The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-13
Every Precinct in the Coun-
ty, Instead of Only Wards
and Townships, Is to Have
One Member.
|CALL ISSUED TODAY
TOG. 0. P. VOTERS
January 26 Date for First
Precinct Meetings. Peltz
Announces He Is Candi-
date for Chairman.

Secretary John f. Peltz. of the
Wayne County Republican Central
committee, today issued q call to the
Republican voters of the county to
hold precinct meetings on January 26.
to elect delegates to the district con-
vention and precinct committeeman.
Mr.. Peltz also announced today that
he is a candidate for county chair
man. Will Robbins. county recorder,
is also a candidate for this office.
In the reorganization of the central
committee this month q new prece-
dent will be established. Every pre-
cinct in the county will be represent
ed on the committee, instead of only
wards and townships. This will in
crease the membership of the COM
mittee from twenty-three to sixty-four.
Call to Republicans.
Pursuant to a. call issued by the
State Chairman, the Republicans of
Wayne County will meet in their res
pective townships and wards for the
following purposes:
First. The election of delegates and
alternate delegates to the district con-
vention to be held at Cambridge City,
Indiana. January 81, 1912. at one
o'clock p. M, for the election of a
district chairman for the Sixth con
gressional district and for the trans.
action of such other business as may
properly come before such convention
Second. The election of precinct
committeeman in each precinct, at
now constituted, which precinct com
mitteemen shall be members of and
constitute the Wayne County Repub
lican Central COMMITTEES.
The meetings in the several wards
of the City Of Richmond shall be held
on Friday evening, January 26th, 1912
at 1880 o'clock, and the several town
ship meetings shall be held in the sew
eral townships on Saturday afternoon
January 9th. 1912, at $3.50 O'Clock.
The present members of the Wayne
County Republican Central committee
shall provide suitable places in theil
respective wards and townships ir
which these meetings can be held and
shall give due and full notice thereof
at least one week in advance of such
meetings.; and where two townships
are joined for the purpose of electinl
| delegates and alternate delegates t
the district convention. the present
chairmen of those townships shall de
| termine where such meeting shall bt
| held.
Under the rules Of the state com
mittee. Wayne County is entitled tt
twenty-six delegates and the same
number of alternate delegates to thu
district convention. and these are dis
tributed as follows:
| Arlington and Boston townships, ont
delegateand one alternate; Cente
township. one delegate and one alter
nate; Clay township, one delegate ant
one alternate: Dalton and Perry town
ships. one delegate and one alternate
Franklin township, one delegate an.
one alternate; Green township, on'
delegate and one alternate; Harrison
and Jefferson townships. one DELEGATE
and one alternate; Jackson township
two delegates and two alternates
New Garden and Webster townships
one delegate and one alternate; Wash
ington township, one delegate and on
alternate; Wayne township, outside o
Richmond, onedelegate and one alter
ate; First ward, Richmond, one dele
gate and one alternate: Second ward
Richmond, one delegate and one alter
nate: Third ward, Richmond. two de-
egates and two alternates; Fourtl
ward, Richmond, two delegates an
wwo alternates; Fifth ward, three de-
egAtes and three alternates; Sixtl
ward, Richmond, two delegates an
two alternates: Seventh ward, Rich
mond, two delegates and two alter
mates: Eighth ward, Richmond, on
delegate and one alternate.
The precinct committeeman thus e
ected will meet at the court house
Richmond, Indiana, at ten O'Clock Il
the forenoon on Monday, January 29tt
1912, for the purpose of organization
by the election of a chairman. a vice
chairman, a secretary, and treasurer
and for the purpose Of transacting al
other proper business of the commit
tee.
Every Republican voter of Wayn
County, and all those who desire to c<
operate with them are invited and n
quested to attend these various war
and township meetings and to assis
in perfecting the organization.
! Francis E. McMinn, Chairman.
John e. Peltz, Secretary.
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