Valdez daily prospector., 1912-06-13
HOW THEY ORGANIZE
 NATIONAL CONVENTIONS

seating delegations at natiUn- al convention. Right here is where the na- tlonal committee enjoys it's brief season of real importance. It is charged with the rcsponsibilit of making the temporary roll of delegates for the convention. That temporary roll of delegates may mean the success of one candi- | date or the defeat of another. It is the vital thing of the prelim- inaries, and may easily be the most vital thing in the fortunes of party or it's defeat.
 For example, suppose there has been fight between two men for delegates to the convcn- l ieStiOn--a fight carried into many of inc states and fought out in ! state conventions or in primar- ies. These factiOnal fights are much more bitter than any other political battles, and there arc
 always charges that the appar- ent HictOrs are viciOrs because of fraud 6r collision, or some oth- CT high crime or miSdcmcanOr.
 IL k the business of the nation
 al committee. being m charge of
 the convention. must provide
 some sort of a list of delegates with which to beign business. InaSmuch as credentials are filed with the committee and all mo- ticrS of contests made there. the committee does the preliminary
 Sifiing and hands tO the con
 ventiOn it's lists of delegates who appear to be legal delegates on
 the face of the returns and ere
 dcntialS filed with the committee. This is the theory; but, nf course. cOnteSting delegates are entitled to take their cases before the credentials committee of the con
 vpntion, or to the floor of the con-
 ventiOn itself, on appeal from the decision of the credential com mittce. This often happens--but it often does not happen, too. In many cases the contestants having been thrown out by tho national committee and thrown ' out again by the credentials com mittec, quit in disgust. In mosI U cases the credentials committed having in charge the making O. , the permanent roll of the c0nvrn. ton, accepts the work of the ma. E tiOnal committee and adopts th' '' temporary roll as the prrmanen rOll--and there you are!
 Persistent contestants often
 get as far as the floor of the con.
 venLion hall, where they usual.
 get the hook for the third an,
 last time; for inc convention, il all ordinary cases, supports th'
 report of the credentials commit. !, tee, just as the credentials com.
 mittre supports the temporar,
 roll of the national committee I If contestants have an unusual
 .ly m"rilDriouS raSr a cOnlpromis, Is sometimes made by allowing
 both the sitting delegates an, , the contestants half a vote each
 which SalvrS wounded feeling f and doesn't affect the general re- , suit.
 I It IS the province of the na-
 iiOnal committee tO select tn,
 temporary officers of the con-
 vrniinn--lhr chairman, secretary , clerks of various kinds. and ulh-
 rr cSSrniia ial portions of the ma , chinrry. In inc case of a con
 v"nIiuu like inc one of l9Oi , where Roosevelt was nominated
 OF the Denver convention of , 1908, where Bryan was noIninal-
 cd, inc candidate made a careful clrir" of IlIr pres idimG officials
 both Temporary and permanent,
 InaSmIirh as IlIr first organ iZaii"n must hr temporary, su
 that inc convention itself uIay drcid" on iIs permanent organ !. jzaIinn--lIial is. in order that that fiction may bc carried OIf--Ihis 1 gives q chance for two kcynOlc speeches, one by the temporary
 chairman and one by tlIc pcrIna-
 nent chairman. Il is usual to sc-
 lrcl prominent party men who
 arc good kcynOIrrS io make these
 speeches and io preside. The
 candidates and party managers
 always lake tlIo prccaution io
 know exactly what thcsc orators
 will say. If there is a contest by .I Il. .I.-.. .tI 4.