Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-07
PACKERS Slight HARD MUST SHOW ITS PILE
Government Attorneys Realize Obligation of City Bidding for
Task Is Stupendous. Democratic Convention.
RULE FOR PROSECUTION MONEY STRONG ARGUMENT
Night Baltimore Seemed
Point Toward Combine. in the Lead
DATE CONSPIRACY ENDING NEW YORK VIEWED AsKANCE
Than Wilson-Joline Letter At
lacking j..
Obligation of City Bidding for
Democratic Convention.
MONEY STRONG ARGUMENT
Last Night Baltimore Seemed to Be
in the Lead.
NEW YORK VIEWED ASKANCE
Discussion in the Hotel Lobbies of
the Wilson-Joline Letter At
lacking w. j. Bryan.

| Money talks" declared Trey Woodson
secretary of the democratic national
committee.
'Das LIST recht," echoed Herr Rider
treasurer Of the same. nodding sagely.
These expressions just about size ur
the state of the contest among the cities
for the privilege Of entertaining the DEM
ocratic national convention as 1t rested
last night. Since there are no appre-
ciable po.iticai considerations attending
the choice of cities, and II there were
the wide-apart differences over candidate
preferences would make decision very
difficult, the selection in the last analysis
comes to question Of money.
The delegations coming before the pow
ers that be in the committee find them
selves much in the plight Of Simple ST.
mon, who approached the pieman-"Show
me first your penny" Only 1t is q pretty
penny, indeed, in this case that Is de-
manded. No offers less than a round
hundred thousand need be rendered. The
committee needs the money.
OF course, it is not meant to convey
the idea that the convention site is being
put up to the highest bidder-perlsh the
Ill
considerations involved in lending due
dignity and impressiveness to a great ma
tional convention, and in this instance
they just about approximate the sum
mentioned
Baltimore Seemed in Lead.
On these grounds Baltimore seemed
yesterday to have the best position. Bal
| timore has the money in bank. raised
| by Col Robert Grain long ago. And yet
| there was not much enthusiasm over
Baltimore's offer among the committee
men last night. They hemmed and
haWed and failed to warm up. the
prospect of Baltimore hospitality, terra
pin, soft shell CRABS. Maryland beat bis
/ cut and Maryland Club mint juleps was
| not all sufficient.
Finally some one raised the point that
the Baltimore hotel keepers nights bo.St
the prices of accommodations unless
agreement was reached beforehand. or
| course, no one who had paid a hotel b.ll
| at Denver four years ago had the un-
| blushing effrontery to urge such an OBJ
| lection.
| "Oh, very well,'' replied the Balti-
moreans, I'VE will get you an ironclad
agreement from the hotel keepers a. So
ciation that you will have reasonable
rates; our aim is to please, and II sou
don't see what you want, ask for 1t, :
whereupon they sent over TO- Baltimore
to have this loose end knotted up.
st. Louis Boomers Anxious.
Baltimore's strong lead in the race Of
cities to secure the convention caused the
St Louis boomers great uneasiness last
night. and they were in conference until
late hour planning to overcome the
Baltimore sentiment.
st Louis went all day without making
any effort to come across. st. Louis
promised to do the handsome thing. to
defray all reasonable expenses OF a
dignified convention. as Mayor Rolio
Wells put it-but never got down to
cases." The fact is that for the mo-
ment the st. Louis boomers were not
in touch with their war bags. The
wires were sizzling. folks at home
were scurrying through the city for
guarantees, but there was noting do
ing" here.
And all the time Herr Ridder. the
treasurer, business man to the core.
stood aIoof from all Establishments.
My. but he is the hard-hearted man.
the st. Louis people said. And SO the
efforts went on to raise the necessary
money.
Denver Shy a Few Chips.
Then there was Denver. 1t appeared
ludl 0SAt0I ud0 OhAy vvvsVSS so S>9sASs
being shy a few chips. For the love
of Mike" sputtered one indignant COM
mitteeman who remembered the price
he paid for one room and bath four
years ago. what did you do with the
money we left with you in 1s0ST"
c. w. Franklin and g. II. Knifton,
the Denver boomers, declared that the
balance of $4,000 would be raised be-
fore Monday, and went cheerfully on
depicting the delights of Denver which,
after all, was like painting the lily.
Chicago had not appeared on the
scene last night. although there were
advance rumors, waited eastward on
the west wind. that Chicago would dig
up the money. But the committeeman
| remembered that Chicago had some
| difficulty in getting the fund for the
| republican convention. Show me the
| money" said the adamantine Herr Rid
der to all suggestions about Chicago.
Look Askance at New York.
| New York was reported to be ready
with $4,000. but New York had ne
| friends west Of Jersey City-nor east
of Harlem. for that matter. The buga-
boo of a Tammany-ridden convention
was ever present and very live. 1t was
not a bugaboo, indeed. to the rank and
file. but a tangible danger. And New
| York has always been the enemys
| country" to the Bryanites.
| So, while Herr Ridder. the treasurer
smiled affably at the thought OF the
hundred and forty, and Trey Woodson
| did likewise. there were knitted brows
and gloomy fronts and negative shakes
| Of the head among others.
Wilson-Joline Letter Chief Topic.
| Thus the talk of the convention cities
| went on. dragging bit and giving way
TO more cogent subjects. Among these
were the rumored exposure Of the Wood
rc~ Wilson correspondence. There was
wore of the talk of the Joline letter, re-
erred to In yesterdays Star. in which
| Woodrow Wilson is said to have excori-
ated Bryan. This letter was the prin-
| cipal theme of gossip in the hotel lob
| bies last night. No one here had the
| text of the letter. but its general tenor
/ was described at second hand The re-
i ports were that the letter was q fierce
| attack on Bryan, starting out with the
i query whether it would be possible to put
| an end to Mr.. Bryan's activity In the
party and scoring his influence.
Bryan Men Stirred Up.
i II. FL. Hughes of Missouri. one of Mr.
i Bryan's most enthusiastic supporters,
and who left on a late train to meet Mr.
Bryan and come to Washington with him.
expressed his opinion Of the effect OF
such a letter.
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