The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-07-14

COP. (,L UBS NEE 7
Jerseymen Start Today for
Convention at st.
Paul.
HIGGINS SEEKS HONORS
He Wants to Be Reelected
Vice-President of the Ma
tional League.

The officers of the State League of
Republican Clubs, left this afternoon on
the 2:14 train for ST. Paul, Mimi, where
they will attend the convention of the
National League of Clubs, which is to
be held from July II to 49, Along with
the officers were a couple of hundred Re
pubiieans from this county who repre-
sented the various clubs. A great many
Republicans left on other roads,
], The delegates and officers will be gone
about week. The business of the con-
vention has been mapped out pretty well
and there will be no difficulty experienced
in running off the performance in strict
accordance with the programme. Officers
will be eletced committees selected and a
general plan of campaign prepared.
The National League has an enormous
amount of work to look after. The
League of clubs is a project that has
proved of much value to the Republican
party. The results obtained in the last
Presidential campaign prove that the
work carried on aided the ticket mater
tally.
the National League of Clubs is in
touch with the State Leagues throughout
the United States. 1t is the plan of the
county organizations to secure the names
of every Republican Club within their re-
spective counties and these are forwarded
to the State Leagues. The State Leagues
then send them to the National League
In this fashion, every club is recorded and
communicated with. The National Com
1nittee furnishes the literature and the
State Leagues distributes it through their
county organizations. 1t is the business
of ia loo 70 ~,
of doubtful voters and these people are
bombarded with literature with the pur-
pose of converting them to the Republi-
can party and the principles it's stands
for.
All of these plans will be explained at
the st. Paul convention Secretary D. H.
Stine of the National League has COM
municated with all of the local organiza-
tlons asking them to participate in the
convention and promising that they will
be taken care of. He says
Each subordinate club should be rep
resented at the National convention, and
If possible the larger clubs should send a
delegation.
complimentary excursions have been
arranged for the League members and
other features added that will tend to
materially increase the manifold pleasure
of the Journey
Prominent among the speakers that
have signified their willingness to address
the convention and the league mass
meeting to be held on the evening of July
Il are: Governor Theodore Roosevelt of
New York, Hon. David B. Henderson.
Speaker of the House of Representatives;
Hon. ]. p. Dolliver of Iowa, and the Hon.
Albert j. Beveridge of Indiana
The convention will be great national
ratification meeting of the league, and fol-
lowing so soon after the Philadelphia con-
vention, will attract the attention of the
nation, as it will sense the degree of en-
thusiasm with which the active working
element of the party-the League-indorse
the choice of the National convention
President f. F. Meyer of the State
League, also notified the local clubs, and
the results are gratifying. The delegations
from this county are large. Almost every
club has a representative who will be ac-
corded very nearly all the privileges of
the convention that are granted to the
delegates.
National Vice-President Frank j. Hig-
gins of this city, is a candidate for re-
election. He expects to land the place.
as there is no other candidate
Arrangements for the State convention
scheduled for Columbia Hall, on Septem-
Der 13, are progressing very steadily The
subcommittee of the County League is
endeavoring to arouse some interest
among the local clubs, and to find out
just who of the club members will consent
to serve on the committees that will
soon be appointed to take hold of the
various branches of the preliminary work.