Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-25
THE OFFICIAL CALL

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 For the Convention to be Held a, Minneapolis Next June-Apportfon. ment of Representation-Ho Dele. gates Must be Chosen.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. A.-The national republican committee has issued the fol lowing call: The republican electors of the United States-In accordance with usage and the instruction of the republican na- tional convention of 1888 national re- publican convention of delegated repre- l sentatives of the republican party will be held at the city of Minneapolis on Tuesday, the Eth day of June, 1899, at 12 o'clock | noon, for the purpose of nominating can didates for president and vice-president to be supported at the next national election and for the transaction of such other busi- ness as may be brought before it. The re- publican electors in the several states and territories and the voters without regard to past political affiliations who believe in republican principles, and endorse the re- publican policy are cordially invited to unite under this call in the formation of national ticket. Each state will be entitled to four delegates at large, and for each representative in congress at large two delegates, and each congress sional district, each territory and the Dis trict of Columbia to two delegates. The delegates at large shall be chosen by pop ular state conventions called on not less than twenty days public notice and not less than thirty days before the meeting of the national convention. The congress sional district delegates shall be chosen at conventions called by the congressional committee of each such district in the same manner as the nomination for a rep resentative in congress is made in said dis trict. Provided that in any congress sional district where there is no republican congressional committee, owing to redistricting the state under the next congressional appor- tionment, the republican state committee shall appoint from the residents of such districts committee for the purpose of calling district convention to elect dis trict delegates. The territorial delegates shall be chosen in the same manner as the nomination of a delegate in congress is made. The delegates of the District of Co., lumbia shall be chosen at convention constituted of members elected in primary district assemblies, held under the call and direction of the republican central com mittee of the District of Columbia, which said committee shall be chosen one from each assembly district on the first Tues day of January, 1892, at the hour of o'clock p. m., at place of meeting in each assembly district to be designated by joint call, with not less than ten days notice, signed by the member of the national committee for the District of Columbia, and the chairman of the republican central ofc 4r,a ,aH o1& ako delegate for each delegate in the national convention, to act in the case of the ab- sence of the delegate, shall be elected in the same manner and at the same time as the delegate is elected.
 All notices of contests must be filed with the national committee in writing, ac- companied by printed statements of the grounds of contest, which shall be made public. Preference in the order of hearing and determining contests will be given by the convention in accordance with dates of filing such notices and statements with the national committee.
 JAMES s. GARRISON, Chairman.
 JACOB SLoAT FAssETT, Secretary.
 The committee this afternoon referred to the executive committee with full power all matters connected with the prepara- tions for the next convention. The exc cutive committee decided to assume active direction of the matter itself.
 0. F. Meeks of Colorado was elected by the executive committee sergeant at arms of the next national convention. This af- ternoon the national committee settled the conflict between the two wings of the party in Utah by recognizing the committee cleo ted by the convention at Salt Lake City as the republican territorialcommittee oft tah. A resolution was adopted urging the re- publicans of Utah to bury their local diff ferences. Then followed Q statement from each member of the committee of the condition of the party in the various states, and it's needs and prospects. These were generally hopeful in tone and were received with enthusi- asm by the committee as well by the members of the executive committee of the, National Republican league, who were admitted to the hall. Ex-Governor Pinchback of Louisiana indulged in a fierce attack upon the white republicans of the south, whom he held to be respon- sible for the lack of virility of the party in that section and whom he charged with suppressing the negro vote for fear of race issues. He held that their pusillanimous policy had re- suited in untold party losses at and main tained that few vigorous contests and manifestations of their rightful power by the southern negroes would have whole some political effect, and redeem the south ern states from democracy. It was an nounced that meeting of the executive committee would be held within two or three weeks upon a call from the chair man, to undertake the work preliminary to the convention, and at ' o'clock the committee adjourned sine die.