Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28
|EPUBLICAN CON YEN7I0N
Issued for June 28-SOMc Still
Inspect That Hanna Would Allow
His Name Used

ashington, Jan. Ex-senator Hanna
rned yesterday indignant with the
luations in connection with the delay
he call for the republican national
rention, which he issued at once. He
seldom been more angry, his friends
than he was at the limitations of
cherry or trckery made against him
hose who suspected that he was max
mischief because the call did not come
as promptly as usual.
said that he felt almost Inundated
having to tall, FOR publication at all
he subject. as though he had to de-
and explain what he did not feel
ired defence or explanation. But he
aimed that his Illness and his political
business affairs had delayed action,
Their with the necessity OF waiting for
report Of the subcommittee on the
bod OF elocting the District of Column
convention and the selection of the
to conduct the District of Column
primaries which reached him just
his arrival yesterday. The District
Columbia would have been left out
he call and another call would have
to be issued especially for it II he
not waited.
view of the fact that there was no
flied time for issuing the call. and
bad not thought the delay important
said: The way the delay occurred
simply this: went from here To
York and was sick there 4 week.
n went To ohio and was sick another
h. In the mean time there WAS com
nj that the hotel rates In chicago were
c oXtortionate, and ! WIS Appealed ia
lvor OF having another meeting of the
mittee TO fix another place for the
ting, For that reason it became de-
bic TO defer the call and later | went
chicago to sec my dentist, and at the
e time took occasion to make some in
les concerning the manner in which
hotels proposed to treat their guests"
pc incident has been interesting, how
as bringing out once more the
ma boom, the Roosevelt feeling
the strong feeling OF the Roosevelt
yen though Senator Hanna rciterntcs
he is not a candidate, it docs not
n to satisfy either his friends or some
President Roosevelts friends that
htor Hanna may not. after all. allow
movement to he carried on for him,
in the convention, if circumstances
pr.
Senator Hanna woid come out and
II nu, for Roosevelt. and he will
$ friends to have said to the Prcsi-
and to them. ii might end the talk
nothing short of that will apparently.
be- call states that the convention vii
held in Chicago Tuesday, June %
N State is entitled to two delegates Al
g for each United States senator ant
sressman-a large, and from each con
Esional district and the District o
lmbia two delegates.
rom each Of the territories Of Arizona
Mexico. oklahoma and Hawaii an(
an territory, six delegates.
Yom Alaska, four delegates.
'or each delegate elected to said con
ion an alternate delegate shall b
ted to act in the absence of the dele
such alternate delegate to he elect
the time and in the manner of elect
the delegate.
II the delegates shall be elected no
than 80 days before the meeting o
national convention. Delegates t
o shall be elected by popular Stat
territorial convention OF which n
30 days notice shall have been pub
fd In some newspaper. or newspaper
general circulation in the respectiv
os and territories"