Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-03-12
REPUBLICAN BELIEF
Fully Set Forth in a Call
For a Convention.
SOME PARTY PRINCIPLES.
Claim the Democrats Have Neglected
to Fulfill Their Promises.

CHICAGO. March 12.-The National Re-
publican league has issued q call for a
convention TO be held at Denver June
%.
The ratio of representation will be six
delegates at large from each state and
territory and four from each congress
sional district and one from each college
Repu blican club In the United States.
The following are ex-officio delegates;
The president, secretary and treasurer
Of the National league, one vice president
and one executive member Of the national
organization from each state and the
president and secretary of each state
league, making four ex-ofiioio delegates
from each state. This gives each state
practically 10 delegates at large, In
addition TO the four from each congress
yonal district The total representation
will exceed 1000 delegates. The call reads
In part as follows
Party Principles
"Dazzled by the glittering promises OF
Democracy, and led astray by sophistry
and hypocrisies, the voters of the coun-
try In 1892 decided upon q change OF ma
tional administration. Democratic con-
troll and sectional rule are again complete
In the national government, and starva-
tion for labor and ruin for capital prevail
As a result Of the policies and influences
that dominate the Democratic party.
The Authorizations of 1892 are over
Facts have upset theories and the people
weary Of this Tariff-tinkering, bond
issuing, debt-increasing. treasury-deplet-
ing, business -paralyzing wsgsreducing,
Queen-restoring and un-American ad-
ministration,' now turn instinctively to
the party that saved the nation In its hour
of peril and demonstrated its mastery
ability In giving the United States 80
years of prosperity unparalleled In the
history Of nations.
again 1t becomes the mission and
duty of the grand old party to meet a ma
tional emergency with the highest pa
triotism. The party deplores the neces-
sity, but rises to the occasion. The strug-
gle for liberty, progress, fair wages and
all that America promises dfd not end
with the defeat Of lS92. The fight must
and will 20 on. To this end the national
committee Of the league cordially invites
all patriotic citizensi
Those Who Are Wanted.
"Who believe that the humane, indus
trial and progressive American Republi-
can party is best for the protection for
'life, liberty and the pursuit Of happiness
for the American people.
"Who believe In honest elections ss the
bulwark Of our institutions, and the right
Of every 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
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OF protection to American Industries and
to American workingmen, and In the Re-
publican policy Of reciprocity.
"Who believe in the fullest protection
OF all property and all forms of invested
porstion rule In the government Of either
nation or state.
"Who gratefully remember the Union
soldier in his hour Of need as well as in
the day Of his sacrifice and need.
"Who believe in sound money and the
use of both gold and silver as standard
money, and that the purchasing and
debt paying power Of the dollar, whether
Of silver, gold or paper, shall be at all
times equal as pledged in the national
Republican platform at Minneapolis.
"Who believe in practical civil service
reform, such as will separate the spoils
side from politics and yet preserve to the
people the control Of all pu bile offices and
all public affairs.
"Who believe in liberal and bread
minded policies and in the assertion OF
American ideas in all American affairs
and all who are In sympathy with the
policies and aspirations Of the Republi-
can party are cordially invited to join the
league clubs, and through such clubs and
state legislatures participate In the cleo
tion Of delegates to the National league
convention at Denver.
"The league chooses to open the new
contest with this convention held on the
slopes of the Rocky mountains. and in
vites the Republicans Of the United States
to assemble in this great undeveloped re-
sourceful western country and renew
their fealty to the party for the preserva-
ton Of past achievements, and organize
for greater victories in the future in re-
sponse to this public demand for Republi-
can restoration, national prosperity and
an administration distinctly American in
Dolicyp "