Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-02-15
CALLS STATE ASSEMBLY
REPUBLICANS WILL MEET IN
PORTLAND JULY 81.
Counties Will Name 1248 Delegates
Proxies Are Eliminated by
Unanimous Vote.

Unanimous Vote.
Without a single discordant note, the
members of the Republican state CEN
trail committee, at meeting in Port
land Saturday authorized Judge M. c.
George, the newly elected chairman,
to call a state assembly to be held in
Portland, Thursday July 21.
This assembly will consist of 124S
delegates apportioned by the commit
tee among the "a counties of the state
on a basis of one delegate to every 10
votes or major fraction that were
cast for r. r. Butler for Presidential
elector in November, 1908. Twenty
seven counties were represented at the
meeting, the proceeding of which were
marked by uninterrupted unanimity.
No Dissenting Voice Heard.
The large and representative state
assembly was indorsed by the commit
tee without a dissenting voice on the
recommendation of a sub committee
of five members which had been ap-
pointed to prepare and submit some
method of procedure for calling and
holding such an advisory gathering,
The members of this committee were:
r. e. Williams, of Polk; C. II. Early, |
of Hood River; H. T. Bolts, of Tilla-
nook; c. S. Moore, of klamath, and
c. e. Cochran, of Union.
In counties outside of Multnomah, |
it was recommended that delegates to !
cf, 70 1n colo tod n
county assemblies and that delegates
to the county gatherings be chosen by
majority vote only at mass meeting |
of the voters in the different precincts,
these meetings to be called by the
county central committee. Saturday, |
July 8, is the date recommended for
the precinct mass meetings, with the
date for the county assemblies fixed |
for the following Saturday, July 16.
MuItnomah County Excepted.
From this plan of organizing county
assemblies and electing delegates to
the state assembly, Multnomah county
was excepted. In this county the COM
mittee found that it would be imprac-
ticable, because of the large number
ings. 1t was voted to leave the matter
to the county central committee with
the understanding that it would eXer
else it's judgment in adopting some
plan calculated to produce the best re-
suits
DIR. j. NJ Smith, of Marion, and ].
II. Worsely, of Wasco asked that the
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central committee of their counties
with the result that, following some
discussion, the original report of the
committee was amended to the eX-
tent that in other counties where it
was deemed advisable the method of
procedure in electing delegates to
the state assembly might be deter
mined by the county central commit
tee.
Proxies will not be allowed in the
state assembly if the recommendations
of the state committee are adhered to.
On this subject the committee took no
compromise position. 1t voted to
eliminate from the state gathering all
proxies. The committee did recon-
mend, however, that the vote of alb
sent and duly elected delegates in the
state gathering shall be cast according
to the majority opinion of those pres
ent and acting from the same county.
This method, it was contended, will
insure the polling of the full vote of
every county in the assembly and at
the same time be expressive of the
wishes of the particular locality inter-
ested.
As to Congressional and district as
semblies the state committee recon-
mended that assemblies for the rec
ommendation of Congressional and
district offices be held during the re-
cess of the state assembly; that the
delegates to the Congressional and
district assemblies be the same dele
gates as shall represent those districts
at the state assembly; that all recon-
mendations of the Congressional and
district assemblies be reported back to
the state assembly.
Fail TO Modify Report.
Under the plan of apportionment
made by the committee, Multnomah
will have 354 delegates out Of a total
of 124S in the assembly This was
made the target for an attack by
| George Chandler, of Baker, and A. c. |
Marsters, of Douglas, who charged |
that the representation allowed that
county was too great. They failed in
an attempt to modify the report by
providing for an assembly to consist
of 10 delegates at large from each
county and one additional delegate for
each 100 votes cast for Presidential |
elector. This would create an assembly 1
of about $50 delegates.
The Marsters amendment was op-
posed by c. L. Cochran, of Union; c. 1
/ c. Fulton, of Clatsop, and r. f. Will
Jams, Of Polk, who maintained that
any other basis Of apportionment than
that recommended by the committee
would be unfair TO Multnomah, which 4
contained nearly one-third OF the votes
OF the state. They insisted that the
only fair and equitable plan Of appor-
tionment Of delegates was that recon-
mended by the committee and that
any other representation would de-
prive that county OF the representa-
ton in the assembly to which IL was
entitled. The motion was defeated and /
the report OF the committee. making
the following apportionment was
adopted:
How Representation Stands.
No. Dele
gates
Baker .---..--.--.----.- -
Benton --..-.-----.-.... -
Clackamas .-.-----.-----..-- %
Clatsop -----.-----..--- -----.----- ~
Columbia .-.--..-.-....---- 70
Coos ---.-------..----. -
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