Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-29
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 snanial

OF the Republican national ticket who were
hoping that at the regular meeting of the Union
League Club this evening formal approval of
The nominations might be defeated 1t was
Intensified by the fact that not even was there
developed the hostile wrangling that they
longed for in the complete success of the
opposition was not realized. Not only was the
Republican ticket strongly approved, and by an
overwhelming majority, but the large attend
ance, 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
1t has been in the past. The attempt to defeat
ratification of the ticket was confined to a tech
nical objection, which was overruled by William
III. Evarts, presiding officer and the sentiment
OF the meeting was so strong that appeal
from the decision of the Chair was taken.
The meeting of the club had excited the ut
most interest among the members because of
the reported intention of some of them to stifie
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 filled
with about 700 men, out of an enrolled member
ship of 1000. No doubt expressed by the
older members that full force OF the opposi-
ton was present as it was known that dlligent
efforts had been made for some time to secure
the attendance of every person who from any
reason whatever objected to the Republican
nominees.
Among those who participated in the deliber-
atoms Of the club were Mr. Evarts, John Jacob
Astor. John S. Kennedy, Justice Noah Davis,
Schultz, John NJ. Fiske, Charles L. Tiffany,
Brayton Ives, Russell II. Hoadly, E. II. Ammi-
down, Cornelius N. Bliss, ex-Gov. Aonzo B.
Cornell. Charles S. Smith, James III. Varnum,
cx-Postmaster General Thomas l.. James.
Jesse Seligman, James H. Durham, F. E..
Trowbridge, Augustus Kountz, H. o. Armour.
Charles E. Gregory, George B. Butler, Thomas
&c. Acton, Joseph w. Howe, D. 0. Mills, VIM.
D. Sloane, Henry c. Ward, J. Q. Riddle, Joseph
Pool, Elihu Root f. d. Lecomte, Walter Howe,
Daniel f. Appleton. William II. Lee, Joseph e.
Gay, Benjamin Brewster, Henry Sloane, David
Milliken, DR.. Argyle Watson, Peter G. Baker,
Eaft Thomas
Bangs, S. V. r. Cruger Samuel Shether, VIM
Dowd, George F. Baxter, Joel B. Ehrardt, j.
han Ja maapfG s2th, POtts E. III Per-
kins, Jr., Sinclair Toucey. Thomas L. Watson,
ex-Judge Charles A. Peabody, DR.. ID. B. St.
John Rosa, and many other prominent men,
bers
The chair was occupied by Mr. Evarts, who,
in the absence of LIE Grand B. Cannon, pre-
scented report and resolutions approving the
nominations of Blaine and Logan from the
committee of thirty which appointed April
10. The report 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 of
maintaining the Republican party in power,
have given their best attention to the espOusal
and maintenance Of the principles and the polit-
Ical interests Of the Republican party during the
pending canvass, first while the nomination OF
candidates for the offices of President and Vice
President of the United States was under DELHI
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.
Whatever diversity may have obtained among
the members of the committee, or in the body
of the club itself. as to preferences among the
eminent candidates before the National Con-
ton. this COMMITTEES have felt that when the
names of James G.. Blaine and John A. Logan
We're announced by that convention to the Re
ty wi
country as the standard-bearers of the Repub-
lican party in the pending contest for the pos
session of the executive power of the United
States for the constitutional term, the adhesion,
The support, the jealous loyalty, the united la
bors OF the Union League Club, were, and OF
right should be. at the service of the Republican
party for maintaining it in power and
defeating the Democratic party in its
efforts to regain it: Your ., COMMITTEES ts;e
design and have placed themselves in active
association with the political organizations OF
the Republican party of the nation and of the
State to aid n the labors and burdens of tbs
party in its contests with the resolute and per-
slstent enemy, the Democratic party, which this
committee and the Union League Club con-
ceiyes 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
topics is the question of skilled labor in every
form of industrial employment and production
by such distribution of foreign duties in i'm
Dortation as will maintain and confirm at home
the rates Of wages suitable to our American
system Of labor and citizenship against TIT
ruinous competition of oppressed and degraded
labor Of foreign nations which desire the pos
session of our markets Permanence in thi
American system is expected to be assured by
the success of the Republican party at 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 will of the people
hall Sfohl 1pd ON 9TH han +l7t
success of the Democratic party will plunge The
country into a prolonged period of vicissitud(
and Vaclllat1on IN the renewed agitation which
however interesting to politicians, is fatal tt
progressive and material prosperity, to the con-
fdence Of capital, and to the security of labor
and its satisfactory wages
The restoration of a fair enjoyment of foreign
carving trade to our shipowDers and mer chants
the development of building itself, the JUS
maintenance of naval and military defense
these are all public questions which divide thu
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 witt
foreign rivals. the country looks for the advance
ment and security of these interests; The sys
TEN of our finance, the stability of our cur
rency and its free banking establishment, the
reduction of the national debt. that the grea
Dation-the first example in the history of thu
world-shau be wholly free from the vast bur
zen Of debt imposed by the civil war through
the honest payment OF every doIlar-these in
forests are, in the Judgment of prudent and pa
triotic men safe only in their further conduct o.
the Republican party, the author and defende
OF these great measures.
The immense progress in the improved estab
lishment of the civil seryice-the growth ex
clusyely of the evidence and policy of sagaciOui
leaders of the Republican party-the wide anC
firm hold upon the popular mind which thi:
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 political moralty-the fatt
OF this measure rests upon the continued con
troll of the Government by the Republican party
And, again, so long as the Democratic party
in its political organization and in its scheme
and hope of gaining possession OF the execu-
tive power of the nation, Is made up by an cleo
toral vote of 153 of a consolidated South-non
political on any issues Of the present or thu
future. and unpermeated by free discussion ant
unprotected sufrage-and a mere possible
contingent parcel of forty eight electoral votes
out of the great Northern, energetic independ
enus 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 IL
the service OF the country, can dream of seeins
the transfer of political power from our party q
the Democratic party thus constituted. /
must be by Democratic strength, not by Repub
hean caprice or supineness, that these danger
are to be brought upon the country If it is evel
to feel this great disaster. Under these con.
siderations your committee submit to the clul
for their adoption the following resolutions: