The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-05-18
THE REPUBLICAN LEAGUE.
CONVENTION OF THE LEAGUE
OF REPUBLICAN, CLUBS.
William H. Tracy Of Illinois Elected
as President of the League-The
Next Convention to Be
Held in Denver.

Next Convention to Be
Held in Denver.
Louisville, KY, Special Telegram
1t was near II o'clock before all the
delegations had arrived, though the gal
sleries were packed to the doors for near
.Sly an hour before. When the delegations
had all been seated President J. S. Clark
son. of the league, called the convention
ito order, and the Rev. DR.. Haywood,
pastor of the Unitarian church of this
city, invoked the blessinr of the Deity
upon the assembled Republicans. At the
close of the prayer Mrs. J. Ellen Foster
was ushered on the stage and her pres
'ence was greeted with storm Of ap-
Splause. Col. Andrew Cowan, a member
of the local Republican league, then in
'troduced Mayor Henry S. Tyler, who
welcomed the delegates in the name Of
the city Col. D. L. Crawford, president
of the Kentucky state league, was intro
.duced and welcomed the visitors in be-
half of the state. ,s
President Clarkson next introduced A.
3. Wilson who welcomed the league in
He said that while the mayor had de-
1ivered to the visitors the keys of the
city, he would deliver the keys of Ken
lucky Republicans hearts. Continuing,
: he said that sectionalism as to the North
and South was fast dying out. The
been said, was a ghost of the Southern
proscriptionist. In conclusion he said
that the first Republican league ever or
ganized in the country was organized
in Louisville. 1t was OH organization for
the sowing of Republican principles 1t
was the fault Of, the Republican party
that the South had been 50 solid for the
Democracy 50 long. Col Cowan pre-:
sented President Clarkson with a gavel
made of nineteen different kinds of wood,
all grown in Kentucky. When Mr..
GARRISON arose to respond he was greet
ed with Il storm of applause. He was
quite i'll yesterday, and for a time it was
feared that he would not be able to at
Col Cowan and the Republicans of the
state and assumed the chair and formally
called the convention to order. The call
of the convention was read and the roll
call of states was taken up. Thirty
three states responded as having delega-
tions present.
President Clarkson's Address.
This over, President Clarkson arose
and delivered his annual address. lie
spoke, in substance, as follOWs:c
I'VE meet here to-day in the name of
the Republicanism of Lincoln, Grant and
Blaine. This is the Republicanism whose
eternal word is human liberty. 1t is
fighting Republicanism, and all the world
loves u man or party that believes
enough in it's own cause to fight for it.
For ten years the transition has been to-
ward younger men and different methods
in party management. To-day man
must be gained at his home before he
goes to the polls. Mr.. Blaine, earliest
of all our leaders, saw the new demand
for a more diffused or structural form of
party organization. He foreshadOwed
the league form of organization, and the
coming OF the young men. With the CON-
ing of the rule of the younger men, let
greater courage in cardinal things and a
larger tolerance in minor things. A ma
jority of the voters of the United States
are Republicans on the real Republican
issues. Too many voters have been
alienated by what might be called the in
tolerance of morality. Let us make the
platform so broad that any man, native
or foreign born, of any church, may find
q a welcome place. i'll our ranks. Thus we
shall gain new votes and elements.
AS we begin here to-day the march of
victory in 1896 we have neither COM
plants nor apologies; no explanations to
make for the defeat of last year. We
have had Democratic president and
Democratic congress sixty days, and
Cleveland has hauled down the American
flag where Harrison and the Republicans
ran 1t up in the cause of liberty on the
Sandwich islands, He and his secretary
of the treasury have already frightened
the business world and created uneasi-
= ness and fear where safety and prosper
ity ruled before. They have shown an
adverse balance of foreign trade in the
last four months of $SO,OOO,OOO against
a favorable balance of $7O,OOO,OOO in
the first four months of Harrison's ad-
ministration.
our, old principles with undiminished
faith, favoring the rights of men, pro.
lection to American workingmen and
American interests. The Republican,
League comes to kentucky to deny tie
alism, and the bloody shirt; and to
prove that it is false. we come to say ~
tnat the negro question has become
merged in the larger one of equal riShts
OF al parties: We come to prove that
me a democratic party has SO far sur
the equal rights of all parties as to adj
mt that the negro has the right to vote
or hold office if he will act with the DEM
ocratlc party. When the Democratic
R + cs, mus na , accepts the negro as voter
The Kepublican party to do the same
Hublic opinion as to the negro is ranicIv
dividing. The Democratic partv has
ceased the cry that he is an animal and
longer holds oo line cry tEya of ignorance no
~; me negro OF slavery days is Republican.
The The new 2.,2, negro,, like the young white
nan, VIII make his own terms With tbe
existing parties. The South has alreadv
an9cred itself on this line more than t
G "a recover III generations. In teaching
81" Dishonesty in Politics
It mas been logically teaching them dis
honesty Ill all things. Of the millions of
emlgrants who come to America. ali seem
to know that political liberty in some
states OF the South is for Democrats only.
'On the laboring men OF the Northern
6he injustice to the Southern negro. : This
comes in the menace of the degraded and
cheap et lfber into which the Democratic
party has forced the black man. Already
some of the large manufacturers in the
North, with whom skilled and free labor
as struggling for fair wages, are substi-
tutlng this cheap labor from the South for
the skilled men.
las to money and banking, the country
will depend on the Republican minority
IN IN congress for 4; defense from threatened
maintained by the Republicans, and the
: sagaclty of the Republican minority in
n,c will II III