The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-13
DENVER IS
 FAVORED CITY Gets the Big Democratic
 Convention. JULY SEVENTH IS THE DATE Committeeman from Alabama Voted
 for Louisville. There Was Spirited Debate on Pro- priety of Accepting E.tire Amount
 Onered by Denver for Con-
JULY SEVENTH IS THE DATE

Washington. Dec. 12.--After deciding to hold the next Democratic National Convention at Denver. Col, and fixing the date of the meeting for July (, 1908, the Democratic National Commit tee late today entered upon spirited debate on the propriety of accepting more of the $l00,000 offered by Dem yer for the convention than actually was needed to pay the convention ex- penses in that city.
 The opposition to the acceptance took the form of ! resolution by Represen- tative Clayton of Alabama, declining money not actually needed for -oonven-' tion purposes but after a long debate, the resolution was laid on the table by vote of 31 to If.
 Mir. Clayton, Representative John ' Sharp Williams of Mississippi and Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia. all spoke in favor of the passage of the resolution. Governor Smith was espe- cially emphatic in saying that the t100,000 which had been offered to se- cure the Republican Convention and refused by the Republican National Committee. had been offered and was about to Do accepted by the Democrat ic Committee. He said the Republi- cans had turned down the offer because it was regarded as in the nature of bribe and that Democrats. in view of
 
 accept it.
 Taggart Favored Acceptance.
 Mir. Williams spoke in similar vein as also did Mir. Clayton. MT. Taggart ad- vocated the acceptance of the Sl0o.000, saying 1t would be needed now even worse than money was needed in 1900, and that at that time. 1t would have been practically impossible to have opened headquarters for Judge Parker if they had not had the extra money received from St, Louis where the con vention was held.
 Senator Stone of Missouri made long speech in which he favored tho acceptance of the money.
 Efr. Clayton declared; that the accept ] aneA 9f this money would be in line < vi zAe very practices in campaign contrfbutions that had been condemned by the Committee. This view was an tagonfzed by. Senator Stone, who de- ciared that the transaction was open and above-board, and this was not to be compared with any of the .proposi- tions that had been condemned. Many peopie, he- saids would go- to Denver and the young and growing city was. glad to make this contribution for the advantages it would receive, The money, he said would he badly needed in starting the campaign.
 Mayor Tom l.. Johnson advocated the acceptance of the money offered by Denver. He said the money for cam paign purposes is contributed by cor porations with the view of securing advantages in legislation or otherwise, while the contribution of Denver could not be ascribed to any such purpose. The people of Denver. he said. have regular organization for the purpose of attracting conventions to the city for business reasons and 1t was per fectly proper for the Democratic Ma tional Committee to accept the offer. TilImanis View of It.
 Senator Tillman opposed the accept ance of the money. Let the local Democratic organization of Colorado" he said. have the money to fight their next campaign. Guggenheim can be depended upon to furnish the money for the Republicans. Now give the Democrats of Colorado a chance and let them use the money to return Sem ator Teller"
 MT. TilIman. however. voted against the motion to lay the resolution on the table. Charles F. Wilson, sitting as & proxy for the member of the committee from Colorado, assured the committee that Denver had no desire to appear as unduly influencing the committee. He said that there Is Business Mems League in Denver. an important part of whose business 1t is to secure conventions. and that tho proposition to the committee to go to Denver has been made as 1t has been made to secure many other meetings He said the Denver people would be disappointed if the entire sum was not accepted.
 The motion to table Mir. Clayton's resolution was made at the conclusion of MT. Wilson's speech, and prevaileS by the following vote:
 Yeas-Colorado, Connecticut, Dele- ware. Georgia. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. Kansas, Kentucky Louisiana, Maine, Maryland. Michigan. Missouri. Ne- braska, New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. New York, Ohio, Penn sylvania, Rhode Island. Tennessee. Texas, Washington. West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming. District of Co., lumbia, Alaska, Indian Territory-Sl.
 Nays-Alabama, Arizona. Florida. Idaho, Massachusetts. Minnesota Mis- sissippi. North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont. Vir- ginia. Porto Rico-l4.
 On the first ballot, Denver received 22 votes as against l7 for Louisville, for Chicago and for St. Paul.
 July is the Date.
 July was selected after very brief discussion.
 The. vote in detail on the first ballot for the selection of the city was as
 For Denver-Colorado, Connecticut, Delawar Georgia. Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland. Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey. Ohio Oregon. Rhode Island, South Carolina. South Dakota, Tennessee. Washington. Wis consin. wyoming. Atlaska, Indian Ter ritory-22.
 | For LouisvilIe-Alabama, Arizona. Florida. Idaho. Kansas, Kentucky Maine, Mississippi. Missouri. New Mex ico, Pennsylvania. Texas. Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia. Porto Rico, District of Columbia-17,
 For Chicago--Illinois. Iowa, Massa- chusetts. New York. North Carolina-o'
 For St. Pauj--Minnesota-l.
 The committee held two sessions during the day. the principal business of the first session after roll call oe- ing .he discussion of the following resolution presented by B. M. Johnston of Texas:
 Resolved. that the Democratic National Committee cordially approves the movement now under way to secure