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Show Convention Plans Approved by Republicans Leaders Are Confident Delegates Will Select Candidate 'satisfactory to the Party Chicago, .Inn. 24. Prc'lmlnnry plnns for tho Uepiibllcan national convention to bo hold In Chicago nt tho ColUsura Juno 7, woio approved today by members ot the subr-ommlt-too on arrangements of tho national committee after a series of conferences confer-ences with I-'rcd V. Upman, chair-man chair-man of tlio local committee. Under tho seating plan prepared hy Julius Floto, nn nrchltect, seats for 11,595 will bo provided In tho convention con-vention hall. Seven hundred moro scats than wore nvallablo four yearn ago will bo provided by tho erection of a mozinnlno floor around two walls of tho building. Tlio subcommittee adjourned without with-out discussing tho selection of n temporary tem-porary chairman for the convention, although four names were mentioned us possible candidates. They wero Ullhu Hoot of Now York, Senator Ho-inh Ho-inh of Idaho, Governor . McCall of Massachusetts and Chaso Osborne, foimcr governor of Michigan. It 1 believed that the selection of tho temporary chairman may bo deferred as a matter of political expediency until April or May7"although tho tub-I'ommltteo tub-I'ommltteo adjourned to meet again in Chicago, March 15, when tho sub Ject may bo taken up. Hcpubllcan national leaders v. ho attended tho meeting expressed tin opinion that the convention would ho open minded and deliberate In tho matter of naming a candidate for 1'jcsldent. They Indicate! that they would favor any available compromise comprom-ise candidate excepting Colonel Uoosovelt and said they bollevtd tho ablegates would bo ablo to r-olect a leader who would bo satisfactory tc ovory olemcnt of tho party. Charles D. Utiles, chairman or the Republican national commlttco, oppressed tho sentiment of tho party leaders, when ho said nobody knew who would bo nominated, but that the candidate, would ho born In tho convention. At noon tho commlttco was enter-talnod enter-talnod by tho Hamilton Club nt n luncheon, at which Chairman HUlos delivered an address in which ho criticized tho administration of President Pres-ident Wilson, outlined features and Issues of tho Republican national campaign and predicted victory for tho party noxt November. |
