, 1892-02-23
DOUGLAS The PLACE.
It Was Selected Yesterday by the
State Democratic Committee.
The State Convention Will be Held
There Wednesday, April 10.
Sixty-Five Delegates Will be Sc
Iected to Attend.

A meeting OF the Democratic state CEN
trail committee was held in this city yes
terday. Those in attendance either in
person or by proxy included the follow
ing named persons: Albany county, N.
4. Corthell, D. H. Breese; Carbon county,
Cbas. e. B~lydenburgh for himself and as
proxy for L. G. Miller; Crook county, not
represented; Sweetwater, R. A. Keenan,,
Louis j. Palmer, the latter as proxy for
L. l.. Davis; Uinta, DR.. W. A. Hooker.
Geo. W. Baxter. proxy for A. @. Beck
with; Fremont county, Ben Sheldon rep
represented by Geo. W. Baxter as proxy;
johnson. @. Fl. Burritt, who carried with
him proxies and introductions from F. M.
Canton, and also j. B. Moore and @. FL.
Grinnell of Sheridan county; Converse
county, DR.. j.. E. Wilson, Natrona, F.
III. Harvey for John McGrath; Weston.
Meyer Frank, by John E. Carroll; Lara
mic. Fl. Altman, f. A. Miller for Judge
Kuykendall.
Colin Hunter, chairman OF the conn
mite, presided and Louis J.. Palmer
acted as secretary.
The main object Of the meeting was to
select a time and place for holding the
state convention to select delegates to
Chicago. In the matter of a place to
hold the convention Douglas. Rawlins.
Rock Springs and Laramie were men
toned. In an informal ballot it was
found that Douglas had IL votes. Rawlins
8, Rock Springs 3 and Laramie |. A
motion to make Douglas the unanimous
choice was then put and carried.
There was some diversity of opinion as
to the proper time to hold the convention
IN order to most nearly meet the conven-
fence of all parties concerned. The latest
time favored was May Is and the earliest
the early part of April. After the mat
ter had been discussed In all its bearings
it was found that taken altogether the
most suitable time would be Wednesday,
April Is, a time suggested by Mr.. Cor
thell and this date was fixed upon. The
convention will be called to order at 7:30
o'clock p. IN. of that day and aud Q per
mauent organization effected before ad-
%journment.
When the question of the basis of rep
resention to the Douglas convention came
up for consideration Mr.. Blydenburgh
presented three propositions based upon
the vote cast at the last election for gov
ernor. The plans embraced 100. 1856 and
200 votes TO entitle to adelegate in the con-
v%ention. In addition to this Mr.. Harvey
suggested that each county be entitled to
a delegate at large go that the smaller
counties would have more representation
than they would get under Mr.. Blyden-
burgh's scheme of apportionment. This
was agreed to and the various propositions
of MIR. ~Blydenburgh were then taken up.
The decided In favor of 1876
as the basis of representation. giving each
county It's proportionate number OF dele
gates according to its vote for Governor
Baxter, an extra delegate being allowed
in case that more than one-half OF 1876
votes remained after the division and dis
allowed in the event of less.
According to the basis decided upon
and adding one delegate at large from
each county, the representation in the
Douglas convention from each county will
be as follows:
8
CarDon 7
4
Crook d
Fremont ......... a
johnson a
Laramie. .I2
.......... 2
q
Sweetwater 6
H.