The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1904-06-24

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OF the states aud territories which
have partly instructed delegations
are: Arkansas, with is delegates.
has s instructed; California instruct.
ed 4 of its 90 Six OF the IA delegates
from Connecticut are instructed. Only
? of the 26 delegates of Georgia are
instructed, Illinois has 81 delegates,
and 26 Of these are instructed. al
but of the 80 delegates from Indi.
ana are instructed Kansas, with 20,
and Kentucky with 26, have only 2
each that are not instructed. Ten Of
the IS delegates from Louisiana are
instructed, and only 70 of the SO del
egates from Massachusetts are in
structed, but the other 20 are vouched
for as friendly,
Michigan sends IS of the 25 Cule.
gates under instructions, and of the
total delegation of % from Minnesota,
20 are instructed. Twen'y-tiyht del
egates from Missouri are instructed,
and that state is entitled to sc. Four
teen out of 1G are instructed in Ne.
braska, and 4 out of in New Hamp.
shire. New Jersey did not instruct
at all, but indorsed Mr.. Roosevelt for
nomination OF the 78 delegates from
New York, 54 are instructed to vote
for the president and "a were elect
ed without instructions. North Caro-
lima instructed 10 out of 2t, Ohio 36
out of 46 and Pennsylvania "a out Of
her 6S.
All of these states, however, in.
/ dorsed the president. So also dil
Rhode Island, which neglected to i'll
struct it's delegates. Tennessee in.
structed 20 of its "a, Texas instructed
80 of its sc and Virginia Is of its "a,
Only delegates OF the IA from West
Virginia would be free to vote for any
other candidate, and of the 26 dele
gates of Wisconsin, - are,instructed,
/ WASHINGTON, June s2G-The Re
publican convention satt at .io llieaSo eRls
''ssntion held by that party but the
leaders are not inclined I'd be super
stitious because of the urluclly num-
Der.
The Republican party held It's first
convention in 1856. 1t first met at
Pittsburg. but adjourned to Phiadel
phia on June II, where Fremont and
Dayton were chosen on the first bal
lot. The Republican convention n
1860 met at Chicago, and on the third
ballot nominated Lincoln over Sew
ard, his chief competitor, and Cam
eron, Chase and Bates, the favorite
sons of their respective states. Han
nibal Hamlin of Maine was named for
vice president over Cassiu9 NJ. Clay
who died only last year at his home in
Kentucky In 1864 the Republicans
met at Baltimore and nominated Lin,
coin and Johnson. Lincoln received
all the votes in the convention except
that of Missouri, which voted for Gen
eral Grant.
The Republican national conyen'
lions since the war have all been held
in, the Middle West, except the con
yeution of 1872, which met in Phil
ldelphia and renominated President
Grant, and the convention four years
ago, which met in the same city, and
renomiuated President Mckinley for
president and Theodore Roosevelt for
vice president.
Hayes was nominated at Cincinnati
in June. 1876, in the seventh ballot
over Blaine, the leading candidate
and a field Of favorite sons, compris
ing Conllling of New York. Hartranit
of Pennsylvania, Jewell of Connec
ticut John Sherman of Ohio, Benja
min H. Brlstow of Kentucky and ex
Governor Morton of indiana.
The Republican convention in 1886
met in Chicago, and was the most in
leresting one that ever assembled in
the country. The contest for the
: nomination between Grant and Blaine
with John Sherman a formidable third
in the race, was a most bitter one
General Garfield was nominated on
the thirty-ffth ballot.
Blaine and Logan were nominated at
Chicago in the Republican convention
which met June 8, 1884 Harrison was
nominated at Chicago il 1888 and re-
nominated at Minneapolis in 1892
The convention which aamel William
Mckinley for the 1rst time met IN
St Louis in 1896, and the convention
which renominated him was held at
Philadelphia four years later.
The convention system Of nominal
ing candidates seems 10 have orig
mated in Pennsylvania, where it was
used as early as 1883 in selecting the
state officers, and later l.. the choice
of candidate for Congress. Baltimore
was the favorite city for conventions
in the ante-bellum time, no less than
nine national conventions having as
sembled in that city in less than thir-
ty years. During the same period
only one convention was held west
of the Alleghenes, that in 1856, ut
Cincinnati, which nominated James
Buchanan. During the whole tine
since national conventions came into
style, only one has ever met within
and that was the u9MQClli. COnvel'