The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-04
REPUBS MAKE
CHANGE IN
DELEGATION
NATIONAL COMMIT
TEE SAYS NEW PLAN Or DES-
iGNATiNG NUMBER OF DELE
GATES HAS BEEN ADOPTED.

NiH idlIolIdl CblilIh 'l'' ~ II
nounced that the N9w plan of repre-
sentation n he neX republican com.
mittee, had len approved by state
representing 290 electoral votes -
some % more than necessary under
the conditions made by the nationa
committee, and will be put in effect
when the committee meets to ar
range for the next national conven-
tion,
Secretary Reynolds statement says
AT a meeting of the committee held
in Washington in December 1913, il
was decided that the basis of repre-
sentation should be changed. if re-
publican state conventions in states
representing a majority of the votes
in the electoral college, which would
be equivalent to the majority of dele
| gates in the national convention,
should authorize the change. A. that
time the following resolution was
passed:
Confident that the action of this
committee. representing, as It does,
the practically unanimous sentiment
of the republican voters OF the var
ous states, will be ratified ard made
effective.
"'Be 1t Resolved, That this COM
mittee shall issue the call for dele
gates to the national convention, to
be held in the year 1916. TO nominate
candidates for president and vice
president, in accordance with the
following basis Of representations:
Each state shall be entitled in
such convention to four delegates at
large.
1.-TWO additional delegates at large
for each representative at large III
congress elected from ?ny state en-
titled to one or more additional rep
resentatives in congress under the
apportionment made Il. accordance
with the last census, but n which
state no new congressional district
has been provided by law
lone delegate from each cor
gressional district.
"'An additional delegate for each
congressional district in which the
vote for republican elec;Cr i'll 1908,
or for the republican nominee for
congress in 1914, shall have not been
less than seven thousand five hun
dred (7,5O0)
Provided, however, that the to-
tai number of delegates to which
any state is entitled shall be chosen
from the state at large if the law OF
the state in which the election occurs
so prescribes;. and
provided, further, that in the
case of any state electing all repre-
sentatiyes in congress from the state
at large, such state shall be entitled
to as many delegates, elected at
large, as though the state were a.
vided into separate congressional dis
tricts.'"
The resolution also provides for
alternates; delegates from the Dis
trict of Columbia, Alaska and The
insular possessions; and the apprcv-
al of the new system in such num-
Der of states as are entitled TO cast
a majority of the votes in the pres
ent electoral college.
Mr. Reynolds statement fuihcr
says: THE states that formally rat
flied the plan, and the electoral
votes that they represent, are as
follows:
Arkansas 9: California 1S; Colo
RADIO G; Connecticut I; Idaho I; IL
linois %; Indiana 10; Maine 6; Mas
sachusetts IS; Michigan Is; Mis-
scuri is: New Jersey a. New York
As; North Carolina u: Ohio 24; Ok
lahoma 10; Rhode Island ); South
NdTOllud y, tHHtSStt L. NtIulOlt
(: Washington :; West Virginia s.
There were, in addition to these,
several states which were in favor of
the plan, but which held no state
convention during 1914"
The membership of the next ma
tional convention, in accordance with
the above plan, has not yet been
worked out in detail by states, as this
requires canvass of the votes in
each congressional district, in order
to determine the additional delegates
to be allowed. The result by states
will be made known later by the ma
tional committee.
The statement further says: THE
official returns that have been COM
piled by the republican national
committee show that on national is
sues the vote of the country in No
vember was: Republican 5,915.27O;
democratic 5.752, $50: progressive, l.