The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-08
nFNvER PLANS SURPRISES FOR
THE NATIONAL DEMO
CRATIC CONVENTION.
wlI | BE LIKE BIG TEA PARTY
,,nioue Features When Hosts OF De-
mocracy Assemble Next July
Club Women Want Bryan's
Daughter to Make One
of the Speeches.
of the Speeches.

of the Speeches.
There will be many features at
49,. ro+ional convention of the dem
ocratic party in Denver next July
,,niore in a big political powWoW,
Nd come delegates will have a hard
ti,oa telling whether they are MAX
mo history or attending a social tea
,or+v Two of the most unusual tea-
+rres will be the presence OF one
or more women, among them Mr..
prvan's daughter, as delegates, and
SNOWFALL battle on the convention
floor.
The floor of the big auditorium in
which the convention will be held
is lust exactly one mile above sea
level.
The heat and sweltering weather
at mast conventions have been the
causes of as many outbursts OF
smothered profanity as any other
one cause, but in~Denver the weather
will prove a charm that will COM
nIetely bury the superheated adject-
ives of overweight politicians. In
stead of shirt sleeves and whiting
collars there will be closely buttoned
coats and no fans.
Should any of the politicians give
way to inclinatiOns to hurl super
heated epithets at the opposition
which are inclined to raise the tenn
rerature of the convention hall they
can be easily cooled with real snow.
The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific
railroad, known as the Moffat road
in honor of it's builder, has made ar
rangements to bring carload OF
snow down from the mountains and
Mace it in the convention hall each
dav of the convention. That one
feature alone insures the comfort OF
the politicians and if heated debates
arise which cannot be settled in any
other way sides can be chosen, a di-
vision line drawn and the battle
fought out with snowballs.
Weather Is Ideal.
# can be forecasted what kind of
weather will prevail in Denver dur
ing the convention. The government
weather bureau has kept accurate
records for period of SO years as
to what the weather man has done
for Denver.
The convention will be called to
order on the morning of July (,
1908. An examination of the files
in the weather office shows that the
highest point touched by the Their
mometer on July Z in SO years was
81 degrees. That was in in 1874.
Then, it must be remembered that
it is not as hot at 81 in Denver as
it is at 81 in st. Louis. The at
mosphere is different and the effects
are different. There are never any
sunstrokes there.
The lowest point touched by the
thermometer on any of the 36 July
Is was AT, which was the record OF
July T. 1904. But it is as cold in
Denver at AT as it is in st. Louis
at 81. So the delegates can go
prepared to enjoy pleasant weather.
The average temperature on that DAY
for 20 years was "A degrees.
There will not be any need to
worry about umbrellas or rubber
shoes during the convention, Tor
there have been % clear days TO
II on which light shower fell dur
ing the SO years on which tally
has been kept Even then rain, like
everything else in Colorado, is dit
ferent. If, by some mischance, the
weather bureau should slip and let
a shower fall as the delegate left
his hotel the chances are that ne
would be dry and thoroughly ironed
out before he reached the conVen-
ton hall, even if it is only few
blocks away. The air is so short on
moisture that it quickly absorbs any
surplus found lying around.
Women in Convention.
If the cool weather and the snow
are not sufficient to make the poll
ticians keep their coats and collars
on there will be other inducements
to make them comb their hair with
extra care and put on clean collar
twice day. Women will be on the
dent of the United States may be
nominated by a woman. Denver IS
in Colorado. where laws are some
times different from what they are
in other places Women vote in Col
oradO, and a movement is on IooC
among the women politicians OF COZ
orado to nominate Ruth Bryan Lea
witt, daughter of William Jennings
Bryan, as a delegate to the demo-
cratic convention from Colorado.
If she secures the election as a
delegate they are planning to let ner
make one of the speeches putting
her fathers name in nomination for
the presidency of the United States.
Such thing was never heard OF be-
fore, but Colorado is nothing If not
progressive.
Mrs. Laaxitt is now in Europe, and