The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-24
WELLMAN ISSUES CALL
REPUBLICAN,. CONVENTION TO BE HELD MAY 4.
Prosuects Are That Hot Fight Will Be wayed Between the Lilies and the Tans fo-
 Control.

fspecial. )-w, I. Wellman. chairman of inc state Republican Executive Com n,ttee. to-day was in Birmingham and ,n consultation with Messrs. J. W. Dim mick of Montgomery, Alabama member of the National Republican Committee. I. H. Bingham. William Vaughan, for mer chairman of the State committee. J. w. Davidson, William Smith, of Bir- mingham, and other leaders of the party. and{ the following call was given out by the Chairman later:
 ! Huntsville, Ala, Jan. 2, 1904. To the Republicans of Alabama:
 Under and by virtue of authority dele gated to me by the Republican State Committee of Alabama. at a regular meeting of said committee. held in the city of Birmingham on May 12th, 1908, hereby call a state convention of Re- publicans of Alabama to meet at the City Hall in the city of Birmingham on Tuesday, May 10th, 1904, at 12 o'clock, noon, for the purpose of selecting four delegates and four alternates to the Ma tional Convention. which meets in Chi cago on June Fist, and for the purpose Of selecting two electors at large the nomination of State officials, the selection of a State chairman. State committee, and such other business as may properly come before the convention.
 At this convention, each county in the State shall be entitled to one delegate and one additional delegate for each two hundred votes. or majority fraction thereof returned for Mckinley and Roose- welt in the year 1900.
 Under the further authority and power vested in me as chairman of the Repub- lican State, committee, at the said meet ing of May F, 1903. hereby request that the Republicans in the respective coun- ties of the State assemble at such places as may be agreed upon by the county organizations, on Saturday, the 30th day of April, 1904, In convention or mass meeting, and elect delegates to said con- vention to assemble in the city of Bir- mingham as aforesaid, on the 10th of May, 1904; and further request that a copy of the credentials of the delegates and alternates elected at said meetings be forwarded to, the chairman of the State committee, signed by the chairman and Secretary of said meeting imme- diately after the adjournment of said meeting or convention.
 In said county conventions and mass meetings. all qualified voters in the State of Alabama. who believe fin the Republican principles as laid down in the national platform of our party in 1900, and who intend to support the Republi- can county, State and national nominees, are invited to participate in said conven> tions, mass meetings and deliberations of the party.
 The resolution authorizing and empow- ering me, as chairman of said commit tee to call said State convention and county conventions and mass meetings adopted by the Republican State com pittee on May 12th, 1903, is in words, as follows:
 Be it resolved, by the Republican State Executive Committee of Alabama that 2 State convention is hereby called to be held during the year, 1904, at such time and place as the chairman of this committee. Hon. W. I. Wellman, may designate.
 '"Be it further resolved, That only those delegates be recognized and permitted to participate in the State, county district and precinct meeting who are duly qualified voters under the constitution and laws of Alabama. "' @''' : .s Be it further resolved, That at the said next State convention each county in this State shall be entitled to one del- egate and one additional delegate for each 200 votes or majority fraction there of returned for Mckinley and Roosevelt in 1900.
 Be 1t further resolved, That all qual- flied voters in the State of Alabama who believes in the Republican principles as laid down in the national platform of our party and who intend to support Repub- lican county, State and national nomi- nees are invited to participate in the conventions and deliberations of our party in the future.
 Be it further resolved. That it is the sense of this committee that the several district committees be requested and urged to meet at any early date for the purpose of fixing the basis and appor- tionment of the district delegates at their next convention and that such appor- tionment be fixed upon the basis of the vote cast for Mckinley and Roosevelt in 1900.
 Be 1t further resolved, That it is the sense of this committee that the chair man fix and promulgate a date for the holding of the several county conventions to select delegates to the State conven- tion and ask the county committees to hold said convention on same date in each county
 W. I. wellman, t~G n