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Show WILL DIRECT CAMPAIGN M flesaaaafesaasV I W"h tho rp,lrcn,cnt f George II. Cortclyoti Basal aRr"TosB Harry 8. Now of Indiana becomes acting chair- H wmr 1 n,nn ot ,M0 Hupubllcnn national commlttro. For B 1 several years Mr. Nuw has been vlco chairman H 33 f tho organization. On numerous occasions he sasH -S " ha ,lcni01lstrntcI ability as a party Icador, not 1 3y f nljl)' 'luring tho last presidential campalRn, when B WS 1-0 was In charge of tho western quarters of the sasH l. JU national commlttoo. In that position ho exerted Besses! fKJ himself In rolling up tho tromendous plurality for H -1-1 Iloosovolt and Fairbanks. Ho has a wldo ac M -W$M qualntnnco with public men and Is very populat bbbsbbI i. J personally. Ho has boon n dolcgato to many con H WjF vcntlons. hoa norved In tho Indiana senato nnd M r?a wnB n cnI,tnln of volunteers during tho Spanish- H VEJBK I American war. N .Tho prosont Hopuhllcan national commlttco will direct tho orRanlzntlon Hi if tlm noxt natlonnl convention. A national commlttoo Is a much mo'ro lm- 9 jrtnnt body In Itopubllcan than In Democratic conventions as all contests -n Hopuhllcan convontlons uro first passed upon by tho natlonnl committee ; ml doloRates sontcd by It aro entitled to voto. Its work, or course, Is ro ' viewed by tho credentials commlttoo and tho convention, but Its power It 1 fliown by the maunor In which tho La Follotto delegates from Wisconsin wore H iiirned down threo years nRO. It Is expected thera will bu an unusually large M inimber of contostlng doloRates from tho south In tho 190S convention |