Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1887 — LUCKY CHICAGO. [ARTICLE]

LUCKY CHICAGO.

The Republic a Convention Will Meet in That City Juue 19,1888. The Republican National Committee met at Thursday. In a brief speech Hon. B. L. Jones stated the object of the meeting in the following words: Gentlemen of the committee:—As stated in the call, this meeting is for the purpose of selecting a time and place for holding the next Republican national convention; also, to consider sui h other matters as may properly be brought before it. As everything connected, however remotely, with the government of this great country is important, our action to-day may have far reaching result. We should, therefore, carefully consider such subjects as may be brought before us thaj we may decide wisely. We may congratulate ourselves on the improved prospects of Ae Republican party since the national committee met in this city four years ago. for the same purpose that we are now- assembled. At tnat time the majority against the Republican party In the North at the last preceediug general State elections counted up into the hundreds of thousands. The great States ot New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio had Bern cratic Governors, New York’s elected by nearly 'tiO.OOO plurality; which was reduced for the same candidate in the presidential election to less than 1,100. Though by accident the Democratic party have the presidency, and the prest ge of success, the signs of the times are auspicious for the eh ction of a Repuolican President in 1888. The momentum acquired by twenty-five years of the preva len- e ol Republican principles has not vet lost its force, and the material interests of tire country are still prosperous as the result of Republican legislation. Recent utterances, however, indicate a determination to end this prosperity by adverse legislation forced upon the eountry by an Administration hostile to Ameiqtan industry: andalßO indicate the necessity of a return to power in the national government of the Republican party, so ‘hat American industry, woolgrowing and sugar-raising, equally with ironmaking and textile production may have son ttnued prosperity, and the employes in these in-dm-tries constant employment and son tinned good wages, such as American workmen should receive. The committee at once proceeded to consider the claims of the various cities for the convention. Ex Senator Windom spoke for Minneapolis, Gen. T. B. Henderson for St. Louis, Senator Manderson for Omaha, Congressman Butterworth for Cincinnati, Col. W. C. Elam for Richmond, Va. On the third ballot Chicago was chosen, and June 19th fixed as the day.