The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-03-01
REFERENDUM IN PRACTICE.

Call for Mid-Road Populf.t Party
State Convention.
The undersigned, the state central
committee of the Mid-Road Populist
party of Minnesota. hereby issue the call
for state convention, to be held in
Labor Lyceum, Minneapolis, April s.,
1900, II o'clock, noon, to transact such
business as may properly come before
it; to elect delegates to the national
convention of the Peoples party to be
held in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 9, 1900,
and also to legally place in nomination
those nine presidential electors for
president and vice-president of the
United States, and candidates to be
voted for the state offices of Minnesota
at the general election on the 18th of
next November, 1900, who shall have re-
ceived a majority of the referendum
ballots for the respective places. These
candidates to be nominated for the state
ticket are: Governor, lieutenant govern
or, secretary Of state, state treasurer,
attorney general, a chief justice of the
supreme court and one associate justice
of the supreme court, two candidates for
four years on the railroad and ware
house commission, and one for two
years on the same commission.
Nominations for candidates to con-
gress can be made at the same time
through our referendum ballots, as each
congressional district determines for it.
self.
All primaries throughout the state
shall be held on the 31st of March, be-
All county conventions shall be held on
the Sd of April, and to conform with the
law (rule 81 state plan of organization),
committees should organize as their re-
spective conventions, as indicated,
nominate those persons who have re-
ceived the highest number of votes, and
issue certificates OF nomination as re-
quired by law.
The basis of representation shall also
be according to the same referendum
plan, one delegate for each county, Hen
nepin is excepted, which is entitled to
three delegates (rule state plan), to
bring to the conventions the ballots cast
Cali regularly qualified voters who
afiliated at the last general election
with the Midroada Populist party, who
have resided at least 80 days in the
election districtse where the primary
election is held, and iothers who can give
satisfactory reasons to the judges for
not having done so can participate in
the primaries. si d.
1t is the duty of every Midroad Pop
ulist to see that the1 duly authorized
committee of the iw Midroad Populist
party has his citto on Icounty commit
tee IMMEDIATELY tspublish notice
Of primary and bc0lnty conventions,
once a week, for two consecutive weeks
the first publication of which shall be
AT LEAST 20 DAYS PREVIOUS TO
MARCH 81, in any paper of general
circulation" Resolve yourselves now
into committees to write and publish
such notices for this purpose. "The
notice shall give the date, March 81,
when the primary election will be held,
the number Of delegates (rule 2, 3, 4,
state plan Of organization) entitled to
sit in the convention, the purpose for
which the election is called, and the
offices for which the candidates are to be
be nominated in convention"
In case there is no paper of gen.
eral circulation where the primary cleo
lions are to be held, the law provides
for 'sthe posting Of said A8tices In ct
least three places ~ spch city b ,eoaty