The record-union., 1896-08-21
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICANS.
They Call a County Convention Of Their
Own
And Say They Intend Placing 6
Full Ticket in the
Field.


nished in manuscript for publication
by committee representing the or
ganization calling itself independent
Republican:
The Joint Executive Committee of
twenty-five of the Twentieth and
Twenty-first Assembly District Repub
liCan Clubs has held several meetings
since the regular Republican County
Convention, which met on August 10th
in this city. These clubs claim TO rep
resent majority OF the Republican
voters of the Twentieth and Twenty
first Assembly Districts, and to have
the sympathy and support of a large
majority of the party in the Twenty
second Assembly District, being that
portion of the county outside the city.
They also claim that the present
regular Republican organization does
not correctly represent the Republican
voters in the county: that the methods
adopted by said organization are cor
rupt and unwarranted, tend to disrupt
the party and destroy hope of Republi
can supremacy; that the only saliva
ton for the party as locally consid-
cred this fall, is for the honorable, re-
independent action, not as a bolt from
the party, but as a revolt and protest
within party lines.
AT a meeting of the committee held
last evening the following preamble
and resolution was adopted:
Whereas, The recent action of the
Republican County Central Committee
of Sacramento County has demon
strated that said committee does not
properly represent the Republican
voters of the county in that, by vote
CT nine to two, it refused to allow rep
resentativeS of any opposition ticket to
be named upon the several election
boards at the recent primary election;
by a vote of nine to two refused to
agree to permit the ballot boxes to be
kept in plain view of the public during
said election, and by vote of nine to
two refused to allow reputable Re-
publicans to be present in the room
when the ballots cast were counted;
also, that full county ticket was
slated by a few individuals without
authority so to do prior to the recent
Republican Convention, and by conni-
vance and cooperation of said central
committee a convention was put up
which was intended to and did merely
ratify the nominations so previously
made, all of which action has prevented
the Republican voters of Sacramento
County from giving q free and unre-
strained expression of their purposes
and desires; and
Whereas, A large majority of the
Republicans of Sacramento City and
county are absolutely opposed to star
chamber proceedings In the party, and
will not submit to the unwarrantable
methods adopted by the machine now
in power, resulting as it has in bring
ing back into the central committee Of
the VIGOROUSLY corrupt element from
which the party had but recently
purged itself, and rendering possible
the disgraceful scenes enacted at the
Armory during the recent primary;
therefore be it
Resolved, That a convention of the
Independent Republicans of Sacra-
EIento County be called to convene in
Sacramento City on Saturday, August
-, 1896, said convention to be COM
posed of representative men of the
party and other honorable electors who
desire clean and respectable methods
in politics; each member of said con-
vention to be absolutely free to express
and vote his personal preferences, and
that said convention nominate a full
county ticket which will properly rep
resent and receive the support of the
party and of all interested in good gov
eminent
Representation to the Independent
convention will be by Assembly Dis
trjcts-one hundred from each district
making a convention of three hun
dred. The delegates are to be named
by the committee of twenty-five work.
ing in conjunction With representative
Independent Republicans from the
country district.
A large number of names We're select
ed last evening, but the list will not be
published until completed, which will
be done few days prior to the hold
ing of the convention.
Members of the committee state that
this is purely a local matter, and that
there is no intention to take any ac-
tion regarding the national ticket
They also assert that there is great dis
satisfaction in the country with the
work of the County Central Commit
tee and the recent county convention.
1t is proposed that the independent
convention give the county full and
equitable representation on the ticket
nominated.
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