The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-06-06
A BIG CLUB CONVENTION.

The national convention OF the Ma
srional League of Republican Clubs is TO
be held in Cleveland for three days, be-
ginning on the 10th inst.
There will be tremendous gathering
of young and old Republicans; several
thousand of them will be on hand, dele
gates and visitors, and the occasion will
doubtless be good deal of love feast.
Not less than 2000 Republicans, it is
expected, will sit down to the
big banquet to be enjoyed in the Arcade
building from whose half mile of gal
leries 10000 persons can watch the pro-
ceedings and listen 10 the speeches and
the playing of the band. The patri-
otic citizens OF the charming city Of
Cleveland are TO set up the spread,
provide the band. decorate the hall, and
do all they can TO make things pleasant
for this army of young and old Repub-
licans who will whoop it up in their
town for three days and tho most Of
three nights.
The meeting will be of especial interest
in the matter of discussions. The men,
bership of the Republican League
Clubs is representative of every sort OF
interest in every part of the coun-
try. Young blood and old blood
are in it. Grizzled politicians and
enthusiastic youngsters to whom politics
means nothing more than carrying a
kerosene lamp in campaign procession.
AS an organization the League is pledged
to nothing. The clubs are ) COM
posed OF men who believe that
the best interests of this great
country are to be secured by the main
tenance Of the Republican party in con-
they will get together and interchange
opinions on the present and
future of their party, to
what lines it should hew, what
policies it should adopt in view of pres
ent conditions, of the situation of the
country and its relations abroad, ever
maintaining the cardinal princi-
Piles Of protection to American
money, and American labor, and
money that shall be sound not only in
name but that shall be interchangeable,
dollar for dollar, in value of goods in
any part of the world.
And so the discussions at Cleveland
will be of the kind that distinguishes
an experience and testimony meeting.
We shall hear the sentiment of Repub-
licanism from Maine to California.
Tom REED, our own and only, and
BoUTELLE and the rest of the Maine
boys, LODGE Of Massachusetts,, HASTINGS
of Pennsylvania, KNUTE NELSON of
Minnesota, BURROWS and ALGER of
Michigan, DE YOUNG of California,
CLARKsoN of Iowa, DUBOIS of Idaho,
THURsToN of Nebraska, EVANS of Ten
nessee, who was frozen out
of the Governorship by De-
mocracy in the saddle, no end of
stars from Ohio and OF ber fine fellows
from every State in the Union will be
there, and the conference will result in
placing us in close touch with the Re-
publican ideas in all the
parts Of this immense country
and we shall be informed, too, of the
preponderating sentiment that is to
master the canvass of 1896, and to
which Republicans everywhere will give
loyal support that the majority shall
ever rule and control according to the
principles Of our American institutions.
1t will be free-for-all experience meet
ing, conducted with mutual considera-
tion for the views Of all the repre-
sentatives, and this interchange of
views on leading topics ought to
be wonderfully wholesome thing. The
country will watch with unusual inter
est the resolutions that shall be evolved
from the discussion and the speech
making,