The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-19
THE CONVENTION
urHOCRATIC COMMITTEEMEN MEET AT DENVER TO MAKE
 ATTACHMENTS.
Nsr1 on New Auditorium rs Te Be Hurried So rf VIII Be Ready Big Crowd Calculated An as Hotel Hates Are to Be
 Reasonable.

A Denver POST. #EA .
 rhcmas Taggart and the subcommit- tee to arrange the preliminary details of the National Democratic Convert lion in Denver on July !, will reach Denver Saturday evening. January ls. according to telegram received last night in Denver. Among them will pc Rouer c. Sullivan of Chicago, Clarke I1ouveli of Georgia, Urey Woodruff or Kentucky, R. M. Johnston Of Texas' I James C. Dahlman of Nebraska, NOT man, D. Mack of New York. John T. McGraw of West Virginia ana Jonn E' Osborne of wyoming.
 The object of the committee is first to look over the ground, figure out the hotel facilities for the accommodation or the throngs that are coming to the con vention, and meet the people or Den yer. During his stay in Denver Chsir- < man Taggart will probably appoint a u6rmanent local arrangement commit fee tn arrange the minor details of the xathering, which must be attended 10 &etween now and the time of the con xention.
 The convention hall--auditorium- win be completed by April l. It VII be in shipshape order by July l, ana ready for the democratic hosts ine eeatinz capacity of the hall will pc nearly l2, 00O. Of these there will be &00D delegates and aiternates. This, < however. will represent but small rarf of fhe people who will be here from all parts of the United States. also from the Philippines. Porto Rico and ahe Hawaiian Islands.
 The appointment of tickets is going 70 cause some disappointments- with only about 10000 to give out among the delegates and friends, some of the visitors are likely to be deprived of the opportunity of witnessing every sessfon of the convention. It is es- ffmated that 10000 or more people from Colorado alone will be in Dem ger during the convention season. All I this will seek tickets to the big as- nembIage of the nations democracy.
 Facilities for handling the tele- nxaphfc matter during the convention have been planned by the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Com ranies. They will be as adequate aS those furnished at St. Louis and Kan eas City on the occasion of the National conventions there in 1904 and lsOe. rasuecfiyely. The Associated Press will have it's special wires to send out the xews of the gathering night and day. The best operators. code and machine men. will be assigned to Denver 10 cover the big gathering.
 Denver hotel facilities are going to be ample to care for all who come Haasonable rates will be charged for Recommendations. No attempt will be made to gouge the visitors. A sub cornuittea of the Hotel Mems Associa- ton has been to Chicago. St Lotus and Kansas City to study the hotel rate question there on similar oc- caafons. This committee will return to- morrow. Report of its findings will ha submitted to the association dur ing the week.
 colorado's. and particularly Denver's, Democracy expect to entertain the marching club of 500 is now in process Of organlzation. It will act as an escort ko the visiting marching clubs from Cktcawo New York, Cincinnati, Cleve- land and other cities.
 Thousands of people, East, North and E0uth,t as well as of the far West. are planning their vacations so as to be in Colorado during the convention season. With CoIorado's fame as simmer re- sort the coming of the nations Demo cracy will double the number of visi- tors here next summer. Railroads Throughout the country will have re- duced rates to Denver for this oc- uasion. This will tend to swell the
 rho headquarters of the National Connuaittee will be at the Brown. Three. flooF have been reserved for SC. The committee will begin it's stt- ting several days before the meeting of the convention to hear contests and dispose of other matters that ordinarily some up. The factional party in Massachusetts already foreshadows one contest Two delegations will be elect ed there to the convention in Denver. Both will claim to be regular. It will be up to the committee to determine tho contest and report its findings to the convention the day it assemblies.
 Hotel rates are to be lower in Den yer during the Democratic National Convention than ever given delegates and politicians at any previous National gathering of the kind. It is going to. be done and to the satisfac- &f0n of all the hotel men. This Is the Information given out by Samuel F. Dutton. who returned last night from St. Louis, where he looked into hotel rates, the number of rooms required, found out how to handle the politicians and what mistakes to avoid
 MT. Dutton went as the representa- tive of the convention league. He ac- companied Harry Insley. president of Ghe Democratic club The latter has gone to French Lick, Ind, to consult Thomas Taggart and will go to Chicago and confer with Roger Sullivan. am other National Committeeman, before returning.