The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-01

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Chicago, will call the convention to
order. The afternoon will be passed by
the 1000 delegates and aternates in
slght-reading. the tour concluding with
Il league picnic at the celebrated Forest
City park, at which music will be fur
nished by the Iowa State band. In the
eveaning there will be two immense
mass meetings. one at Music Hall and
the other reception In Excelsior hall,
rendered to the colored delegates by the
Young Mems Foraker club. Following
these meetings, which will be addressed
by speakers of national reputation, the
Iowa State band will give an open-air
concert In Forest City park. The pro-
grnmme arranged for Thursday and
Friday is as follows:
Thursday June 90 n. m, short ex-
cursion to parks. factories, cemeteries
and suburbs; II a. M. excursion No. /
upon Lake Erie, free to delegates, uDOn
palace steamer City OF Cleveland; 9 D..
m., open meeting at Music hall, with
| speeches by prominent oratOs; to 3
D. m, reception to the delegates at the
Biclorama building, corner Of Euclid
avenue and Erie street. $50 p. M, ban
quot rendered the delegates at the Ar
cadc, EUCLID avenue and Superior street.
Friday, June 2l--1O Il. M, session Of
the convention, Music hall; 2 p. M, ses-
sion Of the convention, Music hall
An Appropriate Meeting Place.
There is an appropriateness In the
Republican league Of the United States
meeting in convention in Ohio, for the
league movement Is another OF the
many "Ohio ideas" which have made
the Buckeye state famous. BY general
consent, the credit Of originating the
present league movement Is given to
James Boyle, now private secretary Of
Governor Mckinley. In the fall Of 1856,
during the noted gubernatOrial cam
paign of Honorable j. b. Foraker, Mr..
| Boyle, who was on the editorial staff
Of the Cincinnati Commercial, Gazette,
sent a communication TO the chairman
Of the election committee Of the Cincin-
natl Young Mems Blaine club, suggest
! ing the organization Of a State league
of all the permanent Republican clubs
in Ohio. The directors favored the
| idea, and n special committee was ap-
pointed to carry 1t into effect. Mr.
| Boyle was made chairman of the COM
mittee. The first thing he did was to
secure endorsements from the leaders
of the party in Ohio.
Subsequently, at meeting Of the rep
resentatives of the Young Mems Blaine
club, the Lincoln club. the Sherman
club, of Cincinnati, and of the clubs Of
the Twelfth, Fourteenth and Sixteenth
wards Of that city, Mr.. Boyle was au-
thorized, in the name of those orgsniza-
TONS to call a conference to assemble
in the office of the secretary Of state
Columbus, at s p. m, Jan. II, 1886, when
j. p. Foraker was inaugurated COVER
| nor, to consider the question of the
| formation of league of all permanent
| Republican clubs in the state. The con-
ference was very largely attended, and
it was unanimously and enthusiastically
| resolved to form n State league. and
committee was appointed to draft
constitution. Mr.. Boyle was made
chairman of the committee, and after
great deal of trouble and consideration
a constitution was framed.
Ohio state League Organized.
Acting by authority of the conference
of clubs referred to above, n call was
| issued on June 2S, 1856, by James Boyle,
chairman, and Richard J. Tanning, sec
retary of the committee on organiza-
tion. for the first convention of the
Ohio Republican league, TO be held at
Columbus, Aug. %, 1856, at the Garfield
club rooms, Columbus. Honorable
Daniel J. Ryan. then the representative
in the legislature from Scioto county
was elected the first president of the
| league.
Thus was organized on the 25th Of
| August, 1856, the first state league of
Republican clubs. The constitution Of
the Ohio State league, as originally
formed, has been materially changed
since then, and has been made the
model of nearly all of the State leagues
throughout the country, The ohio
idea" rapidly spread in the east and
west.
The development Of the. state league
into the National league Is TO he placed
to the credit of the Republican club"
of the city of New York, At n call
OF that organization, national conven-
| ton of state leagues, and of individual
| clubs throughout the country, was held
at Chckering hall, New York city, on
Dec. II. t6 and II, 1887, and the Repub-
| lican league of the United States was
| then and there formed. Honorable
| Daniel j, Ryan, president Of the Ohio
| State league. was made vice president
| Of the convention, and Mr.. Boyle was
made chairman of the committee on
national organization, which reported
| the original constitution of the Repub-
llcan league OF the United States, and
| tho Ohio plan of state organization was
| recommended as the model for other
state leagues.
The City of Cleveland.
One OF the most interesting features
| Of the coming league convention will
he the opportunity 1t will afford to Wis
| itors to study the city Of Cleveland
| itself and its picturesque surroundings.
Cleveland is n spacious city. lts area
| IL about thirty square miles. II has
| frontage of some seven miles upon the
lake. The distance between the ex-
treme points within its limits Is about
ten miles east and west. and seven
miles north and south, II may be seen
from these figures that its citizens do
not need to elbow one another. Though
IL has increased in population more rap
idly than any other western city in the
country, with the exception OF Chicago,
there are very few of It's more than
twenty-three hundred streets which can
be said to be overcrowded. According
to the eleventh census only seventeen
per cent. OF its population lived over ten
in house, while in. New York the per-
centage reached eighty-three and one
third. 1t Is this roomJ churacter OF the
city which is one of Its most delight