The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-06-17


Territorial Central Committee met in
New Tacoma on the 9th day of June,
$780, The members present were:
Francis Tarbell, Chairman; Byron Bar
low, Secretary; r. D. Attridge, J. NJ.
Welch, by p. b. Johnson, proxy; w.
Byron Daniels, 10y +. w Bier, proxy;
Geo. d. Hill.
BY order of the Territorial Central
Committee, duly assembled persuant
to notice, this 9th day of June, A. D.,
1SS0at New Tacoma, w. T., notice is
hereby given that a republican con-
vention is called to assemble at VAN
couver, Clarke county, on Wednesday
the Sth day of September, 1880, at 10
O'Clock. A. NJ, for the purpose of nom-
mating a candidate for delegate to con-
gress and for the transaction of such
other business as may properly come
before it.
The committee has fixed the appor-
tionment OF delegates to said conven-
ton as follows: One delegate at large
for every county in the Territory, and
one additional delegate for every one
hundred votes, and for every fraction
Of fifty or more votes cast in each
county, at the general election of 1878,
for the Republican candidate for dele
gate to congress. Upon this basis the
various counties of the Territory will
be entitled to representation as fol-
lows: Chehalis, 2; Clallam, 2; Clarke,
9; Columbia, Z; Cowlitz, 3; Island, ,;
Jefferson, 5; King, 10; Kitsap, 4; Kick
itat, s. Lewis, 3; Mason, l. Pacific, 5;
Pierce, 5; Skamania, l.; San Juan, ,;
Snohomish, 3; Stevens, 8; Spokan, /;
Thurston, 8; Wahkiakum, 1; Walla
Walla, s; Whatcom, 5; Whitman, 6;
Yakima, 3. Total, 81.
The committee also recommends,
subject to any change to be made by
the respective county committees, that
the various county conventions be
held at the county seat, on Thursday,
the. Goth day of August, 1850, at l
o'clock, p. NJ, and that the primary
meetings, to elect delegates to the
county conventions, be held at O'Clock
P. NJ, of Thursday the 5th day of Au-
gust, 1880, at the voting places in each
precinct. This recommendation is in
tended only for those counties which
have no county central committee, or
when they fail to act.
The committee also recommends
that the county conventions in coun-
ties having portions of joint council
and representative district, instruct
their delegates to the Territorial con-
vention, who they desire nominated
for joint representatives and council
men-the nomination to be made by
the delegates from the council districts
at the time of the meeting of the Terri
torial Convention.
Resotred, That the Republican Ter
ritorial Central Committee heartily
endorse the nomination of Hon. James
A. Garfield for President, and Hon.
Chester A. Arthur for Vice President.
The attention of the committee was
also called to the fact that change
had been made in the boundaries of
Pacific and Wahkiakum counties,
whereby it was claimed that the re-
publican vote of the former had been
decreased and the vote of the latter
increased. While the convention de-
sire to recognize the fact in making
the appointment, ii was unable to do
so, for the reason that ii could obtain
no official knowledge of the extent of
the change in voters. The fact of the
creation out of Stevens, of the county
OF Spokan, was brought up and one
delegate was allowed Spokan county;
but, owing to the fact that it was inn
possible TO determine what should be
the reduction Of representatives in
Stevens county. il was given the ben
eft Of the vote of 1873.
A vote of thanks was rendered the
Northern Pacific r. r. Company, for
granting half fare rates to members of
the convention.
By order Of the Republican Terrific
rial Central Committee.
FRANCIS TARBELI, Chairman.
BYRON BARLOW, Secretary.
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