The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
OFFICIAL CALL FOR THE REPUs-
LICAN COUNTY CONVENTION, TO
BE HELD AT MANkATO, MIMI,
MAY 10. 1912.

To the Republicans of the County of
Pursuant to the call of the Republic
an National Committee, duly com
municated to the Republican State
Central Committee of Minnesota. ana
the call Of the Republican State Cen
municated to the Republican County
Committee of Blue Earth County, Min
nesota, a Republican County Delegate
Convention is hereby called to be held
1912, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. at
the Free Press hall in the city or
Mankato in the county of Blue Earth,
in said state. for the purpose of elect
the republicans of Blue Earth County
in the Republican State Delegate Con-
vention, to be held on the 10th day of
May, a. d. 1912, at IL o'clock noon of
Hennepin County, Minnesota, for the
purpose of electing six delegates at
large and six alternates to the National
Republican Convention to nominate a
United States. to be held in Chicago,
Illinois, on June Is, 1912, and to nomi-
nate twelve republican electors for the
state of Minnesota to be voted for at
vember the 5th, 1912, and for the pur-
pose of electing seventeen delegates to
represent the republicans OF Blue
Earth county in the Republican Con-
SrcSSlOnll DeltBdtt .cOllNctitlOll, III
for the Second Congressional District of
Minnesota. to be held in the city of
Mankato, Minnesota. on the 18th day
of May. y. D.. 1912, at l o'clock p. m.
said city, for the purpose of electing
two delegates and two alternateS to
the National Republican convention to
nominate a President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, to be held
in the city of Chicago. in the state
of Illinois, on June Is, 1912, and for
transactng any such other business as
may properly come before said conven-
ton.
The basis of representation in said
county convention shall be the average
of all the votes cast for the republican
candidates for Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Secretary of State, state
Auditor, State Treasurer. and Attorney
General at the general election in the
several precincts in 1910, and each
voting precinct shall be entitled to one
delegate for every twenty-five votes of
said average votes cast in the reSpec-
tive precincts for such offices and to
one delegate for any major fraction of
said vote.
The republican electors will hold
their primaries for the purpose of
electing delegates to said county con-
ventiOn at the regular polling places in
the several election precincts on Sat-
urday the nth day of May, a. ID. 1912.
between the hours of O'clock r. NJ.
and o'clock p. NJ. of said day. If
such regular polling places cannot be
had then the members of the said coun-
ty committee residing in said precincts
shall designate the place of holding
the said primaries. and in case of the
neglect or refusal of such county COM
mitteemen to so designate. the place
of holding the said primaries may be
named and designated by the precinct
committee of the last regular precinct
primaries held in said precinct.
All voters who participate in the
caucuses in this county are requested
to indicate upon their ballots their
preference as to presidential candidates
The secretaries of all caucuses in
this county are directed to report to
the County Convention the result of
the vote upon presidential candidates in
their respective precincts, and to make
said report a part of the credentials
of the delegates to said County Con-
yention.
All republican electors of the county
of Blue Earth and all other electors of
said county without regard to past
political affiliations who believe in the
principles of the republican party and
endorse it's policies are cordially in
vited to unite under this call in the
selection of delegates to said County
and District Conventions. The various
precincts are entitled TO representa-
tives, as follows: