Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-02-01
CALL FOR THB REPUBLICAN SrATR
CONVENTION.
HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN,
STATE COMMITTEE
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The Republican State Convention will be
held in the Open House at Harrisburg, on
the last Wednesday of April, the 25th,
1888, at eleven O'Clock O.. m. for the pur-
pose OF nominating one candidate for Su-
preme Judge, Two persons for Presidential
| Electors at Large, and twenty -eig ht persons
| Tor Presidential Electors, the latter to be
named by the Delegates from the Congress
ionai Districts where Districts have not
prev iously psned them. Also for the cleo
tion oi four Delegates and four Alfernates-
af Large 10 The Republican National Con-
vention to be held at Chicago, Juno 10Th
1888.
The attention of the Republicans through
out the State Is respectfully directed to the
following Permanent Rules for the hold
ing of State Conventions and the conduc,
OF the party
FRsT--That Delegate. TO the State Con-
vention shall be chosen in the manner in
which candidates for the Genera Assembly
are nominated.
SEcosD Hereafter tho State Conveu-
Ii ons OF the Republican party shall be held
not earlier than the third Wednesday of
August, except in the year of the Presi-
Dental election, when il shall be held not
more than sixty days previous to the day
liked for the National Convention, and ex
cePt IN Gub-rnstorial years. AT least Sky
days netice shall be given OF the date OF the
State Convention.
THIRD.-Thst We recommend to the
county organizations, that in their rules
they allow :he largest freedom in the gen
eral participation il the primaries consis-
tent with the preservation OF the party or
ganisation-
The State Convention OF June 3Oth 1856
b sying abolished Senatorial represen tation,
Delegates to the approaching State Con
Sention Ill be selected according to the
number OF Representatives in the L-gisla
ture TO which each county or city is enti-
tied under the Representative Apportion-
ment law, passed A. the recent session OF
the Legislature.
THOs ..v.sCOoPER
CHAIRMAN.
NorK.-In compliance with requ ests from
many sources, that the National Rules oil
the Republican party be published, they are
given below.
THE NATIONAL RULES.
The Republican National Convention of
1854 adopted 8 resolution offered by Hon.
G.lushs A. Grow of Pennsylvania, which
now smbodies all OF the n stionsl Rules OF
the party, touching the time for calling
Conventions and the election Of elegstes.
The text of the rules in this, officially
printed IN the proceedings, PIP. 7O-7S.
:.Said IN stionall committee shall issue
the call for the meeting OF the National
Convention six months at least before the
time fixed for said meeting and each con-
gre ssional district in the United tates shall
elect its delegates to the National Conven-
ton In the same way as the nomination OF q
member of Congress is made in said district;
and in the territories the delegates to the
Convention shall be elected in the sans way
ss The nomination of delegates to Congress
is made; and said National Committee shall
prescribe the mode for eIecting delegates
for the Disrric, of Columbia. An alternate
delegate for each delegate TO the National
Convention, to act IN case of the absence
OF the delegate, shall De elected IN the same
manner and At the same time the dele
gate is elected And the delegstes-st-lxrge
for each State and their slternsies shall be
elected BY State Conventions in their re-
.pectiye 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 District Delegates
have been abolished.
SrcusD State Conventions csnnot here
after subdi, ide into district conventions,
| Tor the selection OF district delegates, since
this class of delegates must be elected in
s.ihe same ~ay" as Representatives. to Con-
gress are nominated and by the people of
the respective districts.
Where new superintendent law,
| are in operation, and counties have beer
displaced from former districts, distric
delegate. must be selected IRON the new
Congressional district, in like manner a
candidates for Congress are nominated.