The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-03-23
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Regulations for the Election Of Delegates.

To the Republican Electors of the United States
In accordance with usage and obedtent to
the instructions Of the Republican National
Convention of 1884, . National Convention
of delegated representatives OF the Republic
can party will be held 1t the city Of Chicago,
Illinois, on Tuesday, the 10th day Of June,
1883, At 12o clock, noon, for the purpose OF
nominating candidates for President n
Vice President, to be supported at the next
national election and for the transaction OF
such other business as may be presented
there.
Republican electors in the several States
and voters without regard to past political
Affiliations, differences or action, who believe
in the American principle of . protective
tariff for the defense aud development Of
home industries and the elevation of home
labor; who would reduce the national <
and preventive accumulation ofthe surplusin
the Treasury in harmony with this principle;
who are opposed to the attempt, now more
openly avowed than ever before, to establish
4 policy which would strike down American
labor to the level of the under.paid aud OPP
pressed workers of foreign lands who favor
q system Of naval and coast defenses which
will enable the United States to conduct Its
international negotiations with self-respect;
who gratefully cherish the defenders OF the
country; who condemn and resent the con
tinued and unjust exclusion of rapidly grow
ing Territories, which have An i~ndlsputabie
title to admission into the sisterhood OF
States !; who are in favor of free schools and
popular education, q free and honest ballot
and ! fair count, the protection of every cit
lien of the United States in his legal rights
At home and abrosd, q foreign policy that
shall extend u trade and m to
every land and cline and shall properly sup
port the dignity Of the nation and the pro-
motion of friendly and harmonious relations
and intercourse between all the States, are
cordially invited to unite under this call IN
the formation of a national ticket.
Each State will be entitled to four Dele.
gates at large, and fer each representative at
large two Delegates, and each Congressional
District, each Territory and the District OF
Columbia, to two Delegates.
The Delegates at large shall be chosen by
popular State Conventions, called on not
less than twenty days published notice and
not less than thirty days before the meeting
Of the National Convention. The Congress
sional District Delegates shall be chosen in
the same manner as the nomination OF q
member of Congress is made in said District.
The Territorial Delegates shall be chosen In
the same manner as the nomination of .
Delegate in Congress is made. The Dele
gates from the District Of Columbia shall be
chosen at q Convention constituted Of mem.
bers elected in primary district assemblies,
held under the call and direction Of the Re
publican Central Committee Of said Dis
trict. An alternate Delegate for each Dele
gate in the National Convention to act in
case Of the absence of the Delegate, shall be
elected in the same manner and at the same
time as the Delegate is elected.
In addition to their regular Delegates, each
of the Territories of Dakota and Washing
ton are authorized by vote Of this Committee
to choose four contingent Delegates, the ad-
mission Of said contingent Delegates to be
determined by the action of the next Re-
publican National Convention.
All notices of contest must be fled with
the National Committee, in writing, accom-
panied by printed statements of the grounds
Of contest, which shall be made public.
Preference in the order of hearing and deter
! mining contests will be given by the Con-
! yention in accordance with the dates of filing
| of such notices and statements with the
National Committee.
[Signed by the Chairman, Secretary and
members of the Republican National Com