The San Francisco call., 1904-03-24
REPUBLICANS
ARE IN LINE
Initial Steps to Select Dele
gates to State and Congress
SiOnal District Conventions
FIGHT ON IN FOURTH
Secretary Of State Is to Be
Asked to Decide Upon Gov
erning Body of the Party

erning Body of the Party
A meeting of the Republican Con-
gressional Committee, Fourth District,
was held at 16 Geary street last even
ing. The members of the committee
in attendance were Leon Samuels,
Twenty ninth Assembly District; L. A.
Devote, Thirtieth District; Maurice L.
Asher Fortieth; Robert Grier Forty
second; Philip Haskins, Forty-third;
Ed Buckley, Forty-fifth, and j. d.
Brown, Charles NJ. Fisher and Luther
Elkins, committeeman at large.
On motion of ]. D. Brown, NJ. L.
Asher was called to the chair. Phil
Haskins was authorized to act as sec
retary. After considerable discussion
the committee adopted a call for Re
publican Congressional District Con-
vention to select two delegates and
two alternate delegates to the National
Republican Convention at Chicago. 1t
is provided in the call that the district
convention shall be held in San Fran
cisco at s p. m, Friday, May 20, 1904.
The convention viii consist of sixty
eight delegates, apportioned to Assem-
bly, districts as follows:
Twenty eighth District, delegates;
Twenty ninth District, 5 delegates;
Thirtieth District, 6 delegates; Thirty
first District, delegates; Fortieth Dis
trict. delegates; Forty-first District.
Z delegates; Forty second District, 8
delegates; Forty-third District, 9 dele
Aala
gates; Forty fifth District, delegates.
On motion of ]. d. Brown the chair
man and secretary were authorized 10
file the necessary petitions with the
Secretary of State.
RECOGNIZES PRIMARY LAW.
The call for the district convention
adopted by the committee recognizes
the primary election law and provides
that delegates TO the convention shall
be chosen at the primary election on
Tuesday, May g. The temporary roll
of delegates will be made UP by the
chairman and secretary of the Con-
gressional District Committee.
The Fourth Congressional District
Committee, of which Louis H. Ander-
son is chairman and Martin Kelly sec
retary, has issued a call for the conven-
ton to meet in San Francisco on We'd
nesday, May IS, at s p. m. 1t is pro-
vided that the convention shall consist
of $50 delegates. under a fiat appor-
tionment of twenty-five delegates to
each of the ten Assembly districts The
delegates are to be elected under the
provisions of the primary election law
on Tuesday, May 8.
The following significant paragraph
is contained in the call for the Kelly
Congressional District Convention:
THAT the delegates elected or select
ed to the Republican State Convention
to be held in Sacramento on the 18th
day of May, 1904, to elect delegates to
the National Republican Convention at
Chicago, shall not be eligible nor per-
mitted to sit or act as delegates in the
convention to be held under this call,
and such delegates from said Fourth
Congressional District to said Repub-
lican State Convention shall not be en-
powered or authorized to elect or select
district delegates from said Fourth
Congressional District to said Repub-
lican National Convention
Only one of the two Congressional
committees in the Fourth District can
be recognized by the Secretary of State
as the governing body of the Republl-
can party in the district. The petitions,
if not already filed at Sacramento, will
be filed. to-day.
/ District conventions to elect delegates
to the National Republican Convention
at Chicago will be held in the Fourth
and Fifth Congressional districts of this
State The district delegates will be
chosen at the primary election May B.
Initial steps for the filing of the neces-
sary petitions have been taken by the
Congressional committee of each dis
trict These district conventions will be
entirely separate from the Republican
State Convention, which has been
called to meet in Sacramento May Is
for the purpose of electing four dele
gates at large and four alternates 10
the national convention of the party.
Very likely many of the delegates to a
Congressional district convention may
be chosen to represent their respective
Assembly districts in the State conven-
tion.
Word comes from the north that
Charles Clinch of Grass Valley and J.
C. Bull of Eureka will be chosen to
! represent the First Congressional Dis
trict 1t is common gossip that the
Congressional committee in the First
will not issue a call for district con-
vention. Therefore under the call is
sued by the Republican State Central
Committee, acting in harmony with the
directions Of the Republican National
Committee, the delegates elected to the
State convention from the counties
comprising the First Congressional Dis
trict will elect the delegates from said
district to the national convention,
CONTRA COSTA GROWING.
1t is an open question whether there
will be a SEPARATE convention in the
Second Congressional District There
are indications that the committee will
not file a petition and that the dele
gates elected to the State convention
will resolve themselves into a Con-
gressional district convention. Superior
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