. Golden jubilee of the Republican Party; the celebration in Philadelphia, June 17, 18 and 19, 1906. national convention of delegites which metat Philadelphia, under the name of the Republican party. The success of the Whigs with Taylor in 1848, and the nom-ination in 1852 of a New England Democrat, seemed to have lulledthe fears of the combined representatives of parties who formedthe Convention of Buffalo. At all events they did not take theaggressive in that campaign, except the Liberty party which casttheir votes for John P. Hale. But during Pierces term his sub-serviency to the dictation
. Golden jubilee of the Republican Party; the celebration in Philadelphia, June 17, 18 and 19, 1906. national convention of delegites which metat Philadelphia, under the name of the Republican party. The success of the Whigs with Taylor in 1848, and the nom-ination in 1852 of a New England Democrat, seemed to have lulledthe fears of the combined representatives of parties who formedthe Convention of Buffalo. At all events they did not take theaggressive in that campaign, except the Liberty party which casttheir votes for John P. Hale. But during Pierces term his sub-serviency to the dictation of the Proslavery section againalarmed the liberty-loving North. At Pittsburg in February,1856, they assembled in large numbers for consultation,and resolved to call a regular nominating convention at Phila-delphia of members of all parties who were attached tocertain defined principles, to nominate a presidential ticket 218 GOLDEN jubilee; OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. the name Republican to their And they first appliednational organization. From 1856, the records of the Republicanbeen well kept and. JOHN O. SHEATZ,TREASURER A. R. C. party havethe wholecountry is well advised of its growthand triumphs. But the prior andincipient stage of its history are foundonly in the pages of a few newspapers,and in the memories of the few sur-vivors of that period. The Republican party was notsufficiently welded together in princ-iples, policies, experience and associa-tion to constitute a grand nationalparty until the critical period of then there were many clingingremnants of the various old polit-ical faiths of members of the ChicagoConvention which cropped out inpersonal and antagonistic projects of platforms and reso-lutions, and which were submitted in great numbers to the Com-mittee on Resolutions, of whom I was one. So numerous werethev that I became hopeless of a harmonious platform if they werediscussed in general committee. I therefore moved at ourfirst meeting that all the
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