The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-06-12
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
GATHERING NOW N
BALTIMORE
ADJUSTMENT OF THE GREAT
,!ACHlNERY OF CONVENTION
NOW IN PROGRESS.

Baltimore. June l.. Only part OF
the work accomplished BY the Demo-
cratic national convention, whic 4
opens here on June -. Will BE- per
termed IN the convention hall. The
results will appear there. bu, before
these results are attained lights will!
burn tar into the night at various
fotrls ana office buildings through
OUT tn" city, whore convention head
ularter~ have been established BY the
hailona! organization and the organ
i.atlons supporting the candidates
Tor places on the national ticket
political convention is "A law
unto itself With ont leaders and
committees 10 plan their work the
Ereat body of delegates could make
little Roadway. but even the most as
tute leader cannot always know when
the delegates will upset carefully
prepared routine Nevertheless. until
the delegates ballot and one Of the
candidates receives the twO-thirds
vote necessary for nomination. thos.
who are trying to learn in advance
what the result will BE- will watch
these headquarters.
A national convention mas been lik-
encd to u great engine in which the
fly wheel Is the national committee,
the governors the committees on ere
dcntials and resolutions and the fuel
!: the body of delegates which supply
the motive power. controlled and reg
uiated by these three committees.
The actual work E the convention
started here when members of the
national committee began to arrive.
This committee consists of fifty-two
members. one from each Siate and
from Alaska. District of Columbia.
Hawaii and Porto Rico. Its quarters
arc AT the Hotel Ibclvedcrc. situated
in the Mt. Royal district within
walking distance Of the convention
hall. The two top floors of the Bel
>"d"re have been engaged by the
committee, including sixty-five bed
i"' ms, many with sitting rooms at
'achcd. In addition, the committee
has taken the hotel banquet hall for
its sessions. In this room the com
mi'tc" goes over tse papers filed by
In" conleSting delegates and pre-
Ear"s he temporary roll of the con
!en'ion. This roll will be used when
~" convention is first called TO order.
y Her IN" committee on credentials Is
aproi; ed those who are dissal isiird
With ruling of i.c national commit
~. viii take their claims before the
n"w committee.
The committee on credentials. and
ia" resolutions committee whica
drail, the platform, as YET have no
regular meeting place Some pf thrif
work may be- don" At the Bcltrd"r,.
III rooms allotted them by the ma
tonal committee, and som" in the
rooms assigned to them al the con-
Stntion hall.
NcN' 10 the rooms engaged BY 'h'
IaIIenal committee the larp.s, rns-
,rkatipn al the l,clrcdorr has been
:, id- by Thomas Taggart. national
',fnmiii"cman from Indiana For the
of his committee" and his
iiirrd~ Mr. TagcarI has taken fif'y
rooms in the main buildings. with az
r"mmodatons for sixty-ive persons
Iarlor on the second floor as STATE
d legation headquarters Other M
I iional committeeman in whose name
large reservations have been made
& the Belvedere are Roger Z. Sui
Ivan. Illinois,: Homer : cummings
fonnec'icut; J u kremer. Montana.
\ J. Daly. Alaska; Alyah Adams.
colorado; Edwin o. Wood Michi-
2an: clark Howell. Georgia: J. VI
Guffey. Pennsylvania: willard Sauls-
bury. Delaware. Trey Woodson of
Kentucky. secretary national CON-
L itt"e. and Herman Ridder. OF New
iork. its Treasurer. also have their
quarters here
Representative of the candidates
for the presidential nomination will
b. early on rha ground. and all of
ITEM engaged their headquarters
months ago Several Of them have
taken suitS OF Offices in the down
town business section. as well as
larg.. b,orks of rooms in the princi-
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