Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1904 — GOES TO ST. LOUIS. [ARTICLE]

GOES TO ST. LOUIS.

Democratic National Convention Will Meet on July 6. The next Democratic uational convention wfll meet in St. Louis on Wednesday, Jtfyy 6- The world’s fair city won the prize, when the national committee, in session at Washington, on the second ballot, by a vote of 28 to 21, decided against Chicago. On this ballot all of the New York votes but oue went to St. Louis, thus deciding the contest. A Washington dispatch says that so far as political significance is concerned, the selection of St. Louis seems to indicate that Mr. Gorman’s friends are on the defensive, because they turned to St. Louis out of fear of the possibility of a stampede to Hearst in Chicago. The supporters of New York joined in this movement, but they were largely Gorman men. The Parker boom assumed considerable proportions during the deliberations of the committee, and if the pulse of the national committee is any indication of the circulation of blood in the party at large the New York judge has decidedly the best chance for the nomination.