The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-02-01
UNIVERSALLY
C0NDE MN Ed
IS the Attempt TO Deprive
Wichita of Convention.
QUEER EXCUSE GIVEN
Claim That City Cannot Take
Care of Guests.
TOPEKA MAN IS ACTIVE
Wichita Can Care for Five
Times the Crowd.
TOPEKA MAN is ACTIVE

wichita people were surprised yesterdaT
% hear that an effort IS being made by
both Topeka and I.eaveaworth 70 take the
Democratic convention away from Wich-
tia Oh the fimsy pretense that this city
cannot take care Of the convention com
b.1eG with the knights of Pythias grand
lodge which meets here on the same date
some unauthorized person. pureiy on his
own motion. informed Treasurer Frank
Thomas ~ the Democratic state commit
tee thar the crowd would be iRconveaient
10 handle II Wichita and suggested THAI
the Democrats change their convention
t. al8ther date. Treasurer Thomas be-
ing d Topeka man. very anxious originally
70 haze The convention in his home town,
grasped az this Unauthorized suggestion
IT, have the meeting place changed alto
gether and wrote To State Chairman Mack
Love with that end fl view.
tu 800 OF This I.e4reuworlh was by this
suEg sLiug. encouraged 10 ask for the
convention and SIR. Maley, the hotel man
~ th-t town. offered 10 pay the commit
tee out 0f his pocket for the location
Of the couF entiQu there and $50 or 500 sN-
ira from other sources
The delegate sent originally 10 Topeka
T. secure the convention wrote to Mr..
Love yesterday stating that the statement
made % Frank Thomas was neither made
bv q Democrat or ANYBODY even remotely
connected with the Democratic party. ara
was not authorized hy anybody who could
speak legftimatelv for Wichita or the
Democracy OF Sedgwick county. He said
thar Wichita was ready 20 fulfill every
pledge and promise made by her delegate
IN me Throop hotel meeting. and that
Wichita could take care Of five times more
people than VIII be az the convention and
grand lodge As evidence OF this he CALI
81 attention 70 the fact that Wichita took
care OF 40 Gro people when Bryan Wss here
IN IS and Of 330o0 people when Tom Reed
vas here in %. He also called attention
- the fact that Wichita deems itself am
ply able 10 take care Of the l5.0a0 people
who VIII attend the Cattlemen-s c0uveu-
ton next month
one ot the most absurd things imagin-
able is the claim that Wichita. with three
times more hotel room than any city in
Kansas. cannot take care Of the Demo
cratic convention and the grand lodge Of
the knights IT Pythias. The fact j. that
the Republican and Populist conventions
could be thrown in CA the same dates and
then there would not be half as many Eis-
itors Cd the cil5- as were here during the
last street fair On the Thursday Of the
street fair in 1901 the railroads by actual
count. brought = coo people 10 Wichita.
and they We're well taken care Of This
was fully six times more than the Demo
cratic convention and Pythian grand
lodge VIII bring, allowing for double as
MANY visitors as delegates. The fact is.
thaC r. the matter Of delegates alone the
Rep ublcan convention VIII have as many
as THE Democrats and Knights of Pvthias
combined and no one Is afraid that the
Republican convention win be too big for
Wichita
Letvenworth does not want the Demo
cratic convention. one Of the best help
ers the Wichita delegate TO the state COM
litlee meeting had was Mr.. Ed Murphy
Of thai place He voted and worked
earnestly TOR Wichita. as did Mr.. James
orr ot Atchison and DR.. Marks of Jefer-
son county, both living east of Topeka.
and within few miles q Leavenworth.
AIr. Tom Sweeney Of Lawrence. while not
in time 10 vote al the committee meet
iog vas willing 10 vote for Wichita not
standing the fact that he lives within
thirty miles Of both Topeka and Leaven-
worth al these gentlemen IN the east
eA ft me state as they are, favored
because tney pelieA 90 II the rep
.selUlti items made BIZ the Wichita dole
g4te end from their knowledge Of the en-
terHrise and hospitality Of the Peerless
riltss lr g ~ brandenatrE or
RI 6loft ana W. r. = reppereii OF Con
ee74t voted the eaure Firm congress
s'pHal district t2r Nlehtta WIN the eN-
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u ---l1-t'l county ana iatfr ~ the
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