The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-02-17
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REPUBLICANS
ARECALLEDTo:
MEET MARCH II
Primaries Held on March S to
Elect Delegates to the
State Convention
SIXTH DISTRICT WILL
MEET, ST. CLOUD, MAR. ~
At This Convention Two Dele
gates Will Be Elected to At
tend Chicago Convention
SIXTH DISTRICT WILL
MEET, ST. CLOUD, MAR. 10

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trail republican committee, acting as
chairman of the Sixth congressional
district, has been issued for the hold
ing of the convention at st. Cloud on
Friday, March 10, at 1890 o'clock
noon, for the purpose Of electing two
delegates and two alternates to the
republican national convention to be
held in Chicago on June 8. In rela-
ton to county conventions the call
says:
County Meets March II.
County conventions shall be held
in each county of this district on
Wednesday, the 18th day Of March,
1920, at an hour on, said day and at
a place to be designated and fixed
by the chairman of the republican
county committee in each Of said
counties. All primaries for the elec-
ton of delegates to said county con-
ventions shall be held on Monday,
the 18th day of March, 1920, be-
tween the hours of 1880 o'clock p. m.
and $3.50 o'clock p. NJ, or as the
chairman of the county committee
may designate, between the hours OF
2 o'clock and 9 o'clock p. M, in the
various election districts or precincts
of said counties and at the regular
polling places in said election dis
tricts or precincts.
The representation to said district
convention and to said county con-
ventions shall be based upon the vote
for the republican candidate for gov
ernor at the general election in the
year 1918. Each county shall be en-
titled to elect to said district conven-
ton five delegates at large and one
delegate for each two hundred fifty
voters or major fraction thereof so
cast for said republican candidate for
governor.
The republican state central COM
mittee has recommended that each
election district or precinct have one
delegate for every twenty votes so
cast for republican candidate for
governor or major fraction thereof
in said county conventions; provided,
however, that every election district
or precinct shall have at least one
delegate to such county convention.
State Furnishes Ballots.
Said state central committee will
furnish presidential preferential bal
lots for use in the several election
districts or precincts with the names
of the avowed republican candidates
for presidential nominations printed
thereon, and blank spaces for mark
ing and writing so. arranged that
ence for the presidential nomination.
And the clerk of each election dis
trict or precinct is directed by said
republican state central committee,
in making his report upon the creden-
each voter may express his prefer
tials of delegates, to include therein
statement Of the presidential pref
erence in his election district or pre-
cinct, if any such preference shall
have been expressed by the electors
thereof, and the secretary of each
county convention shall report with
the credentials of the delegates
elected to the district convention a
statement of the presidential prefer
ence expressed by the electors of his
county. These reports shall accom-
pany the credentials of delegates to
the county and district conventions
and shall be instructions to said dele
gates to support candidates for dele
gates to the national convention fav-
orable to the candidate receiving the
highest number Of votes in the pre-
cinct and in the county.
In accordance with the above men,
toned apportionment, the several
counties of this district shall be en-
titled to the following number of
delegates to said district convention
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