The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-11

was introduced and welcomed the dele
gates in behalf of the city. Then Colonel
D. j. Crawford, president of the
Kentucky State league, welcomed the
visitors in behalf of the state. In the
course of his remarks, he referred TO the
fact that there were over q thousand Re-
publicans in the state who voted for
Abraham Lincoln. AT the mention
of Lincoln's name the entire audience of
delegates and onlookers arose and
cheered enthusiastically. The league
was also welcomed on behalf of the state
by A. Il. Wilson, who said the delegates
were not only given the keys to the city,
but the keys to the hearts of Kentucky
Republicans. He referred to the fact
that sectionalism was fast dying out and
that the first Republican club organized
in the country was organized at Louis
vile.
Colonel Cowan presented President
Clarkson a gavel OF nineteen KINDS OF
Kentucky wood. When CIarkson arose
TO respond he was greeted with a storm of
applause. He had been quite i'll yester-
day and it was feared for time that he
would not be able to attend the conven-
ton today. After Colonel Clarkson's re-
spouse to the address of welcome, the roll
call was read and thirty three states re-
sponded. Then President Clarkson arose
and delivered his annual address. He
said:
We meet here today in the name of the Re-
publicanism of Lincoln, Grant and Blaine This
is the RepublicaniSm whose eternal word is
human liberty. II is the fighting Republican
ism, and all the world loves man or a party
that believes enough in its own cause to fight
for it
He then dwelt upon the transition which had
been going on for ten years toward the younger
m an M in fha aorfr-
management resulting in the league organlZa-
ton and more diffused work. He hoped that
with the coming of younger men there would be
party of greater courage in cardinal, and
larger tolerance in minor things. majority
OF the voters of the United States he said, were
Republicans on real Republican issues. Too
many voters had been alienated by the intoler-
ance OF morality. He asked that the platform
be made so broad that any man. native or for
eign born, ana OF any churchs might find well
come in the ranks.
He continued as follows: GAS we begin here
today the march of victory in 1895, we have
neither complaints, nor apologies, nor expla-
nations to make for the defeat of last year. We
have had Democratic president and Congress
for sixty days, and Cleveland has hauled down
the American flag where Harrison and the Re-
publicans ran ii up in the name of liberty on
the Sandwich Islands. He and his secretary
of the treasury have already frightened the
fear where safety and prosperity ruled before.
They have shown an adverse balance of the
foreign trade in the last four months OF $50 0O0 =
600 against a favorable balance of $40 900 900
in the first four months of Harrlson's admins
tration.
The Republican League came to Kentucky to
deny the charge of the revival of sectionaiism
and the bloody shirt, and TO prove that it is
false. We come to say that the negro question
has become merged in larger one, that OF
equal rights OF all parties. We come to prove
that tie Democratic party has so far sur
rendered to the Republican position. as to ad-
nit that the negro has right to hold Office, if
he will act with the Democratic party. When
the Democratic party thus accepts the negro as
a voter, 1t can no longer challenge the right of
the Republican party to do the same. Public
opinion as to the negro is rapidly dividing. The
cry Of ignorance no longer holds against the
negro race alone The negro of slavery DAYS is
Republican. The new negro like the young white
will make his own terms with the existing
political parties. The south has already in
jured itself on this line more than it can re-
cover in a generation.
In teaching Its young people dishonesty in
politics, 1t has been logically teaching them
dishonesty in all things. OF the million imm-
grants who come to America all seem to know
that there is political liberty in some of the
states of the south for Democrats only. On the
lgboring men of the northern cities begins to
fall greater injury or injustice than towards
the southern negro.
This comes in the way of menace of the de-
graded cheap labor into which the Democratic
party have forced the black man. Already in
some of the large manufactures in the north
with whom skilled free labor is struggling for
fair wages, they are substituting this cheap la
Dor from the south for skilled men.
AS to money and banking the country will
depend on the Republican minority in Congress
for the defense from the threatened harm.
They will doubtless provide with the aid OF
conservative Democrats, some provision in
substitution for the Sherman act, which will
preserve a continued parity in the value of
coined gold and silver. Neither the extreme
view that would force this country to gold
basis, nor the view that would make money
dearer and all other property, will solve the
problem or save the country. This is silver
producing nation and our money should be gold
silver, paper, every dollar OF which should be
as good as every other, and a volume of safe
money DE made and kept sufficient for the de-
mAnds OF our expanding nation.
The speaker then made plea in behalf OF ex-
tending the banking system to smaller towns,
SO that the farmer and working men might be
able to get money at cheaper rates of interest.
These he gave as his individual opinions, for
which the party is not responsible. He closed
by suggesting that the clubs In the League
discuss the question of cooperation. arbitration
OF labor disputes, better roads, and political
rights of women, and asked that the League re-
pudiate the action Of one OF New Yorz's social
clubs in discriminating the Hebrews.
The report OF the committee on league
work was read, telling of the progress
made during the past year and making
suggestions for the future. DR.. Henry
OF Boston submitted the fol-
lowing:
Whereas, Political justice, impartial liberty