Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1912 — DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION AT BALTIMORE. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION AT BALTIMORE.

June 25 is Date Selected by Democrats For Making Platform and the Presidential Nomination. The democratic national committee men at Washington Tuesday decided to hold their national nominating and platform convention in Baltimore on June 25th. Tom Taggart, the Indiana national committeeman, presided at the meeting. Other cities wanted the convention but Baltimore was out with the moneymid boosters presented a SIOO/100 certified check, and pledged that the money would be spent to make convention a big success. Money stul tqlks with the democrats and money *.ald Baltimore and Baltimore it. was.

Taggart favored Chicago and finally shifted to St Louis, offering as his reason that they were better located for Hoosier democrats. The democratic national conventions wet-.* held in Baltimore in 1844, 1848, 1852, 1860 end 1872. The convention will be held in the fifth regiment armory.