The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-20
HANNA IS CHAIRMAN.

Will Manage McKiniey's Campaign as
 Head of National Committee-Hea
 quarters in New York-The Ohio Man Wanted Cleveland Selected, but Finally
 Yielded-McKinley to be Officially Noti-
 fled June go Hobart on July !.
 St. Louis, June 19.--The new republi- can national committee met this morning and was called to order by
 Joseph Manley of Maine. General Pow ell Clayton of Arkansas was made chairman of the meeting. Senator Quay | had refused to allow the use of his
 name in connection with the chairman | ship. On motion of Committeeman | Payne of Wisconsin, seconded by Penn | sylvania and New York, Mark Hanna was unanimously elected chairman of | the committee. J. H. Manley of Maine was elected temporary secretary, James | S. Burke os Pennsylvania assistant
 secretary, and Colonel II. $, Swords of l Indiana was reelected sergeant at
 arms.
 Senator ThurstOn of Nc Jraska offered | this resolution, which was adopted: 1 Resolved, That the chairman of this | committee is hereby authorized and l empowered, after the usual election of
 candidate for president and vice pres bident, to appoint an executive commit | tee of nine members, who may or may
 not be members of the national commit | tee, and the chairman of this commit 1 tee shall be ex-oficio chairman of the
 said executive committee"
 The committee then proceeded to fill l vacancies C. H. Sproul was elected
 member for Nevada, o. J. Salisbury for | Utah, Senator Shoup for Idaho, w. M. 1 Griffith for Arizona, Sol Luna for New | Mexico, J. F. Landers for Colorado,
 Henry F. Ash for Oklahoma, and 1 George A. Steel for Oregon. The va
 cancies in the District of Columbia and
 Alaska, were referred to the executive
 committee when appointed. Chairman Hanna was authorized to appoint a per-
 manent secretary and treasurer of the | committee.
 Behind closed doors there was an ani-
 mated discussion of the question of the | location of the permanent headquarters
 for the campaign. Chairman Hanna
 wanted the headquarters in Cleveland, | but there was an emphatic protest by | the members from the east and south. 1 They warned MT. Hanna that the | Ohio idea could be carried too far. ] They told him that if the headquarters were not located in New York the re- publicans of that state would regard the slight as a direct slap in the face and 1 the party would be in danger of losing l SpVeutN-tWO electoral votes
 Chicago also made a bid for head ! quarters, and the rabid Mckinley fol- 1 lowing were willing to stand by MT. l Hanna and run the campaign from his ! office in Cleveland. But the vigorous
 objections of the committees from New | England and the south convinced MT. | Hanna that it would be a dangerous | experiment to attempt to slight the ! first city in the land and the republi- cans of the empire state.
 | He finally agreed that the headquar- l ters should be located in New York city. 1 The only formal action taken in refer | ence to the matter was to refer it to i the executive committee when appoint 1 ed, but after the meeting had adjourn l ed it was states by several members of ! the committee who were in the confi- dence of the new chairman that the l question is as good as settled, and New | York will, as usual, be the campaign 1 headquarters. The committee adjourn l ed at II o'clock, subject to the call of | tka chair.
 ! The next meeting will probably be held in New York city after Chairman { Hanna has consulted with his eandi-
 dates and appointed his executive com i mittee.
 l Cornelius N. Bliss of New York will 1 probably be reappointed treasurer of
 the committee if he will accept the l place.
 l The resolution making Chairman ] Hanna of the national committee ex- 1 officio chairman of the executive com mittee is a new departure It is anoth-
 CT sample of the Ohio idea of Hanaism.
 It has always been the custom in the
 national and state committee of the parties to elect distinguished party