| Show q M 1 00 1 1 0 00 1 0 ogee o 1 1 0 1 0 o t j I THE DEMOCRATIC NATIoNAL i 01 LO 0 0 00 1 1 t t t 4 f 1 11 0 t 1 t 1101 00 t y c s U UI t tT I T WAS a bold stroke for the Demo IT crap to decide that net Dot only should their great t national convention contention be ba beI bahem hem held farther west than lIver ever before but butI 1 lI I I that It shoUld also allO open on OD tb the Fourth of July The caldron Idron will to I nl ht of lt the 14 10 It wilt will boll bollor Ute the over or on the Fourth and ad I whole region roundabout ut before the machinery ot of the II In run rull I order will probably M on forth Ule we th Sven hen there will be r r delay It the generous people among I whom the he delegates will Ii their tenta can have their way wa wah h j for tor It le 18 tM the Intenders of the r Wenta of it Kansas City to eclipse all at af faire of the kind and to make this corn com comI h 1 ot of and the theto I to celebration the great welt has b bover j Fourth they over eve seen Hen and th the IH be known as aste t 1 all agree gr will hereafter with a tic no noI l te th day we I I I cent on the th thI the theto I to political preferences and r aal It must be admitted that no noI I I meant means have ban been spared to carry out ot the original so o that this Uti r will be he th limit and will I he be referred to by future historian a af as the tn flu de steel event of a century q f noted for tor startling and ROO ROOI I k wonderful achievements This SI is the I opinion I have bave formed after havIng been hero he nearly a week wIth men of every clue claN of buln business and shade of belief The whole city It le II Jm Its j I S hued buill with an aU all pervadIng desire to tomake toe I e make of convention week a noteworthy I event ont without to personal feel I Inge Ing or affiliation As brother AmerIcans those thOM who re ret reI t I side outsIde this enterprising city will t 1 have to admire the grIt and persever perseverance ance of the committee having this con conI conventi venti on In charge It was tires lees than I I three months ago or on April 4 last lut laste i that the magnificent convention hall ball halli ballf e then nearly was burned to toI I i f the ground and all the plans plane had to be bei beLe i revl ed edI I Le liThe The people ot of the KoV Kaw valley saId saIda I a man mah to me today got any t dIctionary with the word failure In It It Ita ItI i a I II III 1 r I II I r J 1 Jj Ji A j t S JS C JC C i I II I I I 1 I j I t i t 1 t c 4 I if i I The more mora they get It In the nook neck the I I 1 I s liable Hable they are to give In You t i cant down them t I i It If my brief acquaintance wIth them theme e and the history of oC this vast at enterprise i i may bo be taken a as indications Indication you OU er y I thinly cannot down them or It you get them down you OU cent cant hold them themI I there As AI soon II a the committee saw the ruIns ot of their pet creation upon 1 which they and all theIr fellow tellow citizen t I h had d counted as an the future home ot of many II a convention and upon which l I they had lavIshed their energy and dot dol dolS lau Jars they lost no time In getting up ulI Its S t I Y k successor Contracts were e made by byE E phone and wire wiN premiums were r prom iced for extra work and material and anel anelI I 6 5 three days ann after the lire the Iron was wal being wrought rought In the milia for tor use un In Ini inthe i the new structure Eighteen days day aft after t Or er the fire a special Ial train brought the i b first great trusses from Minneapolis to tol 1 4 l City and ever since b by day I and by night the work has baa been going on without And It II l I k Q o going on with threats and promises I t hold held over the contractor who are S bendIng every energy to complete com lete their J task talk In time It If the I J lad hila not succeeded lIu In laving the last lut luti i I great gret truss truN In place by the of June JuneI I II i they would hats had the pleasure of I I putting up a temporary root roof at their own expense The laborers borelS II demanded I and got time and nd a half haIr for aU all day dayI I I i I I Work over er eI eight bt hours houri and double pay par q l for tor night work but It went on oa just the same me hundreds of electric lights and andr andI I I I r barrels barrea ot of money furnishing the need it 1 feel illumination ft and nd Inducements t So here It I le at lat last yawning for the crowds that are to till It coming from every part Gf at the Union Its Ita exterior dimensions are IN by IH feet teet Ita It floor E 1 space Is II 1111 square test teet and aDd It Its I to toi i I C tal treating UbI capacity is fa estimated at atI ata II I a The arena balcony la I to seat M the It stage eat t ot of stage t GOO gallery Iter the roof garden preten I gallery lly L 1000 arena na floor where the del t tM and Arul their alternates will be at j ed d j pr lOG root roof garden proper 1100 and Uld temporary gallery all 1200 u These 1 art are Outside figures but tit they If j I The loyal native ot of Kansas City Ity n will allow you OU to ra the them to the ext St It the odd KS but not a unit atilt f r r 3 rJ O Omo mo more He points point with pride to the tact fact that an evert I Is 2000 more than the eICY eh a total population and nd a pretty pod good showing for Cor a town that