Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-02
DENVER 0N THE JOB,
Good Times For Democratic Ma.
 tionaI Convention Delegates.
SPIRIT OF WELCOME IN AIR.

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 Generous Hospitality For Visitors
 Amid Grand Mountainous Scenery.
 Spirit Of Dslicaoy Shown by Wo-
 mans Club.
 Politicians and others who recently went to Denver for the Democratic national convention are beginning to understand what western hospitality means. Nothing is too much trouble for the people of Denver in their ef- forts to give the visitors a good time. The spirit of welcome is in the crisp mountain air, and what Denver mas lack in size 1t intends to make up in energetic entertaining. t
 There is nothing conventional about Denver Its residents are of the west westy and are proud of 1t. They don't attempt to follow the ways and man. nerisms of the big cities of the east. A sense of satisfaction exists over the fact that community of 100000 peo- pie has been established In Denver. more than 5000 feet above sea level, and every man. woman and child Is a booster" as they call it, for Denver and the whole of Colorado, and the visitors don't blame them. If every visitor to Denver for the convention goes away as pleased as the Demo, cratic leaders are who got to the scene early, the boosters. says the New York Suns Denver correspondent, can take rest for awhile and let the boosting be done by outsiders .
 The other night all the Democratic high chiefs and lot of other strangers went out to Lakeside. resort five miles from Denver, where they were entertained at dinner by Denver off. them in the way of an amusement re- sort It's On the order of Luna Park at Coney Island, with diversions of many kinds, but these things became secondary in the eyes of the visitors to the scenic setting. The long table at which the visitors sat down to dine was placed on an open porch overlook ing pretty lake, and as they ate the diners looked over this strip of water at background of jagged mountain peaks. all purple and blue in the beams of the setting sun. Most of them said that they wouldn't have missed 1t for worlds. and. while they enjoyed the dinner. and particularly, the Rocky mountain brook trout, 1t was the scen- cry that appealed to them most.
 Some one among them was moved to verse, and. although it is generally suspected that Colonel John l. Martin of St. Louis. the sergeant at arms of the Democratic national committee, is the guilty one, there Is no certainty that he is the author of these lines: No painted scene Is this our eyes behold:
 No cameras reproduction here we see: Those sun kissed peaks are real and
 strong and bold,
 Rock ribbed and beautiful. like Democ-
 racy
 The spirit of freedom and independ- ence among the Denver people shows itself in many ways. To the eyes of the eastern and middle western pol iticians the young women who ride horseback can't be surpassed. Noth- ing conventional about them. They sit astride their Indian ponies and gal lop along in devil-may-care way that would put old John Gilpin to the blush. Fine looking girls they are too.
 They are different from the tailor made maids of Manhattan Island, their fresh checked sisters of up state and the great lates region and the soft rosy young women of the south west. They have style and appear ance all thelr own. suggestive of the determination of their pioneer ances- tors. They are straight and 1.-the and are frank and direct In speech. and how they can ride, .. .. One of the first things that attracted the attention of the, visiting politicians was the scarcity of straw hats among