Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1884 — UNION LEAGUE. [ARTICLE]

UNION LEAGUE.

Meeting of the National Council, at Washington. The National Council of the National Union League recently held its annual session in Gen. James S. Negley, of Pittsburgh, presiding. The session was devoted principally to'perfecting the organization of the league for effective work in the coming Presidential campaign and consideration of the anti-Bourbon movement in the Southern States, its necessities, and the means employed to assist the Independents in that section. The following were elected officers for the ensuing year: President—James S. Negley. Vice Presidents—William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire; Gen. C. H. Grosvenor, of Ohio; Col. J. E. Bryant, of Georgia; J. E. O’Hara, of North Carolina; Col. 'lhomas H. Rich, of Maryland; C. F. Scott, of West Virginia; C. A. Boutelle, of Maine; L. C. Houk, of Tennessee; S. A. Mac Allister, of Delawares R. K. Bruce, of Mississippi. Corresponding Secretary—Thos. G. Baker, of New York. Assistant Corresponding Secretary—J. W. Bartlett, of Massachusetts. Recording Secretary—S. V. Gwynner, of Pennsylvania. Treasurer—A. M. Clapp, of Washington, D. C. Chaplain—Capt. J. J. Cooper, of Pennsylvania. Marshal —Geo. Simpson. Sergeant-ut-Arms—B. T. Bemar, Of Pennsylvania. The Committee on Bourbonism and Misrnle at the South submitted a report describing the condition of affairs politically in the Southern States, and suggesting plans for adoption by the league to aid in securing freedom of the ballot to all citizens. Representatives Pettibone and Houk, of Tennessee, addressed the council in support of the recommendation made by the committee that aid be extended to the opponents of Bourbonism in the Southern States. They presented statistics of the anti-Bourbon vote in Tennessee, showing it had increased from less than 60,000 in the Hayes Presidential election to 89,000 in the Garfield election and to 105,000 in the last Gubernatorial election. They stated that an additional 10,000 votes would redeem the State from Bourbonism and that those votes could be brought out if assistance were given to overcome the lawlessness which operated in that State against the free exercise of political rights. Addresses on the same subject were made by Representative Boutelle, of Maine; Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor, of Ohio; Lieutenant Governor Lewis, of Virginia; ex-Senator Bruce, Prof. Greener, ex-Representative Lynch, of Mississippi, and others, after which the report of the committee was adopted. A special committee to be known as a Committee on Bourbonism was then appointed as follows: Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor, Chairmaji; J. E. Bryant, of Georgia; C. A. Boutelle, of Maine; Horatio Bisbee, Jr., of Florida; L. C. Houk, of Tennessee; John B. Lynch, of Mississippi; A. M. Clapp, of Washington; Nathan Goff, of West Virginia; and J. E. O’Hara, of North Carolina. It is intended that this committee shall establish headquarters in Washington during the campaign and act in conjunction With the National and Congressional Committees, directing its efforts principally to aiding the independent movement in the South, and it shall, after the nomination of the Presidential ticket, in its discretion, issue an address to the people of the United States on the condition of the South. An Executive Committee and a Committee on Finance were also appointed, and it was agreed that the next session of the Council should be held in Chicago the Monday preceding the meeting of the Republican National Convention. Congressman Buckner, of Missouri, in an interview at Washington, takes a doleful view of the prospects of the Bourbon party. He thinks that the action of the Carlisle-Bourbon wing of the Democracy in forcing the tariff issue and in antagonizing Randall cannot be other than disastrous. He warned Carlisle, soon after the Speakership was decided, that this would be the case. The contest now, he thinks, has assumed such a shape that peace js ont of the question.— Chicago Tribune.

Gov. Waller, Democrat, of Connecticut, who is here, is quoted as expressing great dissatisfaction with the Democratic conduct of affairs in Washington, and as saying that the Democratic House hod done nothing but to show its unfitness to control public affairs, and that probably Connecticut would give 5,000 Republican majority next fall. —Washington Telegram . How much longer is the Democratic party to bo permitted to fling the bloody corpses of white and colored Republicans in the face of the nation ? The testimony' before the Senate Investigating Committee, at Washington and .New Orleans, is horrifying as anything made public during the bloodiest days of the Democratic ku-klux.— Indianapolis Journal The Man-afraid-of-the- tariff— Thomas A. Hendrick*, and every other man in the Democratic party named for office. —Exchange.