The San Francisco call., 1906-06-20
WOULD CURTAIL
VOTE Of SOUTH
Republicans Ask for the
Enforcement of the
Constitution.
Disfranchisement of the
Negroes Again to
the Fore.

PHILADELPHIA. June 19.-Reaff1rm-
ing allegiance 10 the principles or the
Republican party and condemning COM
binations in restraint OF trade, the Va
tional League of Republican Clubs to-
day ended its convention The reso-
lutions adopted by the convention are
in part as follows:
We pay tribute to our great leaders
from our first standard bearer, John
c. Fremont, and Abraham Lincoln, the
first Republican President, to Theodore
Roosevelt, our present leader, the
worlds first citizen, who through his
mination, his unflagging courage and
his demand for square deal Tor every
person and every interest, has gained
not only the respect and love OF ms
fellow w-eOuntrymen, but the esteem and
admiration of all mankind.
We indOrse the sentiment OF William
tective tarir is sacred, but that
schedules should be changed when con-
dttions OF industry. commerce ana
finance demand, and not till then
We emphasize the results of the ope-
ration of the Dingley tariff which is
giving us surplus of revenue, unpar-
alleled activity In our factories, forests
and mines; profitable prices for the
products of our farms; greater bank
clearings and relatively less failures
than ever before; continually larger
volume of employment at higher wages.
resulting in unprecedented consump-
ton or not only the necessartss. but
life, augmented with larger savings
and investments than have previously
been recorded in our history.
We approve OF the action or the
present Congress in carrying out the
recommendations of President Roose-
welt by more advanced legislation than
has been given US in a single session
since the days of the Civil War.
We have just pride in our party's
record in its settlement of the cur
rency question through the adoption Of
I gold Standard
and development of the rural free de-
livery system now extended to more
million homes; in the progress In open
ing our arid lands to cultivation
/ through irrigation; in the well-begun
work of connecting ocean and ocean
with an isthmian canal; in the many
laws tending 10 the welfare OF labor
and in the completed or pending legis-
regulations in Interstate commerce; for
better inspection in all food products;
for free alcohol; for new State for
many other important measures which
have been or are TO be considered.
We are opposed to all Illegal cOmbina-
/ tions In restraint of trade. whereby the
interests OF either producers or con-
sumers are injured or whereby through
/ monopoly rates the prices of products
! are controlled at the expense of the
/ masses. We wage no war on capital or
corporations as such, but we do ask
I for equity and justice to all, by all and
Z
We are opposed to the inequality
which permits One-twelfth of the vot-
I ers of the country to WELD One-quar-
ter of the national legislative power.
The suppression and denial of suffrage
demands the reduction OF power so
uSurped, and the denial Of suffrage
should never be rewarded with politi-
cal premiums. The Democracy of at
4 least eleven States should be deprived
of its unfair preponderance of power,
I and the full measure of political rights
secured TO every qualified citizen. white
/ or. black, who Is capable and able to
cal party that profits by the suppress
sion OF the ballot Is not TO be trusted
/ with the making or administration of
/ the nations laws
We reiterate the demand OF our last
national platform that our Republican
majority in Congress should courage
| Ously carry out the principles and
pledges .of the party and enact such
/ Legislation as will make all the cOnsti-
/ tutiOnal amendments absolutely and
4 finally effective.
looking to the establishment of par
/ cells post and postal currency or notes
to facilitate trade through orders by
mail.
The following officers were elected:
President. General E. A. McAlpin, New
York; vice president. II. H. Myers. Lit
/ tie Rock. Arkansas; secretary. Chaun-
| cey Dewey, Hamilton, Ohio; treasurer
| W. G.. Porter. South Dakota
The selection of the next place of
meeting was left to the executive COM
mittee-