The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-12-14
new ISSUES CALL
NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIR
MANS PROCLAMATION.
lTHlRTY.DAY NOTICE A FEATURE
Michioan and Alaska Selections Hav'
ing Already Been Made, Are
Declared Irregular.

washington, Dec. 1O-Chairman
Harry S. New OF the republican ma
tional committee has promulgated the
call for the republican national con-
vention to be held in Chicago, begin
ming June 1G, next year, in accord
ance with the instructions of the com
mittee.
An interesting feature Of the call
is the fact hat it prescribes that
thirty days notice shall be given be-
fore any delegates are elected to the
convention. 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. 1t is said
by republican authorities that if the
torney 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
Guilty, another district convention 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 chosen. while the call
provides that Alaska shall ave 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
oil 1904, the republican national COM
mittee now directs that a national con-
vention of delegated representatives or
the republican party be held in the
city of Chicago, in the state of Illinois,
at II O'Clock noon on Tuesday, the
sixteenth day of June, 1908, Tor the
purpose of nominating candidates for
president and vice-president to- be
voted for at the presidential election,
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 1908, and for the
transaction of such other business as
may properly come before it.
r.a. BY Popular Convention.
J"Said national convention shall con-
sist of four delegates-at-large from
each state, two delegates for each rep
notwithstanding in the congress.
two delegates from each congressional
district. and from each of the terri
tories oil Arizon, 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 OF
newspapers of general circulation In
the district.
"Al delegates shall be elected moi
earlier than thirty days after this cal
and not later than thirty days before
the date of the meeting of the next
republican national convention. The
credentials of each delegate and each
alternate must be forwarded to the
secretary of the republican national
committee at Washington, d. c., a.
least twenty days before the date liked
for the meeting of the convention, fol
use in making up it's temporary roll
!, HARRY s. NEW, Chairman.