Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-04-19
REPUBLICAN, CONVENTION.
The Minority Party In the County
Meets To Select Delegates to State,
Senatorial and Other Con.
ventions.

The Republicans of AudraIn county
met at the Court House In this city
Saturday, April IA, for the purpose Of
selecting FIVE delegates to the Repub-
lican State Convention to be held at
Kansas City on May is, two delegates
to the Republican Judicial Convention
to be held at Jefferson City on Sept.
IL, five delegates to the Congressional
Convention for the Ninth Congress-
ional District to be held in Troy on
May 1st, and i've delegates to the Sem
atoriaI Convention for the Eleventh
Senatorial District, to be held at Troy
on May 1st, and to attend to other
business, o. A. Smith, Of Laddonia,
called the meeting to order and read
his authority to do so in q proxy from
county chairman FRiar, who was un-
able to attend on account of rheuma-
tism.
After Secretary George KunkeI had
read the call Mr.. Smith declared the
convention to be In temporary organ
ization and appointed Il. d. Hunter az
temporary chairman. After Mr..
Hunter had taken the chair O. A.
Barnes was elected temporary secre-
tary, Chairman Hunter then appoint
ed the following committees:
On permanent. organization; J. @
Head, w. s. Hathaway, Mr.. Gatson
DR.. !. O. Parrish and George Oovy.
On resolutions: W. NJ. TreIoar, e.
o. Burkhart, w. F. Pritchett, Thos,
Roberts and ]. II. Scott.
On Order of Business: o. A. Smith,
Mr.. Shrever, T. A. Collins, Mr.. Brans-
letter and Thos. HughIett.
Mr.. Covy stated to the convention
that there was youngman who would
attend the convention, ana who would,
II he received the proper encourage
ment, start Republican paper In the
county. He then spoke Of the support
party paper should receive.
"A. F. Reid arose and championed
an aggressive campaign for the Re-
publicans. He pointed to the horrors
Of the Kentucky situation az being q
result of Democratic influence.
After few remarks by Mr.. West,
DR.. J. O. Parrish touched on National
politics and the fact that two villages
in the county had Republican mayors,
He also stated that it was not the pur-
pose of the proposed party organ to
become campaign paper and then
die and stated that the publication
would probably be located ct Martins
burg. He said that the young man
who proposed to start the paper In
tended to make 1t Independent, but
that he would make II q party sheet II
he got the proper encouragement from
Republicans.
The meeting adjourned until 1880.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The afternoon aession opened with
q discussion as 70 the advisability Of
fathering the proposed Republican
paper at Martinsburg. Mr.. Menden-
hall, the editor, wished q guarantee Of
400 Republican subscribers. Persons
willing to guarantee ten subscribers
were called for, but only six or seven
responded. A motion that the chair
appointa committee OF ten to solicit
was passed.
Committee reports being In order,
the committee on permanent or
ganization, reported that the nem-
bsrs recommended that temporary
Chairman Hunter and Secretary
Barnes be made permanent. The
report was adopted.
VIM. Treloar, chairman of the COM
mittee on resolutions, made the follow
ing report which was adopted:
We, the Republicans of Audrain
County, in convention assembled, do
hereby renew our obligations TO the
National Republican platform Of 1895,
and congratulate the people upon the
fulflllment of the pledges then made
to the people.
Industries of every kind throughout
the nation have been revived and the
people are prosperous and happy;
confidence has been fully restored,
national credit has been maintained,
and every dollar issued by the Govern
ment is as good as every other dollar.
Manufacturing has been resumed
and labor everywhere finds ready EN-.
ployment. The prices of foreign pro-
duct were seldom ever better than
now and the people are prosperous
generally, and no longer does discon-
tent threaten and paralyze the bust-
ness interests of the country.
We endorse the course Of the pres
ent Republican Congress upon the
financial question, and we do most
heartily endorse the present Admins
tration upon territorial extension. A
| iudicious expansion Of territory means
extension of American trade, and
commerce affords opportunity to-
American enterprise and capital;
extends civil and religious freedom,
and puts within the power Of Ameri-
cans the control Of the commerce Of
the woeld.
The wise foreign policy Of President
Mckinley we believe will result in
giving to the United States an en-
Iarnad nnarkah for hnr anrIcnItnraI