Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-01
DELEGATES TO CHICAGO
sEVENTY-EIGHT REPUBLICANS
THUS FAR CHOSEN.
Sixty Eight of These Are Instructed
for Observation-Disclosures He Will
Have Clear Majority.

During this month several hundred dele
gates to the republican national conven-
ton will be chosen in different sections of
the country, and by the middle OF next
month it will be apparent what number of
delegates are instructed for Roosevelt To-
day district conventions for the election of
delegates are being held in these places:
The eleventh Ohio, at Athens; the fourth
Indiana, at Columbus; first Virginia, at
Urbana; third Virginia, at West Point and
the tenth Virginia, at Buena vista.
Tomorrow conventions will be held as
follows: The second Manassas, at Garnet;
the fourth Virginia, at Petersburg; the
sixth Virginia, at Lynchburg, and the sixth
Georgia, at Barnesville. Later this week
district conventions will he held in Mis-
souri,, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania In
most of these conventions it is expected
that resolutions will be adopted instruct
ing the delegates for ROosevelts renomi-
nation.
Seventy Eight Chosen Thus Far.
Up to this time seventy-eight delegates
to the national convention have been
chosen throughout the country, and of that
number sixty-eight have been instructed
for Roosevelt. Unnstructed delegates to
the number of ten were elected in the
West Virginia.
Thus far there have been no striking
contests in convention on the question of
instruction. The absence of instructions,
save in the districts in the southern states,
has not been the result of fight against
Roosevelt openly made, but in most cases
because 1t has not been customary in those
districts in the past to instruct. Other
conventions from time to time will fail to
instruct for the same reason, and it will
indic3
dents denomination.
The general opinion among politicians,
gathered from reports from the country at
large, is that when the convention assem-
bles at Chicago June q next Mr. Roose-
welt will have a clear majority of the dele
gates instructed to vote for his renomina-
ton.
"Big Four Delegates.
State conventions for the election Of the
"big four" or deiegates-at-iarge, to the
national convention will be held through
March, April and May. The selections of
places and dates for holding state conven-
tions thus far made are as follows:
Alabama, Birmingham, May 10.
Arkansas, Hot Springs, May II.
Delaware, Dover, March 16.
Georgia, Atlanta, March %.
Idaho. Pocatello, May 10.
Illinois Springfield, May r.
Indian territory Claremore, March II.
Iowa, Des Moines, May 1S.
Kansas Wichita, March g.
Louisiana, New Orleans, May g..
Maine, Augusta, April 4.
Michigan, Grand Rapids, May is.
Minnesota, Minneapolis, March II.
Mississippi. Jackson. March %.
Missouri, Kansas City, March q.
Montana, Helena, April II.
Nebraska, Lincoln, March %.
New Mexico, Silver Creek, April 49,
New York, New York city, April 12
North Carolina, Greensboro, May Is.
Oklahoma, Guthrie April B.
Oregon. Portland, April a.
Pennsylvania. Harrisburg. April g.
Tennessee, Nashville April T.
Texas, Dallas, March %.
Vermont, Burlington. April 90
Virginia, Norfolk, March g.
West Virginia, Charleston April IA.