The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-18

Where Officers and Dei"ga:tS Will bc
Ouartered-Great Gathering on
June %.

The work accomplished by the Demo
cratic National convention, which
opens here on June 25, will be per-
formed in the convention hall. The
results will appear there, but before
these results are attained lights will
burn far into the night at various ho-
tells and Office buildings throughout
'the city, where convention headquar-
aers have been established by the ma
eional organization and the organiza-
tons supporting the candidates for
places on the national ticket.
A political convention is law unto
itself. Without leaders and committees
to plan their work the great body OF
delegates could make little headWay,
but even the most astute leader can
not always know when the delegates
will upset carefully prepared routine.
Nevertheless, until the delegates bal
lot 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
he will watch these headquarters.
4 national convention has been lik-
ened to great engine in which the
fly wheel is the national committee
the governors the committees on Gre
dentials and resolutions and the fuel
is the body of delegates which supply
the motive power, controlled and regu-
lated by these committees.
National Committee
The actual work of the convention
started here when members of the ma
tional committee began to arrive. This
committee consists of 50 members, one
from each State and from Alaska. Dis
trict of Columbia, Hawaii and Porto
Rico. Its quarters are at the Hotel
Belvedere situated in the Mt. Royal
district within walking distance OF the
convention hall. The two top floors
of the Belvedere have been engaged
by the committee, including IS bed
rooms, many with sitting rooms at
tached. In addition, the committee
has taken the hotel banquet hall for.
ats sessions. In this room the COM
mittee goes over the papers filed by
the contesting delegates and prepares
the temporary roll of the convention.
This roll will be used when the con-
veution is first called order. After
the committee on credentials is ap-
pointed those who are dissatisfied with
YuEing of the national committee will
take their claims before the new COM
mittee.
The committee on credentials, and
the resolutions committee which drafts
the platform, as yet have no regular
meeting place. Some of their work
may be done at the Belvedere in rooms
allotted to them by the national COM
mfttee, and some in the rooms assign
ed to them at the convention hall.
Taggart's Big Reservation.
Next to the rooms engaged by: the
national committee, the largest reserv-
alton at the Belvedere has been made
BY Thomas Taggart, national commit
aeeman from Indiana. For the mem
bers of his committee and his friends
MT. Taggart has taken so rooms in
the main buildings, with accommoda-
tons for 65 persons more in the An
mex and the Blue Parlor" On the
second floor as State delegation head
suarters. Other national committee
men in whose names large reserva-
tions have been made at the Belvedere
are: Roger C. Sullivan, Illinois; HON.
CT s. Cummings, Connecticut; J. B.
Kremer, Montana; A. ]. DAILY, Alaska;
Alyah Adams, Colorado; Edwin 0:
Wood Michigan; Clark Howell, Geor-
gta; J. NJ. Guffey, Pennsylvania; Will
lard Salisbury, Delaware. Urey
Woodson, of Kentucky, secretary OF
the national committee, and Herman
Ridder, of New York, its treasurer
also have their quarters here.
Representatives of the candidates
for the presidential nomination will be
early on the ground, and all OF them
engaged their headquarters months
ago Several of them have taken suites
of offices in the downtown business
section, as well as large blocks OF
rooms in the principal hotels. The