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Show Chicago mmi The Worlds Fair Directors Meet Cnce More to Select a Site if They Can. WASHING DILLON AND O P.SIEN. Not to Visit Chicago Unless, They Can Steer Clear of the Leaders of Irish Factions. Chicago. Sept. 9. Special. Much interest is evinced in the meeting of the Worlds fair directors which takes place tonight. They have promised to linally select a situ tonight, and there is feverish fever-ish anxiety to learn if they will keep their pledge. If they should fail to act from one reason or another it will be regarded as a confession of utter impotence im-potence such as would justify tho impeachment im-peachment of the board or the total abandonment ot the fair by Chicago. The election of a director-general will not take place until after tho election for the state and county ollicers in November. If tho tax payers should fail to avail themselves of the opportunity opportu-nity to place $5,0(10,000 additional taxes upon them for the benefit of the fair then the directors would have but little use a for a director-general and could give but very few reasons for their own existence. ex-istence. The candidacy of Colonel (ieorge K. Davis has been so successful that his election as director-general is conceded. The people may think that he is well equipped tor the position, but they have made it known that he is objectionable ob-jectionable to them because he is a politician. pol-itician. If his election is delayed until after November, tho citizens, if they arc dissatislied with tho action of the directors, cau show it in a harmless way. Messrs. Butterworth ami Davis are both politicians, and there is a well-grounded well-grounded apprehension here that they will not be above wielding the great influence in-fluence which they possess as fair directors direc-tors and ollicials in the interest of their party. |