Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-03-26
OENVER'S CONVENTION
More Money VIII be Spent on Il
Than Any Other Gathering.
DECORATIONS TO De ELABORATE
Colorado City Will Show That Honor
Bestowed Upon it is Appreciated =
Candidates Have Already Engaged
Quarters.

DENVER, COL, March 25.-More
money will be spent on the Demo-
cratic national convention to TO held
in this city July 18th than oil any 9TH
er similar gathering In the history OF
American politics. Already 100000
has been contributed by the citizens
of Denver to help pay the expenses of
the convention and much larger sum
than this will be expended TO carry
out the details of the plans for en-
PERTAINING the delegates.
There is s55O.000 already expended
FOR new auditorium which Is tho
best equipped assembly hall In the
country. A welcome arch has been
erected at an expense OF $4,000 TO
100000 has been paid to the national
committee to assist in defraying the
expenses of the meeting. Heretofore
conventions have been extremely
plain affairs and simple to the point
OF crudeness MS far az auditorium ap.
pointments are concerned. Tho seats
arc generally of temporary nature
and the press gallery. etc. were torn
down after the convention was over
and gave place to other arrangements.
Not SO in Denver; the speakers Mat
FORM press gallery and 1880 seatss
are all permanent and of the best ma
terial. Accommodation are provided
Tor 600 press representatives and tho
wires OF the large press associations
and other telegraph companies will be
placed within the building, few steps
from the audience.
Elaborate Decorations.
The decorations will be more clab-
crate than is generally found at ma
tional conventions. Elaborate plans
have been made for decorating not
only the mammoth convention hall
but the entire city of Denver for tho
occasion. Lights will be literally
used in the decorations at night and
the city will be In gala attire while
The delegates are here. Band con-
certs will be held each evening and
the city will resemble n grand fete
day celebration as much as a practical
political convention.
The rival candidates for the presi-
dental nomination have taken lid
stragetic points at the various hotels.
Judge George Gray of Delaware has
secured headquarters at the Savoy
motel. one of the principal hosteleries
OF tho city. The New York deleea
ton. 1000 strong. with which the
headquarters of Lieutenant Governor
Stuyvesant Chanler will be AFFILIATED
are Mt the Brown Palace hotel lust
across the street. The Bryan head
quarters will be farther down the
street at the Albany hotel and tba
! headquarters of the Minnesota dele.
cation. with whom Governor John A.
Johnson of that state will como to
the Adams hotel, some distance from
the group of hotels in which the 9TH
err candidates are quartered. eyeraI
other candidates for vice presidential
honors are scattered about among the
hundred or SO hotels of the city, all
conveniently close to the auditorium
where the nominating viii be done
THOSE who have watched the manoeu-
vers of candidates at other politica,
conventions say that the work on he
nan of those who are after the nomi.
nations has begun about Two months
earlier than ever before.
New York leads in numerical
strength of it's delegation. az indicat.
ed by the hotel accommodations re-
served. There have been 900 reser-
vations made by the residents of New
York City alone, which is taken by
many to indicate that a candidate
from that state will be brought out
at the last moment either for first or
second place on the ticket.
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