Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-07-14
Republican Leagues.

The following resolutions were adopt
ed unanimously, amid great enthusiasm,
by the convention of republican leagues
at Denver:
The representatives of the National
League of Republican Clubs of the United
States, in convention assembled at the capital
of the Centennial state. bow their heads in
sorrow and humiliation at the spectacle of
incapacity which the democratic party pre-
sents to our country and deplore the calam-
tiles which the giving of power to the pres
ent administration has brought upon our
people.
We congratulate the American people that
this administration was compelled by pub
lie opinion to abandon its un-American
Hawaiian policy.
In contrast with the shameful record of
the democratic party. we exult over the record
of glory which the republican party has
made. Its achievements and its triumphs
extending over thirty years, establish 1T as
the most masterful and enlightened political
organization that has ever existed.
In the face of the present disaster to our
country it IS with increased solemnlty that
we once more renew our allegiance to the
republican party and proclaim its cardinal
principles.
FREE BALLOT DEMANDED.
We believe in a free ballot and a fair
count, and we demand such legislation as
will insure to every citizen the right to cast
one free ballot in any election and to have
that ballot honestly counted as cast.
1t is a noteworthy fact that the democratic
party in congress, consistent in nothing else,
was unanimous for the repeal of the federal
election laws, thus openly confessing itself
the party of fraud
PROTECTION FOREVER.
We declare our belief in the doctrine of
protection to American labor, American in
dustrIes and American homes. We also be-
linUa in G11pb rnoinPnoa1 trade with the
nations of the world as will increase the
market for the products Of our farms, facto-
ries, forests and mines, without increasing
the competition which tends to lessen wages
and degrade labor
We denounce the proposed vicious and de-
structive legislation known the Wilson
bill, and earnestly appeal to the republican
United States senators to prevent It's passage
by all honorable means.
STANDING UP FOR SILVER.
We believe in the use Of gold and silver
as money metals, maintained on perfect
parity and interconvertibility. We do not
believe that there will be a permanent return
of prosperity to our country until the full
use and highest position of silver shall be
restored, and we favor such legislation as
will bring about this result.
FRIENDS OF THE OLD SOLDIER.
The republican party is the constant friend
of the soldiers and sailors of the union. The
promises and pledges of the democratic, par
ty to the defenders of the republic before
election were false and fraudulent and have
been shamefully disregarded since election.
We condemn unsparingly the treatment
now accorded the helpless, MANNED and
crippled defenders of the flag and to the
widows and orphans of our dead patriots as
unfair and cruelty unjust.
FOR THE ADMISSION OF TERRITORIES.
We are most heartily in favor of the
prompt admission into the union of the ter
ritories of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and
Oklahoma, and we condemn the policy of
the democratic administration in excluding
and depriving them of their rights.
We demand that new safeguards be incor-
porated in our immigration and naturaliza-
ton laws to prevent unworthy immigrants
from landing on our shores and from OBJ
tanning citizenship.
WOMEN ASKED TO ASSIST.
We again commend to the favorable con-
sderation or the republican clubs of the
United States, as matter of education, the
question OF granting suffrage to women.
We congratulate the women of Colorado
and Wyoming on their possession of the
elective franchise, and we cordially invite
their cooperation in the work of rescuing
the country from democratic and populist
misrule. The resolutions were adopted unan-
imously, amid the most tremendous enthu-
-ias