Republican Delegates

National party conventions make platforms, candidates and, in the immediate sense of the word, politics. So it is highly important that the same people who support a party should make its politics. It has been otherwise in the Republican Party. The South, which cast a very light Republican vote in the elections, had a disproportionately large vote in the national conventions.

To remedy this situation, the Republican National Convention of 1920 adopted a new set of rules for allotting delegates. Chairman John T. Adams of the Republican National Committee last week announced the allotment for the convention of 1924, by which the South will lose 23 delegates and the North and West gain 75 delegates.

The rules under which this is done are:

Four delegates at large from each State.

Two additional delegates at large for each Representative at large in Congress from any State.

Two delegates at large each for Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii and the Philippines.

Two additional delegates at large from each State casting its electoral vote or a majority thereof for the

Republican nominee for President in the last preceding Presidential election.

One district delegate from each Congressional District maintaining therein a Republican district organization and casting 2,500 votes or more for any Republican elector in the last preceding Presidential election, or for the Republican nominee for Congress in the last preceding Congressional election.

One additional district delegate from each Congressional District casting 10,000 votes or more for any Republican elector in the last preceding Presidential election, or for the Republican nominee for Congress in the last preceding Congressional election.

One alternate delegate to each delegate to the national convention.

The total number of delegates to which any State is entitled shall be chosen from the State at large and such State shall be entitled to as many delegates elected at large as though the State were divided into separate Congressional districts.

The table of delegates:

State 1920 1924 Alabama 14 14 Arizona 6 8 Arkansas 13 13 California 26 28 Colorado 12 14 Connecticut 14 16 Delaware 6 8 Florida 8 10 Georgia 17 9 Idaho 8 10 Illinois 58 60 Indiana 30 32 Iowa 26 28 Kansas 20 22 Kentucky 26 26 Louisiana 12 9 Maine 12 14 Maryland 16 18 Massachusetts35 38 Michigan 30 32 Minnesota 24 26 Mississippi 12 4 Missouri 30 38 Montana 8 10 Nebraska 16 18 Nevada 6 8 New Hampshire 8 10 New Jersey 28 30 New Mexico 6 8 New York 88 92 N. Carolina 22 22 N. Dakota 10 12 Ohio 48 50 Oklahoma 20 22 Oregon 10 12 Pennsylvania 76 78 Rhode Island 10 12 S. Carolina 11 4 S. Dakota 10 12 Tennessee 20 26 Texas 23 17 Utah 8 10 Vermont 8 10 Virginia 15 16 Washington 14 16 W. Virginia 16 18 Wisconsin 26 28 Wyoming 6 8 Alaska 2 2 District of Columbia 2 2 Porto Rico 2 2 Hawaii 2 2 Philippines 2 2 Total 984 1,036