The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-25
CALL FOR THE REPUBLICAN STATE
CONVENTION.
HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN !
STATE COMMITTEE,

PIIILADELPHIA, Jan. q, 1888.
The Republican State Convention will
be held in the Opera House at Harrisburg
ON the last Wednesday of April, the 25th
1888, at eleven o'clock, n. m. for the pur.
pose of nominating one candidate for Su.
preme Judge, two persons for Presiden.
tial Electors at-Large, and twenty-eight
persons for Presidential Electors, the
latter to be named by tho Delegates from
the Congressional Districts where Districts
have not previously named them. Also
for the election of four Delegates and four
Alternates-a Large 10 the Republican
National Convention to be held at Chicago,
June 10th, 1888.
The attention of Republicans through
outthe State is respectfully directed to tue
following Permanent Rules for the hold
ing OF State Conventions and the conduct
of the party:
FIRsT.-That Delegates to the State Con-
ventlon shall be chosen in the manner in
which candidates for the General Assem-
bly, are nominated.
SECoSD.-Hereafter the State Conven-
lions of tho Republican Party shall be
held not earlier than tho third Wednesday
of August, except in the wear of the Pres
idential election, when il shall be held not
more than sixty days previous to the dav
hNed for the National Convention, and ex-
eopt in Gubernatorial years. At least six
~ days notice shall be given Of the date
Of the state convention.
THIRD.-That we recommend 10 the
county organizations, that in their Rules
they allow the largest freedom in the gem
eral participation in the primaries consist
Ont with the preservation of the party or
ganization.
The State convention of June 30th, 1886,
having abolished Senatorial representa-
tlon, Delegates to the approaching State
Convention will be selected according to
the number of Representatives in the
Legislature to which each county or city
is entitled under the Representative Ap-
portionment law passed at the recent ses-
- sion of the Legislature.
THoS. V. COOPER, Chairman.
NorE.-In compliance with requests
from many sources, that the National
Rules of the Republican party, be publish
Cd, they are given below. '
THE NATIONAL RULES.
Tho Republican National Convention of
1884 adopted a resolution offered by Hon,
Galusha A, Grow of Pennsylvania, which
now embodies all of the National Rules of
the party, touching the time for calling
Conventions and the election of Delegates.
The text of the rules i'll this, as officially
printed in the proceedings, PIP. 7O-7S:
'Said lNational] 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-
grcSsional district in the United States
shall elect its delegates to the National
4onvention tn the same way as the nomi-
n3Ssan OF member of Congress is made
in sad district ;-aDd in the territories the
delegates to the Convention shall be elect
ed in the same way as the nomination oil
delegates to Congress is made; and said
National Committee shall prescribe the
mode for electing delegates for the District
of Columbia. An alternate delegate for
each delegate to the National Convention,
10 act in case of the absence of the dele
gate, shall be elected in the same manner
and at the same time as the delegate is
elected. And the delegates s-at-large for
each State and their alternates shall be
elected by State Conventions in their re-
spective States"
The changes embodied in the above,
from the rules and customs which pre-
viously obtained can be explained very
briefly:
FIRsT.-All specific limitations as to the
time OF selecting State or District Dele
gates, have been abolished.
SEcoND.-StateC Conventions cannot here
after subdiyide into district conventions
for the selection of district delegates, since
this class of delegates must be elected in
"the same way as Representatives tc
Congress are nominated and by the people
of the respective districts
THIRD. Where new apportionmen
laws are in operation, and counties have
been displaced from former districts, dis
trict delegates must be selected from the
2ew Congressional district, in like manner
as candidates for Congress are nominated
Members of the State Committee anC
officers OF County Committees will rapid
iy promote knowledge of these rules by
requesting their publication in all of thei
local Republican journals.