Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29
LIMELIGHT TURNS
ON DEMOCRATS
NATIONAL CONVENTION TO BE
HELD NEXT WEEK
VICE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION
INTERESTING
Many Possible Candidates Are sugs
gested and Five New York Men
Are Considered for
Place
tcontlnped from Paee one,


Burton Harrison. The latter are
young men and have been successful
in politics. Mr. Towne, formerly of
Minnesota, has made reputation in
the east and west as. strong cam
paigner
Judge OBrien is an intimate friend
of Judge Alton b. Parker, who made
the race for the presidency four years
ago. 1t is being argued in favor or
Judge OBrien that he could bring
eastern Democrats into the Bryan
camp.
The same claim is made In behalf
of former Governor William l.. Doug
las of Massachusetts as for Judge
O'Brien. Mr.. Douglas is manufac-
turer who enjoys the confidence OF
business men in the east.
Another eastern candidate is Archi-
bald McNeill of Bridgeport, Conn. who
comes also from the ranks of business
men.
Since the refusal of John Mitchell,
former president of the United Mine
Workers of America, to permit his
name to be used as a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for governor OF
Illinois he had been mentioned promi-
nently for the second place on the
Democratic national ticket. His nom
ination would be satisfactory to union
ers are inclined to put aside any dis
cussion of the wisdom of nominating
representative of labor, however, until
some decision Is reached in the matter
of inserting In the platform the in
junction" plank advocated by officials
of the American Federation Of Labor.
indiana Men Mentioned
National Chairman Thomas Taggart
has announced to his colleagues that
II an Indiana man is placed on the
ticket his state will go Democratic in
November. He is pushing the candi-
dacy of John w. Kern.
Another man from Indiana mem
toned in connection with the place is
Representative r. ]. Shively.
Before a majority of the delegates
arrive in Denver it may be expected
that many other candidates will be
suggested.
All things considered, the coming
convention promises to be better han
died and more comfortably conducted
than the majority of similar gatherings
In recent years. The auditorium Is
completed and only the settlement of
few details, for which there Is an
abundance of time, remain to be con-
sidered.
The placing of seats for the delegates
and alternates began yesterday and
will be completed tomorrow. In one re-
spect, at least, the arrangements are
far superior to those of the Republi-
can convention, and this is in the ac-
commodations provided for newspaper
| men. The ingeniously inconvenient and
| Inadequate arrangements at Chicago
are to have no parallel at Denver. The
| writing tables are strong and sub
stantial and the aisles between them
are sufficiently wide to permit a mes
| IoIa4 Ind hn h0t trc
could not be done at Chicago, where
the only method of exit for a man at
| the far end of a row was either to
compel every other man in that row
| to arise so that he could climb over
their chairs or to walk along the top
of the table on which other people
were writing.
Hall Is Model
The hall itself is apparently model
| for convention purposes, although II
| is possible some defects will be man.
| ifested before the great political gath
ering is over. It's shape is such that
far greater number of people will
be within range of a speakers voice
| than was possible in the Chicago Coli
scum.
The city itself is making every pos
sible preparation to entertain its visit
ors in the most hospitable manner
The great majority of the business
| houses and many of the residences
will be decorated and under the direc-
tion and active encouragement of a
number of patriotic organizations; the
display of bunting promises to surpass
anything of the kind seen in the west
in many years.
The great mass of decorations is to
be in place by July A and will be al
lowed to remain until after the con-
vention has adjourned.
Even in it's normal condition Denver
is a city of lavish electrical display,
and when plans now under way nave
been completed the sight by night will
be one that would do credit even to an
electrical exposition. The great capi-
tol building with its vantage point on
the summit of a commanding eminence
will be when lighted up a spectacle
of really great beauty. At the apex of
the golden colored dome is placed an
enormous light which can easily be
seen at a distance of forty miles, and
down the sloping sides of the dome
itself and along the cilges of manifold
cornices and projeclions and at the
top of the massive granite columns
which stand at the four sides of the
great structure have been placed thou
sands of smaller lights which render
the building by night revelation
well worth a far journey to see and
one once beheld, will not soon be To-
gotten.