The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-13
DENVER GETS DEM
0CRATIC CONVENTION
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made its proposition in good faith and
that II should be accepted in the same
spirit IT. which it had been made.
Charles r. Wilson. sitting as proxy
for the member of the committee from
Colorado, assured the committee that
Denver had no desire to appear as I'M
duly influencing the committee. He said
that there is a business mems league in
Denver, an important part of whose
duty is to secure conventions, and that
the proposition to the Democratic COM
mittee to go to Denver had been made
as it. had been TO secure many other
meetings. He said the Denver people
would be disappointed if the entire sum
was not accepted.
Offer Accepted.
The motion to table Mr.. Claytons mo-
tion was made at the conclusion of Mr..
Wilson's speech and prevailed by the
following vote:
Yeas-Colorado, Connecticut, Della
ware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas. Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine,
Maryland Michigan, Missouri Nebras-
ka New Hampshire, New Jersey. New
Mexico. New York. Ohio, Pennsylvania.
fLLOUt IoldHu- EtflutcotEf ItAdO- " arr
ington. West Virginia, Wisconsin. Wyo-
ming District of Columbia, Alaska, In
dian Territory-3l.
Noes-Alabama, Arizona. Florida.
Idaho, Massac husetts, Minnesota, Mis-
sissippi, North Carolina, oregon, South
Carolina. South Dakota, Vermont, NiT-
ginia, Porto Rico-14
on the first ballot Denver received p
votes, as against II for Louisville ) for
Chicago and ! for st. Paul
July was selected as the date for
the convention after a very brief dis
cussion.
The committee held two sessions dur
ing the day and adjourned finally at
o'clock.
Work of the Committee.
The Democratic national committee
met i'm executive session at 4:05 O'Clock,
the chief business before the body be-
ing to vote for a place and to fix the
time of meeting of the next Democrat
ic national convention. During the re-
cess which followed the morning ses-
sion. advocates of several cities were
busy button boiling members of the
committee with persuasive arguments
i'm favor of their claims for the con-
ventiOn city. There were private con-
ferences held with a hope of settling
the contest before the committee re-
assembled, but when Chairman Tag
CART raped the meeting to order the
contest between Louisville and Dem
yer, to which cities it was practically
confined at that time, was still on, nei-
Their being able to claim a victory.
Quite a number of committeeman went
into the afternoon meeting declining to
pledge themselves for any city.
Democratic members of congress
were admitted to the executive meet
ing, but all others were excluded.
Denver Leads at Start.
The first vote was promptly taken,
Denver securing twenty-five votes.
Louisville eighteen, Chicago FIVE and
St. Paul one.
The vote in detail follows:
For Denver-Colorado Connecticut.
Delaware, Georgia, Indiana. Louisiana.
Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, New
Hampshire. New Jersey, Ohio. Oregon,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, South
Dakota, Tennessee. Washington. Wis
consin, Wyoming. Alaska, Indian Ter
ritory-22.
For Louisville Alabama, Arizona,
Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky,
Maine, Mississippi. Missouri, New
Mexico. Pennsylvania. Texas. Yer
mont, Virginia, West Virginia, Porto
Rico, District of Columbia-17.
For Chicag o-Tllinois Iowa, Massa-
cF''~"ff~ Nov- Vo~', Moth Carolina-5
For ST. Paul-Minnesota-1.
- MAPPING uI ,Lu woes cast being
necessary for a choice another vote
as ordered.
Made 1t Unanimous.
Roger c. Sullivan then arose and
withdrew Chicago and gave its five
votes to Denver. Urey Woodson
promptly followed by Withdrawing
Louisville. and moved TO make the
choice of Denver unanimous. which
was done.
The committee then proceeded to
vote on the date for the holding of the
convention. June % and 80, and July 7
and IA, were all suggested, but the SEN
timent was largely in favor of July 7,
and a vote resulted in the choice of
that date.
The committee then received the
standing committee of correspondents
of this city, consisting of Maurice
Splain, ]. P. HOrnaday and Thomas J.
Pence, who requested that when ar
rangements for the press at the con-
vention was made they should meet
jointly with the press committee of
the convention to take up matters con-
corning arrangements for the accom-
mediation of correspondents This was