The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-15
A CALL TO RKPUBLIcANs.

Xno Nat1ouel League 70 Meet IN Aeuis'
vile, Ny, in May Next
NEW YORK, March 1L-The call for the
annual convention Of the Republican Ma
tionai League to meet at Louisville, KY,
on Wednesday, May 10. was issued today.
The ratio of representation is to De SIX
delegates-atlarge from each state and ter
ritory. four from each congressional as
trict and one from each college and Repuo-
lican club in the United States. The ma
tionai CONVENTION of the American Repub.
can College League will be held in the
same place on May H. The call says:
The members of the league accept the party's
defeat in 1892 - q larger call upon them tor r.
pewed devotion anc effort in the congressional
elections OF 1894, the presidential election OF
1896. and In the state and party contests OF the
tina intervening. It il ready in its vast mem
bership, with its own clubs at work In almost
every neighborhood In the United States every
day in the year, in all the nobler Efforts OF
party methods through popular effort and popu-
Lar education to bear the burden OF daily party
work In the four years to como In this new
day of complete Democratic ascendancy In the
nation and the restoration Of sectional rule In
the government, with the committees OF the
United States senate being organised In the
interest of section composing one.
fourth Of the states of the Union, in which
states Republican voters are boldly and success
fully disiranchised because they are Republt-
cans. anc when the cabinet Of the new presi-
dent 10 maize up mainly in the interests OF the
great corporations Of the land there is but added
reason for increasing the ardor and activity on
the part OF every true friend Of human rights,
free labor and seli-respecting Americanism.
The struggle did not end in 1892 As Abraham
Lincoln. in the hour OF previous Republican de.
feat, so faithfully said: "All Republicans may
It'll n - rsxst
The cause OF human liberty must not be sur.
rendered at the end of even hundred defeats.
1t must 60 on till the weak and helpless OF all
classes and conditions are protected under the
laws, and until the day shall come demanded BY
Gen. Grant: "When the rights OF a Republican
shall be as fully admitted and fully protected at
every voting place in the land - the rights of
Democrat"
To this end the national committee OF the Re-
publican League cordially invites all citizens
who believe in honest elections and the right OF
every American voter to cast one vote and have
1t fairly counted: who believe in the dignity OF
free labor and the faithful maintenance OF the
difference between American and European
wages: who believe in the old American policy
Of protection TO American industry and to Amer.
lean workmen, and in the new American policy
OF reciprocity: who believe In the fullest protec.
ton of all classes in vested interests and yet
who are opposed to corporate rule In either
nation or state; who believe In sound money
and honest gold and silver al money. ~ pledged
In the national Republican platform at Mime
apolis: who believe In such Improvements and
extensions OF the banking system OF the country
- will bring banking facilities nearer to the
people OF the smaller towns aud communities;
who believe In practical civil service reform
such - will separate the spoils idea from poll.
tics and yet preserve the peoples control OF
public Offices and all public affairs, and who
believe In liberal politics and vet in the asser.
ton OF American ideas In all American anairs-
oil such people and all those who are in sym.
pathy with other policies and aspirations and
the Republican party OF the future, are invited
70 unite at once in membership with the league
clubs Of their own neighborhoods aud partici-
pate In the election of delegates to the national
convention at Louisville. The Republican
party. being nou-sectional and instinctively
American in oil tho better meanings of the
term. chooses to open new contest with this
convention held on Southern ground, especially
inviting attendance from all Southern states
and hoping TO make historical this Republican
meeting in the state which 10 sacred with the
traditions Of Henry Clay. Abraham Lincoln and
James g. Blaine.