Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-25
The DEMOCRATS NEXT
Politicians Turning Their Attention
to Kansas City, Present Mecca
Of Democracy.
Convention Hall Will Be Completed
In lime For the Big
Meeting.
Like the Republicans, the Vice
Presidency is the Main
Contention.

Oh Iowa, secretary OF the democratic
national committee. opened headquar-
ters at the Hote! Baltimore Wednes-
day morning. Mr. Walsh will remain
in Kansas City until after the national
convention and will be kept busy dis
charging the manifold duties that de-
volve upon the secretary of a national
sisted by James kimbrough Jones, Jr.,
son of james Is. Jones, chairman OF
the democratic national committee.
James *. Jones, Jr., also reached the
city Saturday and was assigned room
opposite that occupied by Mr. Walsh
in the Hotel Baltimore. Secretary
Walsh will be accessible to the public
only thru Inquiry al the office of John
l. Martin, sergeant-at-arms of the con-
INention.
The delegates and alternates must
present their credentials to Secretary
Walsh and he will make up the roster
of the convention. In addition Secre-
tary Walsh and John /. Martin Will
Jointly arrange many Of the details OF
the convention. including the locating
of the various state delegations in the
convention hall.
If the program arranged by the dem
ocratic national committee is carried
out the convention in Kansas City will
last at three days. And in order to
nominate Bryan in the midst OF the
/ flags and red fire and shouting and
booming of the Fourth of July all the
presidents OF national conventions are
ito be overturned
/ The convention will be called to order
at noon on Wednesday, July 4. During
the afternoon the temporary organiza-
ton will be perfected and the creden-.
iitials and other committees will get to
work. In the evening the permanent
organization is to be made and then.
after the preliminaries are rushed thru,
/ Bryan is to be unanimously and up
roariously nominated before midnight.
This is the plan that has been formu-
I lated and which will be carried out I'M
less there is hitch in the proceedings.
On the second day. July ., the plat
form Will be adopted, and then the
convention is to adjourn until the day
following. This will be the most inter-
esting day of the session, because the.
vice president Will be named, and about
This there is no end of uneertainty. The:
| convention might be spread out over
/ four days. hut the committee is deter
/ mined to make it last at least three
days.
/ In order to send out William Jen-
Innings Bryan as u candidate for the in.
Independence of the people, nominated on
I the anniversary OF the freedom OF the
nation. the democratic national COM,
/ mittee Will set aside an old and cstab-
lished rule Of conventions, which have
/ first adopted a platform and then nom
inated candidate. But this method of.
| procedure is purely matter of prece-l
ident. 1t would not require even sus-.
4 pension of the rules 10 name first the
candidates and afterward make the
4 platform.
The republican national committee
made pledge to Philadelphia that the
/ republican convention would be at
.Iieast three days long. But no such
4 pledge was made by the democratic
committee to Kansas City. Neverthe-
4 less the committee intends to prolnng
the convention as tho a pledge had
/ been made BESIDES n great many of
4 the state delegations and q large part
of the crowd are expected to arrive in
1 Kansas City on July 2, two days before
i the opening of the convention. The
i Tammany crowd. the largest single
delegation booked in Kansas City, has
engaged its rooms for July 9 and its
4 special train will reach the city on that
day.
The chaplains who will open each
days session with prayer have been
selected. They are Rt. Rev. j. j. Glen
non, coadjutor of the diocese of Kan
sas City. the Rev. S. NJ. Neel. pastor OF
the Central Presbyterian church. and
Rabbi II. II. Mayer of the congrega-
ton of B'nti Jehudah. 1t is esteemed
as a great honor to he chosen chaplain
of a national convention. Unlike other
official positions connected With ma
tional convention, the selection OF
chaplains is made without considera-
tion Of political advantage or influence
The convention committee decided t.
Iconfer the honor upon the leading ex.
> pnnents in Kansas City OF the Protest.
ant Catholic and Jewish religions.
MIR. Walsh has. received a cablegran
from Hawaii telling Of the delegation
: which will come from that island to tn,
national convention. The cablegran
follows:
THE democratic party of the Hawaii
an lsI2!luS.4 III convention dSSPTlUlGQi II
the city OF Honolulu, island of Oahu. c.
: the 18th day OF June. did elect elk dele
gates to represent the democratic part.
of the Hawaiian islands at the nationa
convention to convene in Kansas Cit.
/. on the 4th day of July, and did instruc
(: the delegates. IL seated, to cast thei
j. votes for William Jennings Bryan as tn
J. candidate of the democratic party 70
!. president Of the United States. Our del
h egation expects to reach San Francisc
: on June 90 and hope the democratic
n party Of Hawaii may be given seats an
Il Recommendations secured for them an,
be recognized by the democratic ma
tional convention. ED II. HART,
Secretary Convention.
THE Hawaiany will undoubtedly b
|. recognized" said Mr.. Walsh. Arrange
ments will be made thru the informa
ton bureau for the accommodations 70
the men from Honolulu"
The construction work on the ne,
convention hall Is being rushed Wit
great vigor as the time for the nations
J. convention draws near. There is muc
2 work yet to be done, but there is enoug
time and sufficient cheerful hearts an
willing hands to accomplish it.
They are coming down inc non,
stretch fast" said one Of the thousand
Of spectators who daily watch the prog
= resi OF the work with great Interest