was started only 70 years yean ago It was laid out In laG 10 and only two years rears later latr In the first Democratic na national convention wu was held at more which nominated Andrew Jack JackIOn Jackson son IOn by so 80 that there I Is a sort of 1 about UI the date of that tiNt first donys and alia the birth of this city And how th thew conventions have hayo made mad history for tOur eo Upon their flats flab hu has depended the thEr fate fale of tn many ny a mAn who otherwise might have bay continued unknown to the present day The Th have hav some lOIn reputations rt ut and others they ther have torn III A breath u It were The nominee is 18 alwAYs In Inthe the hands ot of hI his friends nut Bul ahoY above all there Is I a spirit ot of dominance lint the schemes that ran Can lit bE dm a arid add despite till the protests qt most concerned a national I Is lIa liable le to take lake the hit bit In its Ita teeth antI and run away at the ad III SENATOR JAMES K JONES CHAIRMAN DEMOCRATIC NA NATIONAL NATIONAL I COMMITTEE vent Of f some dark horse e who mayor may or ormay may not have been bien or fully groomed gr omed for tor the occasion llon Nearly a generation elapsed before the U Democrats departed from their tra nal custom And held a convention In the west elt Baltimore was their favorite until It carne caIne to be known as tM the Convention City but In 1866 they met In Cincinnati where Buchan BuchanAn An was a nominated on the seventeenth ballot lIot The national convention ot of iSCO w wu held In Charleston S C but the result after atter 67 ballots being no choice holce It wu was adjourned to meet at Baltimore Douglas 8 being In nominated on th the second Cond ballot At last lut In UI 1111 the rising west t wu wee by the selection I action ot of Chiago Chi Chicago ago cago In which cIty the Republicans had met four 1 years r previously and here on the first and only ballot General Genral Me lle Cl lIan was nominated as the candidate In 1111 the pen pendulum swung east eARt again and New York was the chosen city wIth Seymour Semour a IOn eon of Now York state late nominated on the ballot In ir 1112 when Greeley was Wal nom heated on the ballot the conven convention then tion was held at Baltimore again In this being the filth fifth time that city had been laen so 10 honored The conY convention of 1876 met metIn metIn In St Louts and nominated Tilden on tile the second ballot That of 1810 was aIt held In CincInnati when after fter the sec secand and ond ballot Hancock was iii nominated by acclamation ChiCO was revisited after an ab since lenee of oC 10 years Sn In lII 1 and on the second a ballot Cleveland was wal nomInated In I the convention assembled ambled In St Loule and utI Cleveland was b by acclamation and without Q a ballot ballotIn IR In l J tM the sane was wall again shifted to Chicago o with the same me u at atthe atthe I the two preceding conventions n This I Cleveland was nominated on the first ballot It would seem hardly n necessary rr to I mention such a recent Dt occurrence nee as the national convention of It 11 we were It not for tor the rut fact that few f people seem to I even I he salient of such lUeb an event tour four years rear an after It hu has I happened al Io o fn few m her even the of those thOle who bo pm I side at ouch u It affairs with almost auto power for tor the time I temporary and the permanent penn bent chair Ctr x the sea Ilea ot of oblivion 1 seems usually to engulf them and they disappear except for a 8 bit of w kI I I Iother that no now and then survives until an another other national n comes r m around There a au noteworthy ot of course oura but as a rule neglect and forgetfulness are a the reward or of party service In the makl making boost boostIng Ing of candidates However they take tak theIr chances chanCH along with the fut t It Itis is knot not everybody who can res the plums when hn th there are so few tew to be die and so 10 ninny after them themAs All As about everybody knows eM the na tonal convention preceding this one or that ot of 1811 w held In Chicago to the total vote on Oh the Uti first ballot being ma m with 02 n to II a choloe On Onlie lie flIt first ballot fiend ltd led with 1 but buton ut uton on the fifth with Ith a total or of and III necessary to a chol choice fryan had haa haar rr r 1 and soon received enough more t to In Insure sure ur hie hI nomination I wu AI talking today with a delegate who wu was present At that HI He declared It was the most dramatic h he had bad over attended and he was anold an anold old stager ta r too loo w was s MIt lug along very prettily lie Ite said pUI until the Orator tipped the scale wIth hi his glittering peroration t and caught the convention with Wa tilt r rhetoric The three buy busy Bryan Dmn and working a against ea l oth othor Or personally but with perfect tf t unanimIty Ity ot of pu purpose so 10 tar far as their own be ilef were wert concerned until It was closed that Bryan was rading when to ibis eye r bedlam Then the of Inele nele HoraN mare gracefully withdrew hi his and the friends ot of UlAnd who had been them I haree boule with Tick lock Uok Uck I DIck sorrowfully listened d to his hll letter of withdrawal which had been written In advance to be read rad at Just this sort ot of a juncture The silver tongued or orator orator I ator from Nebraska had