Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26

OI representation lOT tuclI COHVCutIOu %
was fixed by the State committee for the
State convention. The committee fur
ther directed that the several congress
sional district committees call their dis
trict conventions to meet at some place
in the territory of their respective dis
tricts three Lays before the meeting OF
the State convention. This will make the
day uniform throughout the State for
holding the congressional district conven-
tion shall elect the Chairman and Execu
tive Committee of the several districts,
name the district elector and delegates to
the national convention and their alter
mates, and also to select two members for
their respective districts to serve on the
State Executive Committee, for the next
two years. And to nominate a candidate
for Congress if thought wise. 1t was
further provided that the State Convention
should elect four delegates and their al
ternates for the State at large to the nat
ional convention, also that it name the
two electors and their allernates for the
State at large. Also to elect the chairman
of the State executive committee and the
four members of that committee for the
State at large, and transact such other
and further business for the good of the
party as may be brought before it.
In the judgment of the committee the
above proceedings were deemed necessary
| in view of the fact that the increased
representation of this.State in the electoral
college, and in the national house of rep
resentatives under the census of 1890, and
the redistricting of the State into new
congressional districts, had so disturbed
and disarranged the former congressional
district committees that compliance with
and obedience to the call of the national
committee was otherwise impossible and
could be reached only through the above
proceeding. 1t was further the sense OF
the committee that the best interest OF
the party required that the State conven :
ton should be relived of all necessary la
} Dor and friction; to that end the duty was
g Imposed upon the several congressional
Districts of the State to re-organize the
party and to elect their several district
charimen and executive committeeman, to
: select their own delegates and alternates
! to the national convention, to be held al
D Minneapolis, Mimi, June 7th, 1892, te
I name their own electors and members Of
s the State executive committee, thus sim
! lplifying the routine work OF the State
convention, leaving to tina. convention az
its routine work only the naming OF thu
four delegates and their al.ernates to the
national convention for the state at large
and the election of the Chairman of tht
State executive committee and the foul
members Of that committee for the State
at large, and to name the two Presiden
tial electors and their alternates for th'
State at large. The above distribution o
labors and burdens OF party organizati u
= was thought the best for the interest o
v the party of Alabama that it was fair II
u all sections and all factions and all ele-
ments of Republicans in Alabama; that
! reduced to the minimum all extraneou'
9 influences, as it brings home to the peo
pie the responsibility of local self-govern
Is ment and local self-goverL ment and 10
i" cal self-organization, thus leaving as free
T. as possible the councils of the party il
each congressional district of the State
: Here is shield and protection to TIE fre'
exercise of citizenship in every part O
e the State. at least in the conventions o
4 the party. This it was though: would Sc
6 cure the nearest possible attainment o
= the unbiased expression Of the pOpula
Al will of Alabama Republicans. In thu
6 endorsement of the present National ad
6 ministration, it was thought that it wa
. appropriate on all occasions for Republi-
g cans to endorse Republican administra
6 ton, which not only CHI llenges but 81
6 lences criticisms. That this action, i
= was believed, would sound responsive
1 echo in every Republican heart within
4 the limits of Alabama. That the pledge
8 in the resolutions to labor for the Presi-
: dents denomination and reelection was
q thought to be in full accord with what is
4 the popular acclaim of the Republican
4 hosts of every State of this great Republic
ecI Every criticism which may be levied a,
3 the action of the Committee is met, fully
6 and finally answered to the mind of all
. candid men, when that action remitted
9 every contested and doubtful question
4 as respects the reorganization Of the
A party in this State, as well as the distri
button of party work and labor to the
. determination of the Republicans of Ala
bama in their individual capacity. All
: questions of doubt as to what is the true
t purpose and intent of the call of the Ma
J tional committee, was withdrawn as far
as possible from the actions of any ma
chine or ring, and submitted fully and
without reserve to the solution of that
sovereign tribunal, the Republican peo-