The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-04-13
Ninth Biennial Convention Of
South Dakota State League
Of Republican Clubs.

of Republican Clubs.
Pursuant to resolution adopted by
the executive committee Of the Repub-
lican State League, notice is hereby
given lat the Ninth Biennial COnven-
tion of the South Dakota State League
of Republican Clubs will be held at
the Auditorium in Sioux Falls on
Monday and Tuesday, June 4th and
5th, 1906, for the purpose of electing
officers for the ensuing two years, for
the election of fourteen delegates and
fourteen alternates to attend the next
bienniel convention of the national re-
publican league to be held at Phlla-
delphia, and for the transa saction of
such other business as may properly
come before the convention. Each
club is entitled to one delegate for
each fifty members or fraction thereof.
On Monday evening, June 4th, a
grand rally of republican clubs will
be held at the auditorium under the
auspices of the state league. Hon.
Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the
treasury, and prominent orators of
this state will address the meeting,
and one OF the most interesting and
largely attended conventions in the
history of the state league is expected.
The business session of the league
will be held on Tuesday morning,
June 9Th, 1906, commencing at 9
o'clock, at which time officers for the
ensuing two years, and deleg ates to
the bienniel convention of the nation
al republican league will be elected.
This convention of the national
league which will pe held at Phila-
delphia on June 17th, 18th and 10Th.
1906, will mark the fiftieth annivers airy
OF the holding of the first national
convention of the republican party
and hundreds of those who participate
ed in that tremendous movement des
tined to revolutionize the politics of
the country and who voted for the
candidates then selected are prepared
to join in this "Golden Jubilee Cele
bration. :" Referring to this celebra-
tion and the mementous events which
IL Is intended to commemorate, Hon.
j. Hampton Moore, the eloquent and
patriotic president of the national re-
publican league, in a stirring address
to the officers and members of repub-
lican leagues, says:
"The interviewing span of halfa century has
been glorious in men and measures. First, the
great path finder Fremont raised aloft the stand
ard OF leadership; then the martyr, Lincoln, the
saviour of his county; Grant, the irresistible
silent man; Hayes, the christian soldier and
statesman; Blaine, the plumed knight of re-
publican: Harrison, the soldier. statesman and
lawyer; the beloved and lamented Mckinley
and at the end of the golden crescent, inaugural
ing an era ofworld. wide influence for the peace
of nations-RoOsevelt, the foremost American of
his time. wealth of material for the student
republican! An inspiration for the youth of the
land. In the old hall in Philadelphia where the
best political minds Of troubled country franz
ed national declaration of undying party prin-
ciples; where the champions of liberty and
| union assembled; where the friends of Fremont
OF Lincoln, Of Chase, of Seward, of Lovejoy, of
Giddings, of MCLEAN, of Sumner, Of Wilmot and
host OF the country's ablest statesmen met to
cement and strengthen the scattered efforts of
the nations patriots, it will be the proud privi-
lege of Pennsylvania republicans to welcome
their associates of the national republican
league"
By order of the executive commit
tee,
w. G. PORTER, president.
VIM. H. STANLEY, Secretary.
SOuix Falls. s. D., March 81, 1906.