Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1887 — Republican Organiation. [ARTICLE]

Republican Organiation.

NOMINATIONS. A call for a Republican Nation--al Convention, to inset at Chicago, ! June 10, Poo, brings before us for our best thought and action, party, organization and nominations. The National call directs that “delegates’fru’.a the District of Columbia shall be chosen at a convention constituted of members elected in j primary district assemblies, held j under the call and direction of the ■ Repnblican Central Committee of said district-” . , 1 wish every delegate could have beeu selected in the same way. it is tot) kite to discuss the manner I of selecting the 152 so nailed dele-! gates lit large. As to them -the call j designates. But the fiat) district delegates can- ye; he selected in a: truly Republican method. I would j favor choosing each of them at an ! uniform time after the manner j prescribed for the District of Co- i hum bin. i would also have all who j atlenil The “ prim ar v assembiiesf ballot for candidates and have! such ballots summarized by congressional dislricts and counted as the petition of the “rank and file,” to the National Convention. This would enable Republicans'to have a free vote and a fair cdunfi SlfonTd ; a majority of th-o-o w!io attend i-fie Flimary.Asscm’iiio; Ircllof for one. candidate for President or Vice; Pros id--hi, let hint be t)ur nouiinic, 1 Odn n> iae let .the ..delegates .so ‘sm i<-ct*'<l diecidr-, ami every true Republican will accept the. result and help t loot the ticket. TOWNS! 11 r* XOMINATION fc\ Tu this township fur the election ot 1 boo, the Republicans nominated trustee and assessor ns follows: On Friday evening, proceeding the first Monday of April, a mass meeting of Republicans was held at • everydsi-iiooi Irons# and ru n desig--uatcAl plrx-e inevt-ry v.atd in ReusstTaer. At each meeting one delegate was selected by a majority | bft!T4ouul a ballot for candktates 1 taken and counted. Qu Saturday ■ at one ]). nl., the delegates met in ! convention and summarized the"; rotes of the 'primary a.-ct-mblies. A trnsteH >.uoiuinati d by a ma- ] rity of ballots. The delegates vvmv fiTitiiiUTzeit uml did nominate : Tie residue of the ticket. Tit# nominations were eminently satisXftctory and I would recommend a | similar course in every township i *in the county and state, where it > is deemed wise to nominate a He- j dubiiean ticket mxt April. " - TCWNSiii? and corxrv -om;animations. Such pvim.iy assembly can make the delegates to.dhe towusjiip conventions ex offirio members of i the precinct committee. \Yhep; they meet to select a ficketT let j "them all"select by. ballot a chair-: ninu for'each precinct comndttee, i who shall, by virtue of his position, be a member of the count* executive committee. Let the chairmen of the several precinct oommit tees ylect Republican voters, not of their own members, for chairman, secretary and treasurer of the county executive committee and the organization is complete. In the primary Repuhlicrn n--seYnblies all deliberafiye iWalts'! should receive the approvpV of a' ■\r major Tv of these pit sen*. Tlie j “whocleis” might 'be emi'-u'tc i a-! to the preeinct ami conn! -, c'liiir-1 man by taking a ballot t.>jbe.e..uoted as cast, feuch a ticket mnj j-,r----galiinationiination will stan.d aj»;.r ,ve.t R v tfio- bre threu a s a p.-irf t-f-, i. t* i i thi ■: \>ork. file same ruethiKi can In* modified to apply to -e-miiT.. sfut;* f ami nation. Let young Itepnbii- i cans have a chauje in thio* cun- '

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SIMON P. THONPSON.