Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-14
T n E OF FICIAl CAL l.
For the National Republican Convention
in June Next.
The AppOrtfOnment of Delegates to
the Different States and
Territories.

Chairman Carter OF the republican nation
al committee today issued the following call
for the national convention:
To the republican electors of the United
States: In accordance with usage and the
instructions of the republican national con-
vention Of 1892 and by direction of the ma
tional committee, national convention
Of delegated representatives of the republi-
can party will be held at the city of st.
Louis, in the state of Missouri, on Tues
day, the 10Th day of June, 1896 at II o'clock
noon, for the purpose of nominating candi-
dates for President and Vice President of
the United States, to be supported at the
next natior al election, and for the transac-
tion of such ether and further business as
may be brought before it. The republican
electors in the several states and territories
and voters without regard to past political
affiliations, who believe in republican prin-
cipleS and indorse the republican policy are
cordially invited to unite under this call in
the formation of a national ticket.
Each state will be entitled to four dele
eates-at- large, and for each Representa-
tive in Congress at large two delegates
and each congressional district, each ter
ritory and the District of Columbia, 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 be-
fore the meeting of the national conven-
tion.
The congressional district dele gates sh; II
be chosen at conventions called by the
congressional committee of each such dis
trict, in the same manner as the nominal
tlOn OF a Representative in Congress Is
made in said district; provided, that in any
congressional district where there is no re-
publican congressional committee, the re-
publican state committee shall appoint
from the residents of such district COM
mittee fer the purpose of calling district
convention to elect district delegates.
The territorial delegates shall be chosen
in the same manner the nomination of
a delegate in Congress is made. The del
egates from the District of Columbia shall
be chosen at a convention to be called by
the committee of three provided for by the
national committee at its meeting in Wash
ington city of December 10, 1885, and such
convention shall be constituted of members
elected in district primaries, to be held at
such times and places and presided over
by such judges of election as said commit
tee of three may appoint.
In 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 said territories
to elect four delegates, and the admission
of such additional delegates to the conven-
ton is recommended.
An alternate delegate for each delegate
to 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.
All notices of contests must be filed with
the secretary of the national committee, in
writing. accompanied 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 the dates of filing such notices and
statements with the secretary.
THOMAS H. CARTER, Chairman.
JOSEPH" H. MANLEY, Secretary.
Washington, d. c., December IA, 1885.