Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1888 — National Conventions. [ARTICLE]

National Conventions.

The number of delegates to the Republican National convention will stand thus: From each congressional district of a state, 2; from each state at large, 4, and from each territory as well as from tne District of Columbia, 2. This will make the number as follows: District delegates 660 State delegates at large ...... -... ....M2 Territorial delegates at 1arge.......................... 15 District of Columbia delegates. 2 £7 If "TT0ta1.........................................................882 Necessary to a ehoiee. 412. In a Republican convention a majority vote nominates, while a two-thirds vote is necessary in a Democatic convention. The following shows the number of delegates which were at the Republican National conventions since the party was founded: Yearn. . Delegates, 1 Yeiar~ Delegates. 1866.. ...............669 1872.... J864_................U80.......;..:..?. i ....d.756 1868 660 1884. 881