Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-12
SLUR ON BLAINE'S MEMORY.
Opposition in the Louisville Convention to
Resolution Deploring His Death.

Opposition in the Louisville Convention to
Resolution Deploring His Death.
! When the republican convention at Louisville
reassembled at 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
/ an uproar was precipitated by the efforts of
! the majority to refer the election of a general
secretary of the league to the incoming execu-
tive committee in the interest Of j. F. Burke
president Of the League Of College Clubs.
1t was antagonized by the delegations from
Ohio, Kentucky and other states pledged to
another candidate.
Chairman Tracy ruled that the convention
was compelled to select the officer.
| In the confusion the roll Of states was called.
and the proposition to pass the selection was
carried by vote of 1869 to FOG.
| moment later, when the supplementary
report of the committee on resolutions was
called for, the defeated 700 thought it saw an
opportunity. and through Delegate Bundy Of
Cincinnati it proposed that the resolutions
should also be passed.
This intensified the excitement
1t happened that one of the resolutions de-
plored the death of Hayes and Blaine
In a temporary lull Delegate Goodenough Of
| Minnesota chairman of the committee, man
aged to bring out this fact, and, standing I'M in
his seat, he shook his clenched fist at the Ohio
ans and demanded to know whether or not the
convention itself was competent to act upon a
| resolution.
.. na.e'ei lepE was naee was iost IN the
cheers and counter cheers and the yells Of 'yes''
and mo-"
The convention was getting beyond the con-
! troll OF the chair, when a broad-shouldered
Californian in the rear of the theater made an
impassioned appeal for peace, declaring that it
ovon nv ;ranI;oatie -. 70: ior 'ne eohVehtion'
~ pIo w oisnohor tne memory
| The speech had its effect. and the resolution
Tba ba,anos Az. Using Io.e.
inc aIso ar,r Va 'ne supplementary report be-
Log, s.a,ti ~ was as ioiiows: since the
I AS: as9eio"ge OF repuoncans the patriotic
| tha I.r5 " uou' 'ne Ienstn ana preaoth OF
deaths of r. r. HAYES and IamaD iGss AZ 'ne
Resolved That a,committee ~ nine he ON.
pointed to investigate and report annually the
oon .u OF 'ne party organization in the
'o ..Tu states.
| ne repupican party Is the party OF the
People, anu Tue purposes OF Its creation were the
oosuGuoh oi slavery ana the greatest possible
teAPansIoh OF human noerty within the law. 1t
nso"s nv sect OF creed; therefore the exclusion
; =, any person from any republican club organ
tIauoh on account OF his religious BELIEF merits
'he severest condemnation OF the league"
iIahAs were voted TO retiring President
Si Ason anu secretary Humphreys letter
rom ueneral MasterWorkman Powderly OF the
hnign's OF Labor was referred, without read
|
yer OF Iowa made parting address, and at
O'Clock the convention adjourned sine die.
Oniy dozen delegates responded to the roll
can last evening at the annual convention Of
.he League OF Republlcan Colleges, and hence
II was held In one OF the rooms Of a local hotel
| instead OF in McCauley's Theater, as originally
Planned. According to President j. F. Burke
the sparse attendance was due partly to the fact
that 1t Is bad time Of the year for college
students 70 interrupt their routine and partly
because the movement had been boycotted by
the faculties OF certain eastern colleges, in
which free trade ideas are rampant, and who
refuse the delegates the necessary leave of
absence
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The following were the resolutions adopted
by the convention.
w. ...
WV 'Ao .oPie'on'"'NeS Vi the hePuohcan
League CLUBS, IN national convention as
semoied, reafhrm the devotion to the principles
OF tne republican party, as enuncIated by the
hauonai republican convention IN 1892.
we point with pride to the passage OF the
general law for the safety Of life and limb of
railroad employees upon recommendation of
PRESIDENT Harrison by a republican Congress
ana In conformity with the expressed pledge
| OF tne national republican convention.
we declare that we are In hearty sympathy
Win every legislative enactment which will
promote the interests or the wage earners and
tend to equalize conditions and harmonize the
iei",ionS oe'"een iapor anu caPltai, always re-
earoinS the moral ana material welfare OF the
great Dooy OF the people as the primary object
| TO De attained, and recommend as one OF the
most emcleht means TO attain this end the es-
taDhshment OF system OF arbitration for the
ad)ustment OF differences arising between labor
ana capital.
| ueoi"'e our iaith IN genuine secret
paiiot laws, lortlned bI ethclent acts Tor the
| suppression OF corruption In elections.
we demand the enforcement OF existing laws
3y the auIy constituted officers OF the law and
demand the abolition OF the system OF private
armed ar! FORCES represented by the Pinkerton and