The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-03-15
The REPUBLICAN LEAGUE
Called to Meet in Louisville, KY,
May 10, in Annual Con-
vention.
Tho Struggle Did not End In 1889,
Arc the Words OF tho
Call
Consequently tho Republicans Ars Already
EegInning to Marshal Their Hosts
for the Next Contest.

Nhw YonK, March A.-A call for the an
nunl convention of the Republican National
league, to meet at Louisville. KY, We'd
neaday, May 10, was issued to-day. Tho
ratio of representatives will be six dele
gatoe- at-larRe from each state and terri-
tory and four from each congressional
district and ono from each college repub-
lican club in the United States. The ma
tional convention OF the American Repub-
licnl College league will be hold at the
Same place May IL. The call says the
membsrs of the league accept the party de-
feat of 1892 asa larger call upon them for
renewed devotion and effort in tho con-
Rressional elections of 1894, the presiden.
tial election of 1896. and in state and local
party contests in tho time intervening.
1t is ready in its vast membership, with ono
Of its own clubs at work in almost every
neighborhood in the United Stntes every
day in the year, in all the nobler efforts of
party methods, through popular effort and
popular education to bear the burden of
daily party work in the four years to come.
In this new day OF complete democratic
ascendancy in the nation. and the restora-
tion OF sectional rule in the government,
with tho committees of the United States
senate being organized In the intsrest OF
section composing one fourth of tho states
of the union, in which states republican
voters arc boldly and successfully disfrau-
chised because they are republicans, and
when the cabinet of the new president is
made up mainly in the interests Of the
great corporations OF the land, there is but
added reason for increasing ardor and
;rit ha ne -.
human rights, free labor and seif-rsgpect-
ing 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: 1.-THE fight must 90 on.
The cause of human liberty must not he
surrendered at the end Of one or even ons
hundred defeats" 1t must go on until the
weak and helpless of all GLASSES and condl-
tions are protected under laws, and until
the day shall come. demanded by Gen.
Grant: when the rights of q republican
shall be as fully admitted and fully pro-
tected at every voting place in the land as
the rights of a democrat"
To this end the national ommittee Of
the National Republican league cordially
invites all citizens who believe in honest
elections and the right OF every American
voter to cast ono vote and have it fairly
counted; who believe in tho dignity of free
labor and faithful maintenance of the diff
ference between American and European
wages; who believe in the old American
policy of protection to American industry
and to American workmen. and in the new
American policy of reciprocity; who believe
in the fullest protection to oil classes OF
invested interest and yet who are opposed
to corporation rule in the government OF
either nation or state; who believe in sound
money and honest gold and silver as money
as pledged in the national republican plat
form Mt Minneapolis; who believe in such
improvements and extensions of the
banking systems OF the country as
will bring banking facilities nearer to the
people of smaller towns and communities;
who believe in practical civil service reform
such as will separate the spoils idea from
politics and yet preserve the people in tho
control of public offices and all public af-
yet in the assertion of American IDEAS In oil
American affairs.
All such people, and all who arc in SYM
pathy with other policies and aspirations Of
the republican party of the future. arc in
vited to unite at once in membership with
league clubs in their own neiahborhoods
and participate in the election Of delegates
to the national convention at Louisville.
The republican party being non sectional
and instinotiyely American in all the better
meanings of the terms. chooses to open the
new contest with this convention hold on
southern ground, especially inviting attend
ance from all southern states and hoping
to make historical this republican meeti.g
i'll the state which is sacred with traditions
OF Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln and james
@. Blaine.