The morning call., 1893-03-15
ON LIVING ISSUES.
There Is Yet a Republican
Party.
ONE DEFEAT IS NOT DEATH.
Call for a National Convention of
Clubs to Meet on the Soil
of Kentucky.
ONE DEFEAT IS NOT DEATH
Special TO The MORNING CALL

NEW YORK, March 14.-The call for the
annual convention of the Republican Ma
tional League 20 meet at Louisville, KY, on
Wednesday. May 10. was issued to-day
The ratio of represeD tation will be six dele
gates at large from each State and Terri
tory, four from each Congressional district,
and one from each college Republican club
IN the United States. Thenational conven-
tion Of the American Republican College
League will be held at the same place on
May II.
The call says that the members of the
league must accept the party defeat of 1892
as larger call upon them for renewed de-
Votlon and effort in the Congressional cleo
tions of 1894, the Presidential election Of
1886, and in the State and local party con-
tests OF the time intervening. 1t is ready
ID its vast mem oership TO put one OF its own
clubs at work in almost every neighbour
hood In the United States every day in the
year in all the nobler efforts of party
methods through popular effort and popular
education to bear the burden Of daily party
work in the four years to come.
In this new day Of complete Democratic
sscendaney in the nation and Of the restor-
alton of sectional rule in the Government,
with the committees of the United States
Senate being organized in the interest of a
section composing one-fourth of the States
Of the Union, and in which States Republi-
can voters are boldly and successfully dis
franchised because they are Republicans,
and when the Cabinet of the new President
is made up mainly in the interests Of the
great corpOr atlOns 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-respechng
Amerieanism. The struggle did not end in
1892 As Abraham Lincoln, in the hour of
previous Republican defeat so faithfully
said, all Republicans may say with fidelity
now: "The fight must go on. The cause Of
human liberty must not be surrendered at
the end of one or even Of one hundred de-
feats."
1t must 20 on until the weak and helpless
of all classes and conditions are protected
under the laws. and until that day shall
come demanded by General Grant: "When
the rights of Republican shall be as fully
admitted and as fully protected at every
voting place in the land as the rights of a
Democrat"
To this end the national committee of the
National Republican League cordially in
Vites all citizens who believe in honest cleo
tions and the right of every American voter
TO cast one vote ana have it 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 the
American woIkmen and in the new Ameri-
can policy of reciprocity; who believe in the
fullest protection of all classes of invested
Interest, and yet who are opposed to cor
poratiOn rule in the government of either
the nation or the State; who believe in
sound money and honest gold and
silver as money as pledged in the
national Republican platform at Mime
apolis; who believe in such improvements
and extensions of the banking systems 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 and yet pre-
serve the people in the control Of the public
offices and Of all public affairs, and who
believe in liberal politics and yet in the as
sertiOn Of American IDEAS in all American
afairs-all such people. and all who are In
sympathy with the other policies and pira-
tiOns Of the Republican party of the future,
are Invited to unite at once IN mem bership
with the league clubs in their own neigh
borboods and to participate in the election
Of delegates to the national cow entiOn at
Louisville. The Republican party, being
non-seetional and instinctively American
in all the better meanings of the term,
chooses to open the new contest with this
convention held on Southern ground, espe-
eially inviting attendance from all the
Southern States, and hoping to make his
torical this Republican meeting in State
which is sacred with the traditions of Henry
Clay. Abraham Lincoln and James G.
Blaine.