The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-18
RALLY OF THE REPUBLICANS.
THEIR NATIONAL CONVENTION APT
TO BE HELD IN MAY.

The Leaders of the Party Favor n
Campaign of EducntiOn-The Na-
tiOnaI Committee TO Meet nt WASH
ingtOR in November to Fix the
Date of the Convention and select
the City IL is to BE Held in.
Washington. June 1.-THE republican
national committee will probably meet in
November this year instead of December.
which has been the month selected for
many years past. While this conclusion
has not been definitely reached. it is one
which meets the views Of influential mem
bers of the committee and little doubt
is entertained that it will be adopted. The
republican leaders believe that the next
rational convention should be held in May,
end, inasmuch as the national committee
must give six months notice of the hold
il g of the convention, it will b. necessary,
therefore. that the committee shall hoid
its meeting in November.
1t is purposed by the republican leaders
&c inaugurate a campaign of educatio
In order to make such a campaign effect
i've it is necessary that sufficient time
should elapse between the holding of the
convention and election day in which to
Gcquaint the voters with all the facts
connected with the presidential contest.
1t is argued that l.tle. If
airy. work is done during the
heated term, from say, the middle ot
July until Sept l, and that, therefore, If
the convention does not make its choice
before the latter part of June, the effec-
i've work of the campaign will be linn
ited to a period not exceeding three
months. If the convention should meet
early in May there will be two months in
which much useful work can be per-
formed before the dog days arrive, and,
as many more after that period. 1t has
been suggested by some Of the members
of the national committee who are op-
posed to holding the convention in May
that the campaign shall begin before the
delegates meet To this the objection is
made that il would be farcical to inaug-
urate a vigorous political crusade before
the party has selected its standard bearer.
So far as can be learned the members of
the national committe generally favor
the May convention, which will necessi-
tate the meeting Of the committee in No
vember. Washington, as usual, will be
the place of meeting of the committee and
Chicago is the favored place for the meet
ing Of the convention.
AI Abi AANpAiAlilE iucEAtllG u llt IEDuDll-
can national committee will consider one
question of far-reaching Importance to the
party. At the committees last meeting
which was held in this city in December,
1891, resolution was introduced by Henry
B. Payne of Wisconsin to base the appor-
tionment of delegates to the national con-
Vention on the number of votes cast by
the republican party at the preceding
presidential election. The better part of
one days session was devoted to a con-
sideration of the resolution, which pro-
voked strong opposition from the southern
members particularly and the committee
adjourned, leaving 1t unsettled. 1t will
be the most important business which Will
come before the commission when they
reassemble. The sentiment in favor of the
proposition seems to have grown, rather
than diminished during the interim. 1t
was contended by Mr.. Payne, as we'll as
by others who supported the resolution,
that the committee, as at present consti-
tuted gives to delegates from strong
democratic states an influence and power
which is unfair to the repre-
sentatives from other states whose
electoral vote is always cast
for the republican nominee. His conten-
tion was that the convention should be
composed of delegates who represent the
actual strength of the Republican party
in the several states, and that this was
southern members argued that the repub-
lican vote in tEeir states was suppressed,
and for that reason they could not, on
the face of the returns, be given a repse-
sentation in the convention that would
correctly express their real strength.
One effect of such a rule would be to
decrease to some extent, at the next con-
vention, the representations from states
like New York and Illinois, inasmuch as
both commemorative in 1892 cast their
electoral vote for Mr.. Cleveland. Such
strong republican states as Ohio, Massa-
chusetts and Pennsylvania would retain
their present representation. if, in some
cases, they di6 not exceed it. The propo-
sition is, therefore, an interesting one ami
it is predicted that the committee VIII
expend more time in its consideration than
win be given even to the question as 20
which city shall secure the honor of hold
ing the convention.