Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-08
CHAIRMAN HlLlES OUTLINES
COMMITTEE SCHEME FOR
REPRESENTATION.
SOUTH AND TERRITORIES
DELEGATIONS REDUCED
Plan Must Be Ratified by Jan. =
Cuts Representa- alton in Affected Dis
triets From IS Per Cent to Is Per
Cont in Year 1916 = States Must
Ratify.


Hilles, chairman of the republican ma
tional committee, last night made pub
linn the proposed plan to decrease the
percentage of the southern and terri
totial representation in the republican
national convention in 1915. and there
after. from approximately So per cent
of the total voting strength to less than
Is per cent, as provided in resolutions
adopted by the committee at its meet
ing last December.
The plan is addressed to the :ennn-
,ican conventions of the several states
which are asked to ratify the action OF
the national body before Jan. I. 1910.
A special committee. composed OF
Charles B. Warren Of Michigan. Sena-
tor William f. Borah OF Idaho. ana
Governor Henry D. Hatfield OF west
Virginia. drafted the report OF the a.-
ton taken in December, which emooo-
les other resolutions adopted by the
national committee These guarantee.
Recognition, in the call to be issued
for the next national convention. Oh tue
right OF any state to provide Ior the
e,ection OF delegates in direct primaf
les. =,
The right of any state to elect al
delegates from the state at large OF
part from the state at large ana pai'
from congressional districts.
Plan to Bar Contents.
These provisions We're adopted WIZ
a view to eliminating contests oetore
the national body, such as IN the pas
have oroduced discord and dissension.
In rec,tine the views that actuateo
the national body the special commit
tee Of three says:
aThe committee believed that should
conventions Of delegated repfese
,ives OF the party. convened IN 'he
number of states entitled TO cast
majoritv Of the votes in national con
yention. ra,ify the action taken ps We
national committee in this respect 10
ac,ion could be assumed to 1a1ri!
nress the sentiment of the sFeas ma
ior,,y of the party. for obviously sun
state conventions when taken tose.he
would ooneist OF more representative
of the na4v than would be assembled
in a national convention.
..rhe Man adopted and recommenoeo
for RATIFICATION provides thai the re.
n,,b,;c,n voters in each state shai!
ha,e.f,er he represented in national
convention of the party by four deie.
ao,as-.,- la rse-two delegates for eacn
e-at-large in congress-
ona delegate from each congressionai
district and an additional deiesa.e
from each congressional district IN
which the vote OF 1908 for any repnoi.-
can eIector or for the republican nomi-
nee for congress In 1914 shall not nave
heen less tina 900.
Result in Figures.
Alaska and the District OF Coiunn
hia under the plan presented Will eacn
no entitled to two voting delegates
while Hawaii. Porto Rico and tne
philippine Islands will each be enttieo
to two delegates without the right 20
vote"
The result Of this charge in the basis
NJ representation, il ratified by the
requisite number of state conventions
win he a decrease OF SO votes. as fol-
lows. Alabama will lose s. Arkansas g.
Florida 4. Georgia II. Louisiana g.
Mississippi s, New York 2. North
Carolina 8, South Carolina Z. Tennes-
see 8. Texas 49, Virginia 8. HAWAII T.
porto Rico and the Philippine Is
| lands 2.
Under the plan presented congress
sional district not entitled TO TWO oeie
gates on the vote cast IN the presi-
Dental election in 1908 will qualify fol
| two II 1900 OF more votes are cast TOT
| the Republican nominee in the congress
! sional election this fall.