Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-05-14 | Page 18 | G. O. P. Convention to Cost $150,000

G. G O. O P. P CONVENTION TO COST Alterations in Colis Coliseum um Will Entail Heavy Outlay CHICAGO May 13 13 Th The directing genius enius of ot four Republican conventions in the past Fred W. W Upham Republican lican national treasurer this year has planned his fifth fUth and greatest one Mr Upham has been lleen chairman of the he Chicago convention committee for sixteen years and ni nl that time probably probably probably ably has promoted more national political po- po al gatherings than any man living He tie has organized and financed the local arrangements for the tho Republican I can gatherings since 1904 I Every four years the planning of the he big gathering has become a a. more complex and more costly affair In 1904 the first year the Republicans met at th Chicago Coliseum the convention con con- convention arrangements cost In 1916 the expenses had increased to and this year the sum will exceed To raise this money contract for tor building alterations extra seats decorations decorations dec dec- orations tickets badges and all the theother theother theother other myriad details of ot staging big quadrennial spectacle in which more than delegates and spectators will this year participate Is Uphams Upham's task Cost of ot altering the Coliseum and decorating it will alone cost more than this year The task of obtaining and then safeguarding the tickets is a problem in itself The admission cards are printed on safety paper in special inks and then locked in vaults until the Thursday before I Ithe the convention None are are sent by I mail all aU- aU being distributed here In spite of these precautions many many fall taU Into the hands of speculators who retail them at anywhere ere from tram 60 to I each and even counterfeiting of the cards is not unknown Mr 1 Upham who ha has har been treasurer treasurer treas treas- of the n national committee since February 1918 has been associated with national politics for tor twenty-eight twenty years In Tn 1892 he was a delegate to the national convention con from the eighth Wisconsin district He represented represented represented a Chicago district In 1912 and 1916 and and ran on Governor Frank O. O Lowden's slate for tor election as a dele dele- large gate from Illinois this year He was western treasurer of the national c committee r in the first Taft Tart campaign in 1908 and again In the Hughes campaign in 1916 The only elective offices he has ever held were alderman in Chicago in 1896 and member of the Cook county board of tax review for fourteen years He is president of ot a large coal company