New-York tribune., 1908-04-17
MISSISSIPPI
AL-s6AA2
ARKANSAS
OREGON
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DISTRICTS YET TO BE HEARD ffoh-
NJ. Hitchcock has called for information from
= sections by wire. and presumably will have
complete list within a comparatively few
hours. But combining the information on file
- the national committee headquarters and at
ne Taft headquarters. the following forty-one
districts are still 70 be heard from: Five in
Earru1k-. I'VE in Louisiana. one in Maryland,
r7e iu Mississippi, ten in New Jersey. seven IN
New York three in Ohio. six in South caro-
Ina and three in Tennessee
W-hilc no dates are available, Representative
T1feke1Ia. chairman Of the Republican State
Committee, Of Michigan. asserts that all the
district conventions for his strate have already
Teen called
AI-be California conventions have been called
f7- Nav Is. at Sacramento. Under the state
law the delegates 70 the state convention will
- elected at primaries and viii meet as state
invention at Sacramento and elect the four
=--.-a-es-st-large They Will then resolve
themselves into district conventions and the
-=leEates from each district viii elect the dele
gates 70 the national convention from their re-
zr.acti,-e districts Representative Kahn said
rhiz evening that II was purposed TO hold pri-
-nz-iez in the districts 70 determine the choice
,f The voters for President, but il soon became
zrxs-enr that the sentiment OF the state vas
so overwhelmingly for Taft that the plan vas
HHzndoned-
E7y The peculiar form Of d resolution adopted
t- I've Virginia district conventions the dele
cation OF that state is now solidly Instructed
g. Taft. Five districts il Virginia did not in
er-1cr their delegates 70 vote for any particular
candidate, but did adopt 4 resolution instruct
.nE them. il the event that the state convention
Instructed the deleEates-at-large for any candi-
Ezre % vote Tor that candidate The action
u rhe state convention. which on April IN
s--ucted the delegates-at-large TO vote for Tart
therefore had the effect OF also instructing the
e=1e-ates from the five districts whose dele
gates had been listed uninstructed.
PECULIAR SITUATION IN TEXAS
rec1.ia- situation has developed in Texas,
where the regular Republican organization fol-
loving tie lead Of the national committeeman
Cecil Lyons. has called the state and district
oa-rertions for May -, despite the fact that
30 state law provides that al conventions 70
ef=e- delegates 70 national conventions snail
- reid on Nay .. The Texas primary law
reds
-ori-lrsf party desiring 10 elect delegates 70
p -5-sG--- convention shall hold state conven-
@ - se4 Pis2s 2o-54sr1e. n s q s8id ParTS on the
-7-ra -ues1ay = M sos @ 5nq eRer M yoeS Io3o n
rs,zztez duly elected by the voters O. salo pom,
= party n the seyeral oPon{l15 I :. o. 1sf Ssf71r-
- = Ma -e9s. and ever four years rnereafteT-
Tie reo-zanized faction of the Repunlloan
-z--- zo-CzIIed which IS composed ot negroes
- -ssued 2 call for state and district conFeh-
-t--= ., 10 held - Waco on Nav &c This
-,.-e,s5 ,= too late ~ b. regular. according -
7-- all of rEle national committee but Tor me
fs-- that the call expressly stlpulstes tnaE
5e-eEzree may be elected N conformity WIN
-1c avs ~ the state IN which the election &C
cur provided the state committee OF any such
Congress Committee 80 direct II Is as
vr-ss that This situation viii cause contest
fef5-e the national committee Presumably 'li.
---t--- - -t-e -ey7,7s- organization viii be that
ref--a- ne regular state nor the regular Con
g-s-s committee has directed conventions in
7eec-a-rce with the state law