| Show WANT CONVENTION Sn FrancIsco Kansas City and Chtcago In FIght I THE LATTER IS LEADING t ALL ARE OFFERING INDUCEMENTS INDUCE-MENTS TO DEMOCRATS t San Francisco Believes it Would Be a Great Thing For Par to Hold Convention Once In the Far West Were Various Nominations Have Been Made I Special Corre31londence Washington D C Aug SThe Demo eratic national committee will meet herein here-in February to elect the time and place for holding the next national conenton it seems to have been accepted as cer tala that Chicago would hC selected and that the part would their reiterate thc platform anll renominate the candidate chosen In isee But there are already two other formil able cites In the race for the comenton and their cues are being ve1l presented by advance couriers now In the city Titese cities are San FranCisCO antI Kansa City Sun Francisco has twice heforo unilertakon to teure tile ronn lion unlCraken very gtd howlng In tol Issi bitt was defeated by Chicago Kansas lily is a new claimant hut sh has inherited in-herited the strength of St Louis which has hen the cene of many conentons formidable candhlate and always a It Is pointed OUt In favor of Kansas City that while she Is centrally located she Is also In the solid outh anti or the silver west the two great sections of the country most devoted to the Democratic party Her claims are well presented hy Harvey Fleming managing editor of the Kansas City Journal who Is here aIding the project HIs paper Is Republican hit all the Ileople 11 Kansas Cit Rilbl I cans and Democrats alktwant the con i entlnn there Fleming Pills It thus confidently con-fidently FlemInG IHls i Kansas City Hopeful I Kanss City is goIng tl entlrtain the naxt natom1 Democratic convention Vevo tho best convention hal hL America If Ilt In the world and our railroad anti hotel facilities are ampleSt ample-St Louis bait committed Itself to our support sup-port and a guaranty ilIad of ilOO has been raised although h there II no limit on the cash that will be forthcoming If needed I Is an absolute cinch that we will win None the less breezy and assertive Is San Francs os representative James B English ono of the best known young Democrats of that city lie says We are going to make a hard struggle to capture the Democratic national convention con-vention San Frandsc Is going about thC mater In the most businesslike way and will raise a blS rund for the purpose Neither of the great parties has ever hell a national convention on thC Padlc slope the usual plea beitta mad that some central point must he chosen for the convenience of the greatest number of delegates But In this day oC fat travel when luxurious parlor cars whisk across the contnent = t a speed that annihilates distance there is no reason to dread a journey to the western rim oC the continent In fact it would be looked upon by most men as a plenle San raciscos Plea There Is an element too of justice In recognizing San Francisco In this way for western men have been coming eat all these years 10 attend their parts conventIons without comIalnt Now they say that turn about Is fair play and that It 15 11 more Racrl e for the easterners to como west than It Is for the people of the Occident to journey to the east Nothing would be marl hlpul to the partys interests than to hold a eon enton which will nominate a presi dental candidate In that section It would not olily encourage all inspIre the surrounding Democrats oC states California but oC all the I Is claimed In some quarters that New York will be 1 the running but sho has no chance to succeed Oser and over again has the metropolis been a candidate and been defeated She has not entertained a national convention since the one that nomluated Seymour In lSGt Chicago 15 of coutrec a strong probability prob-ability hy reason of her location but the members of the DemocratIc natonal com mitee do UJt retain In very fond rlcol htllons of that city I was th seat of natIonal headquarters In l5i The press of the city war bitterly almost insanely hol to thf > Democratic ticket and treated the chairman and hi ameociates anc 1tocates with the utmost unfalreF hiilhl Ihp lung hrve hattie that the committee mudc for the ticket Chicagos Good Chances Concitons have chnld for the better I since lM K and Chlag hS twice gone Demoratc since that time bnt time memories orthat CamIalln do not fade like a dnam Still hlCalo Is very liable to win by reason of her magnifcent location and ubll to aceomoua1e the delegates amid visitors She has hail mom conentons than any otcr CI In the country in the last forty years Here Lincoln Grant Blame harrison anti McKinley were nominated by the He publcans and Iclelan Cleveland Itwice let us pray to forget and Brynti by the Democrats Tilden Cleveland ate ticKlnley wero nominated at St Louis Hayes and Hancock at elnrlnnlt Grant at Phiadelphia second time and larrl son at lnneupols 1001 old Baltimore once the imperial convention city oC the nation raked otC us its only prize the freak nominaton or Horace GrEele I Baltimore however has a lIvely con eltol of her own now nnd thr and has just lllcd off one that laity hUe a guest bearing on the fortune of the Democratic part An enthusiastic con enton of the reunited Maryland Dem ocrcy nominated un eXceptonally strong state ticket headed by Colonel John aler Smith tiltS man who redeemed tho Fist congressional ultrct of Maryland last fall Ho has been UC1CI Ilenllet with poltcs for earl and although he only recent entered the lists as t Can dluato for llblc otlce he hal proved himself most empha1kaU a winner He is now a state senator and a mrmhr of congress and If elected next full would then be governor of the state also An UnQU3 Ibcord Of course in the event oC his election lit time chair 41f StOle fi WOtlltl immedi cg rehlrlrlulalt II I the other two ttilleemt antI may du so prior 10 ecc10n I en this would make his rotor 1 unlluo one elected to congress while a memtlr of tho state senate anti eholen governor before taking hIs tput In congress The Maryland state conentons made no decarutlon on the subject oC sliver hut this was due to the ocIre 10 concentrate con-centrate the fight un the administraton of tile present wpu1lcan gocrnCr There Ire plenty of good staunch silver 1emn crah tn larJlnnd Ind Colonel Smith himuseli supported DTnn anti took no part wih the Dlunch fray anti wee hEart combination of halters HI chances of eletol are excellent particularly In view or the fact that the city oC Halt moore comprising more than half the POIIIlon Ir the Itlll has lately gone IcaU Demcertlc eC1b I Cull bet of city oUcers cools c to be lstaltd |
