The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-04-13
PARTIES TO HOLD
COUNTY MEETINGS

County are planning their conyen
tions to name delegates to the stat
meetings next month.
. The progressives will meet a
the county court house Saturda,
at 2 p. IN. to elect six delegates tt
the state convention which meet!
ia Seattle May 4.
The democratic central commit
tee will meet at the Hotel Leopold
Saturday at 2 p. IN. to name date
for the county convention, al
which thirty-three delegates will be
elected to represent Whatcom
County at the state convention al
North Yakima May 2.
A call for Republican county
convention, together with announce,
ments of preliminary meetings ic
name delegates, was issued this
week.
The following is the G. o. P.
statement:
Republican Committeeman, What
com County, Washington, and
Members of Republican Party of
Said County:
Pursuant to the order of the Re
publican County Central Commit
tee, of Whatcom County, Wash,
duly authorized and made at a
duly called meeting of said uom-
n:ittee, held at the Odd Fellows
hall in the City of Bellingham. at
/: 80 o'clock III the afternoon of
March "a, 1916, a convention OF
the Repu blicans of said County Of
Whatcom is hereby called. TO be
convened at O'Clock in tEe after
noon of Saturday, the 29th day OF
April, 1916, at the Bellingham
theater, (or if that be not avail
able, at building to be designated
later), in the City of Bellingham,
in said county. for the purpose of
electing thirty-one (31) delegates
and thirty-one (31J alternate dele-
gates from the said County Of
Whatcom to a convention OF the
Republicans of the State of Wash
ington, to be held in the City OF
North Yakima, in SAID state, on the
5lh day of May, 1916.
The Republican County Centra
Committee, in authorizing this .all,
at it's meeting at Bellingham. on
Mar. "a, 1916, resolved as follows:
BE 1t Further Resolved, That
delegates to said County Conven-
tion be chosen at mass meetings Of
the Republicans of each precinct;
that such mass meetings be called
by the precinct committeeman from
each precinct, who shall designate
the time and place of holding such
meetings; that such mass meetings
shall be held in the incorporated
cities and towns, not townships, CT
said county, at o'clock, p. m,
and in all other precincts at p.
m, all on the 22nd day of April,
A. D., 1916, and if possible, at the
last polling place in the precinct
and that notice of such meetings be
given by the committeeman OF
each precinct, by written or print
ed notices stating time, place and
purpose of meeting, posted in three
public places in the precinct at
least seven % days before such
meetings; that at such mass meet
ings. the committeeman, if present
and if not, any other voter present,
shall call the meeting to order ana
the voters present shall elect dee
gates to said county convention;
each precinct shall elect one (l)
delegate for each fourteen tl4)
votes, or major portion thereon,
east for Honorable Wesley l..
Jones for United States Senator
at the last general election III
1914, and one % delegate for
each precinct. provided that no
precinct shall elect less than two
CD delegates.
BE 1t Further Resolved, That
the mass meetings for the election
OF such delegates shall be he'd ac-
ccIding to precinct lines as the ga
cording to precinct lines as the
same were at the time of the gen
eral election of 1914"
The following is the number OF
delegates the precincts are entitled
to send to the county conventions:
Ferndale-Town -.
Lynden-Town -. 49,. -. b
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