Show GALL WAS PREMATURE Democratic Conventions Are Postponed One Week FENCES TO BE REPAIRED Action of City Committee in Calling Convention for Such Early Dates Was So Energetically Criticised That a Postponement of One Week Has Been Ordered Short Time Prevented Pre-vented Needed Repairs to Fences of Certain Candidates Bransford in Lead for Mayoralty Nomination Not desiring to encroach upon the time of two such counter attractions as the State fair and conference the local Democracy will not pull off its primaries and city and precinct conventions con-ventions this week At a special meetIng meet-Ing of the city committee In the ofllce I I of Johnson Fowler late yesterday afternoon af-ternoon the situation was discussed at length and a unanimous decision i I reached lo postpone everything for a I i I week The primaries instead of being held tonight will be pulled off next Monday The city contention will be held on Wednesday the 9lh and the precinct convention on Friday the llth This vlll bring the Democratic f pro j clnct convention off one day after the Republicans have named tholr Coun j cilmanlc candidates The Democratic city committee meet lug scheduled for tomorrow night was put over until next Tuesday The only Inconvenience to arise from the post ponement may come from the engage meat of places for primaries and con ventions on the original dates It Is requested by Secretary Fowler that he be notified if changes are made from places heretofore selected CALL WAS PREMATURE It Is whispered that thc fair and con ference afforded a greatly needed ex cuse for correcting the committees mistake in originally calling the con ventions for such early dates The workers in the party and several pros pective candidates who have not fixed i their fences were exceedingly sore over the summary curtailment of the time left for them to get busy Rum n has It that the kick became so strong that the committee had to postpone the events whether an excuse could be found or not The llrnt call Is ex plained as being the result of a mis understanding on the part of a couple of political tyros who thought that the certlficales of nomination Ijad to be lllcd thirty days before the election whereas only fifteen days are required Besides the action on the postpone ment the committee yesterday dis cussed several matters of minor im portance |