St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12
Absence ofPpOminent Leaders
Causes Considerable Ad-
verse Criticism.
Woman Suffrage Endorsed
After a Hard and Stub
born Fight.
Two Questions Raise Consid-
cradle Turmoil in the Aft
ernoon Session.

league adjourned today, to meet again
on the second Wednesday of next May
in Denver. At its session today, Will
lam W. Tracy, Of Springfield, ILL.,, was
elected president for the ensuing year
on the first ballot. His only op-
ponents in the contest were Hon.
M. H. De Young, editor of the San
Francisco Chronicle, and Gen. Daniel
Hastings, of Pennsylvania. w. l..
Squire, of Toledo, who has been here
since last Sunday making a fight for
the presidency, withdrew from the con-
test this morning. much to the surprise
of the delegates outside his own state.
In withdrawing he said he wished to
throw his strength to Mr.. De Young.
There has been a great deal OF ad-
verse criticism made upon the Repub-
lican leaders of national reputation for
ignoring the convention. 1t was an
nounced before the convention that
Gen. r. A. Alger, j. Sloan Fassett,
Thomas B. Reed, John G. Spooner,
Gov. William Mckinley, John M.
Thurston and a dozen
OtAhtES vi A24daA
would attend and address the owen
ton, but not one of them came. An
other thing which caused the members
of the league to complain was the fact
that the members of the national Repub-
Iican committee, with perhaps two or
three exceptions, left the city as soon as
it had adjourned.
1t was after 10 o'clock when President
Clarkson raped for the convention to
come to order. The exercises were
opened by prayer by Rev. j. A: Hey
wood. The president suggested that
the convention had not adopted parlla-
mentary rules for its government,
whereupOn President Burke, of the col
lege league, moved that the rules of
the Fifty-first congress be adopted.
"It is moved and seconded that the
rules of the Fifty-first congress-the
congress of Tom Reed-be adopted as
the governing rules of this conventions"
said President Clarkson. Applause and
cheers greeted the ann Of putting
the motion and a unanimous vote re-
suited. Upon calling for the report of
the committee on credentials, the chair
man stepped to, the platform and re-
ported that the committee recommended
as many votes for each state and college
league as are permitted by the constitu-
ton of the league. The committee on
place of meeting reported Denver as the
place for the convention in 1894, and he
report was adopted amid cheers for the
Western city. The committee OH league
work was not ready to report, and the
committee On resolutions was called
upon. Here Chairman GoodnoW, Of that
committee, stepped forward and report
ed the following resolutions:
The Resolutions.
1--WE, the representatives of the Re
publican League Clubs of the United
States, in national convention assem-
bled, reafirm Jul belief In and devotion
to the principles Of the Republican
party as enunciated by the national Re-
publican convention in 1892.
"We point with pride to the passage
of a general law for the safety of life
and limb of railway employees, upon
recommendation of President Harrison,
by a Republican congress, and in con-
formity with the expressed pledge OF
the national Republican convention.
I'VE declare that we are in hearty
sympathy with every legislative
enactment which will promote
the interests of the wage-ear-
ner5 and tend to ~equalize con
dltions and harmonic the relations be-
tween labor and capital, always regard
ing the moral and material Welfare of
the great body of the people as the
primary object TO be obtained. and
recommend as one of the most effective
means to attain this end the establish
ment of a system of arbitration for the
adjustment of differences arising be-
tween labor and capital. We declare
our faith in secret ballot laws, fortified
by efficient acts for the suppression OF
corrupt practice in elections. We de-
mand the enforcement of existing laws
by the duly constituted officers of the
law, and demand the abolition of the
system of private army forces repre-
scented by the Pinkerton and like de-
tective agencies.
Demand Anti-OptfoD.
"We demand the suppression of all
public gambling, whether in food prod
uctS or by means of lottery tickets.
We heartily urge an amendment i'll the
constitution making the president in
eligible to a second successive term.
We recommend to the favorable consid-
Grafton of the Republican clubs of the
United States, as a matter OF education,
the question of granting to the women
of the state and nation the right to vote
at elections on the Same terms and con-
ditions as male citizens. The foreign pol
lev of Benjamin Harrison and James
G. Blaine deserves and receives the
commendation of all Americans who
believe in preserving the rights and
dignity of the United States and in eX-
tending the scope of Its influence. In
accordance with that policy, we reaffirm
our determination to encourage the en-
forcement of the Monroe doctrine not
only as it applies to North and South
America, but also to those islands in
the Atlantic and Pacific which are or
NAV become necessary to the protection
of our coast line and our trade. When
the American flag covers American IN
terests and American honor, it must
never be lowered. O.
"Whereas, The Democratic party.
for the first time in thirty-two years, has
succeeded to power ia both the ex-
ecutive and legislative departments of
the government. we now direct atten-
ton to the fact that it should either give
the people a fair trial of the policies adj
vocated in its national platform, or ad-
nit that 1t gained supremacy by gross
Misrepresentation and hypocrisy" 81
BlOunt Is AstOnished.
At the conclusion of the report a col
ored brother, Mr.. Bleunt, Of Louisiana,
claimed the floor. He stated that ito
his strange establishment the committee
of resolutions has not lifted it's voice
against the outrages rerpetrated on
negroes in the Southern states" Mr..
Blount was cheered, and, In order to
| jolly him along and drive another nail
into the negro vote, the convention in
vited him to the platform. Here Mr..
| Blount denounced emphatically certain
midnight as%sassinations which he knew
| of. Chairman Goodnow explained that
the resolution adopting the Republican
platform included, Of course, the clause
denouhcing ''outrages in the South"
About the only resolution which
caused serious objections was that refer
| ring to woman suffrage. Mrs. Foster.
i president of the Women's Republican
| association. occupied a seat on the plat
| form, and when this issue came up she