People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — WESTMAN RE-ELECTED. [ARTICLE]

WESTMAN RE-ELECTED.

Swedish'American League Chooses Its Officers, for the Tear. Rockford, 111., March 10.—The delegates to the Swedish- American Republican League convention rushed through the routine business this morning and devoted the afternoon to having a good time with the numerous politicians ot state reput who are here to entertain them. The convention met at 10 o’clock and proceeded to the election of the following officers: President— Edward C. Westman, Chicago; vicepresident, Charles Dahlgren, Bureau county; secretary, Will S. Hussander, Chicago; treasurer, A. L. Anderson, Cambridge. The committee on resolutions, comprising seven members, held a long session last night and again this morning. While all seven were pronounced McKinley men, by a vote of 5 to 2 they decided it would be unwise to endorse any candidate, either for national .v state office. The resolutions as presented by Professor Chindblom of Chicago, and adopted are in part as follows: “The Swedish-American Republican League of the State of Illinois, in convention assembled, in the beautiful City of Rockford, reaffirms its devotion and loyalty to republican principles. We maintain that the history of this country proves that the great principle of protection to American labor is the foundation of prosperity to our nation. We believe that with this principle again firmly engrafted into our laws the doors of our factories, mills and workshops, long closed, would again open, and the hum of spindles, the sound of the shuttles and machinery furnish music to the ears and employment to willing hands of the many operatives now idle; that the country would again return to a season of prosperity. “Resolved, That we extend the hand of honest sympathy to the struggling patriots of Cuba and that we commend heartily the action taken by congress on this question. ‘The land of the free and the home of the brave,’ cannot view with dispassionate interest the effort of a yoke-ridden people of the western continent to obtain national sovereignty.”