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The Ely Miner
Ely, Saint Louis County, Minnesota
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In Terre Haute, Ind., on Jan. 24, Populist National Committee Chairman Taubeneck and Treasurer Rankin issued a call for the party's national convention in St. Louis on July 22 to adopt a platform and nominate presidential and vice-presidential candidates. Delegate apportionments by state and territory are detailed, with instructions for state committees to select delegates.
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Populist National Committee Instruct the Party as to the Convention.
Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 24.—Chairman Taubeneck, of the populist national committee, was here Thursday and with Treasurer Rankin prepared the call for the national convention at St. Louis, which they furnished as follows:
"The members of the people's party and all others who favor its principles are invited to assemble in their various states and territories and choose delegates and alternates under the methods and upon the basis of apportionment as hereinafter prescribed, to assemble in national convention at St. Louis on July 22 for the purpose of adopting a platform and nominating a candidate for president and vice president and transacting such other business as may properly come before them. The number of delegates apportioned to each state by the national committee under the basis adopted is as follows:
"Alabama, 54; Arizona, 4; Arkansas, 20; California, 39; Colorado, 45; Connecticut, 7; Delaware, 3; Florida, 5; Georgia, 61; Idaho, 7; Illinois, 54; Indiana, 30; Iowa, 30; Kansas, 82; Kentucky, 25; Louisiana, 15; Maine, 9; Maryland, 9; Massachusetts, 21; Michigan, 29; Minnesota, 53; Mississippi, 15; Missouri, 38; Montana, 11; Nebraska, 51; Nevada, 7; New Hampshire, 4; New Jersey, 12; New York, 44; North Carolina, 95; North Dakota, 12; Ohio, 49; Oregon, 17; Pennsylvania, 42; Rhode Island, 4; South Carolina, 17; Tennessee, 24; Texas, 95; Vermont, 4; Virginia, 53; Washington, 17; West Virginia, 8; Wisconsin, 25; Oklahoma, 7; New Mexico, 4; Wyoming, 7; District of Columbia, 4; Utah, 5.
"The state committee in each state and territory is charged with the duty of promulgating this call in their respective states and territories and determining the method of choosing said delegates whether by state conventions at large or in congressional districts or both. The officers of the state and district conventions are requested to send names of delegates as soon as chosen to the chairman of the national committee. All credentials to the national convention shall be signed by the chairman and the secretary of the conventions which selected the delegates.
(Signed) H. TAUBENECK, Chairman.
"J. H. TURNER, Secretary.
"L. J. McPARLIN, Secretary.
"M. C. RANKIN, Treasurer."
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St. Louis
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Jan. 24
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Chairman Taubeneck and Treasurer Rankin prepared and issued the call for the Populist national convention at St. Louis on July 22, inviting members of the people's party to choose delegates based on apportioned numbers for each state and territory, with instructions for state committees to promulgate the call and select delegates.