Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-07
Cities That Want the National Re-
publican Convention.
WORK OF THE FRISCO DELEGATION
Chicago Seems to Be Leading in
the Fight So Far.
OTHER TOWNS REPRESENTED

Delegates from the various cities of the
country that have become applicants for
the national republican convention are be-
ginning - arrive in the city to be present
at the meeting of the national republican
executive committee at the Arlington Hotel
on Tuesday morning.
Among those now in the city are ROBBERY
A. Frederick Of San Francisco, Frank Roder
of Los Angeles, H. q. Osborne, Los Angeles,
and N. P. Chapman of Red Bluff, Cal, who
are stopping at the Arlington, and Geo. A.
Knight Of st. Louis, located at Wizards
Hotel There will doubtless be very
large gathering of delegates, as half a
dozen cities will make an effort to secure
the convention. San Francisco, Mime
Gpolis, Chicago Pittsburg, Saratoga and
ments for the various localities will be sub
mitted. Washington will also be suggested
as an ideal convention city.
1t is not likely that any sentimental argu-
ment will prevail with the executive COM
mittee, over which Chairman Tom Carter
will preside. The first great requisite to be
demanded of the city which is to have the
convention will be the necessary fund to
pay expenses. which Is placed at $4,000.
But several cities having shown their In
tention to offer this sum of money for the
privilege of having the convention the
matter will be decided on questions OF con-
venience.
The Pressure for Frisco.
The California delegates In this city were
very much encouraged over their pros
poets after they had made a canvass of
the members of the executive committee.
Many members unhesitatingly said. when
asked where they would prefer to have the
convention meet, "Why. had rather go to
San Francisco than any other place"
There WAS general feeling that San
Francisco would be an exceedingly pleas
ant place for the convention, and many of
the committeeman never having visited the
city felt specially well inclined toward ii
as headquarters for the convention. The
California delegates claimed that Of the
forty-four members of the national repub
lican committee they had received re-
sponses favorable to San Francisco from
twenty committeeman. But since they
quite SO confident of securing the conven-
tion as they We're when they left their
homes. The reason for this is that they
have listened to arguments on all sides of
the question, and several weak points of
San Francisco as a meeting place have
been developed. II has been argued that
it would be too long Journey for dele
gates to the convention, and that the facili-
ties of the town for handling very large
crowd were not all that they should be.
Difficulty In Distributing News.
But greater than any other argument
has been the one in regard to the difficulty
of distributing the news of the convention
from San Francisco. The number of wires
out of the city is not sufficient, it is said
to handle the enormous amount of tele-
graphic correspondence that would be the
result of such a meeting. Not only is this
the case, but newspapers would be at a
disadvantage in receiving the news of from
one to three hours time. When the after
noon papers of all the large eastern cities
would be going to press at o'clock it
1No iY, Go, y,,t1
that even with a fair telegraphic service
1t would be almost impossible for the
papers of the east to do more than report
in the morning the proceedings of the con-
vention Of the previous afternoon. while
the afternoon papers could do little more
than publish what had transpired in San
Francisco on the previous evening.
What is demanded by the republican
committee is that tn, city to have the con-
vention must be qualt!cd to fill al require
ments that will be demanded by the gather
ing of SO great convention. wnich will be
the subject of immense quantities of news
matter Another Necessary adjunct of the
convention is suitable place in which
to hold meetings, ans while the idea of
having an immense covered space IN which
fifteen or twenty thousand people might
be gathered is no longer received favorably
by the committee, vet there is desire to
have a hall in which as large NUMBER of
as 1t would be possible to bring together
under conditions in which every one could
see and hear.
Chicago Gaining Ground.
There is 10 denying the fact that Chicago
is leading among the cities that want to
have the convention. More than that, she
seems 20 be gaining ground, and even the
representatives of other cities look upon
nor as likely to win. In behalf of Chicago
1t is argued that a city that could accom-
modate the crowds brought together by
the worlds fair can accommodate a politi-
cal convention. Her ability to distribute
the news by telegraph Is unquestioned, and
she is centrally located The Auditorium
Is pointed to as a place of meeting where
six thousand people may be seated so that
they can see and hear what is going on
on the stage. which will itself accommodate
a thousand people.
But other cities are not lessening their
efforts to secure the convention. and on
Tuesday they will each be represented be-
fore the committee.
ST. Louis will make the most of her ar
gument as the most central city of all
those that are trying to get the convention.
Pittsburg will push her claim as having
had the first republican convention in the
history of the party held within her limits
These two cities will have good showing
and each will doubtless get gced vote on
the first ballot taken to locate the conTen-
ton