Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-11
Work Is Well Cut Out.


| for the great battle to be fought in the
national convention next summer.
Work Is Well Cut Out.
The men who comprise the national
committee are not supposed TO be fac
tionalists, but republicans, intent upon
the welfare of the party at this stage
of the proceedings. The new national
committee designated by the convention
will be charged with pushing the for
tunes of the candidate.
The work for tomorrows meeting is
pretty well cut out in advance. The
likelihood is that Chicago will be
chosen as the place for holding the
convention. and the date fixed as the
18th or 2oth of June. Following that
action the committee will prescribe
the convention.
1t is well known. of course, that an
effort will be made to have the COM
mittee recommend the choosing of dele
gates to the national convention by
primaries. The La Toilette boomers
are advocating this plan. and SO is
State Chairman Walter Brown Of Ohio.
who recently came out for Roosevelt
for President against Taft.
1t is expected that the national COM
mittee will decline to accede to this
suggestion. Six states of the Union,
New Jersey, Nebraska, Oregon, Wis
consin and North and South Dakota,
have primary laws on their statute
books. and in those states the delegates
will be chosen directly. The laws hedge
the primaries about with the same
strictness applied to elections, and
no objection is made TO the plan
Ohio Chairman's Demand.
State Chairman Brown. in his con-
ferences with National Committeeman
Vorys of Ohio has demanded that the
national committee leave to the states
the method of selecting delegates.
promising that if this is done he will
see to ii that some kind of a primary
plan can be fixed up for Ohio
THE fallacy of that suggestion,
tee today. lis apparent upon a mo-
ment's reflection. If the national COM
mittee does not have some regularly
prescribed form for selecting delegates
We will see the delegates to the con-
vention chosen in score of different
methods. The result will be confusion
worse confounded, and the certainty of
endless contests before the commit
tee on credentials.
There viii be charges of packing of
| the primaries by democrats and per-
! sons outside the republican party in
! states where there is not rigid pri-
mary law. The only thing the nation
| al committee can do is TO fix a plan
| applicable to all the states where there
is not a statute. and thus have regu-
| larity in the method of selection"
! Call Four Years Ago.
Four years ago the national committee
issued the call for the national conven-
\ ton in these words:
| Said national convention shall consist
| of four delegates at large from each
| state, two delegates for each representa-
tive at large in the Congress. two dele
/ gates from each congressional district
and from each of the territories OF Ari-
/ Zona, New Mexico and Hawaii, two dele
| gates from the District of Columbia ar 4
| two delegates each from Alaska. Porto
Rico and the Philippine Islands. For
| each delegate elected to this convention
an alternate delegate shall be chosen to
serve in case of the absence of his prin-
cipal.
The delegates at large and their alter
| mates shall be elected by popular state
! and territorial conventions, of which at
least thirty days notice shall have been
| published in some newspaper or news
papers of general circulation in the re-
spective state or territory.
! The congressional district delegates
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 gem
| eral circulation in the district: provided
that in any congressional district where
| there is no republican congressional COM
mittee the republican state committee
shall be substituted for and represent
the congressional committee i'm iss ling
said call. and provided that both the dele
gates from the state at large and their
alternates and delegates from each con-
gressional district may be elected in con-
formity with the laws Of the state in
which the election occurs. provided tn q
| state or congressional committee so di-
rect: but provided further that in no
state shall an election be so held as to
prevent the delegates from any con-
/ gressiOnal district and their alternates
being selected by the republican electors
OF that district.
Likely to Be Followed.
i II is the judgment of the committee
men now here that plan similar to the