The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
STATE COMMITTEE CALL
THE REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION
WILL MEET HERE FEB. 8.
County Meetings Set for Jan. 20, and
Those for Districts Feb. L.
The AppOrtionment.

Last evening the state committee met 10
fix the call for the reorganization meetings,
and as this was the last meeting of the
committee it partook as much of the nature
of a social gathering as of a business meet
ing. The men who had gone through the
memorable struggles of the last campaign
together had much to talk about and much
ground for felicitation in the excellent
shape in which their work has left the
party. Resolutions thanking the chairman
and secretary were adopted, and then they
adopted resolutions commencing each MEM
Der of the committee to the kindly consider
alton of the cold world. Getting down to
business they fixed the dates as follows
Primaries by precincts. Jan. %; reorganiza-
ton of county committees, Jan. 20; district
conventions, Feb. !; reorganization of state
committee, Feb. 8.
The following call was adopted:
1T has been decided by the Republican
state central committee that the Repub-
llcanS in each county of the State of In
diana shall, on Saturday, Jan. %, 1898, by
county DELEGATE or mass conventions, or in
such other manner and at such hour and
place as may be designated by the county
central committee, and after at least ten
days publication of notice thereof, in the
Republican press of the county, to be given
by the officers of the county central COM
mlllee, transact the following business:
F1rst-Elect from each voting precinct
one member of the county central commit
tee. The county central committee 50
chosen shall meet at such place as may be
designated by the county chairman on Sat
urday, Jan. 20. 1898, at 2 O'Clock p. m. and
elect a chairman, vice chairman, and pro-
vide for the selection of a secretary and
'Second-Elect delegates and alternate
delegates to congressional district conven-
ton, at which one member of the state
central
district shan be elected. The several coun-
ties of the State shall be entitled to repre-
SentatiOn said congressional district con-
vention as follows:
"One delegate and one alternate delegate
for each two hundred votes, and each frac-
ton of one hundred votes or over cast for
Henry G. Thayer, elector at large for the
State of Indiana, at the election held Nov.
g. 1896.
-Apportionment to Countless
First District-Gibson, II; Pike, II; Posey,
-; Spencer, Is; Vanderburg, 40; Warrick, II.
Total 100.
Second District-Daviess, IS; Greene, II;
13:VOwen, 8; Sullivan, II. Total. 107.
Third DiStrict-DuboiS, 6; Clarke, 20;
Crawford 8; Floyd, 10: Harrison; ~;
ton. IL. Total, 101.
Fourth bartholomew, 16; Brown,
I; Dearborn, 4; Decatur. Z; jackson. ID;
10; Switzerland, s. Total, ia.
Fifth District--Clay, 10; Hendricks. II;
Morgan, "A: Parke, IA; Putnam, 10; Vermil-
Sixth District-Fayette II; Franklin, 8;
Hancock, IL; Henry, 20; Rush, IA; Shelby,
Is: Union, 6: Wayne, "a. Total, l21.
1877. Total. AS
Eighth District-Adams, s. Blackford, IL;
Delaware, 81; Jay, IL, Madison, AZ; Ran
Ninth District-Boone, II; Carroll, 10;
Clinton, IS; Fountain, IA; Hamilton, %;
Montgomery g ~; Upton. IL Total, lis. So
Lake, "a; Laporte, %; Newton. 5; Porter.
"A; Tippecanoe, 81; Warren, 10; White, H.
Total, 142.
Eleventh District-Cass. %; Grant, 49,
Howard. 81 Huntington, 81; Miami II; Wa
bash. %. Total 142
Twelfth District-AIen, AZ; De Kalb, 16;
Lagrange, IL; Noble, II; Steuben ID; Whit
Thirteenth Observation-Disclosures. 81; Fulton,
u; Kosciusko, p; Marshall, Is; Pulaski, q
st. Joseph IS: Starke. g. Total 129
1.-The delegates so chosen from the counties
composing the several congressional dis
tricts of the State shall meet on Tuesday,
the first day of February, 1898, in congress
sional district conventions as follows:
First district, Evansville; Second district,
Bloomfield; Third district, New. Albany;
Fourth district Greensburg; Fifth district.
Terre Haute; Sixth district, Cambridge
City; Seventh district, Indianapolis; Eighth
district, Muncie; Ninth district, Noblesville;
Tenth district, Lafayette; Eleventh district,
Wabash; Twelfth district, Fort Wayne;
Thirteenth district, Plymouth.
'Ine state central committeeman from eaCn
district shall publish the hour and place
of holding the convention for the district.
The new state committee shall meet at the
Denison House in Indianapolis on Tuesday,
Feb. s, 1885, at 2 o'clock p. m, and shall
elect chairman, vice chairman, treasurer
and secretary, and transact such other bus
mess as may be deemed necessary. AT each
of the district meetings there will be trans
acted no other business than that above
designated. We urgently request that every
Republican in the State attend these meet
ings and assist in the selection of the best
men possible This call Is issued by order
made at the meeting held in Indianapolis on
the 2Sth day of December, 1897
loch, chairman, r. F.. Mansfield secretary.