Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1893 — NEW YORK REPUBLICANS. [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK REPUBLICANS.

Sixth Annual Convention of Republican Leagues at Saratoga. The sixth annual convention of Republican leagues of New York met at Saratoga, Tuesday. Letters regretting inability to attend were read from ex-Presi-dent Harrison, ex-Vice President Morton and Hon. Whitelaw Reid. The letter of Mr. Reid was very lengthy. Among other things he said: You will find the country in an unfornate condition. The duty of every one of us is to do every right thing in our power to help the President and Congress to relieve tne situation. Ouroparty will not be unfaithful to that duty. Mr. Cleveland can confidently count, in Congress and throughout the country on more support in the first vital question of the day from the Republicans he tried to defeat than from the Democrats he helped to elect. In Industry the situation is only what most of us have long believed Inevitable. In an address before your league, last summer, at Buffalo, I had occasion to say that there was no intelligent business man, no matter what his politics, who did not know that the changes in the currency and the tariff threatened by our opponents, whatever their ultimate consequences, meant at the outset a general disturbance and unsettlement, of business for at least eighteen months. The result Is now upon us. By so much as Mr. Cleveland in these unhappy trials proves himself better than his party he will have our loyal and patriotic support. It is our country as well as theirs; and it is our policy, not theirs, under which it has had Its magnificent prosperity and growth.

The resolutions affirm constant belief in the system of. American protection, and view the present disturbed financial conditions as resulting from lack of confidence on the part of the people in the present executive of the Nation and the dominant party in Congress, fearing lest the President and the Democratic party may be true to the free trade principles of the Chicago platform; charge that the fear that the Democratic Congress will destroy the protective policy of the last thirty years Is the chief cause of the business hesitancy and depression; believe the purchasing power of every dollar should be maintained; note the hostility of the administration to the pension system; refer to the unpatriotic lowering of the flag at Honolulu and hold the administration responsible for the anarchy which now threatens the island: extend earnest support to McKinley. The remainder of the resolutions are devoted mainly to State matters. ■ * The fireman of a fast freight train on the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore rood, Tuesday night, observed that the engineer did not slack up in rounding the curve near Chester, Pa., and clambered up into the cab to see what the trouble was. He made the startling discovery that Engineer Ebenezer Craig was dead at his post. The fireman quickly reversed the engine and brought it to a standstill in front of the Chester station. When the train stepped a few miles northeast Craig was apparently all right.