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Show REPUBLICANS IN SESSION- They Meet to Elect Chairman Campbell's Successor. New York, July 16. Republicans high In party councils, and from a number of states, directed their footsteps this morning toward the Fifth Avenue hotel, where the republican republi-can national committee was to confer regarding re-garding the coming campaign, ad by 11 o'clock, when the committee went jsto session ses-sion in the big club room, the lobby and corridors cor-ridors of the hotel -were crowded. Interest centers very largely upon the election of a successor to w. J. campDeii, who has been forced to resign for business and family reasons. It was generally understood un-derstood that L. P. Michener of Indiana will be chosen, although he has more than once declared that he would not take the place under any circumstances, owlngto the fact that he would be compelled to abandon aban-don his law practice for nearly six months and thereby lose many thousands of dollars. General Sewell of New Jersey, Fessenden of Connecticut and . Cornelius L. Bliss of New York were also spoken of for the chairmanship chair-manship in the event of General ilichener persisting in his refusal. It was given out In advance that the committee com-mittee would decide upon the establishment of a branch of the headquarters at Chicago, with Sub-Treasurer John R. Tanner in charge. The latter is here today. The Chicago branch will be to the west what the natioual headquarters in this clty are to the old country, and will be made the center of distribution of republican litera- I ture throughout the western and northern states. It will also arrange for meetings and speakers iu conjunction with the state central committees, and in a general sense have absolute' charge of the campaign in that territory. ' Colonel Turner will be assisted by General Michener and Mr. Puston of Indiana, Henry B- Payne of Wisconsin, Evans of Minnesota, anp representatives of Iowa, Michigan and Nebraska. The national committee has so far failed to secure suitable headquarters, although Sergeant-at-Arms Swards is favorably favor-ably disposed toward a house on Fifth avenue av-enue and Sixteenth street formerly occupied by Vice-President Morton. It is large enough to give each member of the executive execu-tive committee a separate room. |