Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-12-14
new ISSUES CALL
PROCLAMATION BY NATIONAL
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN.
THIRTY DAYS NOTICE A FEATURE
Michigan and Alaska Selections, Hav'
ing Already Been Made, Are De-
cared Irregular,

Washington, d. C.-Chairman Harry
s. New of the republican national
committee has promulgated the call
for the republican national convention
to be held in Chicago, beginning June
16, next year, in accordance with the
instructions of the committee.
An interesting feature of the call is
the fact that it presGribes that thirty
days notice shall be given before any
delegates are elected 70 the conVeh'
tion. Under this rule the two district
delegates already chosen from the
eighth district of Michigan and the
six elected from Alaska are irregular.
New Conventions Required.
The two Michigan delegates, Of
whom Representative Fordney is one,
are practically instructed to vote for
Speaker Cannon as candidate for
the presidential nomination. 1t is said
by republican authorities that If the
Fordney delegates seek admission to
the convention under credentials they
now have that there may be a contest
1t is possible that, to obviate the dll-
ficulty, that another district conVen'
tion NAV be called and two delegates
regularly chosen, who doubtless VIII
be the ones already elected
The same thing is true of the Alaska
delegates with respect to their elec
ton. with the added trouble that Sly
men have been CHOSEN, while the cal
proyides that Alaska shall have onl!
two votes in the convention.
Call for Convention.
The following is the text of the call
In accordance with established Gus
tom and in obedience to instructions
of the republican national convention
of 1904, the republican national com
mittee now directs that a natlona
convention of delegated representa-
tives of the republican party be nell
in the city of Chicago, in the stat
of Illinois, at IL o'clock noon, on Tues
dav the sixteenth day of June, 1907
for the purpose Of nominating cal
didates for president and vlce-pres
dent to be voted for at the presider
tial election, Tuesday, Nov. 3, l9O'
and for the transaction of such othe
business as may properly come b'
fore it.
BY Popular Convention.
Said national convention shall col
sist of four delegates-at-large frol
each state, two delegates for each re-
resentative-atlarge in the congress
two delegates from each congressioni
district and from each OF the terrlt
res of Arizona, New Mexico and h
wait: two delegates from the Distri
of Columbia, and two delegates eac
z from Alaska, Porto Rico and the Phi
ippine Islands.
The congressional district del
gates shall be elected by convention
called by the republican cOngression
committee of each district, OF whl'
l at least thirty days notice shall ha'
been published in some newspaper
newspapers of general circulation
i the district
"All delegates shall be elected n
carrier than thirty days after this CT
and not later than thirty days befo
the date of the meeting of the ne
republican national convention. I
y credentials of each delegate and att
= nate must be forwarded to the secl
!, tary of the republican national co
mittea at Washington, d, Co. at lea
twenty days before the date fixed
the meeting of the convention, for u
in making up its temporary roll.
(Signed)
T. ELMER DOVER, Secretary
y HARRY S. NEW, Chairman.