Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1928-03-23
CALL FOR REPUBLICAN STATE
CONVENTION


A State Convention of The Repub-
lican Party of the State of Delaware
will be held at Dover, Delaware, on
tuesday, the seventeenth day of
April, A. D. 1928, ut eleven O'Clock
A. M. for the purpose of eIecting
nine delegates-at-large and one al
ternate delegate to each delegate.
who shall represent the Republi-
cans of the State of Delaware at the
Republican National Convention to
be held in the City of Kansas City,
in the State of Missouri, at eleven
O'Clock A. M. on Tuesday, the twelfth
day of June, 1928, for the purpose of
nominating candidates for President
and Vice-President, to be voted for
at the Presidential Election on Tues
day, November 6, 1928, and for the
transaction of such other business
as may properly come before it.
The said convention shall also
elect members of the Republican |
State Committee in accordance with
the rules of the Republican Party
and transact such other business as
may properly come before it.
The convention shall consist of
one hundred and sixty (160) dele
gates appointed among the several
convention districts of the State as
follows:
Forty (4O) delegates to be chosen
from the First Convention Dis
trict-City of Wilmington.
Thirty-eight 1881 delegates to be
chosen from the Second Con-
vention District-Rural New :
Castle County.
Forty (40) delegates to be chosen :
from the Third Convention Dis
trict-Kent County.
FOrty-two (42) delegates to be :
chosen from the Fourth Conyen-
ton District-Sussex County. 5
For each delegate there shall be 5
chosen one alternate delegate, who :
shall serve in the absence of the :
principal
Said delegates and alternate dele :
gates, to be apportioned among the .
several representative districts and 5
wards by their respective County :
Committees, shall be elected on Sat :
friday, the 18th of April, A. D. 1928 :
1t primary elections to be held in ;
he said representative districts and =
Yards. :
The executive committees OF the =
County Committees shall =
lame the election officers for the =
everal election districts and desig- =
ate the hour for opening and clos 3
ng the polls at the aforesaid cleo =
ions. =
Upon closing the polls, the judges =
election shall publicly count the =
otes and make certificates of the =
esult, one of which shall be mailed =
)rthwith to the Secretary of the =
epublican State Committee at Do =
er, Delaware.
At the same time and places there 3
hall be elected throughout the sew =
'al districts of the State, a County s
for each of the respective =
)unties in accordance with the 8
lies governing the said Committees. =
lid Committees, when elected and =
lily organized, shall constitute the =
lily authorized county committees s
the Republican Party of the State =
Delaware. =
Legal and qualified voters of this =
ate, who are in accord with the =
inciples of the Republican Party, =
lieve in its declaration of policies, s
d are in sympathy with its aims s
d purposes are cordially invited to >
lite in the selection of the officials =
forth in this call
[ARLES H. GRANTLAND,
Secretary
WILLIAM D. DENNEY s
Chairman =
ne at Dover, Delaware, this =
entieth day of March, A. D. 1928 3