Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-05-11
LEAGUE AT WORK.
Chairman Clarkson- Opens the
Club Convention
AND PROPOSES A LINE OF POLICY.

Woman Suffrage and Cooperation Sug-
gested as Subjects to Bring Forward
Salient Points of His Address-Denver
to Get the Next Meetings.
of the National Committee-The oues-
tion of Representation Postponed.
LOUISVILLE, May I.-In opening the
national Republican League convention
President Clarkson said: ''As we begin
here today the march to victory in 1896 we
have neither complaints nor explanations
for the defeat last year. Indeed, the Re
publican party feels better today over the
situation than the country itself. The Dem
ocratic party that saw in the Republican
policies only robbery of the American peo-
pie have now been in power two months
and the robbery still goes on by Democrat
&c onsent under Democratic auspices.
cleveland and his i ratio secretary of
The treasury have nj. given the coun-
try plain foreta~tt OF Democratic ideas
of finance and business They have al
ready frightened the business world; made
a suspension of discount in all the banks
Of the country and created uneasiness
where prosperity ruled before.
The "IntoIerance of Morality"
"A majority of the voters of the United
States are Republicans on the real Repub-
iican issues. Too many voters have been
alienated by what might be called the in
tolerance of morality. Let US make the
platform so broad that any man, native or
foreign born, of any church, may find a
Welcome place in our ranks. Thus we shall
gain new votes and elements. We 90 into
Shis conflict to maintain our old principles
with undiminshed faith, favoring the
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Workingmen and American interests. The
Republican League comes to Kentucky TO
1eny the charge that there is revival OF
sectiOnalism, and the "bloody shirt" and
to prove that il is false. We come to s;-y
that the negro question has merged in the
.arger one of equal rights of all parties
The Coiored Man in Politics.
ave come to prove that the Democratic
party has so far surrendered to the Repub-
,ican position on the equal rights of all
parties as to admit that the negro has the
right to vote or hold office if Re will act
with the Democratic party When the
Democratic party tn us accepts the negro
RS a voter it can no longer challenge the
light 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
Snot a man. The cry of ignorance no lon
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negro of slavery days is Republican.
Position of the New Negro.'
"The new negro like the young white
man, will make his own terms with the
existing political parties. The south has
already injured itself on this line more
than it can recover III generations. In teach
ing it's young people dishonesty in politics
it has been logically teaching them dis
honesty in all things. Of the millions Of
re ho tn 4 al
20 know that political liberty in some
states of the south is for Democrats only.
On the laboring men of the northern
cities begins to fall the greater injury of
the injustice toward the southern negro.
This comes in the menace of the degraded
and cheap labor into which the Democratic
party has forced the black man.