Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 28, 1912, Page 3

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Democratic National Convention at Baltimore on June 25 WILSON. RWOOD. CLARK. MARSHALL. Photo of Underwood @ by Harris & Ewing. Photos of Harmon, Clark and Wilson @ by American Press Association. Fifth Regiment Armory In City Famous For Conventions of the Past Will Seat Twenty Thousand- People—The Leading Candidates—William Jennings 8ryan a Delegate. By WALTON WILLIAMS, OR the first time in forty years a national convention of one of the leading parties is to be held in Baltimore. In the old days the Maryland metropolis was the con- vention city of the country, even more #o than Chicago is now. But with the movement of population westward the big town at the head of the Chesa- peake lost her political primacy. Almost from the day that the con- vention system came into vogue in American politics Baltimore forged to the front as the leading national con- vention town, Perhaps one reason was that she was situated midway between the north and the south. Another was that she was one of the largest cities in the country. A third was her prox- imity to the national capital, Balti- moreans even now speaking of Wash ington as a suburb. A fourth was her hospitality. She makes every guest feel that he is one of her “own folks” and that she is at his service to entertain and make him feel at home. No trou- ble is too great for her to take in his behalf. Subtly, but without flattery, she gives him the delightful impres- sion that he has a distinguished place in her regard. With a fine old south- ern courtesy about which there is no stiffness or formality and with a gra- clousness about which there is no pre- tense, she lends a new mearing to the word “welcome.” President Jackson was nominated in Baltimore in 1832, as was Van Buren, not only for the campaign of 1836, when he was elected. but for that of 1840, when he was defeated by Willilam Henry Harrison. In 1844 both con- ventions met in the Maryland me- tropolis, that of the Whigs naming Henry Clay and that of the Democrats choosing James K. Polk. Four years later the Democrats again assembled in Baltimore, nominating Lewis Cass. $plit on Slavery. Both the Whig and Democratic con- ventions of 1852 were held in Balti- more, the respective candidates there chosen being General Winfield Scott and General Franklin Pierce. In 1860 the Democratic convention met in Charleston, but split on the slavery question, and both wings later assem- bled in Baltimore, placing two tickets in the field. one headed by Stephen A. Douglas and the other by John O. Breckinridge. This split marked the end of Democratic ascendancy in the government for a period of twenty- four years. President Lincoln was re- nominated in Baltimore in 1864, and in 1872 the Democratic convention in the same city indorsed Horace Greeley, who had previously been named by the Liberal Republicans. That was the last great national convention held in Baltimore until this year. It would be a strange colncldence if the city that saw the division of the Pemocratic party In 1860, a' division that drove it from power! practically for 8fty years, should. this year witness it completely reunited and ready to return to power for an indefinite period because of the division ‘of ‘the ‘Repub- Heans. Yet this very result is among the possibilities. The Democratic convention will be which is Baltimore’s largest auditori- um. The vaulted roof of this great building is more than 100 feet above the main fioor. The drill room, in which | the convention will be held, is capable of seating 12,000 persons without crowdihg. Its dimensions are 200 by 800 feet, giving 60,000 square feet of floor space. There are already two balconies, and by building raised plat- forms at_the ends of the hall it is ex- pected that 20,000 persons can be ac- commodated at the sessions of the con- | vention. There are twenty-one smaller rooms about the building that ean be used for committee and press rooms. The armory is situated in the north- ern part of the city near the Pennsyl- vania and Baltimore and Ohio stations and within fifteen minutes’ ride from the business section where most of the hotels are situated. It will be an inspiring scene when at high noon of June 25 the gavel falls calling to order the Democratic nation- al convention of 1912—inspiring be- | cause of the roseate prospects of vic- tory for the first time in twenty years. inspiring because at last Democratic principles are coming into general ac- ceptance even by its political foes and inspiring because of the historic asso- ciations. Casting its eyes at Wash- ington—if a convention has eyes to cast—it will behold the house of rep- resentatives overwhelmingly Demo- cratic and only a narrow margin in the way of controlling the senate. Look- ing farther afield, it will see Demo- cratic governors of twenty-seven states, fourteen of them being north- ern states. As there are only forty- eight states altogether, that is quite a healthy majority. It will see a sec- tion of ‘the Republicans more favorable to Democratic principles than to the other wing of their own party. It will behold a vast majority of the people favorable to tariff reduction and other Democratic planks. Four Presidents Named In Baltimore. National cenventions did not come into vogue until about 1832, and since that time the Democratic party has held twenty. This year it will meet in the city where at least eight of these twenty bave convened and where four Democratic presidents, Jackson. Van Buren, Polk and Pierce, were nominat- ed. Thus the Baltimore meeting will suggest a great past, a harmonious present and a bright future. That sort of a happy combination has not been so frequent in recent Democratic his- tory as to have become monotonous. The convention will be called to or- der by Norman E. Mack, chairman of the Democratic national committee, likewise chairman of the comimittee on arrangements. Mr. Mack has had an embarrassment of jobs lately, having also been chairman of the New York state committee. Each one of these places is a’ man’s job, and, not being sble'to be three men at one time, Mack resigned the New York state chair- manship, which went to George M. Pal- mer of Schoharie: The committee on arrangements has charge of all details for the convention, including the selection of a temponry ‘chairman, ‘settling contests’ for making ap the temporary roll, decoratiig, fur-, nishing and seating the hall, printing and distributing the tickets and badges, (Continued on Page ) G ) tween To Every pair of shoes sold by us carries our un- usual guarantee of your satisfaction. $2 to $5 the Difference 3 There is a subtle, in- | definable difference be- "the clothes we sell and the ordinary clothes. 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