The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
ALL. PREPARED
!! FOR. A PRIMARY,
Unanimous Vote of the
!. Republican County
Committee.
DELEGATES ARE CHOSEN
Henshaw, Church.. Long and
Morrow Will Go. to Valleja..
-. :: at Large.
ARE FAVORABLE TO FR1cK.
: Both Parties to the Congressional
COntesf:Are Claiming M j,rity
of the Delegates.
ARE FAVORABLE TO FR1cK
oAktASD OFFICE SAN FsANc1sco CALL, /,

9US Broadway, Aug. L.
The Republican County Central Com:
'mittee Riet this afternoon. and did two
very important things. They issued a
call for the primary to elect delegates and
. also elected four delegates at large to. the
Third District Congressional Convention
thar meets. at Vallejo August %.
The most prominent Republicans in. the
county were present at headquarters
when Chairman Mautalen> rapped fer
order. Eli Dennison Hart. II. North, A.
L. Frick. W.. II. Friend, w. R. Davis and
W. w. Morrison we're there and "a large
crowd that.grumbled at the cramped quar-
. ters.
All the Comfy Committeeman were pres
ent except Hawes from Eden Township:
. The first matter taken up was a COM
munication relating to the appointment
of polling places It was as follows:
Charles Hdata1en ESQ.,; chairman Republicans
County Central Committee; Referring . to
the recommendation of the State Executive
Committee concerning the primary election TO
be held in this county on August IS. in which
it is .recsmm ended that.polhng places be estab-
lished in every precinct as described by the
Board of Supervisors the undersigned. the
conference committee of the Congressio nal
committee, will raise no objections if the
County Central Committee establish polling
places as provided Tor in. the call of the Con-
gressional committee as follows: tVotiug pre-
cincts 1or said primaries shall be estab-
lished and. designated upon boun-
Diary lines of the election precincts in
said county now existing, as established
by the Board OF Su pervisors, and the precincts
for primaries shall be so established that there
shall be at least one polling place and voting
precinct in any given territory for every 200
votes and fractions of, over 100 votes cast
therein at the last guberna torial election for
NJ. N. Estee. The arrangements of the polling
placesas above set forth will call for the ab-
lishment of less number of polling places
than provided for in the suggestions of the
executive committee OF the Stats Central
Committee, and win thus call for the .eKpendi-
ture of less money than would be required:if
the recommendation of the executive commit
tee wereliterally followed. Yourstrulys
w. H. FRIEND,
ROBERT EDGAR,
=. GEORGE C..PARpEE,
Conference Committee of Congressional Com
nittee.
Ford moved that the com mitteeman
from each ward be empowered to desig-
nate the number of polling places, pro-
yided that one precinct shall be appor-
toned to every $50 votes, and the motion
was adopted.
= The call for the convention was then
taken up. 1t states that: "The Republi.
can State Central Committee has officially
requested this committee to issue a call
for and take control of primary election
; in this county for the purpose;ot selecting
delegates to the Third Congre ssional Dis
trict Convention. " =.
d. After reciting the details of the election
the following apportionment of delegates
is made: