Show DENVER GETS CONVENTION TION Th rhe Herald Harald extend extends hearty congratulations i lations to Its Ha sister city of or o Denver for winning the Democratic national con convention of 1986 The selection of ot Den Denver ver by the national committee will be bet bei t i surprise te the country Although te Colorado C I rado metropolis has bean been mak making makIng ing a hard light for the honor It was not ot outside of ot a very vary limited circlet circie that it had a chance to win The general opinion Wednesday was that the Uie convention co would go to Louisville er r perhaps p to Chicago And the Denver boomers are very lucky lueky as well as very ery el able boomers For the chances are that Louisville Ha J Rt not able to rIse raise the money re reQuired bj b the committee If it had beeR been Louisville would almost all it surely have been teen designated It is much more centrally located loc ted than is Denver and possesses other advantages that Den Denar var ar does not share The attendance upon upen the convention at Denver r will 1111 be much smaller than it would have been at Louisville It If Is too far from the great grOat root centers of population The trip out Gut ut from the east will be so I O long and expensive that many Democrats will feel f el that they cannot afford the outlay of time and money Still Denver will royally entertain enter ln the convention The climate there Is ideal in the early summer The nights are ar cool and the days are not warm This could couk not be said of either Louis Louls Louisville ville Ule or Chicago As to hotel accorn accommodations accommodations Denver Is very well sup supplied supplied supplied plied The TIle city has several hotels that would be a credit to any municipality And with true western we tern hospitality the people will open their homes to the strangers within their gates if necessary necessary sary gary and take care of them Nobody need walk the streets street of 01 Denver during the convention because of the lack of a place in which to rent rL re t The holding of the convention in Denver will without doubt create croote a wave of or Democratic enthusiasm in the I west In late years the west which Is Isor Isor i or should be Democratic has bean bash drifting dri nS away from Its truel true tar The Tile place for the west is I In the Democratic ranks The Tile people are nat naturally Democrats because they are op opposed opposed opposed posed to clone claas privileges because they are against monopolies and other evils the growth of which has made necessary nary sary a strong Democratic party part From a purely selfish standpoint the Democrats Democrat of the west wast should be very glad that Denver Is to entertain the next national IOnal convention of the party part They will wilI be able to attend it as they have never nover before attended a national convention t And after atter all aU there are many eastern who wJ op need ed a western west yest pro ern em trip for broadening purposes p many who should be disabused of i the theory that there is no United States west of Chicago or Kansas City It will help them to be better Americans f |