The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-29
Republican League Convention.


lican Leauge was held at Cincinnati on
Tuesday and Wednesday of last week.
President j. M. Thurston of Nebraska
called the meeting to order. w. S. Suuires of
Toledo, president Of the Ohio league, spoke,
and Mayor Mosley on behalf of Cincinnati
welcomed the delegates to the city. He
was followed by Ex-Governor Foraker, who
gave welcome for the state of Ohio.
Governor Foraker, in the course of his re-
marks, said that Mr.. Blaine had given us
magnificent administration" Judge II.
II. Powers of Vermont replied to the adj
dresses OF welcome. He said this was not
BODY TO nominate men, but to provide a
way to elect the men after they were prop
erly nominated by the party's established
method. But it was fair to consider prin-
clples, and he went on to name some that
should still animate the party. He believed
in the rulings of Tom Reed who, he said,
had found how to make the deaf hear and
the dumb speak. Referring to the New Or
leans incident he said 1t was time that the
gates of Castle Garden should be closed I'M
til the applicant for admission could show
an honest purpose to become a useful and
obedent citizen Judge Powers made a
very favorable impression, and his address
was warmly applauded. President Thurs
ton followed with long address During
the confusion that preceded adjournment.
an Indiana delegate, Mr.. Cole of Shelbyville,
created limited sensation by declaring
that he would call a meeting to denounce
the treatment of President Harrison. He
was quickly surrounded by other delegates
and quieted. His complaint arose from
the allusion of Foraker to Blaine as having
"given us magnificent administration. "
He subsequently called a meeting of the
Indiana delegates and proposed that some
formal notice of the matter be taken After
consideration 1t was decided to refer the
matter to the committee on resolutions in
asmuch as it was thought likely that Mr.
Foraker did not intend to convey the mean
ing that Mr.. Blaine was the ruling spirit of
the administration. In the evening a mass
meeting was held in Music hall. It was ad-
dressed by General Charles H. Bartlett of
New Hampshire and Major Mckinley.
| When General Bartlett mentioned the
names of Harrison and Blaine the cheering
was wild. President Thurston introduced
Major Mckinley as the next governor of
Ohio and one of the future presidents of the
United States Major Mckinley made
ringing speech. To the charges against the
fifty first congress that it was expensive,
he said yes, 1t used great deal of money,
but 1t paid its debts and a large arrearage
of Indebtedness left over by the fiftieth CON
gress.
On Wednesday, the second day Of the con-
vention, John S. Clarkson of Iowa was
elected president, Andrew w. Humphrey
OF New York, secretary, and Phineas Iouns-
| berry OF Connecticut treasurer. letter
from President Harrison to President Thurs
| ton was read amid much cheering. In the
letter the president said: eff the people of
the United States will now give the world
the understanding that protection and en-
| largement OF our domestic industries the
extension of our foreign trade by reciprocity
| not inconsistent with the protective policy
and the revival of our merchant marine by
the methods that all other nations USE is
our settled policy, we will speedily, 1 am
sure, realize marvellous development and
renewed prosperity" A letter from Presi-
dent ClarksOn also was read Mr.. Clarkson
referred to the issues which the republican
party must meet and settle. Unsettled
questions have no pity for the repose of ma
| tons, and neither the betraying cowareice
of senate more careful of commerce than
of human rights, nor the stranger apathy of
| the pew-holding religion which covets the
| negro for heaven but is dumb to his wrongs
in politics in this life, can finally avert or
long delay their full and righteous settle-
ment. On these higher lines and greater
questions the party can retain its favor with
| the people and its power in the govern
ment The question of labor and larger
reward to labor through the promotion OF
| practical systems of cooperating and profit
sharing is one peculiarly adapted to incite
the ambition of the republican party, the
greatest and most faithful friend American
labor has had. The revision of the banking
system of the nation, made in time of war,
| and still the best in existence as far as il
! goes, making it as good for the country as
| IL is now for the town, and giving to the
| farmer everywhere the same benefit of his
credit that the solvent townsmau has now,
and keeping the currency in sympathetic
volume with the actual demands OF bust
ness and commerce, is something that some
| political party is going to do very soon, and
| the republican party best of all can settle it
and best protect national honor and COM
mercial safety in doing it. Money should
| have all its rights but money has too many
rights when aggregated and speculative
wealth in one city can depress all values in
the country, and when one rich man can
smte all the banks in the land with palsy
and leave them helpless to care for the bust
| ness interests and the financial credit of
their own communities. 1t is the solemn
duty of the republican party to enact Just
| laws to stop all trespass of wealth on the
rights of the people The American republic
| Is still in the morning of its life, and the
problems TO be settled for the future are
| such as to engage the ambition of all good
men, aud especially of all young men, to
whom especially the republican party, just
now entering on its second generation of
life, must now commit its fortunes.
The convention adjourned at four o'clock
in the afternoon. The resolutions adopted
mention with honor the names OF General
| Sherman, Admiral Porter and Secretary
| Window; endorse the administration of
! President Harrison, especially in its course
in reference to alien residents; endorse the
course of Speaker Reed; endorse protection
and such reciprocal trade as will extend
markets insist upon such legitimate in
crease Of the circulating medium and such
maintenance of the double standard as will
fairly satisfy the increasing necessities OF
trade and commerce; demand such legisla-
ton as will protect the people from the ex-
actions of the usurer, expressions of mo-
nopolies or extortionate demands of public
carriers; promise grateful consideration to
the soldiers and sailors; demand changes
in the law that will effectually prohibit the
immigration of paupers and criminals; de-
mand the right OF suffrage and fair count
for every citizen. Hamilton S. Peck of
Burlington was appointed as the Vermont
member of the executive committee, and
Gilbert A. Davis of Windsor as tho vice
president of the state. Judge Powers is
said to have been one of the most prominent
men on the floor of the convention. He