The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-20
ARW Plan is RECOMMENDED
FOR THE SELECTION OF THE
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
HEREAFTER
EACH COUNTY NAMES ITS OWN
II the New Plan Is Adopted at the
Convention June 20, Each
County VIII Name
MezOber.

The Democratic state central COM
mittee held a meeting at the Merchants
hotel yesterday and issued call for the
state convention at which delegates to the
national convention at Kansas City will
be elected. The convention Will be held
at the Exposition building in Minneapolis.
June 20, and 1,1S3 delegates will be en-
. titled TO seats in the convention. The
committee fixed the representation from
each county at three at large and one
for each $50 votes. or major fraction
cast for William Jennings Bryan in 1896.
The feature of the meeting of the COM
mittee was the decision arrived at re-
garding the selection of members of the
state central committee In the future
each county convention will recommend to
the state convention the name of a local
member of the state central committee.
The effect of this will be to make the
state central committee a thoroughly
Democratic body in all that the name inn
plies. The charge that there can be any
personal machine built up or managed
2 by the committee for the benefit of any
man or set of men will not only be
eliminated but 1t will be made practical
call for the convention also directs the
county conventions TO appoint a
CENTRAL COUNTY COMMITTEE,
s the members Of which are to serve two
years and until their successors have
been elected. This will allow the county
committees to go to work Immediately
after the holding of the county conven-
tions and prepare for the fall campaign.
The session of the committee yesterday
was particularly enthusiastic, each of the
members present reporting the sentiment
in favor of Democratic principles as In
creasing throughout the state.
Those present were: Chairman L. 4
Rosing, P B. Winston and Alexander
Stewart, of Minneapolis; 7. r. Kane, j.
[ W. Willis and Louis Betz, of st. Paul:
T. O'Connor, of Renville; w. W. Allen,
of Winona; S. P. Brown, of Glencoe; H.
L. Tolmie, of Spring Valley; G. T. Ches-
ter, of Duluth; c. w. Stanton, OF Apple
ten; J. R. McKtnon, of Crookston; c. D.
Catlin, of GracevilIe; T. ]. Catlin, of De-
lano; B. J. Mosier of Saltwater, and ].
]. Thornton, of st. James.
The committee did not meet until 2
o'clock and the greater part of the ses-
sion was put in figuring out the repre-
sentation from the several counties
There was some question about the num-
beg of delegates from Red Lake county
which was partitioned off from Polk
county. The official apportionment of
delegates from Polk and Red Lake coun-
ties, as well as the others, was not COM
pleted last evening, but Chairman Ros-
Ing will have the figures in a day or so.
The representation in the convention will
be as follows, the official figures not
probably making a change of more than
three votes in the total and this only in
the number from Polk and Red Lake
counties
OFFICIAL CALL.
The call, which was signed by Chairman
Rosing and Secretary Kane, reads as fol-
lows:
Pursuant to the call of the Democratic
national committee, a delegate conVen-
tion of the Democratic electors Of the
state of Minnesota is hereby called to
meet at the Exposition building in the
city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, at Il
A d. 1900, for the purpose of selecting
eighteen QS) delegates and eighteen Q8)
alternate delegates to the Democratic
national convention, to be held at Kansas
City in the state of Missouri, on Wednes-
DAY the fourth day of July, A. D. 1900;
such national convention having been
duly called, to place in nomination can
didates for president and vice president
of the United States of America; and
to elect a state central committee and
transact such other business as may
properly come before said convention.
Each county of the state shall be en-
titled to three delegates at large and
one delegate for each $50 votes or major
fraction thereof cast for William J. Bryan
for president at the general election in
November, 1896, The following is the rep
resentation to which each county is entl-
lied in said convention, tO-Wit: