The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-02
REPUBLICAN LEAGUE.
The Meeting Of the Executive Com
mlttee To-Day.
MRS. FOSTERS ADDRESS
The Committee Decided tn Hold the Next
Convention at Newport June 4. After
which Mrs. Foster Made Some Inter
esting Remarks ON Women In Politics

A meeting of the executive committee
of the Republican State League was held
ia Room B of the Narragansett Hotel to-
| day.
1t was decided to hold the next conven-
tion at Newport on Wednesday. June l.
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster Of Iowa, who had
been invited to be present and address the
committee, was introduced by President
Tiepke.
In substance, Mrs. Foster said: Women
are now engaged in all sorts of enter
prise which our mothers and our grand
mothers would have thought impossible
In politics women have become interested
mostly from personal motives. They are
not, as a rule, well informed In
finance. AS to the tariff believe
their tendency is towards free trade
On the question of finance they are, as
we Republicans say, for honest money.
1t cannot be denied that women's infiu-
ence in the family circle is great, even in
political matters. The temperance women
in 1884, or the so-called Prohibitionist
party, defeated Blaine. Now those
women are the best in the country. But
their zeal is mis-directed.
They mean to do the right thing. They
are the very women that the Republican
party Wd0lS. lncSt NOLucu uttu w itdTu
the definition of party lines. When they
are given political work to do they will
know just what they can do or cannot do.
lam asked by Prohibitionists why it is
that l am a member of the party that
does not say word about temperance.
Women suffragists ask the same question.
Why do / champion the party that says
nothing of the principles of woman sun
rage. 1t is because / believe in the Repub-
lican party. III women can have some
little responsibility, have some work to do
and feel that they are part and parcel OF
the Republican party you will feel infiu-
ence and benefit of it.
Mrs. Foster then told of the formation
of the Women's National Republican
Committee and OF the opening of the
headquarters in New York.
Continuing she said: We want to do
more this year than we did in 1883 In
face of all the words of approval gained
sire, want to unite the agencies to form
New England order.
In talking with the gentlemen here and
in Massachusetts, / found that they were
inclined to believe that women should
have an organization by themselves. CO.
operating with the gentlemen OF the
CLUBS.
What I want is to have the women
educated / want them to know that the
Mckinley bill makes IL easier for them to
live in their homes. That everything in
their house is cheaper from the shingles
overhead to the boards under their feet,
because of the economic principles and
measures of the Republican party.
want women to keep in the middle Of the
road.
Not to feel that they will carry the
party one way or the other but to hold
elected the candidates nominated by the
Republican party. Whatever is good
stands better chance with the Republi-
can party than with the Democratic party.
Before the committee adjourned the
W. Henderson, was adopted:
Resolved, That the heexecutive committee
on behalf of the Republican League of
Rhode Island endorse the work as out
lined by Mrs. Foster and that we recon-
mend the respective clubs to aid the Re-
publican women in the formation of these
associations as advocated by Mrs. Foster.
Resolved, That a vote Of thanks be ex-
tended her for the timely and instructive
remarks