Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-02-17
THE BROOKLYN YOUNG REPUBLI.
CAN CLUB.
Its Work Last Year Reviewed by the
Executive Committee.

| The annual reports of the executive com.
mittee and treasurer of the Brooklyn Young
Republican Club have been published. The
report of the executive committee. which is
signed by William II. Williams, chairman,
reviews the work of the club in the last
campaign After stating the circumstance
under which few independents left the club
and the emphatic Endorsement of Blaine and
| Logan was made by virtually the entire org
anlzation, the report continues substantially
as follows
The executive committee distributed dur
ing the campaign large number of political
documents, all of which bore the imprint of
the club and were in keeping with the spirit
and dignity of the organization. About 25,-
600 copies of the constitutional amendment,
limiting Indebtedness and taxation in large
cities of this State, were circulated through
out the city and contributed in no small de-
gree to the success of that measure.
Through the advisory committee and the
several ward branches efforts were success
fully made to secure a large registration.
This committee would tender its thanks to
the members of the club for their prompt and
hearty response to the calls for volunteer
work. Never before in the history of the
organization have so many members partc-
pated in election day work. The work of the
several ward branches has been conducted on
a large scale during the campaign. This
committee would urge upon the members the
necessity and value of continued vigor in
these most important departments of our
organization. Ii is through the ward organ
izations that the most effective results can be
accomplished The work of manning and
watching the poles on election day was faith
fully performed under the direction of the
ward chairman and the election day commit
tee. The full details of that work are given
in the report of the election day committee,
to which particular attention Is invited.
BY the tresurer's report it appears that the
receipts from dues and contributions during
the past year have been SS69S, that the dis
bursements have been SS955 A, and that the
balance on hand Jan. |. 1885, was $409.7l.
The thanks of the committee are due to those
whose generous contributions materially
aided in the prosecution of the campaign
work
The committee desires TO acknowledge the
uniform courtesy and support rendered the
club by the New York Tribune and the
Brooklyn Daily Times during the campaign,
During the past year l54 members have
resigned and 764 new members have been
enrolled. The entire membership is now
3034, as against 2423 members on Jan. ,
1884.
In submitting this report it has been the
object of the committee to outline the work
of the club during critical period of the po-
litical fortunes of the country. The battle
for republican principles, after it had been
fairly and honorablv won, was lost during
the last week of the campaign by series OF
unforeseen and trivial accidents. Defeat has
brought neither reproach nor discredit upon
k,,t Laa tta
and invigorate it. As republicans we have
reason to look forward with confidence to the
ultimate success of the great principles for
which that party has contended in its long
and useful career. As members of the Brook
lyn Young Republican Club, we have reason
to be proud of its painstaking labors, syste-
matte methods, unfiagging zeal and devotion
to principle. In a campaign remarkable Tor
acrimonv. defamation, scurrllity, and EVIL
passion, the club occupied an honorary posi-
ton, organizing meetings at which the largest
national issues were discussed with dignity
and power by broad minded political leaders,
employing legitimate agencies for influencing
public opinion, and conducting the local can
vass with decency as well as energy, without
having resource to questionable expedients,
partisan trickery or base warfare upon the
private character of public men. We have
the satisfaction of knowing not only that We
have done our duty but also that our services
have been appreciated, and that, by its un-
equivocal attitude in the campaign, the in
iuence of the club has steadily increased, and
its opportunities for future usefulness have
been multiplied.
1t is true of the club, as of the republican
party, that it was not organized for one cam
paign. Unmistabably republican in national
politics, it has vigorously contended for the
principles of responsible home rule, and non
psrtisanship in the administration of muni-
cipal affairs. 1t is not an agency of faction.
Its republicanism no man can call in ques
ton. Its existence does not depend upon
the caprices of political fortune. Its pros
poets are not clouded by defeat. 1t stands
for principal, and will continue. in victory oil
in defeat, as it constitution declares, etc
| exert such influence as it may in behalf of
good government, local, State and National
The recapitulstion of the report of the
election day committee is as follows:
Workers at Polls and Ward Headqrs 972
Canvassers, 81
| Inspectors and Watchers, 2O5
Special Watchers of elect'l count, 1872
1866
! Appended to the report are the constitu
| tion and bye-laws of the club. The chief of
| ficers are w. II. Villa ms, president; Q
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