News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-23

low the adoption of the Democratic
policy of free trade. and the good re-
suits that have followed and will con-
tinue to follow the policy of protec-
ton reviews the services of the Re
publican party in cutting down taxa
ton and keeping the surplus within
safe limits denounces the Democratic
party for the refusal of the House OF
Representatives to admit territories
to the Union, and its hostility to all
means for the advancement of broad,
popular education ; charges the DEM
ocratic party with failing to provide
out of abundant for the
upbuilding of a more efficient navy,
and the protection of our d~efenceless
sea coast, and the restoration OF our
commercial marine, and urges prompt
and adequate measures for these ob-
iects: charges the Democratic adj
ministration with culpable weakness
in guarding American interests and
individual rights on the high seas and
in foreign lands, while the vessels and
property of our citizens have been
seized and sacrificed in foreign parts,
and information of what they were
Justly entitled to under our treaties
Withheld from them or made dependent
on foreign Interpretation, and de.
mands a more vigorous assertion of
American craftsmanship which shall
restore the respect once accorded to
the just demands of u republic;
charges the Democratic administra-
ton with being recreant to the public,
and repeated pledges of the President,
in prostituting the civil service to par
tisan purposes, and holds that those
professed friends of civil service reform
who accept and follow this faithless
action in preference to the party that
placed the civil service law on the
81 atute books are themselves untrue
to their professions. We condemh
any backward step in this reform and
all hypocrisy in its administration.
H CONSTITUTION.
The committee on organization of
the league reported in favor of the
constitution prepared by the national
convention of Republican clubs and 1t
was adopted with the exception of an
amendment removing the section au-
thorizing the league to lay assess
menls, the general sentiment being in
favor of the raising of funds by sub
scriptions.
The constitution provides that any
permanently organized Republican
| club in this State, having adopted a
constitution, and having not less than
twenty members, shall be eligible to
membership in the league /; the officers
of the league shall be President, three
| Vice Presidents, q Secretary and a
| Treasurer, all of whom shall be cleo
ted at the convention Of the league.
and shall hold office until the election
Of their successors that the conven-
ton shall be composed of three dele
gates from each club in the league
and that each club shall cast but n
vote upon all questions that the con-
vention shall be held annually, at
such time and place as may be dlrec-
ted by the previous convention or,
if no such direction has been made, by
the executive committee, but notice of
the time and place shall be given by
the secretary in writing to all clubs
belonging to the league, at least 80
days prior to the day of the meeting,
1t also provides that there shall oe
an executive committee. composed of
one member from each county in the
State, who shall be elected by the del
| egates of the clubs from the respec-
tive counties present at the conven-
ton. The officers OF the league shall
be e1-o6fcio members of the executive
committee. The committee shall
have power to fill vacancies in its
own number or in any of the offices.
A majority of those present at any
regular or called. session of the ex-
~ecutive committee, shall constitute a
quorum for tn, transaction of bust
ness. The executive committee shall
have the general management OF the
affairs of the league when the conven-
ton is not in session, and shall have
control of all funds of the league,
subject to the direction of the con-
vention, and shall be charged with
the duty of organizing new clubs
wherever in its opinion advisable. The
committee shall be called together by
the President Of the league immedi-
ately after the annual convention, and
shall then organize. 1t shall make
its own rules, and hold meetings at
such times and places as it shall de-
termine. A meeting may be called at
any time by its chairman, and must
be called when requested by five men,
bers in writing. The constitution
may be amended at any convention
by a majority vote of the clubs pres
ent but 80 days notice in writing OF
any proposed amendment shall be CIV
en- by the Secretary to each club in
the league.
OFFICERS OF H LEAGUE.
The committee on organization re-
ported the following list of officers -
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