Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-05-09
STATE COMMITTEE MEETING
Republican State Central Committee
Fixes July % lat Fargo as Time
~ '..
Of Convention.
Basis of Representation to be Average
of Highest and Lowest Vote
Cast on Ticket.
Will Give Convention 744 Delegates
Proceedings of the State Gen.
trail Committee.

trail Committee.
Pursuant to call the republican
state committee met in Grand Forks
at , o'clock p. M, May Sth.
There were present the following
committeeman:
A. Short, proxy to w. J. Burke.
C. F. EIskine
Alvin Robertson.
John Dinnie,
VIM. Bulge,
John E. Paulson,
N. Davis, proxy to John E. Haggart.
Geo. D. Brown, proxy to W. S. stam-
baugh.
J. W. Mitchell, proxy to L. 8.
Hanna.
H. G. Keppler, proxy to J. F. Shea,
j. F. Devlin,
Ed. Pierce.
John D. Black. proxy to Geo. NJ.
Young,
John J. Wamberg.
Thos. ]. Baird,
P. McHugh, proxy to D. H. McNil-
Ian.
A. J. F. Voigt,
|. P. J. McClory.
G. W. soliday, proxy to E. F. Porter,
r. E. Wallace.
J. NJ. Devine.
Thos. Seton, proxy to John F. Dev-
lin.
Thos. Allshouse, proxy to c. B.
Little,
E. S. Allen,
G. K. Vikan, proxy to V. B. Noble,
w. G. Gilbreath,
A. G. McGillivray,
J. G. Hamilton, proxy to E. G..
Cooper
Lavayea. c. I. F. Wagner and R. w.
Davidson.
Mr. Cooper moved that a committee
of five be appointed by the chair to
report a basis of apportionment for
the state convention to the full COM
mittee for it's action.
Mr.. Wallace made the point of or
der that the state committee having
already, at meeting held in 1900
prior to the last election, passed res
olution fixing the apportionment, &C
ton proposed by Mr. Cooper was not
in order.
The chair ruling that the point was
not we'll taken on motion of r. E.
Wallace an appeal was taken from the
decision Of the chair and by a vote of
p to Z the char was sustained those
voting no being Messrs. Pierce, Devlin,
Wallace, Sefton, Allen, Noble and Gill
breath.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Cooper
carried and the chair appointed as
such Messrs.. McGillivray, Porter, Lit
tie, Hanna and Paulson.
After a recess of 20 minutes the
committee reported as follows:
Mr.. Chairman: Your committee
recommend as a basis of apportion-
ment for the next state convention in
lieu of former action taken by the
state central committee that the repre-
senta*ion be fixed as follows: Two
delegates ait large from each county
and in addition thereto one delegate
for each fifty votes or major fraction
thereof cast at the general election in
1900 for the two candidates on the re-
publican ticket receiving the highest
and lowest vote in each county, that
is to say, the average for such can
didates. with the exception of superin-
tendent of public instruction. supreme
judge, railroad commissioners and
presidential electors
The resolution was adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Hanna the date of
the convention was fixed for July %
at Fargo.
Mr. Burke offered the following res
olution which was adopted:
Resolved, That the state committee,
| in order to obviate confusion in the
calling of legislative conventions in
districts that have been changed by
the new apportionment law, recon-
mend that in districts where under the
| new apportionment county com
4 prises one or more legislative districts
and has no legislative committee the
| power to call a legislative convention
be lodged in the regular county CEN
tral COMMITTEES OF such county, and in
districts rearranged SO that the bound
ries of the same comprise two or more