Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-23
FRISCO PROUD
OF CONVENTION
COMING THERE
Prepares to Show 10000 Demo
Gratis City Knows How
to Entertain.
HAS PLENTY OF HOTELS

HAD LEN 4 VI AAO A@AAAJ
SAN FRANCISCO Jan. 23.-Politics
has winged it's way to the west. = big
event in national politics will be staged
on the western coast for the first time
| in history
The democratic national convention,
when that party names it's choice for the
presidency of the United States, when 1t
forms the platform upon which it will
battle for election and when IL names the
man it would have assume the vice pres
idency, will, as it never has done be
fore, set the scene Of its action on the
Pacific.
San Francisco, proud of her reputation
as the CITY That Knows How is ready
for an influx of 10000 visitors during con
vention week, starting June IS. Over
and above its normal transient travel.
San Francisco is prepared to house these
visitors comfortably and commodiously
and will not, as pledged, "raise the ante"
on the delegates their families and Wis
itors generally. The total hotel and
apartment accommodations are for 100000
people. The transient rooms available i'll
June will be 10000 During one week of
the Panama exposition, when the influx
Of visitors reached it's height here, the
largest demand for rooms totaled $4,000,
AogVbO NfNN OEA
INTO AUDITORIUM.
In its Civic Auditorium. where the
convention is to be held, 1880 people
may be seated normally. When presi-
dept Wilson visited here during the lat
ter part of 1919 on his national tour In
behalf OF the league of nations this same
auditorium held $4,000 people.
There are thirty separate committee
rooms in the building, more than suffi-
Client, it Is said, to accommodate those
committees that will report back to the
convention proper, after having mapped
out the programs to be voted upon
The 1920 convention Of the democratic
party has established a precedent I'm SO
far as locality is concerned. The farthest
west such q meeting has been held here
tofora is Denver, Colo, where the dem
ocrats met in 1908
Democratic convention dates since 1886
with cities In which they were held, were:
1S56-June ., Cincinnati.
1S60-April %, Charleston, S. c.
1S64-ApriI 20, Chicago, H.
1s6s-July 4, New York city.
1s72-July 9. Baltimore, Nd.
1S76-June %. st. Louis.
1sS0-June % Cincinnati
1Ss4-July 8, Chicago.
1SSS-June 8. st. Louis.
1s92-June 81, Chicago.
1S96-July Z, Chicago.
19O0-July T. Kansas City.
19O4-July 6. St Louis
190S-July Z. Denver, Colo.
1a12-June 25 Baltimore.
1916-June Il, St Louis
Municipal organizations from the FIRST
moment that 1t was felt San Francisco
would get the convention carefully laid
their plans for an efficient handling OF
all details connected with the sessions
Pledges Of the railroads to handle expe-
ditiously all incoming and outgoing
traffic OF the telegraph companies to in
stall facilities and maintain force suf-
hcient to transmit the thousands upon
thousands of kilograms. both private
wires and press dispatches, Of the hotel
association to provide rooms and main
tain regular rates police details and all
manner of such things, were carefully
planned, mapped out and definite pol
icy agreed upon. The essence Of that pol
Icy Is; "Show the east We know how.
Let every vlistor return satisfied that
San Francisco did It better than 1t has
ever been done before"
CITY TO SPEND
S175. 900 ON MEETING.
The city gave a pledge Of $4,000 to-
the democratic committee when 1t asked
for the convention In addition a fund
OF $4,000 has been set aside for enter
talnment Of the delegates. their families
and the general public This, OF course
Is solely for municipal functions Many
private entertainments will he provided
Charles Fay. leading democrat here.
together with Senator James Phelan, es-
timated that there will be between 80.
900 and 10000 visitors This is based
upon the fact that there will he 120e
delegates with their alternateS holding
seats in the convention besides sixty
officers and committeeman Of the nation
al democratic committee. Thus the mum.
Der Of persons officially connected with
the convention will reach $500
The second group of visitors number
ing 10000, according to estimates, will
consist Of the families Of delegates of
congressman, senators and other politi-
clans, prominent members OF the party
and all their incidental CAMPS"
The great bulk of the visitors will be
Just plain Citizens chiefly from the
neighboring states. who never before
witnessed a national political convention.
To the women Of California, whose
vote was conceded to be the decisive fac