Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-04-09
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than would be assembled in a ma.
tiOnal convention.
"The plan adopted and recommend.
cd for ratification provides that the
republican voters in each state. shat:
hereafter be represented in a Nation
al convention OF the party by four
delegates .at-large;; two delegates for
each Representatives, large in Con.
gress; one delegate from each Con.
g%ressional District, and an additional
delegate from each Congressional
District in which the vote OF 1908 for
any Republican elector or for the Re.
publican nominee for Congress in
1914 shall not have been less than
seven thousand five hundred (7,5OO).
Alaska and the District of Column
ia under the plan presented will
each be entitled to two voting dele
gates, while Hawaii, Porto Rico and
the Philippine Islands will each be
entitled to two delegates without the
right to vote"
The result OF this change in the
basis Of representation, if ratified by
the requisite number Of state conven-
lions, will be a decrease Of SO votes
as follows: Alabama will lose s. Ar
kansas, 8, Florida 4. Georgia II, Lou
isiana s, Mississippi S, New York 2,
North Carolina 8, South Carolina I,
Tennessee 3, Texas l6, Virginia S,
Hawaii 4, Porto Rico ,, and Philip.
pine Islands 2.
Under the plan presented a con.
gressional district not entitled to two
delegates on the vote cast in the
presidential election in 1908 will
qualify for two If 1880 or more vot.
es are cast for the republican nominee
in the congressional election this
fall.
Anticipating criticism from those
who believed that a still greater de-
crease should have been provided in
southern representation, the special
committee in Its recital says it is
within the province OF a majority of
the convention of 1916; if it 50 desires
TO establish another new basis for
future conventions.
The plan can be ratified by any re.
publican convention for the purpose
OF nominating candidates for state Of
fees, or for the purpose Of adopting
a party platform, or by any c0nven-
ton called ny the republican state
committee and held before January l
1915. The statement of the special
committee chat drafted the plan for
presentation to! the several republi-
can state conventions concludes with
the following: at@
The committee appointed to present
the proposed plan to The state con.
ventions believes that it is desirable
from every point of view that the ac-
ton of the National Committee by rat
flied and made effective. All who arc
opposed to the fundamental princi-
pies Of the Democratic party should
join in the election of delegates to
the National Convention to be con-
vened in 1916. The basis proposed
for the election atssaelegates assures
the states havingTtHe greatest num-
Der Of RepublicaIrEtoeest larger pro.
portion OF voting strength in the Su-
preme Council of the Party and by
the changes made lid the rules the
way is open for the separate states
70 enact laws for the election of del.
egates in primary election, and for
the majority Of the voters partici-
pating in the primaries to elect dele
gates who will voice the sentiment of
the majority" tS