Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1894 — NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEAGUE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEAGUE.

The Convention at Denver—Resolution! Adopted. . The annual convention of the Nationa League of Republican Clubs convened at Denver, Tuesday, Wednesday the committee on resolutions reported the following. which were adopted: The representatives of the Nationa) League of the Republican Clubs of thf United Slates in convention assembled at the capital of the Centennial State, bow tiieir heads in sorrow and humiliation al the spectacle of incapacity which the Democratic party presents to our country, and deplore the calamities which the giving of power to thu present acrurinlstration has brought upon our people. We congratulate the American people that tills administration was compelled, by public opinion, to abandon its un-American Hawaiian policy. In contrast with the shameful record of the Democratic party, we exult over the record of glory which the Republican party has made. Its achievements and its triumphs, extending ! over thirty years, establish it as the most masterful and enlightened political organization that has ever existed. In the fact of present disaster to our country, it is with increased solemnity that we once more renew our allegiance to the Republican partv and proclaim its cardinal principles. We believe in a free ballot and a fair count and we demand such legislation as will insure to every citizen the right to cast one free ballot in any election and to have that ballot honestly counted as cast. It is a noteworthy fact that the Democratic party in Congress, consistent in nothing else, was unanimous for the repeal of the Federal elections law, thus openly confessing itself the party of fraud. We declare our belief in the doctrine ol protection to American labor, American imllistries and American lionieS. We alsc believe in such reciprocal trade with the nations as will increase tiie market for the products of our farms, factories, forests and mines without increasing the competition which tends to lessen wages and degrade our labor. We denounce the proposed vicious and destructive legislation known as the Wilson bill, and earnestly appeal to the Republican United States Senators to prevent its passage by all honorable means. We believe in the use of gold and siivei as money metals, maintained on a perfect parity and inter-convertibility. We de not believe that there will be a permanent prosperity in our country until the full use and highest po ition of silver shall be restored, and we favor such legislation as will bring about this result. The Republican party is the constant friend of the soldiers and sailors of the Union. Tim promises and pledges of the Democratic party to tiie defenders of the I Republic before election were false and fraudulent, and have been shamefully disregarded since election. We condemn unsparingly the treatment now accorded the helpless, maimed and crippled defenders of the flax, and to the widows and orphans of dur dead patriots, as unfair and cruelly unjust. We are most heartily In favor of the prompt admission into the Union of the Territories of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma, and we condemn the the policy of the Democratic administration in excluding and depriving them of their rights. We demand that new safeguards be incorporated in our immigration and naturalization laws to prevent unworthy immigrants from lauding on our shores and from obtaining citizenship. We again commend to the favorable consideration of the Republican clubsoi the United States, as a mattor of education, the question of granting suffrage w women. We congratulate the women of Colorado and Wyoming on their possession of the elective franchise, and we cordially invite their co-operation in the work of rescuing the country from Democratic and Populist mi-rule. There was no change in the officers ol the League, After the adoption of the resolutions the convention adjourned to meet at Cleveland

Was elected President of Franco, Wednesday, at Versailles, by the Senate and Chamber of Deputies sitting as a National Assembly, to succed M. Carnot, killed at Lyons bv the assassin Santo. The National Assembly convened in the great hall of the Palace of Versailles. CasimirPerler comes from a distinguished family and has held many high official positions.

M. CASIMIR-PERIER