Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-13
DENVER, JULY
z, CHOICE OF
DEMOCRATS
100000 BONUS OFFERED BY MILE
HIGH CITY
After First Ballot Opponents With
draw-Roosevelt Announce
ment Will Increase Chances
of Ticket, Is Belief
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-After decid-
ing to hold the next Democratic ma
tional convention at Denver and fixing
the date of the meeting for July Z, 1908,
the Democratic national committee late
today entered upon spirited debate
upon the propriety of accepting more
of the 100000 offered by Denver for
the convention than actually needed to
pay the convention expenses in that
city.
The opposition to the acceptance of
the contribution took the form of
resolution by Representative Clayton
of Alabama declining money not ac-
tually needed for the convention, but
after a long debate the resolution was
laid on the table by vote of 81 to IA
Five cities made a bid for the conven-
tion, Denver, Louisville, Chicago, st.
Paul and Atlantic City. The represen-
tatives of Denver and Louisville were
especially active.
These two cities were the only can
didates, but the friends of each of them
seemed to be of the opinion that they
had more to fear from Chicago than
from their more pronounced rival.
Denver was urgent with it's tempting
guarantee of a bonus of S1O0,0 Louis
ville's offer was not so definite and
Denny Gootle, who was the principal
spokesman for that city, admitted that
it was not prepared to make definite
offer until he should hear from home.
Charles w. Franklin of Denver was
the first speaker to be heard. He spoke
of the ample accommodations both In
the matter of hotels and the auditorium,
which he said was built by the city at
a cost of $550,00O and was capable of
holding $4,000 persons. Mr.. Franklin
made a strong point of the climate of
Denver. He declared the railroad
facilities to be ample in every respect.
Have Followed Center
Continuing, Mr.. Franklin said that
since 1882 there has not been ma
tional convention held beyond the geo.
graphical center of the United States.
He said the people of the west had been
paying the additional fare to the east
ern cities for all these years and that
it was now time to give them the ad-
vantage of the reduced rates they
would get If the convention should be
located in Denver.
w. r. r. Mills of the Denver Business
Mems league repeated the offer of
100000, $4,000 to be paid in ten days,
the remainder within sixty and ninety
days.
Senator Teller supported those who had
preceded him in all they had said about
Denver. He did not think the expenses
of the convention would be 100000, but
nevertheless the money would be given
as a gift without any restrictions what
ever. He said 1t would encourage Colo
rado Democrats to have the convention
in Denver.
He said: Twice we have given that
incomparable Democrat w. ]. Bryan,
our electoral votes. We can do that
again, either Bryan or some other good
Democrat"
Senator Teller spoke of the fact that
Colorado has in himself only one of the
two Democratic senators representing
northern ST tes and added:
eve may not be able to put another
Democrat in the senate as my successor.
Llt we hope to do so; at all events we
will do our part"
Senator Teller was loudly applauded
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