The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-05-21

Republican Leagues Swarm by Hun
dreds From All Over the Territory
They Declare for Free Coinage and the
Cndoing of the Act OF Seventy Three
Tariff. the Old Soldier and the Days of
Sturdy American Administrations are
NOticed--whAt They Want and Believe.
Enid. o. T, May 20-(SpeciaLl-
The meeting of the Territorial Re
publican league which commenced in
this city today was one of the most
largely attended political gatherings
ever held in the territory. There were
about 4G0 regularly accredited dele
gates present, representing all portions
Of the territory. The meeting included
the most noted politicians and active
party workers Of Oklahoma
OF course the main interest was felt
on the money question There was lit
TIE diversity of opinion on the question
Of free coinage, the difference being
mainly upon the question as 10 the ex-
act mode of expressing the sentiments
Of the Republicans. The fight came up
over the question as 10 whether the
meeting should declare in favor OF the
unlimited coinage of silver OF whether
it should be limited TO the American
product.
The meeting was called to order at 10
o'clock by L. B. Ferguson of Watonga,
president of the league. The prelimin-
airy exercises were music by the Enid
band, reading Of the call by the secre-
tary; prayer by the Rev. w. D. Grif-
fin, some excellent singing by the Enid
N a N fAf n Of VA "
the Hon. w. S. Whittinghiil. and re-
sponse by the president After this
came the appointment OF the various
committees The contest was over the
appointment OF the committee on reso-
lutions, and was finally settled by the
selection of Hon. j. H. PitZer, FL Reno;
A c. Scott, Oklahoma City; DR.. Sutton,
Pawnee; j. V. Admire. kingfisher; Will
lam Lawrence. Perry; C. Z. Hunter.
Enid; Judge Pancoass. Lincoln; Henry
Asp, Guthrie; L. NJ. Mckinley. Pond
Creek; William Nichols, county G, and
John Dillon. Watonga.
COMMITTEE REPORT.
The committee stood almost equally
divided, but after a session of several
hours finally agreed upon the following
resolutions, which were adopted by the
convention:
We, the Republicans of Okla homa. re-
cognizing the fact that the financial
question is the issue of paramount i'm
portance and of supreme interests in
the minds Of the American people, We
favor the free coinage of both gold and
silver at the ratio of Is to land the re-
peal of the present coinage laws as they
existed prior 10 the characterization OF
silver with the unit of value fixed at
371A grains of pure silver, as provided
by such lawS-and that the American
product of silver be fully protected by
tariff on foreign silver. We also favor
the PASSAGE of such laws as will pro-
tect the money of this country from the
unfriendlly manipulations of gold stan
dard countries. We further favor the
enactment OF a law prohibiting the max
ing of contracts for the payment OF
money in gold.
But while we recognize the fact that
the financial question is the issue of
paramount interest we do not forget
that other questions of material i'm
portance are clamoring for attention.
The failure of the present administra-
ton on financial lines has been so
conspicuous that its failure in all lines
has for the moment been lost to view.
With an alarming deficit in our reve-
nueS, with each succeeding month. the
country demands the return OF the
tariff under the reciprocity policy of
the Republican party.
MoSh Ell AMI DER1DED.
With our flag Knocked and derided In
tional spirit of independence and patri-
otism demands a strong American
hand at the head of the state DEPART
ment and fair exponent of American
sentiment in the presidential chair.
With the surviving soldiers of the
Union treated as supplicants to whom
favors must be thrown with a grudg-
No fvfA .
loyal Americans rises in indignant re-
volt. For those and other sins of
omission and commission too numer-
Gus to detail here, We denounce the ad-
ministration of President Cleveland
We declare its attitude towards our
own territory, in It's imbecile and un-
statesmanlike methods OF opening pub
lie lands, in its unrea sonable delay in
opening new tracts to settlement. In
its refusal to grant free homes 10 set
tiers wrongfully Disseminated against
in the lands recently settled, as un-
friendly and disastrous and We con-
fidentially look to the incoming Re
publican. congress TO reverse this pol
icy, particularly in the matter of grant
ing free homes 10 the settlers OF Ok
lahoma, and in granting early state
hood to this territory
ADOPTED BY ACCLAMATION.
The fight against the adoption of the
resolutions reported by the committee
was led by Frank Greer OF the Guthrie
Capital; Hon G. NJ. Barnes. Will T
Little. George y. Orner and others.
The principal fight in favor Of the reso-
lutions as adopted was made by Hon.
Henry E Asp Of Guthrie. whose able
and logical presentation Of the subject
unquestionably secured the victory for
his side Of the house. The vote was
finally taken by a call Of counties. first
on the amendment offered by Mr.. Greer
which was defeated by the decisive vote
OF 229 to l60. after which the above res
lutions were adopted by acclams ton
or course TO some extent the resolutions
adopted We're the result Of mutual con-
cessions and appeared to give very gem
erai satisfaction. As VIII be seen thev
fully justify the letter written by Hon.
VIM. Grimes some days ago to the Den
yer Times in which he foresba dOved
the action OF the Republicans Of Okla
bona on this subject
During the afternoon. while the COM
mittees were at work Hon J. Y. Beck
man Of Arkansas City delivered very
able and eloquent address upon Repub-
licanism generally.
The election OF officers for the ensuing
year resulted as follows: DR.. ". c Ra-
con. Pawnee county. president: r. ..
Tyler. kingfisher. secretary, and J. Il.
Wallace. Perry. treasurer.
The following are the delegates to the
National League convention az Cleve-
land. Ohio: George II. LANG. Garfield:
J. ". Sharteil. Logan; A Q. Baldwin. |
Noble; W 4 Morey. Canadian: ]. :.
jenkins. oklahoma; 2 a Newman.
Blaine: A J. Seay. Kingfsher. W II |
Peters. Pavnee. ". T. Judkins, Wood |
ward: c. D. Baker. Kay
II was decided TO hold the next con-
ventlcn az Il Reno. o. T.
NOTES.