Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-05-18
RET is RADICAL
Ciarkson's Address at Louisville
Provokes Considerable
Criticism.
"A Woman's Suffrage Plank is
Adopted-W. w. Tracy is
President.

Inc remarkable manifesto issued
10 the Republican League Of the
United States ty Chairman Uarkson
under the guise OF an annual address
was the chief topic of discussion
among the delegates. To the dele
gates wno are opposed to any tinker
Ing with the platform as adopted at
minneapolis, and which must remain
the only gospel of the party until the
eve or another presidential campaign,
the utterances of the leader Of the
young Republicans were ANYTHING hut
pa'atable. No more radical a declar-
atlon or principles, they contended.
could nave gone out from an out and
out Alliance convention. II was q
oodliy adoption Of third party issues
ana timber that at the present time
at least was premature and Ill advised
and would give aid and comfort to the
guerilla enemy that did its share in
the bushes toward the defeat of No
yember. These were the opinions of
a good many of the delegates, especi-
ally those hailing from the East,
Others there were, however, who an
plauded Clarkson for his independent
stand and insisted that he had sound
ed the key note of the music to which
the party would hereafter have to
keep step if it ever hoped to win.
A one-term presidency, wOman suf-
frage, election Of United States sena-
tors by the people, postal telegraphs,
absolute civil service, they said, as
the third-partyites had demonstrated,
could no longer be kept in the back
ground, and the quicker that they
were incorporated in the platforms Of
the Republican party, the better for
its interests and prospects.
The convention approved the re-
port Of a special committee naming
Denver as the place Of the next meet
ing and designated the date as the
second Wednesday in May. The re-
port Of the committee on platform
was presented by Delegate Sedgrick,
of Rhode Island. As soon as it had
been read the convention was thrown
into tumult Of debate by the submits
sion by C0lOred delegates of resOlu-
, tiOns denOunCing the midnight
assassinatiOns and outrages of the
South, and the political oppression
of the negro. COlOred Delegates
; Plumb, Of Louisiana, and Jones, Of
Nebraska, led the talking with vIgor-
Gus speeches demanding justice for
the colOred Republicans. The colOred
mems resolutions were referred to a
committee to report in the afternoon.
. Another long and excited debate
was occaSiOned by a resolution sub
mitted by Delegate Campbell, Of New
. York, fayoring such amendment to
the immigration laws as would deny
admission to all intending settler:
- who could not read a page Of the
. English language. Kelly, of Mil
> waukee, DOlliver, Of Iowa, and Con
gresham Allen opposed the resolu
ton. The Milwaukee mar took Wig
. orous exception to a statement by
Campbell that half Of the population
, of Milwaukee could not speak the
" English language and defended theil
Il patriotism and American spirit
g Finally, amidst considerable confu
u sion, the resolution was indefnitel!
' postponed.
I The convention approved TIT
women's suffrage plank OF the plat
Il form by 375 to 1856. Planks opposins
! public gambling and favoring a ON
'. term president were approved by
:. majority vote.
rs THE PLATFORM.
s. The report Of the committee OF
81 resolution was as follows:
Is We the representatives Of the Re
is nublicau clubs of the United States
r in national convention assembled, re
afirm our devotion to the principle
" of the Republican party,as ehunclaUe
by the national Republican conven
tion in 1892.
=. We point with pride to the passag
=, Of a general law for the safety OF III
III and limb of railway employees, upoj
g the recommendation OF Preslden
" Harrison, by a Republican congress
and in conformity with the espresso
nledge of the national Republican
N convention. :
re We declare that we are heartily !
svmnathy with every legislative eI
to actment which will promote Ine ~
h. terests of the ~wage-earners and tenu
r. to eoualize conditions n harmon,z
tho relations between labor n cap
he tai, always regarding the moral an
al, material welfare Of the great pouy .
r.. the people as the primary oo)ect I
at he attained, and recommend as one !
the most effective means 70 attal
this end. the establishment OF asy'
tenn of arbitration for adJuSImeno : ,
differences arising between LABOR ah
capital. foitb in oenuin
secret ballot laws fortified by eihcien
n ,nnression of corrupt pra'