The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-15
TODEMOCRATS.
R. G. Latting Writes Concerning
Matters of Great Importance
To Democrats.
Conventional Chlckasha May IS
Delegates To Be- Selected May I2-
Organization Urged.

chickasha, I. T. Feb. Io, 1904.
To the Democrats Of the roth Re
cording District:
At a meeting of the Democratic
Executive Committee of the Indian
Territory, held at South McAles-
ter, l. T., on January 10Th, 1904, it
was decided that the chairman Of
the committee should call a Terri
torial Democratic Convention to be
held at Durant, /. r., on the roth
day Of June, 1904, at which con-
vention six delegates and six alter
mates to the national convention to
be held in St. Louis, Mo-, on July
9th, 1904, shall be selected; and at
which convention the democratic
executive committee for the Indian
Territory, and chairman Of said
committee shall be chosen, and a
national committeeman for the In
dian Territory shall be recon-
mended.
Ii was Furthermore decided and
the call made, that a recording dis
trict convention at the place Of re
cord in each recording district be
held on the 10th day of May, I9o4,
: a. 1000 a. m.
In compliance with the above,
the democratic convention of the
18Th district viii be held at Chick
asha at the above mentioned time
TO select ten delegates to the terri
Itorial convention to be held at Dur
ant, !. T.
As defined by the democratic ex-
lecutive committee Of the Indian
Territory, the basis Of representa-
ton in the district { f-vention is as
follows
There may be organized at each
post Office a democratic club, and
each club, when so organized, shall
be entitled to one delegate to said
district convention as a club, and TO
one additional delegate for every
Iffty members Of said club or major
Traction thereof.
For the purpose Of keeping cor
lrect roll Of the membership Of the
CLUB, TIE executive committee pro-
vides that in the organization of a
club, and the preparation Of the roll
thereof, no one shall be enrolled
who is not at the time, and who
has not been during the year 1904,
an actual and bonahde resident Of
the recording district where the club
is organized, over the age Of rs
years, and who receives his mail at
the postoffice where said club is or
lganized unless, he receives his mail
at a postofice in an adjoining dis
ltrict in which case he il eligible
to membership at the nearest post
Office in the district in watch he re-
sides.
II was further provided by the
executive committee that the clubs
thus organized shall, on the 18th
day Of May 1904, between the
hours Of a;oo p. m. aud 1000 p,
m., select delegates to the district
convention, and the secretary o.
each of said clubs shall thereupor
make out a list Of delegates s.
chosen, and when the same is prop
erly authenticated by the signature
of the president and secretary Of tn,
Iclub, il shall together with rhe rolls
Of the club, be Immediately for
warded to the person designated K
call 10 order the district conven
ton; the delegates 50 selected shal
constitute tho temporary rolls o
said convention, provided the roll
50 forwarded shall be signed by TIL
secretary aud be accompanied b.
his affidavit TO the effect that sal,
I rolls are TO his personal knowledg
true and correct.
The roll 50 prepared and certihe'
to shall be accepted as correct unit
! its integrity is challenged by som
\ democrat residing in the recordin
district and a member Of som
democrat club therein, by present
ind his sworn statement to the di:
Il tr;ct oronniration noinfino or,