The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-03-24
NATIONAL LEAGUE MEETING.
Call For a Convention of the National Re-
publican League-The Duty Of Republic
ans set Forth In the Address.

Call For Convention of the National Re-
publican League-The Duty of Republic
ans set Forth In the Address
NEW YORK, March 6.-The following
call for the annual convention of the
republican national league was issued
Yesterday:
HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN LEAGUE,
NEW YORK. March IA. 1893
According to the instructions OF the league
convention held at Buffalo in September 1892,
establishing rule for national meeting of the
league TO be held every year, in the month Of
Nav, a national convention OF the republican
national league is hereby called to meet at
Louisville, KY, for a session of two days, on
Wednesday, May 10, next at 10 o'clock q m.
The ratio Of representation will be six dele
gates at large from each state and four from
each congressional district, and one from each
college republican club in the United States.
The national convention Of the American
publican college league will be held at the same
place on Thursday afternoon, May H.
In the movement of the republican column.
preliminary to republican victory in 1896. ii is
the fortune and it is the duty of the league to
move first Its national convention of 1887 led
the way and made certain party victory in 1888.
Its millions Of voters accept the party defeat Of
1892 as alarger call upon them for renewed de-
votion and effort in the congressional elections
Of le94, the presidential election in 1896 and in
all state and local party contests of the time
intervening. 1t is ready in its vast member
ship, with one of its own clubs at work in al
snost every neighborhood in the United States,
every day in the year, in all the nobler efforts
OF party methods, through popular effort and
through popular education. to bear the burden
Of daily party work in the four years TO come.
In this new day of complete democratic as
cendancy in the nation. and the restoration Of
mittees of the United States senate being reor-
ganiZed in the interest of a section composing
one-fourth Of the states of the Union. in which
states republican voters are boldly and success
fully disfranchised because they are republic
ans, and when the cabinet of the new president
is made up mainly in the interest Of the great
corporations of the land, there is but added
reason for increasing ardOr and activity on the
part of every true friend OF human rights free
labor and self-respectng Americanism. The
struggle did not end in 1892 As Abraham Lin
coin, in the hour of a previous republican de-
feat so faithfully said, all republicans NAV say
with fidelity now: The fight must go
The cause OF human liberty must not be sur
rendered at the end of one or even 100 defeats
1t must so on until the weak and helpless OF
all classes are protected by law and until the
dav shall come demanded by Sen. Grant:
when the right of a republican shall be as
fully admitted, as fully protected at every vot-
ing place in the land as are the rights Of a DEM
ocrat."
To this end the national committee of the
tional republican league cordially invites all citi
Zens who believe in honest elections and the
right of every American voter to cast one vote
and have 1t counted: who believe in the dignity
of free labor and a faithful maintenance
Of the difference between American and
European wages; who believe in the old
American policy of protection to American in
dustry and to American workmen and in the
new American policy of reciprocity; who be
lieve in the fullest protection OF all 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 monev, as pledged
by the national republican platform aJ Mime
apols who believe in such improvements
and extensions of the banking system OF
the country as will bring banking facilities
nearer TO the people of the smaller towns
and communities; who believe in practical civil
service reform such as will separate the spOils
idea from politics ana yet preserve the people
in control of public offices and all public affairs.
and who believe in liberal policies. yet in the
assertion Of American ideas in ali American AZ
fairs-all such people and all who are in sym
pathy with the other policies and aspirations of
the republican party Of the future are cordially
invited to unite at once in membership with the
league clubs of their own eghborhOods and
participate in the election of their delegates to
the national convention at Louisville
The republican party being non-sectiOnal and
instinctively American in all the better mean
ings OF the terms chooses to open the new con-
test with the convention held southern
ground, especially inviting liberal Attendance
from all the southern states and hoping to make
historical this republican meeting to state
which is sacred with traditions Of Henry Clay,
Lincoln and James G. Blaine
BY order Of the LEAGUE.
J. :. CLARKsoN, President