| Show BOTH SIDES ARE CONFIDENT Battle for the Next Convention to Be Fought This Forenooh and V VV V It Promises to Be a Royal OneV V V I VOh Chicagos got it Theres nothing noth-ing more to itt says W E Skinner You may put it down that the next convention will be in Omaha says W B Check Thats what the heads of delegations from Chicago and Omaha say about the next convention of the LiveStock assclatlon and there you are You pay nothing and take your choice Th6 big fight comes up at 10 this morning under a special order of business and a1 hot time will be pulled off unless all precedents arc reversed ir Skinner Is positive and Mr Cheek is certain and both cities arc going to put up a big light for it Of course youve heard remarked Mr Skinner that 1C we get the convention at the time of our tatstock show next December De-cember that the livestock convention will be swallowed up That nobody would know it was in town except the stockyards people Chicago Is too big they say and the convention would lose its identity and would on that account not get the treatment it deservessuch treatment for Instance as you havu glveij us In Salt Lake Well thats all rot You suy It In The Tribune and Ill stand for it We know how lo take care of national conventions in Chicago Chi-cago and we will undertake that the convention will not be lost The idea V of losing a national convention any wheTi Is absurd You have heard the argument that everybody has been lo Chicago and want to give the convention conven-tion to some smaller Western city Well thats all light but If they come to gnicago incy win ue Jn tiie livestock live-stock center of them allin thii Only V center and In a place where they can V V see things Weve got halls weve got the people and weve got the entertainment enter-tainment to make the thing go and moro than that wen got this convention conven-tion You can bet on this and take I your tip from me V I Omaha will get a majority of all the delegations except V Idaho TOXOH and Illinois and its no dead spakcsT that we lose them said Mr the r We have the best kind of accommu I V dallonn for the convention T3yt the llmo It meetfl we shall have our new I auditorium built at a cost of 250000 finished and we can take care of V the convention in proper shape If the convention goes to Chicago at the time of the fatstock show the convention Will be lost thatfl all there Is to that V The number of delegates who come to this convention would not be noticed Chicago and they would have to take I care of themselves Chicago out With the big mitt for everything Well nor n-or lone we can leave Salt Lake without I bitterness and with the consciousness that we have conducted everything in a clean way Wo have been strictly neutral on all the issues of the convention con-vention and have made a clean fight for the convention That 1 think Is more than Chicago can any for they have been carrying water on both shoulders They tried lo win V over V Montana by favoring leasing and worked on Idaho by opposing leasing We V got that Information pretty straight But wo dont care for that We are not going to employ any such tactics hut will make an open straightforward light for the meeting and we have every reason to think we shall get It V Why sure we get it said John Flynn president of the South Omahti Commercial club As I told a Chicago Chi-cago man today we pay more money for meal for hay and for Crowe than Chicago everWhy we are offering V of-fering 525000 for V Crowe right now and only want about 15 poundit for the mohoy Talk about markets Why there Is no place In the world except Omaha where 15 pounds of Crowe meat would command 25000 Of course we get that convention This view was also taken by AC Davenport managing editor of the V Journal Stockman of South Omaha who IR here in the Interests of Omaha and Col Matt Daugherty who is straining every nerve for Omaha is no less sanguine that the Nebraska town will get II The fight promises to be a pretty one Denver will get the heavy vote of the Colorado delegation tho rl lvc liollnt nrifl flirt Pnlnrnfln filrftnirlll will then be somewhat divided i i V The clalma of Omaha will be set forlh by F V E V Sanborn president of the Auditorium association lie will be followed by P I A Wells president of the Commercial club of Omaha and by IIon Peter Jesse of Nebraska Chicago Chi-cago will be extolled by Mr Gavin of New Mexico and a good word will doubtless be added Mr Skinner and perhaps by other friends of the Windy City |
