Efforts had been made for some time 10 secure
the attendance of every person who from any
reason whatever objected to the Republican
nominees.
atoms OF the club were Mr.. Evarts, John Jacob
Aston. John 8. Kennedy, Justice Noah Davis,
John A. Stewart, Jacob Wendell, Jackson 5.
s sIaTtos ISes Russell Hoady E. H.
down, Cornelius N. Bliss, ex-Gov Aionzo Is.
Cornell, Charles S. Smith, James NJ. Varnum.
a@ss Is
Trowbridge, Augustus hountz, H. u armour,
Charles Il. Gregory, George Il. Butler, Thomas
d. Sloane, Henry @. Ward. J. @. Riddle Joseph
Pool Elihu Root, f. ID. Lecomte, Walter Howe,
Daniel F. Appleton, William III Lee, Joseph =;
Gay Benjamin Brewster. Henry Sloane, David
Miiiiken, DR. Argyle Watson, Peter c. Baker,
George Montague. @. q. Dewitt, Jr., Vincenzo
Botta, Thomas Denny, Henry Clews, +; ;.
Dangs, s. V. II. Cruger, Samuel Shether, VIM.
Dowd, George F. baxter, Joel b. Ehrardt, J.
Man. James d. Smith. f. A. Potts, +. Il. Per-
ex-Judge Charles A. Peabody, DR.. ID. H. st.
John Roosa, and many other prominent mem
bers.
In the absence of lie Grand b. Cannon, pre-
sented q report and resolutions approving the
rominations OF Blaine and Logan from the
committee of thirty which was appointed April
IL. The report was as follows:
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-The committee appointed
at the last meeting OF the club, made upon the
nomination OF the President and organized I'M
der Col lie Grand b. Cannon Chairman,
charged by the resolutions of this club with the
duty of carrying out the purpose expressed by
the club to exercise its influence to the end or
maintaining the Republican party in power,
have given their best attention TO the espousal
and maintenance Of the principles and the pollt-
pending canvass, first while the nomination OF
candidates for the Offices of President and Vice
President of the United States was under delib-
Grafton, and since the nomination, in support
ing the candidates of that party for their cleo
ton by the suffrage of the whole people OF the
country.
the members of the committee, or in the body
of the club itself, as to preferences among the
eminent candidates before the National Con-
vention of the Republican party for nomina-
ton, this committee have felt that when the
names of James G.. Blaine and John A. Logan
were announced by that convention TO the Re
publican party and to the people OF the whole
country, as the standard-bearers OF the Repub-
lican party in the pending contest for the pos
session OF the executive power or the United
States for the constitutional term, the adhesion,
the support, the jealous loyalty, the united la
bors or the Union League Club. were, and OF
right should be, at the service OF the Republican
party for maintaining IL in power and
defeating the Democratic party in its
efforts to regain it, Your committee
have pursued and are pursuing tins
association with the political organizations of
the Republican party of the nation and of the
State, to aid in the labors and burdens of the
party in its contests with the resolute and per-
sistent enemy, the Democratic party, which this
committee and the Union League Club con-
ceives to be hostile to the prosperity, welfare,
and security of the American people
We may be permitted to point out some Of the
great topics involved in the present campaign,
and to be settled by the judgment of the people
as to their treatment OF the executive power
during the next four years. Prominent in these
topics is the question OF skilled labor in every
form of industrial employment and production
by such distribution Of foreign duties in i'm
portation will maintain aud confirm at home
the rates of wages suitable TO our American
system Of labor and citizenship against the
ruinous competition of oppressed and degraded
labor of foreign nations which desire the pos
session of our markets Permanence in this
American system Is expected TO he assured by
the success OF the Republican party ut this cleo
ton, whereby the question will be removed
from politics. leaving only to Congress the de-
tails of a wise and proper application OF the
great principle which the viii OF the people
shall have established. On the other hand, the
success of the Democratic party will plunge the
country into a prolonged period OF vicissitude
and vaclation in the renewed agitation which
however interesting to politicians, is fatal To
progressive and material prosperity, to the con-
fidence of capital, and to the security OF labor
and its satisfactory wages.
The restoration of fair enjoyment of foreign
carrying trade to our shipowners and mer chants
the development OF ship building itself, the just
maintenance of naval and military defense
these are all public questions which divide the
rival parties and distract and discourage the
enterprise of our people. To the Republican
party as the avowed champion of American in
dustry and enterprise in every competition with
foreign rivals. the country looks for the advance
ment and security OF these interests: The sys-
tenn of our finance, the stability of cur
rency and its free banking establishment, the
reduction of the national debt, that the great
nation-the first example in the history OF the
world-shall be wholly free from the vast bur
den of debt imposed by the civil war through
the honest payment of every dollar-these in
terests are, in the judgment of prudent and pa
triotic men, safe onlyin their further conduct OF
the Republican party, the author and defender
of these great measures.
The immense progress in the improved est1b-
lishment of the civil service-the growth ex-
clusivey OF the evidence and policy of sagacious
leaders of the Republican Darty-the wide and
firm hold upon the popular mind which this
measure has gained under the persistent incul-
cation and illustration OF the pregnant issues OF
this great reform, both IN its aspects OF public
administration ana polt cal morality-the fate
of this measure rests upon the continued con-
troll of the Government by the Republican party
And, again, so long as the Democratic party
N it's political organization and in its scheme
and hope of gaining possession OF the execu-
tive power of the nation, IL made mp by an cleo
toral vote of l53 of a consolidated South-non-
political any issues OF the present or the
future and unpermeated by free discussion and
protected suffrage-and mere possible
contingent parcel OF forty-eight electoral votes
out of the great Northern, energetic, independ
ent, law-abiding mass-dividing on all the is
sues of the present and of the future and upheld
in this freedom by the law protected suffrage
no lover and loyal adherent of the Republican
party, in its long career of honor and OF duty II
the service OF the country, can dream OF seeing
he transfer of political power from our party Z
the Democratic party as thus constituted. II
must be by Democratic strength, not by Repub
lican caprice or supineness, that these dang. n
are to be brought upon the country, IL IL Is evel
TO feel this great disaster. Under these oon-
Alterations committee submit to the clul