Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-06-05


homes have been offered to the COM
I mittee. in which from one TO ten peo-
pie can be lodged. II is estimated that
more than 60 per cent of the visitors
, who will attend the convention will
come from Missouri, Kansas. Nebraska
and Oklahoma.
The cooperation of the country press
has been asked, and the newspapers in
each county seat in the states mention
ed will announce that they will under
take TO find quarters for every person
in that county who desires TO attend
the convention. The editors will be
furnished with blank applications and
will I'LL them out for their neighbors
and send them in to Kansas City,
where they VIII be filed, and when the
visitor arrives there will be no delay
in conducting him to the place which
has been set apart for his entertain
'ment. The committee guarantees that
if any person will make application for
quarters through them the accom-
modations will be good and there will
be no extortion.
Judging from the arrangements
which are being made and the com
fair to Kansas City TO predict that she
will handle the convention crowd salts
factorily TO every one, except those
who come determined to find fault.
The handsome club building of the
EIks which was formerly the state
building of Wisconsin at the Worlds
fair in Chicago and which was moved
to this city at the close of the eXposi-
ton, has been set aside for the enter
tainment OF visiting Elks and of mem
bers of the Tammany society of New
York. These are but a few of the prof.
ects which have been devised to
make things pleasant for those who at
tend the national Democratic conven-
ton; there will be many others before
July 4, for the people OF Kansas City
are determined that there shall be no
regret in the minds of the national
committee for the decision TO hold the
convention here.
The seating committee, which has
charge of convention hall, is counting
on chairs for $40 delegates. There are
$50 votes in the convention. but they
have been told that there will be ten
delegates from Hawaii entitled to a
place in the convention. If Porto
Rico is also admitted, which is serious
ly considered, there will be n few
more. 1t is expected that with the
delegates and alternates there will be
1,5O0 seats occupied in front of the
speaker on the arena floor.
The newspaper men, TO the number
of 600, will be provided for on either
side of the speakers platform. and this
is 145 more press seats than have ever
been provided at any national conven-
ton. The subcommittee of the execu-
tive national committee will have
charge of the distribution of tickets.
There will be about $4,000 of these
tickets. and they will be apportioned
by the committee when il meets in
Kansas City July =. Five thousand
six hundred and forty tickets will go TO
the delegates and alternates, 1000 to |
distinguished visitors who will have
platform seats. ! 900 to the press bal |
cony, where will be accommodated 9th |
er than Geographic correspondents, |
and the remainder OF the tickets will |
be given to the local committees and |
to the hall fund, as it has |
been generally agreed that for each $50 |
TO the convention fund the |
subscriber should receive one ticket of |
admission to the convention hall.
This is the first national convention
ever held which has paid money into
the national committee to secure its To-
cation Mt some particular point. Here
tofore the city chosen has merely fur |
nished the han and accommodations for
the committees and for distinguished |
visitors PHILADELPHIA followed the eX-
ample OF Kansas City and offered n
sum for the Republican con-
Tention. and il remains for the expert
,nce of this summer to determine
whether the results will warrant n
of this practice. If. the
people of the cities where these con-
-entions are held are satisfied with the
financial results, it is probable that in
he future the bidding will be even
more lively than it was this year.