The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-04-21
THE REPUBLICAN LEAGUE
Arrangements Complete at Cincinnati
for To-Day's National Convention.
Speakers Who Will Address the Business Meet
ing-Candidstes for the Presidency
South Carolina Politics.

CINCINNATI. April 20.-The Ohio State
Republican League held meeting here to-
night and appointed q committee to per-
feet plan for league organization in every
township in tho State. The committee
consists of President w. j. Squares. of To-
ledo; Secretary John j. Chester, of Colum-
bus. and Messrs. II. w. Gardiner. of Gin
cinnati; w. E. Sifton. of Canton, and D. L.
Sleeper. of Athens.
The executive committee of the National
League remained in session tonight till
after 10 o'clock, winding up the business
for the last year. They also arranged
speakers for the mass-meeting tomorrow
night. There will be at that meeting
short address from the presiding officer,
Gen. j. NJ. Thurston. and he will be fol-
lowed by Gen. John L. Webster. of Omaha;
Mai. VIM. Mckinley, jr., Hon. John NJ.
Langstou, Gen. Chas. Fl. Bartlett, Hon.
VIM. II. Gibson, Hon. A. e. Mathews. of
mont in short addresses. The business
meeting tomorrow will consist of formal
opening addresses by Mayor Mosby, on be-
half of Cincinnati, to which the response
on behalf of the league will be by Congress-
man-elect II. II. Powers. of Vermont. Com.
mittees will be appointed and assigned
duties, aud the business meeting. after q
short session, will adjourn.
The candidates most spoken of for the
presidency of the league are Gen. John s.
Clsrkson. Senator John c. Spooner. Gen.
Nathan Golf. Hon. I. L. Byrnes Of Indiana,
Mayor K. S. Stewart of Philadelphia, WV.
Tracy of Illinois, Judge Joseph A. Blanch-
ard and State Senator J; s.; Fawoett of
been mentioned, but has expressed the
wish that his name be not used. The fol-
lowing telegram was sent TO the Cincinnati
correspondent Of the Associated Press this
evening:
UTICA. N. Y. April 20.
The friends of Col. Elliott F. Shepard are
booming him for president of the National
League. c. w. ANDERSON,
OF the New York delegation.
The Lincoln Club. and the Blaine Club.
and q score of smaller Republican clubs
are keeping open house to-day, and will
continue to do SO until Wednesday night.
The decorations of the first two clubs men,
toned are profuse and beautiful. The ma
tional executive COMMITTEES became the
guests of the Blaine Club at IL o'clock to-
night. Visitors thronged all the club
rooms day and evening. 1t is almost i'm
possib to enumerate delegations that are
vance guards: New York. Pennsylvania,
Indiana and Nebraska are quartered at the
Grand. Pittsburg is here with ninety
seven delegates. Philadelphia has forty.
Indiana has thirty, and many more are
coming.
President Blount, of the Louisiana
who are not already here will arrive to-
morrow early. General Grosvenor. of
Athens, will be of the number. The pro-
gramme for speeches at Music Hall as ar
ranged tonight may be modified some.
what. The order of the speeches had not
been fixed at II tonight, except that Nc
Kinley is to be third speaker, counting Gen.
ThurstOn as first. and he says he will make
only three-minute speech.
The New Movement In South Carolina.
CHARLESTON. s. c., April 20.-The recent
meeting in Columbia of the white Repub-
licans of this State has caused q tremen-
dous sensation. A. w. Clayto ton, a prominent
white Republican, who was instrumental
in getting up the movement, is out in q card
to-day, in which he says: THE object OF
the convention was to form q Republican
League in this State as a branch of the
National Republican League and to elect
delegates to the Cincinnati convention of
said national league. We recognize as
fully as the gentlemen at Washington that
the whites of this State cannotloin party
led by Smalls, Miller, and equally offensive
Republicans. Our object Is to form q
nucleus around which white men may
rally on protection. ballot reform and the
except to accord the negro his rights as
an American citizen"
There is more in the movement here than
mere flash in the pan. The meeting was
the first distinctively white Republican
convention ever held in this State. The
presence of O large number of prominent
white men who have heretofore been
leaders in tie councils of the Democratic
party max % it especially significant at this
time.
Will Work for Democracy.
Topeka, Kan. April 20-Levu DumbauId.
chairman of the Farmers Alliance State
central committee, has issued an address to
the people in reply to that recently issued
by Frank McGrath. president of the State
| Farmers Alliance, who claimed that. un-
less the farmers of the South deserted the
| Democratic party. the farmers OF the North
| would return to the Republican party. Mr..
Dumbauld denies Mr.. McCirath's statement
| and adds: The Peoples party in Kansas ia
in he lield TO stay and has no intention.
| the third-pa movement and returning to
old party lines IL is solidly in favor of the
overthrow of both the old parties without
| any ifs and 'buts.' and its delegates will
60 to the Cincinnati conference Of May ls
| third-party natlonal campaign of 1892
| ready to clasp hands with all who W i'll join
| that movement for the emancipation of the
laboring classes. Hesitate or halt who
may, the peoples movement must go march
| ing on to the 1nal victory. Let none lose
faith or falter. Forward enmasse, over
all opposition"
| Call Not Yet Nominated.
| TALLAHASSEE. Fla, April 2O.-The Cal
men went into joint Democratic caucus to-
night. prepared to support Wallis resolu
ton that no election of United States Sen
ator should be held until nomination has
been made by the caucus under the two
| thirds vote. The resolution came up az
soon as roll-call was over. and the motion
to adopt it was carried unanimously. The
| first ballot to night. the nineteenth of the
series, resulted: Call, 56 Speer 40; Blox
| ham, 2; blank, 1. The twentieth ballot
stood: Call, 81; Speer, 40; Bloxham, /.
Railroad Car PIunde-ers Arrested.
PITTsBURG, Abril 20-Detective Cook, of
the Pittsburg e. Lake Erie road, has mad,
| the first five arrests of q gang of railroad
thieves who are estimated to have gotter
away with fully 100000 worth of plunde
in the last three OF four years. Three of thu
leaders are in the Pittsburg Jail aud TIVE
others are in the McKeesport central sta
tion. Informations have been made agains