Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-02-18
REPUBLICAN LEAGUE CONVENTION

/ The State Convention Of Republic
can Clubs at Wheeling this week was
a successful campaign starter, In
numbers and political enthusiasm.
There were 125 clubs represented by
1000 delegates, besides many of the
leading Republicans of the State.
Some able and cheering speeches
were made. This League movement
will be d power in the party, and
should be headed bs the best plan
ners, organizers aud workers.
straightout Republicans in principle
and practice, and no halfway party
supporters. The resolutions read I:
We emphatically refuse to abandon the poll
cy Of home protection, on which our unexa n
pied national progress and prosperity are
founded.
The effect of the Democratic policy would be
tries to England: by robbing our working peo-
pie OF their employment and wages, for the
benefit of British manufactures; by exhaust
ing our accumulated capital in the payment
Of foreign debts incurred for imported mer.
chandise; and by deranging the entire sys-
tenn Ut our industrial and commercial inter-
all American labor and of all American enter
prise. ~
We recognize in the message of the head Of
the Democratic party tender to our country
of the choice between supporting the laborers
| and The industry OF Great Britain and Europe
generally. on the one hand. and on the other
the support Of the laboring men and the In
dustrial enterprise of America. We respect.
| fully decline the former, which he recon-
| mends, and will stand by our people when we
elect President,
The principle Of protection is not founded
upon the interests OF any one section or Of any
one class of individuals, but upon the interests
of the entire country. Its supreme object Is to
| render America independent of Europe to
render the United States entirely self-snstain-
| Ing; to keep our money at home and give en-
ployment to our own working people; to sub
stitute home competition for foreign TO build
up towns ana e, Villages to enconrage agricul.
markets for the farmers; to adapt our manu-
features 10 our domestic vans: to promote
the opening OF rapid and cheap communication
| between the States and Territories; to open
mines and to develop all the vast resources of
| our country, SO richly blessed of God In all
that is needed to make apeople great, content
Believing that the development and prosper
| ity OF West Virginia, depends above all things
we pledge ourselves to an earnest and united
effort TO set before the vote RS VI this State the
facts and arguments upon which We rest our
conviction, and to use all honorable effort to
bring about such change In the existing poll
itical conditions as shall plant West Virginia
for ever :, on the side Of the party whose record
| lection to America industries.
Believing in free education of the masses.
and cordially indorse the Blair bill.
In our judgment, the time has arrived
when the wholesale immigration to our shores,
! should be restricted to degree at which it
will not enter in TO competition with the wage
workers of this country. thereby allowing
home labor to receive Its Just share of the
benefit Of the protective tariff. rs
We affirm that the question of Tariff as a sys-
tenn OF taxation upon foreign commodities
| ton or no protection to the labor and indus
trieso America.
WHEELING, Feb. 15.-The State
Republican Committee has decided
TO call the State nominating conven.
tion to meet at Charleston, at a date
to be decided later by the Executive
Committee.
The State Convention to elect
delegates.at large to the Chicago
Convention will be held at Fairmont
on the 10th of May.
| The Convention organized the
state league, electing the following
officers: President, G. A. Shinn, OF
Marion county; vice presidents,
General j. 81. Duvall, Of Brooke
county, First congressional district T;
G. A. Woodward, of Keyser, Second
congressional district; A. F. Glib
hens, of Kanawha, Third congress
iOnal district, aud Col. A. Mclean.
of Putnam, Fourth congressional !
district.