New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-24
SENATOR SCOTT ARRIVES.
ANNOUNCES SOME OF THE NATIONAL
CAMPAIGN SPEAKERS.
HAS A NARROW ESCAPE FROM INJURY IN
BROADWAY-WORK AT NATIONAL AND
STATE HEADQUARTERS

Preparations for Republican campaign work in
this city going rapidly. Nearly all of the
Twenty-Five rooms of the Republican National
headquarters. the third floor of the Metropoli-
tan Life Building, at No. ! Madison-ave., fur
nished and ready for use. Telephones being
placed in several Of the offices yesterday. The
desks and tables Of oak. Turkish rugs on
the floors. Flags and banners on the walls.
Senator n. b. Scott. of West Virginia. and Fred
erick s. Gibbs. Of New-York were experimenting
the work of preparation in the rooms yesterday.
Senator Hanna. chairman of the National Commit
tee, is expected TO be at the headquarters tomor-
row, Joseph II. Manley, Of Maine, IS expected on
Thursday
Senator Scott said he had narrow escape from
death yesterday morning He a northbound
Broadway car As he getting off at Twenty
third-st the suddenly started forward, throw
ing him off, and spinning him around Ike a top
He barely got out of the way of big flour truck
He asked for the name OF the conductor. and took
the number OF the car.
Il have already had three ribs broken said
Senator Scott and IL had fallen think it would
have been all up with me. I got great shake
up IL was"
Senator Scott will have charge of the arrange
ments for speakers in the campaign, and he said
yesterday that he expected many prominent Re-
pubicans 10 give their services on the stump Ex-
President Harrison might be expected to make a
few addresses. he said. and speeches would proba-
bly, be made also by Senator Lodge Senator Bur
rows Secretary Root and Postmaster-GeneraI
Smith.
Benjamin B. Odell jr. chairman of the Republi-
can State Committee. arrived from Newburg yes
teroay morning, and spent a few hours at the State
headquarters in the Fifth Avenue Hotel before go
Ing downtown to attend to business William
Barnes. jr., Of the Executive Committee his
desk early, having come from Manhattan Beach.
de attended to some political work and received
many callers. Lafayette B. Gleason in charge of
the Speakers Bureau, says that he has his list of
speakers nearly made up and that all the spell
binders" are anxious to get 10 work
At the State Headquarters there was evidence of
a fixed belief that Mr.. Odel would be the Republi-
can candidate for Governor this fall. II was said
by some of Mr.. Odell's subordnates and associates
in the State Committee that he would continue to
direct the work Of the State campaign after his
nomination for the Governorship, and proba bly,
would not resign the Craftsmanship Of the State
Committee until the end of the campaign. 1t was
recalled that the late Chester A. Arthur continued
domination for Eice-President IN 1880 and that the
late Carrot A. Hobart remained a member OF the
New-Jersey Republican State Committee while he
was the candidate for Vice-President four years
ago
General Francis V. Greene chairman of the Re
publican County Committee, is expected to be in the
city again tomorrow. A meeting of the Executive
Committee probably will be called for Thursday to
decide upon the membership of a Campaign Com
mittee There few callers the county
headquarters yesterday