Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — IT GOES TO CHICAGO. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IT GOES TO CHICAGO.

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION TO MEET JULY 7. ( W®rl4*« F«tr City Win on the Twen- . ty-ninth Ballot—St. Louis Defeated * by Two Votes—Gotham Gives the Lake City Her Strength. - " 5 . ■, Location Ta Named. •} The Democratic national convention will be held in Chicago July 7. This conclusion was reached by the committee in session at Washington after twenty-nine ballots had been taken and the struggle had gone on until well toward midnight. Starting in with’ but six votes. Chicago steadily gained in favor until she won the prize. At one time the number of votes cast for her was but four. Nevertheless her fitaess in location won the fight for ’her. "It was a pure question of geography," said one of the most prominent .Eastern Democrats and a member

of the committee. There was no bluster, no buncombe speech-making, no noise of ■ny sort in favor of Chicago, says a Washington correspondent. She won the . fight purely merits, and after the individual prejudices of the members in favor of other cities had given way. Th? detailed vote on tile-final ballot by States was: CH ago—Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois. Indiana. lowa. Kentucky. Maine. ■Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota. Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, North- Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, West Vir»giuia, Wisconsin, District of Columbia, Alaska. '

St. Louis —Alabama, Arkansas, California; Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana. Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Carolina. Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wurfliington, Wyoming,Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Indian iterritory. < 'inrinnati—Ohio. Chicago was voted for on the final round by all the distinguished Democrats upon the committee. Chirk Howell. Senator Gorman, Josiah Quincy of Massa chusetts, William F. Sheehan of New York, William F, Harrity of Pennsylvania. Bradley B. Smalley of Vermont, E. C. Wall of Wisconsin and others proniisiciit in national.or State affairs, all voted for Chicago. The understanding is that the Chicago delegation will be expected to have a certified check for $40,000 ready for the executive committee when it arrives in Chicago three weeks hence. This will be turned over to the committee, with the keys to the convention hall, and then the Chicago delegation will step down and out and leave the entire management of the convention in the hanJ> .yf the national committee. There, is to be no j appointing of ser-geant-at-arms or other officers by the Chicago ]>eople, and no claim for large num--I>ers of tickets with' which the convention ■hall can be packed. Everything .is to be left absolutely to the.national committee. It is expected that that committee will allot a certain number of tickets to the Chicago people, but how many or upon what terms has not been decided. The Chicago delegation was quite willing to leave that matter in the hands of the national committee, content with getting the national convention and preferring to place the responsibility for its management iu the hands of that organization, and thus avoid any criticism as to mismanagement, such as has been made with reference to i former Democratic convention held in that city. After the location had been decided upon the commiHee promptly took up. the question of the date for holding the convention, and the issue was soon sharply defined by two motions, one to hold it June 2 and another that it be held July T. The vote resultc® 32 to 18 in favor of July 7. . Can Handle the Crowd. .Chicagoans claim that no other city in tiie country can furnish anything like the facilities for handling the crowds that ■company a national convention ds well as can Chicago. To obtain hotel accommodations it will not be necessary for -isitors to-sleep on' cots in hallways 7. or lu ;*h»ira in reading and smoking rooms; ■nd <he transportation facilities from the center of,the city to the likely convention hall are ample. According to thp following table forty-three hotels are ready to accommodate oter 15,000 guests, besides taking care of their regular patrons: Alabama Hotel ~ 150 Atlantic....... SOO Ashland ...' 100 Auditorium 1,000 Breroort 500

Chicago Beach.. ... 400 Chitsago View. . L Chy Hotel. .71200 Clifton .*. 800 Columbia ;...’. .•. .... 100 Congress ...... ~. 1 ............. 1,000 'Gault >. 600 grace i 300 ranaOn . . 150 Great Northern..' ........ 1,000 Bismarck ,30 Del Prado -.J-. 150 Imperial r . . 50, lie Grain!;...,. 50 Luzerne „ 40 Metropole ~ 125 Normandie 100? Worth . .100 Hyde Park ......,,.100 K itnbaH's . ....'.., ...7.''.......... ;IW Kuhns ■............ ..... 40 Lakota ...... ............. .... ..'777 200 Leland ........................ 75(F Mitchell . 100 Oakland . i ..,. 10 Ontario :. 100 Palmer 2,000 Rainier . 75 Revere 500 Richelieu 200 Saratoga ........ ..... .^7.,.,.. .... 600 Shermhn ............‘..... ... 7.. .. . 1,000 St. Charles 300 Tremont ......................... 400 Victoria Wellington 400 Windermere ,« .. 150 Total 15,100

CHAIHMAN HARRITY.