Cologne, August 4. In accordance with the decision of the 
Democratic Congress in Frankfurt, which resolved that Cologne 
should be the seat of the Executive for the Prussian Rhine Prov- 
ince and authorised the democratic associations there to con- 
vene a district congress for organising the democratic party in the 
province, the Central Committee of the associations here** invites all 
democratically-minded associations in the Rhine Province to appoint 
delegates to this congress, which will take place here on Sunday, 
August 13. The delegates must report their arrival in the upstairs 
hall of the Stollwerk premises. 


The Central Committee 
of the three democratic associations in Cologne 


Schneider IT, Marx 
(For the Democratic Society) 


Moll, Schapper Becker, Schiitzendorf 
(For the Workers’ Association) (For the Association for Workers 
and Employers 


At a moment when reaction, operating under the name of 
itinerant “constitutional” congresses, is reviewing and concentrating 
its forces throughout the state, democrats do not need any more 
exhaustive exposition of the necessity for an energetic counter- 


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attack. They merely have to make use of the same freedoms which 
the Association “With God for King and Fatherland”? and its branch 
associations enjoy.