Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-24
WILD FOR HARRISON.
Plenty of Enthusiasm in the West
Virginia Club Convention.
THE PLATFORM FOR PROTECTION.
Reciprocity, Honest Currency and PEN
sions are Endorsed.
NEWSY NOTES FROM NEARBY TOWNS

WHEELING, Feb. 23.-The State League
of Republican clubs met at Parkersburg to-
day, and was the largest and most. enthu-
siastic league convention ever held in the
State. Hon. Augustus Pollack, of Wheel,
ing, in the absence of the President, was
chosen chairman pro TEN.
While waiting for report of the Com
mittee on Resolutions, ex-Congressman At
kinson addressed the convention. When he
referred to the patriotic and business-like
administration of President Harrison there
was a wild outburst of applause. The Com
mittee on Resolutions reported as follows,
every paragraph being enthusiastically aP-
plauded:
Resolved, By the Republican League OF
West Virginia, that the Mckinley tariff law
has been productive of highly benehc al
results to American industries: that it has
thrown around established enterprises an
additional bulwsrk, and made possible the
planting of others, thereby enlarging the
field for American labor.
Resolved. That the policy ofprote ction, as
advocated by the Republican party and In
corporated in its legislation is in the direct
and substantial interest OF the American
farmer, whose own product is better pro-
tected by the Mckinley tariff than ever
before, and whose best market is improved
by the increased employment of American
labor in manufacturing pursuits.
Resolved, That, as having intimate rela-
tion to the protection Of labor and our citf
zenship, we urge upon national legislators
such prudent measures as shall tend to
relieve the country of the obvious end OF the
present quantity and quality of immtgra-
tion.
Resolved, That in the policy of reciprocity
we recognize a valuable adjunct to the ma
tional system of protection.
Resolved, That faVOr an honest cur
rency based on a dollar of 100 cents value
whether it be paper, silver or gold.
Resolved, That we heartily indorse the
provision, made through the instrumentality
of the Republican party, for the brave men
who offered their lives in defense of their
country, and we homer the mon whom the
Democratic press and politicians denounce
as ''pauper pensioners"
Resolved, That we heartily indorse the ap-
pointment of our distinguished fellow-citi-
zens General Nathan Goff and Hon. Stephen
B. Elllins, TO honorable positions under the
National Government.
Resolved. That we heartily indorse the
wise and courageous administra tion of Pres
ident Harrison, who has filled the executive
chair with dignity and to the satisfaction of
all fair-minded citizens, and under whose dis
Greet guidance a new meaning has been
given to the protection of American citizen
ship in foreign lands.
The Committee on Resolutions would sug-
geSt to the various Republican League Clubs
throughout the State that hereafter each
club shall elect as delegate to the State Re-
publican League only those persons who
are regularly enrolled as members in the
clubs which they represent and that each
delegate must carry with him to the State
Convention of Clubs, credentials properly
indorsed by the local club which he repre-
sents.
The permanent officers elected were as
follows: President, Hon. John R. Thomp-
son, of Pullman county; Secretary, Edward
j. Allen, of Taylor; Vice Presidents were
chosen from each Congressional district,
also an Executive Committee of IA To-
night mass meeting was held in the Aca-
denny of Music, addressed by Hon. John NJ.
Langston, of Virginia, and others.