Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-27
HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN
SrArE COMMITTEE. I

TERSREPUBLlcAN
STATE COMMITTEE.
rurIap'A. Pa, Ian 81. 1888 }
The Republican State COnveDtion
v;ll he held in the Opera-house at
~ Harrisburg on the last "Wednesday
Of April, the 25th, 1888: at ii O'Clock
M. for the purpose of nominating
one candidate for Supreme Judge,
two persons for Presidential Electors
st-Lerge and twenty eight persons
Ear presidential Electors, the latter
70 he named by the delegates from
the Congressional districts " here dis
triets have not previously named
them. Also for the election OF iour
delegates aud four slternates -at-large
to The Republican National Conveo'
tiou to be held 1t Chicago. June IL.
Iass The attention OF Republicans
throughout the State is respectfully
direc,sd 70 the following permanent
rulee for the holding Of State Conven-
fiona and the conduct Of the parity
First-Tbat delegates to the State
Conventions shall be chosen in the
manner il which candidates for the
General Assembly are nominated.
Second-Hereafter the State Con-
veptious Of the Republican party
sb.ll be held not earlier than the
third "Wednesday of August, except
n the wear of the Presidential elec-
tion. when it shall be held not more
than sixty days previous TO the day
fxed for the National Convention,
aud except in Gubernatorial years.
Az least sixty days notice shail oe
siveu of the date of the State Con-
venti0n.
Tbird-That we recommend to the
county organisations. that IN tnelr
rules they allow the largest freedum
10 the general participation In the
primaries consistent with,the preser'
vurion Of the party organization.
The State Convention Of June ~.
1886, having abolished Senatorial
representation, delegates to the ap-
preaching State Convention Will DC
selected according TO the numoer OF
REPRESENTATIVES in the Legislature to
which each county or city is entltled
under the Representative Apportion-
ment law passed at the recent session
Of the Legislature.
THos. v. COOPER, Chairman,
In compliance with requests from
many sources, that the National rules
Of the Republican parry be published,
chairman Cooper has appended them
70 the call as follows
The Republican National Conven-
tion Of 1884 adopted . resolution on
cred bv Hon. GAIusha A. Grow, OF
Penrsy Iyania, which now embUdies
Ill of the National rules OF the party
touching the time tor calling conven-
lions ana the election of delegates.
The text Of The rules is this. as OH
eially printed in the proceedings, p p.
20 7S:- =.
"Ssid National Committee shall
issue the crlI fer the meeting OF the
National Convention six mouths at
le.st before the time fixed for said
meeting; and each Cor gressionai dis
trict in the United States shall elect
it's delegates to the. National Conven-
tion in the same way AZ the nomina-
tion of member OF Con-
eress Is made in said dis
trict: and in the Territories the dele
gaies 10 the convention shall be elect
ed in the same way as the nomlna-
tion Of legates " Congress il made;
and said National COMMITTEES shall
ureecribe the method for electing del
erates for the District OF Columbia.
An alternative delegate for ea"h del
eease TO the National Convention, TO
act in tho case of the absence OF the
delegate. shall be elected in the same
manner and ut the same time the DEL
eeate is elected. And the delegates
at large for each State and their alter
mates shall be elected by State con-
yeprions in their respective States.
The changes embodied in the
above, from the rules and customs
which previously obtained, can be
explained very briefly
First-All specific limitations as
to the time Of selecting State or dis
trict delegates have Leen abolished.
Second-State conventions cannot
hereafter cub divide into district con-
ventions for the selection OF district
delegates, since this class Of delega-
tee must be elected in the sane way
as Representatives. TO Congress are
nominated and by the people Of the
resp ctive districts.
Third-W here new apportionment
laws are in operation, aud counties
have been displaced frcm former dis
tricts, district delegates must be se.
lected from the new Congressional
district, in like manner as candidates
for Congress are nominated.
Members of the State Committee
and officers of County Committees
will rapidly promote knowledge Of
these rules by requesting their publ
cation in all of their local Republican
journals.
The wool growers of Vermont de
clare the Presidents message not the