Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-11
The Meeting Adjourned Early to At
tend the Kentucky Derby.
LITTLE BUSINESS TRANSACTED.
Chairman Clarkson Delivers His
Address, Occupying Over an
Hour-A Resolution Favorlng
Woman's Suffrage Loudly
Cheered-The National Com
mittee Re elects Chairman Car
ter-Joe Manley for Secretary.


streets and hotels and boarding houses are
fairly swarming over with delegates 10
the National Republican League Conven-
ton.
President Clarkson called the conven-
tion 10 order. Mayor Henry s. Tyler wei
coined the delegates in the name OF the CITY,
Col. d. L. Crawford, president OF the Ken
lucky Committee, welcomed the visitors IN
behalf of the State.
Mr.. Clarkson was greeted with storm
of applause when he arose to deliver MS
annual address.
Mr.. Clsrkson spoke in substance as
follows:
I'VE meet here to-day In the name OF
the Repubicanism of Lincoln, Grant
and Blaine. This is. the Republicanism
whose eternal word is human liberty.
1t is fighting Republicanism, and all
the world loves man or party that De-
lieves enough in its own cause 10 nRnt
for it. For ten years the transition has
been toward younger men and different
methods in party management. 10
day man must be gained at his nome
before he goes to the polls. Mr.. Blaine
T earliest of all our leaders, saw the new
demand for a more tiffused or struc-
tural form of party organiza-
ton. He foreshadowed the
League for more organlza-
ton and the coming Of tEs young men.
With the coming OF the rule OF young
men. let US hope that we shall have
party OF greater courage In cardinal
things and larger tolerance In minor
things. A majority Of the voters OF the
United States are Republicans on the
real Republican issues. Too many vot-
ers have been alienated by what might
be called the intolerance of morality.
Let us make the platform 50 broad that
apy man, native or foreign born, OF any
church may find welcome place in our
ranks. We shall gain new votes and
elements.
"As we begin here to-day the march
OF victory in 1896, we have neither COM
plants nor apologies,
NO EXPLANATIONS TO MAKE
for the defeat OF last year. We have
had q Democratic President and DEM
ocratic Congress sixty days, and Cleve-
land has hauled down the American
flag whore Harrison and the Republi-
cans ran it up in the name Of liberty on
Sandwich Islands. lie and his Secre-
tary of the Treasury have already
! frightened the business world and cre-
ated upeasiness and fear where safety
| and prosperity ruled before. They have
shown an adverse balance Of foreign
trade In the last four months OF
$50, 900, 600 as against favorable bal
ance of $40, 900, 900 in the first four
months OF Harrison's administration.
! We 90 into this conflict TO maintain our
old principles with undimintshed faith,
/ favoriug the rights OF men, protection
/ OF American working men and Ameri-
can interests The Republican League
comes to Kentucky 10 deny the charge
that there is a revival Of section
alism and the "bloody Shirt" and
| to prove that it is false. We
come to say that the negro question
! has become merged in the larger one OF
equal rights of all parties. We come
TO prove that the Democratic party has
so far surreneered to the Republican
position'on the equal rights OF all parties
as TO admit that the negro has the right
| TO vote or hold Office II he will act with
the Democratic party. When the Dem
ocratic party thus accepts the negro as
a voter, it can no longer challenge the
right of the Republican party to do the
same.
PUBLIC OPINION AS TO THE NEGRO
is rapidly dividing. The Democratic
party has ceased the cry that he is an
animal and not rational being. The
cry Of ignorance no longer holds against
the negro alone. The negro Of slavery
| DAYS is Republican. The new negro
will make his own terms with the exist
ing political parties. The South has
already injured itself on this line more
than 1t can recover in generations. In
teaching its young people dishonesty in
politics it has been logically teaching
them dishonesty in all things. or the
millions of emigrants who come to
| America all seem to know that political
| liberty in some States OF the South is
for Democrats only.
ION the laboring men Of Northern
cities begins to fall the greater injury
of the injustice toward the Southern
negro. This Games ia the menace Of
the degraded and cheap labor into which
| the Democratic party has forced the
black man. Already some manufact-
cries in the North. with whom skilled
and free labor is struggling for fair
wages, are substituting this cheap labor
| from the South for the skilled men.
AS TO MONEY AND BANKING
the country will depend on the Repub-
lican minority in Congress for defense
from threatened harm. Bi-metallism
will Of course be maintained by Repub-
licans and the sagacity Of the Republi-
can minority in Congress will doubtless
| provide, with the aid OF conservative
| Democrats, some provision in substitu-
ton for the Sherman act which will
| preserve q continued parity in the
| value Of coined gold and silver. Neither
the extreme Eastern view that would
force this country to gold basis, or
the view that would make money dearer
and all other property cheaper, will
solve the problem or save the
] country. This is a silver producing na-
ton, and our money should be OF gold,
silver and paper, every dollar OF which
| should be as good as the other, and the
volume of safe money made and kept
sufficient for the demands OF our ex-
banding nation. II our banking system
can be extended to smaller towns so as
to give the solvent farmer the ready
benefit Of his credit and as low rate Of
interest as the business man Is given,
and il changes can be made, in city
banking so as to give the solvent work
ing man as low rate OF interest as
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