Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-12
ROOMS
FOR CONVENTION
National Committee Plans for
Caring for Members While
in Baltimore.

bhit i-s-1OhiS PhIl VI
the work accomplished by the Democratic
national convention, which opens here on
June 25, will be performed In the con
v~ention hall. The results will appear
there. but before these results are at
tanned lights will burn far into the night
at various hotels and office buildings
throughout the city, where convention
headquarters have been established by
the national organization and the organi-
cations supporting the candidates for
places on the national ticket.
A political convention is a law unto
itself. Without leaders and committees
to plan their work the great body of del
egates could make little Roadway, but
even the most astute leader cannot al
ways know when the delegates will up
set carefully prepared routine. Never
theless, until the delegates ballot and one
of the candidates receives the two-thirds
vote necessary for nomination, those who
are trying to learn in advance. what the
result will be will watch these head
quarters.
A national convention has been likened
to a great engine In which the fly wheel
Is the national committee, the governors
the committees on credentials and resolu-
lions and the fuel is the body of dele
gates which supply the motive power,
controlled and regulated by these three
committees.
started here when members of the ma
tional committee began to arrive. This
committee consists of ffty-two members,
one from each State and one from Alaska,
District of Columbia, Hawaii and Porto
Rico. Its quarters are at the Hotel Bel
vedere, situated In the Mt. Royal dis.
trict within walking distance of the con
v%ention halk The two top floors of the
Relvidere have been engaged by the com
mittee, including slxty-fve bedrooms,
many with sitting rooms attached. In
addition, the committee has taken the
hotel banquet hall for Its sessions. In
this room the committee goes over the
papers filed by the cohtesting delegates
and prepare s the temporary roll of the
convention. This roll will be used when
the convention is first called to order.
After the committee Of credentials is ap-
pointed those who are dissatisfied with
ruling of the national committee will take
their claims oerore the new committee.
Inc committee on cr~edehtlals ana the
resolutions committee whlch drafts tne
PLATFORM as yet nave no regular meet
ing place. Some or their work may De
done at the Beivedere In rooms allotted
them by the national committee and
some IN the rooms assigned TO them al
the convention hall.
Next 10 the rooms engaged py the
national committee the largest reserva-
tloh at the belVedere mas Deen MADE by
ihohas Ihgeart, hatiohal coipmltteeman
from INDIANA. FOR the members or his
committee ana ms rrlends MT. rag
CART has taken nifty rooms In the main
buildings, with accommodations for sixty
nye persons more In the Annex and the
blue farior on the second moor as
state ueiegntion headquarters
sepresen,a.l'es OF the cahdiuates Tor
the freslden.iai nomination WIZ De early
on tne ground ana al OF them engaged
tne'r neadquarters months ago. several
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