Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-05-17
TICKETS FOR BIG CONVENTION.
Democratic Committee win Have n.
900 to Give Out to 100000
Applicant.

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Applicant
Baltimore. May 1G.-Within the next
few weeks final preparations viii be
gin for the Democratic National Con
yention. which win meet in this city
on June %. The committee on ar
rangements. which has charge of all
details, viii assemble about June
and will likely remain here until after
the convention adiourHs.
II will pass on the alterations made
to the Fifth Regiment Armory and
make other such arrangements as are
necessary for the gathering Of the
Democratic hosts.
AllottiHg the SEATS.
One of the importan. duties of the
committee will be the allotment of
tickets by which alone admission to
the convention hall can he secured. On
account Of the large number of visi-
tors expected this promises to be a
more difficult undertaking than usual.
Space for delegates and alteTnates
win be allotted first There is always
a contest among he State delegates
to secure the more favorable position.
The committee usually makes these
allotments secretly, and until the hall
is opened on the morning Of the con-
vention no delegation knows where it
will be seated, The choice places are
usually reserved to the important Dem
ocratic delegations like New York,
Texas, Ulionis, Indiana, New Jersey
and Ohio Maryland as the host of
the convention will receive likely a
choice place.
10000 Tickets to Give Out
There will be about 1000 tickets to
allot. The seating capacity of the hall
will be somewhat in excess of $1,000.
Of these about 1900 seats are resery-
ed for the delegates ard alternates
and 1000 for representatives of news
papers and press associations.
The other seats are divided into
classes according TO their locations
and tickets for them ere distributed
pro rata among those entitled to re-
ceive them. The local convention com
mittee, of which Robert Grain is chair
man, will receive about 5000 tickets
for distributions Each delegate and al
ternate besides the ticket for his own
receives three to give away
The remaining, between 1000 and
1000 are allotted to members of the
National committee aud prominent
Democrats throughout the country.
The problem that will confront those
who have the Distribution of tickets
is how to divide 1900 tickets among
IS 900 or 100000 visitors
The appointments OF the hundreds
of employees of the convention door
keepers, pages, messengers, assistant
sergeant-at-arms and other attendants
is in the hands of Col John l. Martin,
sergeant-at-arms, but thGv are made
upon the recommendations of the Ma
tional committeeman aud are subject
to their approval.
To Pass On Contests
About a week before the convention
opens the National committee meets
for the purpose of passing upon con
tests between delegates and to select
the temporary officers. Though Chair
man Norman E. Mack has not issued
the call for the committee meeting,
it will assemble in all likelihood on
June IS, one week before the conyen-
ton opens.
All contests must be presented to
this committee in writing, and both
contestant and contestce may be rep
resented by counsel The importance
of this work will be realized when it
is remembered that after hearing the
contests the committee makes up the
temporary roll of the convention.
In case of a close contest between
two or more candidates for the Presi-
dency. the National Committee has
much influence. 1t selects the temper
airy officers, and rarely has the con
vention refused to accept its choice.
one of these occasions was in 1896,
when the National Committee, CON
trolIed by the sound money element
of the party, selected David b. Hill,
of New York, as temporary chairman.
THE convention, in which the free-sil-
yer men predominated, rejected Sena-
tor Hill and elected Senator John w.
Daniel, of Virginia.
THREE MEN STARE ON COL
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