The Socorro chieftain., 1908-02-29
DELEGATE CONVENTION
Formal Call for Convention to Elect
Delegate to the Republican
National Convention.
AT SILVER CITY MARCH 2l
Rules for Regulation of Precinct
Primaries as Adopted by Repub-
lican Central Committee.

A convention of the Repubh-
cans of New Mexico is hereby
called to take place and to be
held at Silver City at ? o'clock p.
M, on the 2lst day of March, A.
ID. 1908; which convention is
called for the purpose of select
ing six delegates and six alter
mates TO represent the Territory
oil New Mexico at national Re-
publican convention, to be held
at the City of Chicago, on June
10th, 1908, which convention at
Chicago has been called to be
held for the purpose of nominat-
ing a candidate for president and
vice president of the United
States for the Republican party.
The various counties are en-
titled to representation at said
convention to be held at Silver
City, on the basis of one delegate
for each one hundred and fifty
votes or fraction over seventv-tive
votes cast for the Republican
candidate for delegate to Con-
greSS at the last election held
November, 1906. This is as fol-
lows:
Berralillo, IL; Chaves, 3; Col
fax, IA; Dona Ana, Z; Eddy, ?;
Grant, 5; Guadalupe, 4; Lincoln,
4; Luna, /; Mckinley, 2; Mora,
Z; Olero, 4; QUAY, ?; Rio Arriba,
.; Roosevelt, ,; Sandoval, 3; San
Juan, ;; San Miguel, l5; Santa
Fe. q; Sierra, 3; Socorro, IL;
Taos, 8; Torrence, 4; Union, 5;
Valencia, IL.
A meeting of the members OF
tie Territorial Republican Cen
trail Committee is also hereby
called to meet at Silver City up
on the 2lst day of March, A. ID.
1908, at 10 o'clock a. m, for the
purpose of considering any con-
tests that might be presented
before said committee.
The following rules for the
government and regulation OF
precinct primaries have been
adopted by the Territorial Re-
publican committee for the var
ious counties in the Territory:
|. The county COMMITTEES shall
fix the time and place of holding
the primary meetings in each
precinct and give six days notice
thereof by publication in some
newspaper of general circulation
published in the county and by
posting such notices by hand bill:
in six different conspicuous places
in each precinct. The precinc'
chairman shall call the meetings
to order and preside until the
the chairman of the meeting
shall be elected.
2. The time fixed in all pre-
cincts in the county outside o
Incorporated cities, towns anC
villages, shall be at 10 o'clock a
m. and the said meetings shal
be kept open a sufficient time TO
the orderly conduct OF the bust
ness before same.
3. The place of each meeting
shall be definitely located an,
shall be accessible to the voter
of the precinct.
4. At or before the time whe
the chairman of any meetin
shall call the same to order eac
faction in the precinct, if ther
be any, shall elect leader to ac
for it upon the floor.
5. Each leader so elected shal
name one teller and one challer
ger.
9. The votes shall be take
by ballot. and the ballot deposit
: ed in a box or other proper II
ceptacle and shall be preserve
and returned with a certificate
, such election signed by the chai
: man and secretary.
= 7. If any vote shall be cha
lenged by either one of til
: challengers the voter, whose vol
= is challenged, shall be require
= to make a declaration in sui
: stance and effect as follows:
Il, the undersigned, do heret
declare that / am legally qnal
: fed voter of this precinct and
i, member of the Republican par
$ in the territory of New Mexic
r and a supporter of its principle
=. and | do here pledge myself
n support in good faith at the e
a suingelection the Republican ca
a idate for delegate to Congress al
the nominees of the Republics