The record-union., 1893-03-15
Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.

SpeClal 10 the RECORD-UNION.
| NEW YORK, March IA call for the
annual convention of the Republican
National League to meet at Louisville.
n.y., on Wednesday, May 10th. was issued
to-day. The ratio OF representation is to
be SIX Notwithstanding from each State
and territory, and four from each Con-
gressional District and one from each
college Republican club in the United
States! The national convention of the
American Republican College League
Will be held at the same place on Nav
IIth.
The call says: "The members of the
league accept the defeat of 1892 as a larger
call upon them for renewed devotion
and effort in the Congressional elections
IN 1871, the Presidential election in 1896
and the State and local party contests of
the time intervening. 1t is ready in its
vast membership, with one of its own
clubs at work in almost every neighbor-
hood IN the United States, every day in
the year in all the nobler efforts of party
methods through popular daily work in
the four years to come.
In this new day of complete Demo-
cratic ascendancy in the nation. and the
restoration of sectional rule in the Gov
ernment, with committees of the United
States Senate being organized in the in
terest Of a section composing one-fourth
OF the States of the Union. in which
states Republican voters are boldly and
successfully disfranchised because thew
are Republicans. and when the Cabinet of
the new Presidents made up mainly in the
interests OF great corporations of the land.
there IS but added reason for increasinr
ardor and activity on the part of every
true friend OF human rights, free labor
and seli-respecting Americanism.
The struggle did not end in 1892. As
Abraham Lincoln. in the hour of previous
Republican defeat, so faithfully said:
All Republicans may say with fidelity
now that the fight must go on. The cause
OF human liberty must not be surrendered
at the end of one or even one hundred
defeats 1t must 60 on until the weak
and helpless OF all classes and conditions
are protected under the laws, and until
the day shall come demanded by the
people-when the rights of Republican
shall be as fully admitted and fully pro-
tected at every voting place i'll the land as
VIC llS Ol Il democrat.
ITO this end the National Committee of
the National Republican League cordially
invites all citizens who believe in honest
elections and the right of every American
voter to cast one vote and have it counted,
who believe i'll the dignity Of tree labor
and the faithful maintenance of the diff
ference between American and European
wages, who believe in the old American
policy OF protection to American in
dustry, and TO American worlmen. and
III the new American policy of reciprocity.
who believe in the fullest protection OF
all classes of invested interest. and vet
who are opposed to corporation rule in
government OF either Nation or State.
who believe in sound money, and honest
golu and silver as money, as pledged in
the National Republican platform at
Minneapolis, who believe in such i'm
provements and extensions Of the bank
ing systems OF the country rs will bring
the banking facilities nearer to the people
of smaller towns and communities. who
believe in practical civil service reform
such az will separate the spoils idea from
politics and yet preserve the people i'm
control OF the offices and all public affairs.
and who believe in liberal politics and
yet in the assertion of American ideas in
all American affairs. such people and all
who are III sympathy with other policies
aud aspirations of The Republican party
OF the future are invited to unite at once
in membership with the league clubs of
their own neighborhoods and participate
III the election OF delegates to the Ma
tional Convention at Louisville.
The Republican party being non
sectional and instinctively American in
all the better meanings Of the terms,
chooses to open new contest with this
convention held on Southern ground,
especially inviting attendance from all
Southern States and hoping to make his
torical this Republican meeting in q
State which is sacred with the traditions
OF Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln and
James 6. Blaine.'