People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — NOW IN FULL SWING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOW IN FULL SWING.

REPUBLICAN LEAGUE CONVENTION OPENS ITS MEETINGS. Large Attendance of Delegates Present — Prevident Tracy Delivers His Address— Visitors See the City During the Day and Evening. Cleveland, O., June 19.—The eighth annual convention of the League of Republican Clubs convened in Music hall this morning with 2,000 delegates in the auditorium and the galleries filled with visitors. The hall was elaborately decorated. After prayer by the Rev. S. L. Darsie, Secretary Humphrey read the roll and addresses of welcome were made by Mayor Robert E. McKisson and President D. D. Woodmansee of the Ohio League of Republican Clubs. President Tracy of Chicago then delivered the annual address. Among other remarks were the following: “It is our work to elect, not select, candidates, and promote, not promulgate, platforms. Party ®>latforms and party candidates must nave the ap-

S. B. ELKINS, proval of the people, but to Insure vl« tory in the next campaign we must pr< pare to meet organization with organ zation.” He criticised the democrati leaders for their lack of statesmanshlj claiming that the currency question ha, been brought forward to blind the eyes of the people to the serious blunders committed. Of the policy of protection to our industries he said that under it the country had developed as no other country in the history of nations, and that the threatened free trade had brought ruin to thousands of American homes. On the currency question Itself, he said: “There can be no disagreement as to the enlarged use of silver. There are few or none who are not in favor of this. The question is, How can it best be brought about? The people of this country want more money, but only on one condition, and that is that it be sound and current the wqrld over.’’ "The record of the republican party proves that It has always been in favor of Increasing the currency in keeping with the demands of the country, but only on the basis that the purchasing and debt-paying power of a dollar, whether of silver or gold, shall at all times be kept equal. This entire question as to the future use of silver will probably be settled by the great commercial nations of the world within a year. Germany and France are seeking bimetallism and England* Is fast turning in that direction. What the people should do is to bring pressure to bear upon their representatives for the appointment of delegates to an International conference with power to act, and insist upon an agreement and obligation from the nations participating to maintain the ratio as there adopted. “Finally, the great work of the republican party is the promotion v and enlargement of our industries through protection and the extension of our foreign trade through reciprocity; the establishment of a bimetallic standard of money through International agreement, in which silver shall be more fully recognized; the revival of our merchant marine and the creation of a system of irrigation for the reclamation of arid lands.” The secretary anounced that there were represented at the convention for-ty-six states and territories, a larger number than has been represented at any previous convention of the league. Among the delegates were a number of ladies, four from Colorado, ope from Hew York, two frdm Washington, and three from Illinois, the latter representing the Woman’s league clubs in that state. The ladies frdm Colorado lost no opportunity to do missionary work in favor of the free coinage of sliver. The American College league has ten delegates present. A. B. Humphrey, who has been secretary eight years, ever since the National League of Republican Clubs was organized, announces that he will not be a candidate for re-election. This withdrawal la In the interests of Gen. McAlpin for president, McAlpin and Humphrey both being from New York. The silver men have decided to wait unt.il after the appointment of the committee on resolutions before taking any action. If the committee Is organized aganist free coinage they will insist on the consideration of their 16-to-l resolution in the convention. When Secretary Humphrey called the roll of states to ascertain the number of delegates and alternates it was ascertained that the states oould report only those present and not the number to which they are entitled. This was against the silver men, whose delegations were not as full as those of other states. In the afternoon the delegates were taken about the city in carriages, and In the evening there were several receptions in their honor and a concert. Tomorrow there will be a grand excursion upon Lake Erie and an open parliament, which will be addressed by the leading republican orators. This will be followed by a reception and banquet. The business meeting will be held on Friday, when the election of officers and the adoption of resolutions will take place. This, of course, will be the most important session, and in the intervening time the hard-money element will use every influence at its disposal to effect some kind of a compromise with their opponents, but the possibility of such an arrangement going through seems very slight