The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-17
ANY CITY MAY BID
FOR CONVENTION
Fit is Able to Furnish Neces-
sary Accommodations
Money, Convention Hall and Sleep
ing Rooms Required by Repub-
lican National Committee.
SEVERAL ARE AFTER MEETING

Washington, ID. c., Oct. 17.-Any
city which has 800 900 to spare,
with a hall seating from 1000 to TO-
600 persons, with adequate hotel ac-
commodations for 1900 delegates,
alternates and officers, plus 10000 TO
10000 visitors, and the whole sur
mounted with an adequate telegraph
lservice, can make bid TO- the next
Republican national convention with
a fair prospect of success.
The call for the meeting of the ma
tional committee will probably be Is
sued during the latter part of this
week. when Chairman New arrives
in Washington and has a conference
with Secretary Elmer Dover, who is
ialready in town. If the usual GUS
tom is followed, the committee will
meet in this city somewhere about
the 9Th or 9TH of December, which
are the last two days of the week in
which the new congress meets.
Many Cities Already Bidding.
1t is not necessary for any city
which desires TO have the convention
to file claims with the committee in
advance of the meeting. Represent
|atives of most cities write TO the sec
rotary for information as to what
will be required. Their communion
Tons have enabled Secretary Dover to
make Up list OF cities now known
to be moving in this direction. which
includes Chicago, St Louis, Kansas
City, Denver, Seattle, Pittsburg and
Boston.
There is nothing to prevent any
number of other cities coming to the
front and presenting their claims at
the last moment. 1t has been the
habit, however, for any city which is
really in earnest to begin its cam
paign early in the fall, and 1t has fire.
quently happened that the national
committee has convened with a mem-
bership practically pledged up for
different cities. Afterwards there
comes a natural surrender by the
weakest cities and a series of rapid
combinations which finally fix on a
choice.
Convention VIII Not BE Sold.
I was told at the national commit
tee headquarters today that the conf
vention would not be sold That is to !
Say, it will not be put up to the high
est bidder and knocked down for a
money consideration without regard /
TO convenience OF delegates and the
large crowds which are always at
tracted. At the same tire money is I,
necessary for the holding
OF a convention, and there is no
means of securing that money except
by subscription on the part of the
public spirited citizens.
Since 1892 it has come TO be the
custom for any city which desires a
to pledge itself to sub
scribe a sum approximating $780,
900. Out of this fund all expenses of
the convention are paid. At Chicago
in 1904, IL cost about $4,000 to Sc
cure and fit up the Coliseum building. /
There was spent for other legitimate
expenses of the convention itself /
less than $4,000 more.
All the rest of the fund, amounting /
to over 100000, was turned over to
the national committee, rot for the
purpose OF conducting an actual cam
paign in any way. but for the usual
committee expenses.
Much Work i'm Store.
There is a vast amount of work
in anticipation Of nation
al convention. The membership re-
tains about 1000, and there are, in
addition, an equal number of alter
mates. The credentials of all these
must be inspected and passed upon
before the convention meets, con-
tests have to be heard by the national I
committee, and decisions made in
each case before it is possible to
make up a temporary roll of the con-
yention.
Besides this, the actual work of
preparing the hall requires the atten-
ton of a subcommittee for several +.
weeks. Many notifications have to
be made in any large building, com
mittee rooms provided, telegraph ia
cilities arranged. telephones proper
ly adjusted, and all machinery so
carefully put together that 1t will run
at high tension for few days with /
out danger of breaking. All this work !
is attended to by the national com
mittee, and the expense involved !
comes out of the 800 900 fund after
the local committee has turned over
the ha1au.o In tie