The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-21
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN HANNA
ISSUES A CALL
For the Selection Of Delegates to
Meet at Philadelphia to Nomi-
nate Presidential Ticket.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-The fol-
lowing call for the next Republican Ma
tional Convention was issued tonight:
headquarters National Committee,
IN. w. Cor. 18th and G Sts.,
Washington, Dec. 70, 1879
ITO the Republican Electors of the
United States: In accordance with es-
tablished custom, and in obedience to
the instructions of the convention OF
1896, the National Republican Commit
tee directs that a national convention
of delegates representative of the Re-
publican party be held at the city OF
Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsyl-
vania, for the purpose of nominating
candidates for President and Vice
President, to be voted for at the Presi-
Dental election on Tuesday, November
g, 1900, and for the transaction Of such
other business as may properly come
before it, and that said convention shall
assemble at II o'clock noon on Tues
day, the 18th day of June, 1900.
Said national convention shall con-
sist of a number of delegates at large
from each State equal to double the
number of United States Senators to
which each State is entitled, and for
each representative at large in Con-
gress two delegates at large; from each
Congressional district and the District
of Columbia, two delegates; from each
of the Territories of Alaska, Arizona,
Indian Territory, New Mexico and Ok
lahoma, two delegates. For each dele
gate elected to said convention, an al
ternate delegate shall be elected to act
in case of the absence of the delegate,
said alternate delegate to be elected at
the time and in the manner of electing
of the delegate.
Cali delegates shall be elected not less
than thirty days before the meeting Of
the national convention. Delegates at
large shall be elected by popular State
and Territorial conventions, of which
at least thirty days notice shall have
been published in some newspaper or
newspapers of general circulation in the
respective States and Territories. Con-
gresSional district delegates shall be
elected by conventions called by the
Congressional Committee of each dis
trict in the manner of nominating the
candidate for Representative in Con-
gerss in said district, provided that in
any Congressional district where there
is no Republican Congressional Com
mittee, the Republican State Commit
tee shall appoint from among the Re-
publicans resident in such district a
committee for the purpose of calling
district convention to elect delegates
to represent said district.
1.-THE Territorial delegates shall be
elected in the manner Of nominating
candidates for delegates in Congress,
and delegates from the Indian Terri
tory and Alaska shall be elected by
popular convention.
I'VE recommend that the Territories
of Arizona, Indian Territory, New Mex
leo and Oklahoma each elect six dele
gates and six alternate delegates, and
that Alaska elect four delegates and
four alternate delegates, and the ad-
mission Of such additional delegates to
the convention is hereby recommended.
"All notices of contest shall be SUBJ
mitted in writing, accompanied by a
printed statement setting forth the
grounds of contest, which shall be filed
with the Secretary of the National Com
mittee twenty days prior to the meet
ing Of the national convention Con-
tests will be acted upon by the national
convention in order of date of filing
of notice and statement with the Sec
rotary. M A. HANNA,
Chairman.
Charles Dick. Secretary"