The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-25
PART VOTER PLAYS
N PARTY HAY TO
MAJORITY OF THEM
Little Understood by Aver
age Citizen Regarding Or
ganization of Parties, Now
Being Effected.
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conmitteemen to be an organization
being selected in addition and the
members thereof to have general over
sight In the townships and wards of
the workings Of the precinct commit
teemen. The county committee OF "a
precinct committeeman will meet
next Monday and organize by the elec-
ton OF q chairman, vice chairman,
secretary and treasurer and then the
county working force Is complete with
the exception OF the naming of an
executive committee. which the coun-
ty chairman 10 expected to create and
which Is supposed to act in an advis-
ory capacity during the conducting Of
the campaign.
District Convention.
At the ward and township meetings
II also Is required that the voters, in
addition to naming precinct commit
teemen, shall also name delegates to
the district convention. This is true
throughout the state and In this. the
Sixth district, the convention will be
held January 81 at Cambridge City.
The number of delegates to the con-
vention elected by the wards and
townships depends on the vote cast at
the last general election and, as a mat.
ter Of course. delegate bodies are
sometimes greater and sometimes less
in number depending on the vote. The
district convention selects what is
commonly known as a district chair
man." but who in fact Is a district
committeeman, and who becomes
part of the state committee the same
las q precinct committeeman becomes
n part of the county committee. There
are thirteen congressional districts in
Indiana and the committeeman from
these thirteen become the state COM
mittee and are expected to have gen.
eral supervision of their party's at
fairs In their respective districts.
The Sixth district IL composed OF
the counties of Wayne. Fayette. Union.
Shelby. Rush. Henry. Hancock and
Franklin-eight counties in all. a re-
duction of one from two years ago,
a. a result of the redistricting Of the
state by the last general assembly.
Decatur county was eliminated from
the Sixth by this arrangement Fol-
lowing the selection Of the district
committeeman the state over. the
State Republican committee will be
organized on February 2, 1t Indianapo-
liz, the district committeeman meeting
there and electing q chairman, secre-
tary and treasurer. and the working
forces of the entire state are then in
readiness for the campaign. In just
the same way that the Wayne Coun-
ty Republican committee must take
care of the arrangements for the par
tvs primary to select candidates for
county offices. the State Republican
committee must take care of the state
primary" or in this case convention,
to name the states candidates for Of
flee.
The chairman Of the State commit
tee 10 the director general Of all mat
tiers that are decided on to push the
party to the front in the campaign and
his orders are. as . rule. sent to the
county chairman and by him to the
precinct committeeman. Much Of the
dope" handed out. however, goes from
the state committee direct to the pre-
cinct committeeman, who after all, be-
ing down In the ranks among the vot-
ers themselves 10 responsible to q
great degree for success or failure Of
the orders of the director general, the
state chairman.
In the selection Of the candidates
for congress for the thirteen districts
IN Indiana, there are conventions held
at the call Of the district committee
man Of each district. Delegates to such
conventions are chosen in each county
ut township and ward meetings, as
delegates to the conventions to name
district committeeman. The number
of delegates from the counties Is regu.
lated by the vote Of the party at the
last preceding election. Delegates to
the state conventions are selected in
the same way and by the same meth
DDS, and the state delegation to the ma.
tional conventions are selected by dis.
tricts, with additional delegates who
are known ~ delegates-at-large, rep
,resenting the entire state.