The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-22
CONVENTION TO Sc
HE'D IN ST. Louis
Democratic National Commit
tee Selects That City After
Two Ballots.
OBJECTIONS TO CHICAGO
Thought Newspaper Influence Would
Be Welded for Some "Particular
Candiaate"-Bryan Visits
Committee.

Washington. Jan. 14.-The democrat
lc national committee furnished a sur
PRISE, selecting st. Louis as the place
for holding the national convention Of
1904. The date fixed for the conven-,
ton was Wednesday, July 6, 1904, at IL
o'clock.
Previous to the meeting Of the com
mittce it seemed a foregone conclusion
that Chicago would be selected as the
place of meeting, but political eXlSen-.
cies entered into the situation and a
majority Of the committee voted Tor!
st. Louis.
For some hours previous to the meet
ing of the committee there was talk in
the corridors and among democratic
leaders that the convention in Chicago
might be subject to the influence of a
strong movement and a strong news,
paper influence in favor of some par
ticular candidate. Mr.. Knapp. of the
St. Louis Republic, limited at this i'll
his speech by saying that the conven-
ton, if held at St. Louis, would be
welcomed by an absolutely fair press. 3
The committee meeting INDUCED in
considerable discussion Of politics, and
the claims of various candidates We're
advocated by their p%artisans, but MOTH.
ing like favoring any candidate APP,
peared in the committee proceedings.
Two ballots We're taken for the place
Of holding the convention, resulting as
follows:
First Ballot-New York, G; Chicago,
20; St. Louis, %.
Second Ballot-St. Louis, IS; Chi
cagO. Il.
Chairman Jones appointed J. T. Nc
Graw, West Virginia; j. L. Ellyston,
Virginia; w. B. Bourley, New Jersey;
j. II. Guffey, Pennsylvania, and Nor
man Z. Mack, New York, as a commit
tee to consider the disputed committee,
membership from the District Of Co.
lombia. To this committee was also
referred the request Of the democratic
. central committee from Hawaii asking
that a Nh. Wood be made a membe
from Hawaii, and also a request from
q democratic central committee OF
Porte Rico, requesting permission to
send six delegates to the national con-
vcntiOn.
4 resolution commanding the st.
Louis exposition and the proposed eE-
position at Portland, Ore, to comment
crate the Lewis and Clark expedition
to the Pacific coast, was agreed to.
The committee adjourned at SIS p. m.
to meet at the call of the chair.
Bryan Called on Committee.
William J. Bryan, when the commit.
tee had concluded its labors, appeared,
but his visit was without any appar-
ent political significance. He did not
come to the hotel until after the COM
mittee had about concluded its bust
ness. He. was warmly greeted by the
members of the committee and invited
Il number of them to call on him at his
hotel in the evening, and held a confer
ence with Chairman Jones at the Shore
ham. Asked what he thought of the
Panama situation, MY. Bryan said that
he CBryan) moved with elaboration.
and events occurred too rapidly in
some quarters for him to keep pace
with them. In answer to another ques-
ton he replied that 1T was yet too early
to outline the issues for the coming
campaign.