Hughes v. Eleventh Ward Republican Club

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Arnold,

In 1903 the 11th Ward Republican Club was organized as a nonprofit corporation, “to unite in a social and political organization the Republican voters of the 11th Ward to foster and promote the principles of the Republican Party; to educate the young men to loftier appreciation of their relations to National, State and Municipal Governments, and to encourage them to an active participation in the nominations and election of capable public officers.”

These principles were advanced and carried out until 1951, when a gradual but certain decline in the furtherance of…