The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-07-18

HEM 4OhhJ July 80
Congressman Thomas Henry Carter, OF
Montana.
Vice J chairman-Michaol H. De
Young, of California.
Treasurer-Co Cornelius N. Bliss, of New
York
Temporary secrotary-James F.
Burke, of Pennsylvania.
Executive Committee. s. Clarkson,
Of Iowa; Garrett A. Hobert, of New
Jersey; Joseph H. Msnloy, Of Maine;
Januel Fessenden, of Connecticut;
Henry o. Payne, of Wisconsin; Richard
@. Kerens, of Missouri; William Q.
Bradley, OF Kentucky; William A. suth-
erland, Of New York; John K Tanner,
Of Illinois; w. ]. Campbell, OF Illinois.
These are the generals and captains
OF the Republican forces who are to run
President Harrison's campaign for re-
election.
The situation on the arrival Of the
executive committee at the Fifth Ave-
hue Hotel preparatory to the final hunt
for a chairman, was regarded even by
the Presidents friends as notifying.
The hunt was continued all day, and
just before shutdown Mr.. Carter was
prevailed upon to accept the place. de
is the land Office commissioner at
Washington at 5000 year. He will
Immediately felinquish the Office
Mr.. Carter also foregoes the prospect
of becoming the next United States
senator from Montana. He was secre-
tary OF the new national committee
selected at Minneapolis, and he could
attend to its duties beside entering into
his subsoil contract to corral the United
States scnatorship for himself, but the
duties OF chairman OF the committee
are SO exacting and laborious and con-
filming that he will not have time to
think much OF his own political future.
MRsSIAGRE MAY be SECRETARY.
The executive committee appointed
temporary secretary in his place, but
gave him the privilege Of selecting at
his leisure his own man for secretary.
It is believed that either ex-Repfesenta-
tive McComas, OF Maryland, Q. u Ma
gee, Of Pittsburg, or VIM. o. Bradley,
Of Kentucky, may be prevailed upon to
accept the secretary's place. Mean
while James +. Burke, president of the
National Republican College League,
will perform the duties.
As personal honor to W. J. Camp
bell, who resigned, he was made full
fedged member Of the executive COM
mittee. Thlsmakes two committeeman
from Illinois, an unusual distinction to
be given TO one state. /,
An advisory committee, to be named
in the immediate future by Chairman
Carter, is also TO assist the committee.
The committee adjourned its meeting
at the Fifth Avenue hotel to meet again
Monday in the same place at o'clock.
Then subcommittee will select house
for headquarters in New York.
When Henry G. Paine, Of Wisconsin,
went to bed after midnight Friday night,
he had been told that President Harrl-
son wanted him to be chairman Of the
committee.
WHY PAYNE COULDN'T TAKE THE JOB.
Mr.. Payne hadn't any political am
billions to stand in the way OF his taking
the place, but he had declined to.honor
the Presidents draft upon him or to
regard the wishes OF his old political
mentor, Uncle Philetus Sawyer, until
he could satisfy himself that he could
afford to neglect for four months BUSH
ness interests in which $4,000, 600 are
invested. In fact, he had promised his
associates in his surface car enterprises
in Milwaukee that he would give his
constant attention to them. He de-
cided that he could not honOrably
escape the restrictions upon him, and
his decision was soon known in tho
corridor Of the hotel.
Thomas Fl. Garter, the newly-e!ected
chairman, is but thirty-eight years old,
having been born in June Furnace,
scioto county, o., in 1854. In 1865 he
moved TO Peoria, ILL.,, where he lived
until 1875, whom he moved TO Burlitlg-
ton. Ia. He studied law in Ionlsyflle,
XIV. and Illinois, being admittedto the
bar in Nebraska. In 1882 he moved to
Helena, Mont, which is now his home.
He was elected Territorial delegate to
the Fifty-first Congress, and on the ad-
mission of Montana as q state, in No
yember, 1889, was elected to Congress
as its first representative. In March,
1891, he was appointed by President
Harrison as United States land commits
sioner.
CHAIRMAN CARTER MAKES A SPEECH
Mr.. Campbell was formally reelected
amember Of the executive committee.
Mr.. Carter resigned the secretaryship
and, formally acknowledging the honor
of his election as chairman. said:
GENTLEMEN OF THE NATIONAL Com
MlTTRE:-To plead insensibility to the
great trust which you have just con-
ferred to my care would be to cast a re-
Election upon your judgment, collect
lively and apparently. As your worthy
presiding officer, Mr.. Sutherland, has
we'll said, this is task OF great magni-
tude, battle amounting TO little less
than hand.to-hand struggle with
fullyorganized to grasp the powers OF
government from the Republican par
~. We have passed in the history Of
the world beyond the time when men
have oyerthrown governments for the
sake OF power, but the distance be-
tween the tlme OF that passage and the
present is not very great.
The fact that the struggle does not
involve life and death is only mitiga-
tion OF the severity Of the contest upon
which we are about to enter.
From these suggestions 1t may be in
ferred that appreciate, in some de-
gree at least, the nature OF the response
bliity at hand and the character OF the
effort necessary to be put forth. ]
would shrink from the task as hope
less struggle, we're it not for the fact
ths. about the chairman ,of this COM
mittee primarily will BIO twelve shrewd,