El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-02
REPRESENTATION
FOR
New Plan Agreed Upon by
National Committee For
Next Convention.


Washington. D. c., Feb. Secretary
James B. Reynolds, of the Republican
national committee, today announced
that the new plan Of representation in
the next Republican national conven-
tiCn proposed by the Republican ma
tional committee, had been approved
by states represents 290 electoral
vOtCs-SCme % more than necessary un-
der the conditions made by the ma
tiOnaI cOmmittee-and will be put in
effect when the committee meets to
arrange for the next national conven-
tion.
Form Of Representatfan.
As a result this committee viii issue
the call for delegates TO the national
convention, to be held in the year 1915,
TO nominate candidates for president
and vice president in accordance with
the following basis Of representation;
Each state shall be entitled to four
delegates at large
Two additional delegates at large
for each representative at large in con
gress elected from any state entitled
to one or more additional representa-
tiVes in congress under the appOrtiOn-
ment made in accordance with the last
census, but in which state no new con-
. gressional district has been provided
by law.
"One delegate from each congress-
iOnal district.
Additional Delegates.
"An additional delegate for each con-
greSsiOnal district in which the vote for
any Republican eIector in 1908. or for
the Republican nominee for congress i'm
1914, shall have been not less than
1900
Provided. however that the total
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 pre-
scribes; and provided, further, that in
the case of any state electing all rep
resentatiYes in congress from the state
at large, such state shall be entitled
TO as many delegates, elected at large,
as though the state were divided into
separate congressional districts"
Provision for AIternates.
The resolution also provides for al
ternates; delegates from the District o.
Columbia, Alaska and the insular pos
sessions; and the approval of the new
system in such number Of states as are
entitled to cast a majority Of the votes
in the present electoral college.
Mr.. ReynOlds's statement further
SAYS: The states that formally rati-
fled this plan. and the electoral votes
that they represent. are as follows:
Arkansas, Q; California. 10: Colorado
o; Connecticut z, Idaho, { Illinois, %
Indiana, Is; Maine. S; Massachusetts,
is; AIichigan, 10; Missouri. IS. New
Jersey IA; New York, As: North Caro-
lima, -; Ohio "A: Oklahoma. 10; Rhode
Island, 8, South Carolina. 9: Tennessee
Virginia, s.
There were. in addition to these
several states which We're in favor OF
the plan. but which held no state con
vention during 1914"
The Next Convention.
Inc membership Of the next nationa'
convention, lii accordance with the
above plan, has not yet been worked
out IN detail by states. as this requires
a canvass of the votes in each congress
lonal district, i'm order to determine the
additional delegates to be. allowed. The
result by states Will be made KnOvr
by the national committee.
me statement further says. ''The
OFFICIAL returns that have been com
piled by the Republican national com
mittee show that on national issues the
vote Of the country in November was
I'espuolical' 7-gl3,1te; Democratic
9,t1 1850; Progressive, 1.474243."
rms compilation was made on the
vote for United States senator's snc
representatives, In congress, and not or
the vote for governors or other state
officers.