Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1903 — Birth of the Republican Party. [ARTICLE]

Birth of the Republican Party.

Prominent Republicans of Miohigan are organizing a movement to oelebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Republican party. They olaim that the party had its birth at Jaokson, Michigan, in 1854, though they do not give particulars. A state convention of anti-Nebraska citizens, irrespective of former political affiliation was held at Detroit, J uly 6,1854 and it is olaimed this convention was the first to adopt the name Republican. The truth is the Republican jparty sprang into existence in many places about the same time, and its birth as a national party oan only be said to difite from its first national convention, in Philadelphia, Jane 17, 1856. * •» .. f&WtZgkt*} •* **