The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-03-14
STATE RRpupL1cAN LEAGUE.
Convention to be Held in May to Send
Delegates to National Convention.

Delegates to National Convention.
The executive committee of the state
republican clubs met in Portland Saturday
and after due dellberation decided to call a
state convention to elect delegates to the
national league convention at Cleveland,
June 18th. In accordance Herewith the
following call YVES prepared and viii be for
warded to the several clubs throughout the
state by Secretary Wells:
To the Republican Clubs of the State of
Oregon:
At meeting of the executive committee
of the Young Mems State Republican Club,
called by the president aud held at Port
land March 9, 1885, it was decided to call
special meeting Of the club, to be held at
Portland, Wednesday, May D, 1895. at 10
O'Clock a. IN.
The state club is composed of local clubs
| represented in proportion to their actual
membership. Every republican club being
| permanently organized with constitution
and bylaws. is entitled to representation in
the state club, whether on the clubs present
official list or not. Clubs are entitled to
one representative at large and one for each
25 members or fraction thsreof greater than
/ fifteen. Secretaries OF clubs are requested
to fill out the enclosed certificate of mem.
bership and list of delegates chosen to rep.
! resent the club and return it to the secretary
of the state club as early as possible. By
doing so the work of organizing the conven.
tion will be greatly facilitated and delegates
will not be subjected to Inconvenience or
possible loss of their certainty as to the
number of delegates to which their clubs
are entitled. All credentials must be signed
by the president or vice president and sec.
retary and all proxies must be in writing.
Clubs organized between now and the con.
vention will be entitled to representation
the same as the old clubs
The object of the meeting is to elect dele.
gates to the eighth annual convention of the
Republican League of the United States, to
be held at Cleveland, Ohio, June 49, 1895
to consider the advissbility of changing the
name of the state organization to ''The Re-
publican League of Oregon" in order te
conform to tbs title generally used by the
state clubs belonging to the national league
to devise means of revenue for maintain
ing and exteLding the state organization
and to further in any other way the inter
ests of the republican party in the state o
Oregon.
Oregon has never been adequately repre-
ssnssd at the national league conventions
and should this year be present with tn
entire eighteen delegates to which she i
entitled. This will be the most important
meeting of the league since it's organization,
and will ba the first great gathering o
republicans preparatory to the presidentia
campaign of 1896. The leading republicans
of the Unibed States to the number of 5 .00t
to TO- 600 will be assembled at that coavsn
tion, and Oregon should be fully represented
The state is entitled to six delegates a
large and four from each congressional dis
tfict, making fourteen to be elected. Th
president and secretary of the state club
the national vice president for Oregon ant
the national executive committeeman TO
Oregon ars delegates ex officio, making
total of eighteen. Clubs are urgensl
requested to elect a full sss of delegates t
tho state club, aud these delsgstss are urge
to attend iii person, SO shat the meetin
shall be fully represen nsative of the republ
Can sentiment of the state.
Special rates on the railroads will b
. secured for delegates.