The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-07-01
PARTY MUST WIN
Says Thos. F. Ryan and All the
Delegates Should Cooperate to
Secure a Nomination Which Will
Invite Success-DeclaratiOn of Re-
publicans About Southern Repre-
sentation Is a Serious MATERIAL
Arrangements Nearly Complete for
the Gathering Of the Big Body of
Democrats.

St. Louis, June N.-No tickets Of ad-
mittance to the Democratic national
convention which begins at the Coils
cum on July 9Th, will be on sale, it is
announced. and there will be but three
ways in which they may be secured
from the Business Mems League,
through the courtesy of members of the
national committee or through the
delegates who are assigned three each,
besides their own Arrangements for
the number and the distribution of the
tickets are complete. The total OF the
seats in each division is asccrtained.
In all they amount to 10,S04, plus a few
in excess, the number of which will not
be known until the convention opens.
The distribution of those seats at the
disposal of the committee will begin at
6 p. m. July 5th and will TAX place at
Hotel Jefferson, at he direction Of the
Subcommittee ON arrangements Of the
national convention and under the per-
sonal supervision of Charles A. Walsh,
of Iowa, secretary of the national COM
mittee-
One thousand delegates and one thou
sand alternates are the first to be pro-
vided for. This up 1000 or 2,10c
seats, the latter number in case six
delegates each are allotted to Porto
Rico and the Philippine Islands. Next
there are 6O4 chairs in the arena guest
section, the disposition OF which will be
in the hands of the national commit
! tee.
To the press Of the country are as
signed 702 seats, divided into two sec
tion@the one for the working daily
newspaper correspondents who Will re-
port the convention and the other for
the weekly press representatives, who
will be spectators.
The boxes are limited to 81, including
40 box tickets. These are already as
signed. One each goes to each men,
Der of the national committee and the
others are awarded to distinguished off,
! Gals or well known Democrats.
| Three boxes are to be disposed Of by
former Governor Francis. One TO Gov
ernor Dockery, one to Mayor Wells
and one to the President of the board
Of lady managers Of the worlds fair.
In addition there are 2,2SS gallery
tickets. each alternate is allowed only
his own seat in the conventions; eaca
delegate has three extra. The Business
Mems League is given 1000 chairs, 10
Gated in various parts of the Coliseum,
some ON the floor, some in the special
guest section and some in the gallery.
Upon the platform will be 434 OF the
best seats at the disposal of the COM
mittee on arrangements. These are to
be given to distinguished visitors, TO
the governors of states, the mayors OF
large cities, Senators, members of Con-
gress. e~x-Senators or Democrats or ma
tional Importance.
Tie Business Mems League expects
TO distribute the seats allowed it among
the business men of the city, especially
to those who subscribed TO the und
which was necessary to bring h Q n
vention here. The subcommittee ~
the national committee that will dis
pense the remainder of the tickets IS
composed of Norman E. Mack, Of New
York; Daniel j. Campau, of Michigan:
Charles A. Walsh. Of Iowa and j. G..
Johnson, Of kanSaS. The personal al
Iowance to each committeeman is ten
tickets.
The subcommittee IN arrangements
will meet July End and the national
committee July 9Th. Little remains to
De decided by either kept the nam
ing Of the man who will be Temporary
chairman.
New York. June 27.-Thomas F. Ryan,
who is a delegate from Virginia 10 the
Democratic national at St.
Louis, believes that the Southern dele
gates should cooperate to secure a
nomination which will invite success.
He said today:
In the light Of the Republican con-
v~ention. the Southernrpeople have more
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soon to meet in St. Louis than all the
rest of the people Of this country.
Without the South, there would be
no Democratic party. The delegates
from that section to be true to them
selves and the people, should insist
that all differences. whether personal
or political, be subordinated to the uni
fication Of the party n the selection
Of a candidate who will arouse the en-
thusiasm and fire the hopes Of Demo-
Gratis everywhere. Success means con-
tfnued white supremacy in the south
vita all it implies. 1t means hat the
political faith of the people OF that Sec
ton shall be changed only by appeals
TO judgment and conscience as to what
IS best for all the people Of our common
country, and not through Federal laws
dictated and enforced by a centralized
and politically hostile administrator
at Washington reinforced by the Unit
ed States marshal when other methods
no longer avail.
The feature which stands out in
the work OF the Republican national
committee, which has just adjourned,
was not its prearranged nomination OF
President Roosevelt, or the stand PAT
attitude on the tariff. Its real spirit
is found in that deliberate declaration
about southern representations spiri;
which foreshadows a new force bin and
makes inevitable a concerted movement