Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-05
JUDICIAL CONVENTION DATE
COMMITTEES Fixes on July IL and Makes
ApportiOnmsnt Of Delegates.
COUNTY COMMITTEE TAKES NO ACTION
Lack of Quorum Does Not Prevent
Discussion as 10 AdvisRbility of
Holding Convention Too
Early.

The republican judicial committee for the
Fourth district met twice yesterday after
moon in the Office of Chairman Baldrige
and finally fixed the date and place of the
convention for Saturday, July Ii, in Wash.
ington hall at 2 o'clock. The representa-
ton in the convention will be lS5 dele
gates, or one for every 100 votes cast for
Mckinley in 1900 Among the counties the
following apportionment was made
Douglas, 14 Burt, 10; sarpy, III Wash
ington. g.
[ Lack of a quorum prevented the ex-
pected meeting of the republican county
committee, there being only twenty-five
out of the sixty-one members present, in
cluding a goodly number of proxies. After
considerable discussion as 20 whether the
judicial convention should be early or late
the members present adjourned to meet
again at l o'clock this afternoon, when
they will try to arrange for primaries
TO select delegates by direct vote to the
judicial and state conventions.
F. A. Brogan. at yesterdays session,
precipitated a division of opinion by de-
claring in favor OF late convention. He
argued that with the convention on June
q as the judicial committee first proposed
It, the people would not have sufficient op-
portunity to determine the fitness of the
candidates, and that they would take
little interest in the contest owing to the
lack of other political races. He also ad-
vocated giving the voters an opportunity
TO express their personal choice of can
didates in some manner.
Candidates Ask Early Convention.
Chairman Baldrige of the judicial COM
mittee who was present, said that all the
avowed candidates had asked for an early
convention in order that they may get
away on usual summer vacations. He
said he thought an early convention would
keep judicial politics apart from the county
fight and would be a good thing on that
score.
II want to protest against the manner
proposed for selecting delegates to the
judicial convention" said Mr.. Brogan.
THE plan of sending delegates direct to
the convention works abuse. The ward
delegations are traded back and forth and
1t amounts to disgraceful swapping of
ward strength. This is likely to force
unworthy candidates upon the party sim
ply because they are able to jump in and
capture a ward delegation. The people are
growing tired of being called upon TO sup
port men for the bench merely on account
of party. This serious matter of select
ing judges should be handled carefully.
1 am interested in this matter solely be-
cause wish to see a strong judicial ticket
and dislike to see undue haste"
Mr. Brogan then raised the point of no
quorum and the meeting was adjourned.
The county committee had prepared and
had ready before It a resolution calling the
Joint primaries for June 26 apportioning
the ninety-two delegates allotted Douglas
county to the state convention as follows:
Each ward in Omaha, six; south Omaha,
eleven; each country precinct except Clon'
tart, two; Clontarf. one. The proposed
division of the judicial delegates in Doug
las county is as follows: Each ward in
Omaha, nine; South Omaha, eighteen;
each country precinct, 3.