The Van Buren Press

The Republican Programme.
The Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, of the 6th, foreshadows the Republican programme for the next Presidential campaign:
Enough is known to make it certain that the Republican leaders have about completed the arrangements for a carefully organized effort to launch the bloody-shirt issue with all the force possible. They have divided their leaders into disciplined divisions in the collection and preparation of so-called facts in support of the issue. At the Republican caucus, two days since it was delegated to Blaine to open the fight. Since then he has been preparing a speech, which has occasioned his absence from the Senate and the failure to call up his resolution to investigate recent Southern outrage stories. One of the features of this campaign is a national convention of colored men, and already petitions to this end are circulating in South Carolina and Louisiana. The convention is to produce a memorial to congress asking a decrease in the representation of the Southern states in congress, under the provisions of the fourteenth amendment, which gives the power to congress to reduce the representation if the right of any voter to vote is any way abridged. This convention, according to the programme, is to be called directly upon the opening of the debate in the senate.