The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-06-15
Republican Conventions
The Coming One viii
Be the Seventh -

~ EICACo is TIE fa7oEife city fof
Republican national lc9nw wsntlons
~ u t1e rtirrse1 quadrennlaI ron
reltlo1s led by this great %
Ideal party since itA birh ak aage
been bell e Chicago This -ear Ch.-
c2zo e again tie meeting place The
EeDu5llcan oonventi0n opens there
June le % nominate Candidates for
president and nee president 0f the
Dlital states Thus % the great I'LL
nols metropolis must Be credited ex
Gcly haif q the national Conventions
q tie Republican partg, while tae
Democrsttc party has held four of it,
nineteen national conventions II Chi
cago.
Firgt 81 tie Republican psrtv's chi
eago convention was that d 1896. for
gyer memorials for having nominated
Cor president the nlusrioas emaneiDa-
Lor. Abraham Lincoln. r. 1858 The con
vent1on again wss held in Chicago. thu
nominee being the second great figure
developed b the civil war Ulysses s
Grant Beginning With 1850 three con.
secunve conventions met f. Chicago
That 81 the rear mentioned nominated
James a. Garfield In 1854 James q.
Blaine was aamed While f. 1888 The
convention placed Benjamin Harrison
"a nominati0n F0F three convention
years the Republicans again deserted
the great city o. Iaks Micbigan's
shore blt in 1904 the convention
sat in Chicago. nominating Theodore
Roosevelt
" the six candidates nominated at
Chieago by the Republican party ail
but ore have been elected. Blaine was
the only candidate who failed to win
Lincoln Grant. Garfield, Harrison and
Rooaevelt we're sent % the White
Honae by wag of Chicago. Fire u
umDts out y six trfals make an excel
lent showing for Chicago az q lucky
place for the launching of presidential
nomineez
BIT location rather than luck causes
the IRE sge1t selection of Chicago The
city = ge0graDhica1iy a considerable
distance fr9m the center, but Il Is NOT
far fFem the population center ~ fhe
United States in the matter of trans
porlati0ps both by water On the great
lakes aud IS rail- Chicago is unsur-
gsesed II IS the greatest railroad cen
ter r. America, though IN danger of
losing its premiership in that respect
T. Kaafas CITY Ore may reach Chi
csgo with comparative ease from auf
place in the Erte1 sfafa where fhere
f. railroad connection. Another aavan
tage u Tie city for great conventions
a that " hote faeliltos 50 biz o.
Chicago that the many thousands OF
extra visitors WHO attend The national
conventions create scarcely a ripple N
excitement % Far IS numbers are con
cemed They can be accommodated
with ease. and even swallowed up Do
the vast throngs without being partlc
uIarlg noticeable
Chicago and New York are the only
cities ID America wnere this condition
prerai!s View York being too far to
one side ~ re county Chicago fhus
becomes the inevifa bic convention city
Chicago uakes ~ BatcBlar effort 70
Obtain great c0nvea ons, knowing fhat
they belong 70 her sg a natural right
and wili come anyhow
The population ~ licag0 Is now ar-
DroximafeIg 2o01oo9 The city's area
is about 200 square miles For tmM 81
SIX Dfles along fhe shore Of Lake Mieh
igan fhe great city gtrctches, running
back ten of more faiee Inland
Ihe growth of Chicago was one of
the world wonders Of the nineteenth
century In the year 1880. when tha
FIRST national political convention IN
the United States was held. that b,
the Anti Masonic party Chicago was
merely a collection of log houses. with
less than a hundred inhabitants
When the second Republican national
convention. which was the first to b
held p Chicago met in 1890 and nom
mated Abraham Lincoln and Hannibgl
hgmiin for president and vice prosl
dent the population was less than 70
O00 II was busy bustline burg
De sire whore ne RepHBIIcan De-
gates gathered lu tie saMOus ~