The Forrest City times., 1907-12-13
NEW ISSUES CALL
PROCLAMATION BY NATIONAL
 COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN.
THIRTY DAYS NOTICE A FEATURE
Michigan and Alaska Selections. Hay- ing Already Been Made, Are De-
 clared Irregular.

Washington, D. C.-Chairman Harry $. New of the republican national committee has promulgated the call for the republican national convention to be held in Chicago. beginning June l6, next year, in accordance with the instructions of the committee.
 An interesting feature of the call is the fact that it prescribes that thirty days notice shall be given before any delegates are elected to the conven- 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. IL is said by republican authorities that if the Fordney delegates seek admission to the convention under credentials they now have that there may be contest.
 
 ficulty, that another district conven- ton may be called and two delegates regularly chosen, who doubtless will be the ones already elected.
 The same thing is true of the Alaska delegates with respect to their cleo. ton, with the added trouble that six men have been cnosen, while the call provides that Alaska shall have only 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 national convention of delegated representa- tives of the republj ean party be held in the city of Chicago, in the state of Illinois, at 12 o'clock noon, on Tues day, the sixteenth day of June, 1908, for the purpose of nominating can. didates for president and vice-presi- dent to be voted for at the presiden tial election, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 1908, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come be fore it.
 By Popular Convention.
 Said national convention shall con- slst of four delegates-at-large from each state, two delegates for each rep nj flt tiyn- 1a in, hn two delegates from each congressional district and from each of the territo- ries of Arizona, New Mexico and Ha- waii; two delegates from the District of Columbia, and two delegates each from Alaska, Porto Rico and the Phil ippine Islands.
 The congressional district dele gates shall be elected by conventions called by the republican congressional committee of each district, of which at least thirty days notice shall have been published in some newspaper or newspapers of general circulation in the district.
 All delegates shall be elected not carrier than thirty days after this call and not later than thirty days before the date of the meeting of the next republican national convention. The credentials of each delegate and alter nate must be forwarded to the secre- tary of the republican national com mittee at Washington, D. C., at least twenty days before the date fixed for the meeting of the convention, for use in making up it's temporary roll.
 (Signedl
 ELMER DOVER. Secretary
 HARRY s. NEW, Chairman"