DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE.



there be any, on the part of the hotel proprietors in any way to
alter their prices, and the greatest comfort can be afforded to
the members of the convention and those who attend the con-
vention by these various and numerous hotels that are within
the great city of New York. That is one reason it seems to me
why the Committee ought to select the city of New York.
   Another reason is the salubrity of our climate. We are for-
tunately situated right on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, and
New York is peculiarly a summer city. You can there wear
comfortably a light overcoat in July, about which time in all
probability, from what I hear, the next Democratic convention
will be held. The characteristics of the city of New York and
its temperature in summertime are so attractive as to make it
essentially a summer city, and in that way the comfort of the
delegates can be peculiarly considered.
   We have attractions too numerous to mention. We have
one of the best regulated, one of the cleanest and one of the
most attractive cities from every standpoint on the American
continent. We have in course of construction and will have
completed by the time the convention is called one of the great-
est underground tunnels in the world. We have just com-
pleted and opened the greatest bridge in the world. We have,
as has been stated in the communication just read by the secre-
tary, many other attractions which would possibly interest those
who would attend the convention, if it be located in the city of
New York. We have Coney Island within the reach of the
delegates, accessible within fifteen or twenty minutes, at an ex-
pense of five or ten cents. We have many attractions which
would probably interest delegates who have never visited the
great city of New York.
   In addition to all that, those of you who have read of the
recent political contest in that great city can have the advantage,
if you never have been there, of visiting the field upon which
the Fusion forces met their Waterloo.
   As to the political advantage, I wish to say in all seriousness
that if there is any political advantage to be gained at all from
the location of the convention. it is to be gained by locating it
in New York, for there are three States so intertwined and so



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