New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-20
THE GREAT GATHERING OF CLUBS.
AN ASSEMBLY OF NATIONAL PROPORTIONS.
NEARLY $4,000 cLUBMEN IN THE CONVENTION
CITY READY FOR EARNEST WORK.
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| TELEGRAPH TRfaUNE
Chicago, June elf the great Republican Ma
tional Convention were not in session the confer
ence of Republican Clubs which began here to-
day would in itself attract the attention Of the
entire country. IL is somewhat overshadowed by
the Convention, but it is only second to that body
in Importance, as will be evident when one remen-
bers that the conference represents about 900
active. vigorous local associations and over half
million enrolled voters the youngest and most en-
thusiastic OF the party, and that nearly $4,000
of these members are now in Chicago. The city is
fairly overrun with the clubs and their representa-
| tives. 1t is by far the most conspicuous and
| picturesque feature Of this historical OCCASION
| and, so far as regards external appearances the
clubs are the life Of il, They began TO come in
last week and since then have continued to arrive
by train loads, until now they are apparently the
largest element Of the immense army of visitors
that throng Chicago. There are a few Of these
organizations that &c MT belong TO the National
Republican League, but their number is compare
lively small 1t is emphatically League gath
ering.
An idea OF its size may be obtained by compar
ing it with the great Republican Club Convention
in Chickering Hall, in New-Yorh last fall To
that memorable assembly about 400 clubs sent
delegations The total attendance was about
resented by nearly $4,000 men In other words,
re gathering here is just about ten times as large
as that held in New-York, and may even more APP
propriately be termed National assembly, since
there is not State or Territory from Maine TO
Mexico that has not some Republican Club men
TO speak for it, There are colored clubs from the
cotton States and big powerful organizations from
the East, West and Northwest, some Of them with
from 90 to 500 members, and most Of them in
uniform.
SOME OF THE CLUBS REPRESENTED.
Here some Of the larger organizations:
The Blaine Club, Of Cincinnati, and the Foraker
Club. of Columbus which arrived this morning:
the Michigan Club, Of Detroit; the Harrison Club
of Indianapolis; the Corn Palace Club, Of Iowa
the Union Republican Club, of Philadelphia; the
Republican Flambeau Club, of Topeka; the Vet !
eran Lincoln Club, Of CINCINNATI TIE La Sale |
Club, Of Chicago; the New-YorE Republican Club |
the Buffalo Republican League, the Steubenville |
Club, the Americas Club, Of Pittsburg; the Union |
League, of Minneapolis; the California State Re
publican Club, the Blaine Club, of Missouri the |
Federal Club, OF Brooklyn; the Young Mems Club, |
of Baltimore; the Lincoln League, of Indiana;
the Middlesex and the Home Market Clubs, Of |
Boston; the National League Club and the Ma
tonal Republican Club, OF Washington the Blaine
Club, of Kansas City; the Grant Club, of Albany; |
the Wellington Club, Of Kansas, which has with
it Of the finest glee clubs in the country; the
Union Club, of Denver; the HOlton Club, of
Kansas; the Young Mems Club of Lexington KY.
the Union League, of Milwaukee, which owns a
81 90, 900 clubhouse; the Veteran Union League
of Chicago; the Republican Association, Of Biz
mingham, Ala. the Farmers Club, Of Tennessee;
the Republican Club Of Louisiana; the ST. Louis
Republican Club, the Young Mems Republican
Club, of Portland the Pullman Club, of Illinois;
the Young Mems Club, of Omaha and host Of
others.
With such multitude OF delegates, it would
be impossible to hold conference
the usual plan that is, in the form of single
meeting in one hall There is no place in the city
big enough to accommodate one-quarter Of the mem
berS vino would attend For this reason the League
Executive Committee arranged that the Various
State Leagues should hold conferences at their
respective headquarters, and afterward that dele
cations from each Of these should meet together
and lay out the plan of the National campo en- as
1t will be conducted by the League this fall
This general conference will be held tomorrow or
next day, at least before the grand ratification
meeting which Will take place in the Convention
Hall Immediately after the nominations are made.
BBIMFUL OF ENTHUSIASM
The work of the conferences to-day WAS purely
The Leagues headquarters are most
!
Grand Pacific Hotel. right adjoining those Of
THE NETWORK TRIBUNE. They the raiiylng
point of club men particularly, but everybody Is
welcome, and as a result they are crowded from
morning to night with members Of the regular
1rgani cations, as well by League men. Here !
republicans from every State and Territory meet
ind interchange views as TO the probable result
# the Convention and the absorbing question
# organizing the party, with which the League
las especially to do. This weghty discussion Is
elieved, from time tc time, b. visits from the
arous glee clubs who seem 10 feel more at home
d the Leagues rooms than anywhere else. They
made the place ring to-day by the spirited manner
D which they rendered a lot of new campaign ,
He TRIBUNE the official organ OF the League.
All the State Leagues are well represented The
fiiCerS of the Ncw-I OFN organization here are
'inlo d. Bead, Of Buffalo Charles ". Lansing
( Keesevilie; William ,. Coggsfhla, oil Queens q
ev-Y erll. The New orl1 Republican Club men y
anne mostly by special tram. They include "
ames a. blanchard, Joseph Pool William Brook; 6
cid William Leany, Henry Gleason, General !
;ussey, ii. r. Demilt, VI. =. Bryant, Frank, H. q
odart and Commissioner Charles NJ. Iantor. q
Most OF the CLUBS throughout The state have n
clegates here. The Ohio men were among the 4
rst to organize themselves into Stale league If
hey have already over ono hundred clubs III the .
cid and the majority Of these are representa- here \
Y delegations ranging In numbers from I'VE 10 I'VE d,
undred They are the most enthusiastic e?ment ~
the Buckeye ero~d Governor Foraker, Judge
rown. chairman Of the Ohio Republican STATE II
ommittee and Judge Caldwell, OF Cincinnati i
re- some Of the prom iIent members that seen at
40 Leagues headquarters. d
TIE PROSPEROUS VIRGINIA LEAGUE
Seventy-fye clubs make up the state League ~
Virginia They are out in force here. About .
% members of the League arrived to-day, in u
uding Colonel William c. Elan, president OF the "
tate Association, John S. Wise, Editor Funk "
ousen. Of The State Republican eX-Congrcss- =
an r. s HOOPER j. w. Southland and Frank ). &c
~ sid NIr Southland: The League and the r.
riff issue will carry Virginia this fall Why in 4
ichmond alone the party ote viii be Increased Ii
: AT least ono thousand votes through our ellorts
e,v lis are being formed daily, Within
.n.1. =. L. ConNnnlion ad-onrns Won have