The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-27
Completed by the Democratic
National Committee.
THREE WAYS TO GET In
Through BusinessMen's League,
Committee or Delegates.
Total Number of Seats Amounts
to 1O,8O4.

81. Louis, June 24.-No tickets of ad-
mittance to the national Democratic
convention which begins on July 6, will
be on sale, it is announced and there will
be but three avenues through which
they may be secured-through the bus
mess mems league. through the courte-
sy of members of the Democratic ma
tional committee or through the dele
gates who are assigned three each, be-
sides their own.
The total number of seats amount to
10, ,S04
The distribution at the disposal of
the committee will begin at p. m.
July 5, at Hotel Jefferson at the direc-
ton OF the subcommittee on arrange
ments and under the personal super
vision of Secretary Charles A. Walsh.
To the press are assigned 7O2 seats.
divided into two sections, the one for
the working daily newspaper cores
pondentS, who will report the conVen-
tion and the other for the weekly press
representatives. The 81 boxes are al
ready assigned. One each goes to ev-
cry member of the national committee
and the others are awarded to distin-
guished officials or well known Demo-
Gratis. Three boxes are to be disposed
OF by Governor Francis, one is given
Governor Dockery, one to Mayor Wells.
one to the president of the board of
lady managers of the Worlds fair
In addition, there are 2,288 gallery
tickets. Each alternate is allowed only
his own seat in the convention, each
delegate has three extras. The bust
ness mems league is given 2, 900 seats.
Upon the platform will be 434 of the
best seats at the disposal of the com
mlttee on arrangements, which are to
be given to distinguished visitors The
business mems league expects to dis
tribute the seats allowed it among the
business men of the city, especially
with reference to those who subscribed
to the fund which was necessary to
bring the convention here. The sub
committee of the national committee
that will dispense the remainder of the
tickets is composed of Norman E
Mack of New York, Daniel J. Capau of
Minnesota, Charles A. Walsh of Iowa,
and ]. G. Johnson OF Kansas. The per-
sonal allowance to each committeeman
is ten tickets.
The subcommittee on ARRANGEMENTS
will meet on July 2, and the national
committee, July 3. Little remains to
be decided by either except the naming
of the man who will be temporary
chairman.
Mcclellan Boom Launched.
New York, June 27.-Mayor George
B. McClenan's friends have launched
his boom for the Democratic presiden-
tiaI nomination. The New York Daily
News prints three-page article.
George B. Mcclellan and the Presi-
dency"
The News is a Tamamny organ and
the Mcclellan boom through it's col
umns, is the result of Tammany con-
ferences and with the consent of the
mayor, it is said The Sun continues its
attacks on both the president and Gov
ernor Odell and is an open advocate of
the candidacy of Mcclellan.
August Belmont has arranged to start
for st. Louis next Thursday in his pri-
vate car over the Baltimore and Ohio
system and will take a party with MIN.
ator McCarren and D. B. Hill will start
on the same day, travelling together.
1t is understood that the purpose of so
early a departure of the leaders of
Judge Parker's cause is the carrying
out of a plan of campaign which was
decided on during Hills visit to this
city last week, whereby it is hoped to
win a large proportion of the unin-
structed delegates to support the can
didacy of Judge Parker.
But early as Messrs. Hill, Belmont
and their associates will be in st. Louis,
they will be beaten by a day by friends
of Charles A. Murphy. Several leaders
of Tammany. who have been active in
upholding the stand Murphy has taken
from the outset in the fight against the
sending of an instructed delegation,
have planned to leave on Wednesday,
One of these is Corporation Counsel
DeIany, who will be accompanied by
John H. O. Brien. Mayor Mcclellan s
private secretary, G. F. Murphy, will
leave on Saturday. With hi2a will be
Charles A. Towne and w. Bourke
Cochran. All the arrangements for the
carrying to st. Louis of the Tammany
delegates and shouters have been COM
pIeted by Senator G. W. Plunkett, the
chairman of the committee of arrange
ments. They will travel on six special
trains. which will be run over the New
York Central, the Pennsylvania and
the Baltimore and Ohio Senator Plum
kett said today that the commissariat
was being looked after by experts, and
will be so well managed that, should
the hotel keepers of st. Louis attempt
to practice the extortion complained
of bv the Republican delegates to Chi
cago the Tammany contingent will be
independent of the local refreshment
market The Tammanyites will leave
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