Letter to the chairman of the Central Anti-Revolutionary Electoral Association in the electoral district of Ommen, which had selected Kuyper as its representative in the Second Chamber on October 15, 1908. A special election was held in Ommen after the death of J. van Alphen (1829–1907), an Anti-Revolutionary member of the Second Chamber. In addition to representing the constituency of Ommen, Van Alphen had served as the assessor of the Central Committee of the Anti-Revolutionary Electoral Associations. Kuyper’s electoral victory was achieved due to the support of the three right-wing parties and the personal support of A.F. de Savornin Lohman, who strongly defended Kuyper’s candidacy in the Ommen electoral district.

Three weeks after his victory, Kuyper wrote that his initial objections to become a candidate had been removed by “the memorandum in reply that was recently published.” The Heemskerk cabinet (1908–1913) had originally given the impression that it wanted to take a legislative approach different from that of the Kuyper cabinet (1901–1905), but then corrected that impression with this memorandum, which stated that it was in total agreement with the previous Anti-Revolutionary cabinet. (Kuyper had actually seen a draft of the memorandum and had made many changes to its text: see A. Bornebroek, Een heer in een volkspartij. Theodoor Heemskerk (1852–1932), minister-president en minister van Justitie [Amsterdam, 2006, pp. 167–168]). Kuyper was sworn into the Second Chamber on November 13, 1908.