Abilene weekly reflector., 1895-06-27
OFFICERS ELECTED.
Gen. McAlpin Made President of
the Republican League.
RESOLUTION TO REFER all ISSUES.
A DscIslon Arrived at That All Public
Questions he Left to the Republican
National Convention Of 1899
The Banquet.

CLEVELAND, O., June 2l.-The ma
tional convention Of republican clubs
has had an eventful day. Its commit
tee on resolutions consisted Of fifteen sill
yer men and thirty-one anti-silver men.
The subcommittee Of eleven to draft
resolutions TO submit to the full
committee had only two silver
men-Dubois, Of Idaho, and Allen, OF
Utah. After this subcommittee had
worked all last night on IAN address
to the people with the word re
solved" omitted therefrom, a commit
tee Of three on revision was selected
and the silver men claim they were
not represented at all on the revision
committee.
After indulging for hours in the con-
sideration Of 1.-The address to the peo-
ple," q new departure was taken by
Senator Patton, Of Michigan, offering
the following as q substitute for the
report Of the subcommittee;
whereas, Section Is Of the constitution Of the
Republican League Of the United s.a'es says,
This league snall no, N any Av, co"n,y s"s or mu
ujcinal 's convention The delegates Of the Re-
publican League Of the United States in
convention assembled DO lereOy ..,,0, re.
new their allegiance Nas,,oan 70 'rs marty p' and
p1ss.e p,ss VI their ir hest Efforts for the
success Of the candidate Of that party Be.
lieving that this convention has no instructions
from the republicans Of the un'eo s'atss "a ,rsws
u,a,,orms u we % herebv refer ali resolu-
s ,ions in relation to public questions to the re-
publican national convention Of 1905, with en-. n
tire confidence that Its atlon wlll reuoanu 70
the prosper,y o1 Ous peOs " ,ss ao country mt
s'yis ~ "s was argued against the Patton
,,,hs.;.rta that the national league at
i.s ,ost convention at Denver, and the
s~.r;ors vsor AZ Huntsville. and at
Unconditional conventions had adopted
rscommendatory resolutions without
~ oorst,tutional objection ever be-
- .o;sod and the adoption OF the
.rb..;tute ~ would be accepted as a
Confession Of this conventions inabil-
;.n 10 meet the silver question. Al
.Eorrb ~ tbsse arguments poured in hot
md last and Chairman Robinson, Of
psrrsvlyania left the chair to oppose
!. Va. the nlan Of ignoring everything,
- tbe silve- question was ignored,
mo,r.d such headway that the Patton
Substitute was adopted at $3.50 p. IN.
without dissenting vote.
The committee on league work re-
I norted gratifying and rapidly grow
inc interest in all parts of the country
in club organizations The committee
renorted Milwaukee as the place for
The next convention the time to be
fxed bv the executive committee. II
was adopted. The rules were suspend
ed and the convention proceeded to the
| election of officers.
Mr. George b. Green, state president
Of New York, in an eloquent speech,
nlaced in nomination Gen, A. Il. Nc
q Amin for president Of the nationa
t league. The mentioning of Gen. Nc
! Alnin's name was greeted with tire
4 mendous and prolonged applause
! Gen. Carr. on behalf of Illinois, sec
e onded the nomination of Gen. Meal
: min PENNSYLVANIA also seconded thu
e nomination. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, wh'
r sat with the Washington, D. c., dele
cation, followed in happy speech IL
e favor of the empire state candidate TO
u the presidency. Nearly all tne sVa.e
d seconded the nomination. Gen. Nc
J. Alpin was elected president by accla
n nation and committee OF three wa
IS appointed to escort him to the hall.
IS Nominations for secretary wer
n called for, and Mr.. Churchill, OF Col
p orado, placed in nomination John !
t. Bvrnes, while Illinois nominated vii
{, liam Grant. Nebraska nominated l.
v Z. Walker. The notification commit
5 tee then entered the hall with Gen. Nc
n Alpin, of New York, the newly electe
'e president, who expressed his thank
ID for the honor conferred upon him.
rs Vice presidents were named fror
the several states, among whom wer
Is the following: Iowa, George B. Perry
s. Kansas, W. w. Pierce Missouri, J.
r. Page; Nebraska, John L. Webster
n Texas, Whit Dryden; Oklahoma, Fran
10 II. Greer. Shortly after 0 o'clock tn
h. convention adjourned till lOa. m. II
lg morrow
u The banquet rendered the delegate
q, To the National Republican league cor
an memorable and brilliant affai
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