The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-12-26
THE NATIONS POLITICS
Committees Arranging tor the
Camp ,ign OF 1896.
CHAIRMAN CARTER ISSUES A CALL
For the National Convention at St
Louis-Democrats and Populists
Also to Convene.

w dSiIIuSGOu, LOU. II. - CHAIRMAN
Carter, of the Republican nationa
committee, today issued the following
call for a national convention:
TO the Republican Electors of thu
United States - In accordance with
usage and the instructions of the Re
publican national convention of 1892
and by direction of the national com.
mittee, the national convention OF
delegated representatives of the Repub.
lican party will be held at the city OF
st. Louis, state Of Missouri, Tuesday
the 10th day Of June, 1896, at IL
O'Clock, noon, for the purpose of nomi-
mating candidates for president and
vice-president of the United States, to
be supported at the next national elec-
ton, and for the transaction of such
other and further business as may be
brought before it.
Republican electors in the several
states and territories, and voters with
out regard to past party affiliations,
who believe in Republican principles
and indorse the Republican policy, are
cordially invited to unite under this
call in the formation of a new ticket
Each state will be entitled to four dele
gates-at-large, and for each representa-
tive in congress-at-large two delegates
and for each congressional district,
each territory, and the District Of Co.
lumbia, two delegates.
MISUNDERSTANDING shall be chosen
by popular state conventions, called not
less than twenty days after this pub
lished notice, and less than thirty days
before the meeting of the national
convention. Congressional district dele.
gates shall be chosen at the conven.
tions called by the congressional COM
mittee Of each district, in the same
manner as the nomination of the repre-
sentative in congress is made in said
district; provided, that in any con-
gressional district where there is no
Republican congressional committee
the Republican state committee shall
appoint from the residents of such dis
trict committee for the purpose Of
calling a. district convention to elect
district delegates. Territorial dele
gates shall be chosen in the same man
ner as the nomination of delegates in
congress is made. Delegates from the
District of Columbia shall be chosen
at the convention to be called by the
committee of three provided for by the
national committee meeting in Wash
iDgton City, December 30, 1895, and
such convention shall be constituted
of members elected in the district pri-
maries, to be held at such time and
place and to be presided over by such
judges Of election as such committee Of
three may appoint.
I'm addition to the representation
now authorized by the rules Of the
national convention for the territories
of Utah, New Mexico. Oklahoma and
Arizona, the committee advises each of
the said territories to elect four dele
gates, and the admission of such addi-
tional delegates to the convention is re-
commended An alternate delegate
for each delegate to the national con-
vention to act in case Of the absence OF
a delegate, shall be elected in the same
manner and at the, same time as the
delegate is elected.
"All notices of contest must be filed
in writing with the secretary Of the
national committee. accompanied by
printed statements of the grounds OF
contest, which shall be made public.
The preference in order of hearing and
determining such contests will be given
by the convention in accordance with
the dates of filing such notices and
statements with the secretary"