Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-16 | Page 9 | Will Wage Battle in Western States

SILL WCf BATTLE ' r III WESTERN STATES n I : rjQbitclicock Looks Upon Trans- Missouri Country as Most Q Vital Place of Campaign. "jpeclal to The Tribune. lATt WASHINGTON. July 15. Frank H. 'pllJitche.ock has called a conference of Re-'Vllfubllcan Re-'Vllfubllcan leaders of the west for Colorado Colo-rado Springs July 20-21. He will meet .ho chairmen and national committeemen -rom each of the tranB-Mlsaourl states fjAftfnd hear from their lips the Btory of po-fWtical po-fWtical conditions in each Btate. HI ten -VVpck believes that the battle is to he .ought in the west and the middle-west, ?nd he Is seriously considering directing Jhe campaign from the middle-west, with Sfeadquarters at Chicago. wSRepubllcan leaders from the trans-Hpissour! trans-Hpissour! states are urging him to estab-. estab-. h himself at Chicago. Reports from the klWeBt are not satisfactory to Mr. Hltch-Ulijbck. Hltch-Ulijbck. He Intends to get a close organisation organi-sation In those states. He has not de-'fcrmlncd de-'fcrmlncd who will be the western chalr-jian chalr-jian or manager yet, nor has ho selected She members of his executive or advisory ) 95&ommlttees- There may be no' vice-chairman. vice-chairman. Senator Hemingway has been ft lOlUSgested for the western manager by u u(hdlana men, but he will not bo appointed appoint-ed unless there Is a change in plans, Ex- .lovernor Derby, of Indiana, and Harry Tew have been mentioned, but It -looks JIWiB if no Indiana man would be drafted. 'Pie