Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-12-12
new ISSUES CALL
PROCLAMATION BY NATIONAL
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN.
THIRTY DAYS NOTICE A FEATURE
Michigan and Alaska Selections, Hav.
ing Already Been Made, Are De-
cIared Irregular.

Washington, ID. C.-Chairman Harry
s. New Of the republican national
committee has promulgated the cal
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 1t prescribes that thirty
days notice shall be given before any
delegates are elected to the conven.
ton. 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 a candidate for
the presidential nomination. II is said
by republican authorities that IL 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 diff
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 elec-'
ton. with the added trouble that six
men have been CHOSEN, 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:
"ln accordance with established GUS
tom and in obedience Il instructions
Of the republican national convention
of 1904, the republican national COM
mittee now directs that a national
convention of delegated representa-.
tives of the republican party be held
in the city of Chicago, in the state
of Illinois, al IL O'Clock noon, on Tues
day, the sixteenth day Of June, 1908,
for the purpose of nominating can
didates for president and vice-presl-
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 1t.
BY Popular Convention.
Said national convention shall con-
sist of four delegates.at-large from
each state, two delegates for each rep
resentatlve-at.large in the congress,
two delegates from each congressional
district and from each of the terrific
ries Of Arizona, New Mexico and Ha-
wall; 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 moi later than thirty days before
the date of the meeting of the next
republican national convention. The
credentials of each delegate and alter
must be forwarded to the secre.
tary Of the republican national com.
at Washington, d. c., at least
twenty days before the date fixed for
the meeting of the convention, for use
in making up its temporary roll.
(Signed)
ELMER DOVER, Secretary.
HARRY S. NEW, Chairman"