Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-10
HOLDING UP TICKETS
Plan to Prevent Packing Balti-
more Convention.
DELAY IN DISTRIBUTION
Admission Cards Not to Be Given
Out Until June "a.
PRECAUTION WITH employees
Col. Martin, Sergeant-at-Arms,W Will
Shift the Doorkeepers Often
to Wreck Plots.
PRECAUTION WITH employees

BALTIMORE, June 1O-Col John l. Mar
tin. sergeant-at-arms Of the democratic
national committee, who for twenty years
has been sergeant-at-arms Of the national
conventions. declares that no man or ma
chine can pack the democratic national
convention June ., and that no man will
be admitted to the hall without ticAet. No
ticket will be issued to any one high or
low in the democratic party until one day
before the convention opens. This is in
tended to prevent the counterfeiting of
the tickets by spectators or political
schemers. The tickets are Autographed
and it would take several days to perfect
a counterfeit that could pass muster at
the doors Of the convention hall Counter
feits have been made before in the his
tory OF conventions.
Plan of Distribution.
June "a each leader of each state dele
cation will get the exact number Of tick
cts for his delegation, each national COM
mitteeman will get his allotment and
Chairman Cram and others will get their
share fixed by the national committee.
The only chance for any man ma
chine to get more than proper share OF
tickets to further some ones chances for
office will be through the national commit
teemen themselves. Col. Martin said that
he had surrendered the right to distribute
tickets on his own authority and had in
structed ali those asking for them to con-
suit the national committeeman from
their own states.
There is possibility of some commit
teeman from far western state who has
small demand for these favOrs to trade
the tickets at his command for other
things he desires. But Col. Martin
voucnes for every member Of the COM
mitlee that none will give his tickets to
further any scheme to pack the hall.
More Than 1900 Seats.
Between 1850 and $4,000 seats is the
estimate that Col. Martin has Of the ca
pacity of the 9Th regiment armory.
In his twenty years Of experience he has
learned that there is usually enough
space to squeeze in safely hundred or
two more chairs after the local archi-
tects have done their best.
The only other scheme by which a
Woodworking machine can get It's own
men into the convention hall is through
the doOrkeepeIs and assistant sergeant
neuvering with the natlona. committee
men from the distant states, who have
small demand for their convention pat
ronage, there was once a possibility of
pOAlucdl NlacnlHe settlnS great num-
Der of its men at the doors and other
strategic points.
Packing by Doorkeepers.
Doorkeepers at other conventions. ac-
cording to Col. Martin, have let in
crowds at the orders of the men who
secured their appointment and allowed
the hall to be packed. Col. Martin will
have none of this, and has brought his
experience with previous national con-
ventions to prevent 1t. First to deprive
himself of this power. he makes no
appointments except upon the authority
Of the national committeeman from the
state of the appointee. except in spe-
cial cases, when he asks the approval
of the committee.
There are between 1900 and 1000 men