Circa 1902 Cook Co. Republic Marching Club Organized 1894 Badge

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Circa 1902 Cook Co. Republic Marching Club Organized 1894 Badge.
"The club was organized at the Great Northern Hotel, [Chicago, Illinois] January 19, 1894. The objects of which to maintain a well-drilled body of men to march at the request of the central Republican organization, and to act as an escort to conventions, and to prominent Republicans who visit this city, as well as participating in inaugural parades of the state and nation."
"Any Republican posessing the necessary qualifications may become an active member of the club, providing he is a resident of Cook County."
"The club is entirely free from factions and its constitution prohibits its endorsing anyone for elective office until he shall have first been formally nominated by a regular Republican convention."
"The Cook County Republican Marching Club extended invitations to other Republican organizations to join in with them in the parade on fall festival day Oct. 9, 1899. The club on that day turned out fourteen hundred men in full dress uniform, among whom were many of the leading Republicans of Cook County. It required three bands of music to supply the Cook County Republican long line of marchers on that occasion with national airs."
Chicago and Cook County Official Republican Directory and Sketch Book
page 62, published 1900.
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