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Show HISS ' ! si HFfY YEARS Sfiday Anniversary of iepiikis, farty Born Under the Oaks V' in Jackson, Mich., July 6,1854. : ttf& - ,Whero First State Convention Was ""JolrSr Held and Ticket Named That Was Success. I" VCKSON, INIich July 6. Fivo thou-; thou-; g people assembled in. Loomls park ct today to celebrate tho fiftieth an-, an-, irtrsarj' of the birth of the Republics Republi-cs party ' under the oaks." in this ifty, July' G, 3S54- It was here, on that jif that the first State convention, ; tflng under the name of "Republish," "Republi-sh," was held. The State ticket noni-tUtd noni-tUtd on that day went through a tated campaign to election day suc-1 suc-1 Secretary of State John Hay, who ' ra private secretary to Abraham Lln-' Lln-' trie, the first Republican President, 1 iu the orator of the day. Other dls- tgulshed guest3 present were Speaker l fennc-n of (ho National House of Rep-' Rep-' ?er.tativc9, Senator Fairbanks of In-j In-j flica, Republican candidate for Vice-' Vice-' President, and Senators Alger and Eur-j Eur-j ms ot Michigan. City Decorated. ' The city is hung" with bunting, and hnd conceits on the main streets pre-aiti pre-aiti the arrival of Secretary Hay and Senator Fairbanks, with a company of . jrornlnent Republicans, on a special Win from Detroit. Speaker Cannon unved last night. At the morning ex-t ex-t noises ot Loomls park Mayor Todd de-Ivjred de-Ivjred a hearty welcome and. Gov. Ella brleflj responded. Attorney-Gen-:f tral Charles A. Blair of Jackson then jff, read an able paper on the history of "EMKJ ite Republican party. N J I Veteran Is Heard. tltzi Thomas J O'Brien of Grand Rapids, dnye tht next speaker, wns introduced as torn cm of the participants in the original j 'SDder the oaks" convention of 1S5-1. ; Mr. O'Brien, as well as Mr. Blair, had t-fcr his subject, "The History of the iP-'publlcan Party In Michignn." An interesting feature of the cxer-kErMes cxer-kErMes was a body of "Fremont voters" M') mn wno cast tneIr "votes for the P. 74thflnder" Grand Army uniforms, Jlgg crutches and silvered locks were con- aplcuous among them, and the rapt mention of these "charter Republl-QtM Republl-QtM ana" was notable. ; Reception at Hotel. -aJmi When the morning exercises at the $-21 pove were concluded the distinguished HKls were driven to the Hotel Otsego, IrM tre they were tendered a reeptlon. i'xE n t,,ere was n half-hour's interrup-u interrup-u 01 1,10 day's programme for hicheon. In the afternoon the pro-caff pro-caff , rramnie at the grove was resumed. A tfLa .tremendous audience was present when 3? toator Burrows introduced Secretary gt d Stale Hay. the orator of the after-kt! after-kt! Secretary Hay said: ', i |
