Evening star., 1932-01-10
Illinois City Wins Convention
as offer Is Raised to
100000
81 DELEGATES ADDED,
MAKING TOTAL LISA
Discussion of Prohibition Question
Is Avoided at Session Of
Committee.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,

The hosts Of Democracy will gather
in Chicago on June 27 to nominate
their candidates for President and Vice
President and to write their party
platform.
Chicago won on the first ballot
taken by the Democratic National
Committee, meeting here yesterday IN
the Mayflower Hotel, in the four
cornered race for the honor of holding
the national convention This will be
the first time in SO years that the
Democrats have gone to Chicago for
their national gathering Willism
Jennings Bryan was nominated there
in 1896.
Adopting a compromise plan, the
National Committee, with scarcely a
dissenting vote, fixed the total number
OF delegates for the national conven-
ton aS 1,154, or Sd more than the del
egates who made up the national con-
vention in 1928. The compromise left
to those States which made no gains In
their number of representatives in the
National House, under the 1880 census
and eapportionment, the same number
Of delegates which they had in 1928.
but gave to those States which did
make gains in the new House appor-
tionment two addit:1E-i delegates for
each added congressional district.
Discord Under Surface.
Despite the fact that the Democrats
ran off their committee meeting with
no show of friction, there was an I'M
derlying spirit of discord due to the
faa1in0 hofuunaFS fhn 1aI pnrcatraH
forces and the anti-Roosevelt forces.
1t had been reliably reported that the
Roosevelt forces were opposed to hav-
ing the Democratic National Conven-
ton held either in Atlantic City or
Chicago, and that they intended to
carry the convention to Kansas City, or
falling that, to San Francisco. If this
report was true, then the anti-Roose-
velt forces took the Roosevelt crowd
for ride at the meeting yesterday
and made them accept Chicago for the
national convention.
1t is fact that many of the sup
porters of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt
of New York for the presidential nomi-
nation cast their ballots for Chicago
when the voting began. But they had
been Jockeyed into the position, appar-
emily, when the two cities to which
they had announced opposition, Allan
tic City and Chicago, had each bid
100000 for the honor of holding the
national convention. Kansas City and
San Francisco each bid only $150,000.
Chairman Raskob, at the outset of the
consideration of the cities for conven-
ton purposes, declared that he hoped
the highest bid for the convention
would be accepted, since the national
organization needed money.
Chicago Raises Bid.
Atlantic City was the first to come
forward with bid, offering 100000.
The claims of San Francisco, Chicago
and Kansas City were presented, with
each offering $150,000. Just before the
close of the bidding, however, Chicago
announced that she had raised her bid
to 100000. The committee then ad-
journed for lunch.
When the session was resumed in the
afternoon the balloting on the conven-
ton city Immediately began. A major
.ty vote of the committee was required to
pick convention city, the chairman
announced, or SIS votes, the committee
having a total of 100 members. When
the call for Porto Rico had been COM
pleted Chicago had SO votes, with Kan
saS City trailing with 10 and San Fran
cisco and Atlantic City with Is and 4
votes, respectively Delegates began to
change their votes. to favor Chicago,
and finally the vote was made unani-
NOUS
Some of the Roosevelt supporters who
had been urging the selection of Kan
sas City on Thursday and Friday en-
tered an alibi yesterday, saying that
they thought it might be mistake to
go to a State where former Senator
Jim" Reed was to be a favorite-son
candidate for the presidential nomina-
ton.
Republicans to Meet First.
However, the result was finally
brought about, the Democratic National
Committee is $4,000 better off because
Of the bidding for the convention than
it had originally expected to be. And
by the same token the promoters of
Chicago for the convention city feel
that they have been compelled to come
forward with $4,000 more than they
had expected or hoped to offer. The
Chicago bid was finally for 100000
with no strings attached, plus a con-
vention hall to be furnished by Chicago.
Chicago had only to pledge herself to
meet all the expenses of the Republic
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