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Show TEXAS NAMING ITS DELEGATES Forty Democratic and .23 Republican Re-publican Going to Conventions Con-ventions DALLAS, Tex., May 21. State executive ex-ecutive committees of the Republican and Democratic parties of Texas were In session today In Snn Antonio and Dallas, respectively, completing plans and reports to bo held tomorrow in the cities named. The Republican convention in San Antonio besides electing delegates to cast Texas' twenty-three national convention con-vention votes at Chicago, Is expected to discuss plans for putting forth for the first time In tho party's history a full state .ticket In Texas. The Democratic state convention in Dallas tomorrow and Wednesday will select delegates to cast Texas' forty votes In tho San Francisco national convention. Tcntatlvo plans call for the election of fifty-two delegates to represent the state. M. H. Wolfe, j chairman of state executive committee, commit-tee, in a statement today urged that twenty women be given aeata In the delegation. With the exception o fono vote tho Republican delegation will go to Chicago uninstructcd as to presidential presiden-tial preference, according to Phil Baer, chairman of the state executive committee. Tho Wichita Falls district dis-trict has instructed that its vote bo cast for Governor Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, on tho first ballot, ho said. There -wore no indications as to Democratic convention action on any of tho presidential candidates. In the recent county conventions which elected delegates to the state convention, conven-tion, the name of William G. McAdoo was endorsed In a few Instances. |