The Portland daily press., 1895-06-11
LEAGUED REPUBLICAN CLUBS.
To Meet at Cleveland on June 10.

1t Will be the Biggest Meeting of the
Kind Ever He1d-Prominent Leaders
Who Will be Present.
Extensive preparations are being made,
says the N. Y. Press by those in charge
to have the National Convention of the
Republican National League the most
successful in point of numbers enthusi-
asm and in the work done of any that
have been held since the organization of
his association of Republican hustlers.
The convention will be held in Cleveland,
Ohio. 1t will. last three.days and will
begin on Wednesday, June 49, All of the
leading Republicans of the country have
been invited. Most of them have accept
ed the invitation and will be present.
Ex- President Harrison, Governor Levi p.
Morton and Chauncey NJ. Depew are of
those who have the invitations under con-
sideration.
WILL BE A GREAT GATHERING.
1t will be great gathering of Republi-
cans, and will be the opening of the
Presidential campaign of 1896. Elk
Speaker Thomas B. Reed, Senator Fred.
T. Dubois of Idaho, Senator elect John
NJ Thurston of Nebraska, Senator
Thomas H. Carter of Montana, Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts,,
Governor (elected) H. Clay Evans of Ten
nessee, Alfred Dodge of New York, Dele
gate Frank J. Cannon of Utah, Governor
Hastings of Pennsylvania, Senator Knute
Nelson of Minnesota, Senator elect Julius
G. Burrows of Michigan. Governor D.
Russell Brown of Rhode Island, General
Edwin A. McAlpin of New York, Gen
eral Russell A. Alger of Michigan, Gov
ernor Mckinley of Ohio, Ex-Governor
Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio, Senator ALI
son of Iowa, Robert P. Porter of Ohio,
, Congressman Charles A Boutelle of
Maine, NJ. Ii. De Young of California,
James S. Clarkson of Iowa and Senator
John Patton, Jr., of Michigan are among
those who have accepted invitations.
A REAL HARMONY DINNER.
There will be many interesting features
in the convention. One of these will be
a harmony dinner of the greatest proper
tions Mr.. Depew's dinner, as har-
mony producing affair, is expected to sink
into absolute insignifcance in comparison
with it. This dinner will be eaten on the
night Of the second day of the convention,
and great preparations are being made for
it, 4.
1t is to be served on the ground floor of
} the Arcade building. Here 2, 600 Reprbli-
can delegates are expected to sit down and
over the varied courses prepared by the
best cooks which Cleveland can furnish,
and over good American wines, eat, drink
and acquire harmony. The galleries
above the main floor together are over
half mile in length, and from 5000 to
10, 600 Republican men and women will
look down at that happy, harmonizing
affair. The building Is to be appropriate
ly, decorated with American flags, and
with banners bearing upon them patri-
otic and Republican notices. At one end
of the floor will be the guests raised
table. There will be music by one of the
finest Western bands. All this is to be
done by the citizens of Cleveland, who
appreciate the selection of that city as the
place for holding the convention.
WILL DISCUSS GREAT ISSUES.
| Another of the features of the conyen-
tion will be free-for-all experience meet
ing. This will occupy part of Thursday.
Protection, the financial question, Munroe
doctrine Nicaragua Canal and immigra-
tion are some of the questions which will
be taken up. Because there are SO many
speakers, the time will be limited to a
few minutes for EACH Among the speak
ers will be some of the leading Republi-
can orators of the country. Their names
appear among those whose names have
already been given in this article 1t is
the belief that much good will result
from free interchange of views on these
leading topics which now agitate the
country SO greatly.