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Show REPUBLICANS ARE DISCUSSING PLANS Leaders in Chicago" Arranging For National Party Convention Conven-tion in Colliseum June 7. j Chicago, Jan. 24. Republican lead- I ers, members of the national commit- 1 tee sub-committee on convention on I arrangements met here today and dis- fl cussed plans for the party conven- tlon set for June 7 in the Colliseum H Though empowered by the national fl committee to select a temporary 1 chairman for the big Republican gath- H declared no stops in that direction I would be taken at this meeting. When I the sub-committee went into execu- I tlvo session it had before it blueprints I of the Colliseum and a ' tentative I seating arrangement which would ac- I commodate 12,500 persons, 1300 more I than were provided for in tho 1912 I convention. Fred Upham, ohairman I of the Chicago convention committee, I Julius Floto, architect of the building, I C. R. Hawley, manager of the big 1 hall, met with tho sub-committee. 1 Working for Harmony. I There appeared to be a general I forecast that all reasonable conces- I sions would be made to assure har- I mony in the ranks of the party. None I of the committeeman would say I whether or not the harmony plans I should extend to the nomination of I Colonel Roosevelt as tho Republican I standard bearer. I Franklin Murphy of New Jersey! said there was a great disposition to bring about harmony "if the Progressives Progres-sives are not nasty." |