captured the convention his simile You shall I not press upon Ute the brow of labor a crown of thorns you shall han not crucify mankind upon a cross of at gold and the result was as we know the nomination of Dr Bryan an year nil all the are at fault tault he wilt agaIn be the Ut It If oho ofu proof of the tact fact that there will bl be much enthusiasm at atthe atthe the Kan Kansas City convention nv he has only to rosin about Among monr the new ar arrivals rivals rhal front from the country who are are ilex coming g In and settling down for the session about the great treks or the floors In their va u Tighe jaunt over tile veldts or of South Atrial WI Why there ther are mon men here I who think a nothIng of pulling pull ing ni stakes the Infertile that nat k City and though the these will not be above the nral In II a n town yet t wh where a dollar some somo sometimes times looks as 11 ad tit sl cart ClIft wheel through s of t tancel thy they sum to th the farmers tamen something tob fabulous lous So Io they concluded to Rife give an n Ii little man n needs I here h re below even even though ft fie sometimes Ume needs It strong tro c T y f vh r Inched up their prairie re Rha t for tor the I j r L t i f F i t I k d r 1 y yI l r t r r t 1 9 I I it f ad TH Tl r i v t Y p k iY Y f y f hb R C r t y ji f fr r S y a ar r r R r I Y YI 9 i r 4 r rr rY i r I Iu Ir Y u r 1 t J JS I S Y Yf Ye f e WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN WHO WILL BE NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT I ate as 08 no other ms I above the throng thron In to the theman I man who stampeded the convention at Chicago In A more dramatic convention than that of ISM all are agreed even hefty heru It would be difficult to evoke and ond while Ii a more vociferous one may bo be O lI le leIt It Is considered Improbable Stilt we hue have hopes that the great combination ill outdo all other attempts as has hall hallMen Men been said aId The Tho nearest the Democrats have come to holding a convention on tile the Fourth ot of Jul July before was wall at that cams In Chicago whIch open opened d Jul July ti 6 and nominated Bryan July 10 The next nearest was that ot of liSt which opened July S and nominated Cleveland three days later Inter One of these candidates was defeated and one darned th the banner to vie t 1 both starting out In the month of at July short grass country and strIkIng out outon I on a mile trIp across the plains In their prairie as the California did half a cen century century tury ago The spirit still survives and only awaits an opportunity for tor Its de I speak ot of these men be because cause they are by the most pIc It not the most Interesting of any I have havo met You have hae already heard of course ot of th the protests to plutocrats whIch the farmers of Ok Oklahoma Oklahoma lahoma Arkansas as an and other states have prepared In order to dive the I nn an object lean In economy and admin Inter Ister a to th the flaunting extravagance gance of delegates who are coming here hereIn hereIn In private cars loaded with every lux luxury luxury ury They TIley are hottest and It goes with without without out saying that they are hard working for It ever there WAI a country where tb the b beet man wins It Is In theIr section The They have hae read or beard ot of the prices T E NEW CONVENTION HALL KANSAS few weeks have been steering a co cours ursa for tor the hustling metropolis on the MIl sour They Thoy have In most Instances instance brought along their tam families Illes have load loaded loaded ed down the tho old wagons wIth sIdes of o bacon cornmeal and sweetening and an anthe the COt cost ot of the tho trIp will be comparative comparatively ly Iy nil ell Assuming that they and their thel families have hae to live even een at homo home oo something or other and their animal have to standing still It Is about the same to then they stay on the farm or jog along over ove the plains Against a 5 a 11 heal head charged by the Kattens me Ity hotels hotel they the will probably be able t a slow show slowing showIng Ing of less than 20 cents per diem for to each member of the caravan party The Th trIp will be s something In the nature oC o what the boyan boy on the towpath gets whet when he es essays a voyage on the foot nil ull the a but these thelle tough pro productions productions of a sterile soil soli and hart hard work mInd that II a little bit Yes Yell they are coming In already ort are camped down In 11 the ot of till the city elty along the tho bottoms where fodder Is cheap and the necessities ot of life como comb In every day on the cars T They ey dont don Mv have to crowd themselves aU all out o ot shape In stuffy old hot IB and houses where no mon man knows know In the tho morning what he will get to eat or how many he will have to share hIs pillow with at night No sir they hey are aro fret freo and independent and the chances art are areat at least 16 to 1 that they would pan out more as a body than the whole outfit of delegates tram from allover the UnIon II If It came to a show It If you OU visit Kansas City dont miss seeIng the capa cap tatna and cargoes pf these prairie schooners I And they are going to be In evidence In the monster parade t that at Is to take place formIng n a unique feature at 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