The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-14
REPUBLICAN, Committeeman.
THOSE NAMED BY LEADERS AT
A CLEVELAND CONFERENCE.

,,...t Assistant Postmaster General
usath VIII Resign TO Succeed
toual Committee-Lease of Rooms
cor headquarters in the Metro
o,ttan Lies Building in New
York Renewed.
Cleveland, O.. July 1S.-An important po-
,.,,.,l conference, attended by number
= nrominent Republican leaders, was
L.net Senator Hanna's Office here to-day
The meeting was called by Mr.. Hanna to
s;scuss and decide upon the personnel CT
,ha new Executive Committee, and to
nsme a secretary of the National Commit
..s TO succeed Gen. Charles f. Dick.
Al noon Senator Hanna announced that
.he following had been chosen as mem
hers of the National Executive Commit
eco. Graeme Stewart, Illinois; Henry c.
PAYNE. Wisconsin; Richard c. Kerens,
Missouri; ]. H. Manley, Maine; N. B.
scott. West Virginia; Frederick S. Gibbs,
New York Kranklin Murphy, New Jer-
sew; Harry S. New. Indiana chairman,
NJ A. Hanna; secretary, Perry s. Heath;
c. n. Bliss, treasurer.
Gen. Charles F. Dicks resignation as
secretary of the Republican National
Committee was received and accepted.
A resolution commendatory of Mr.. Dicks
services was adopted.
Mr.. Hanna stated that the personnel
l--;cor,, woe ,,pdar oop-
sideration, but that it would not be an
nounced for cen days or two weeks. 1t
was also said that all of the members of
the old National Committee of 1896 re-
ouested President Mckinley to consent to
the resignation of Mr.. Heath as first as
sistant postmaster general in order that
he might become the secretary of the Ma
tional Committee. The President, it was
added. strongly demurred 10 this PROPOSE
lion until yesterday, when he finally gave
his consent Mr.. Heath will tender his
resignation to the President In about
week or ten days.
In an interview this afternoon, First
Assistant Postmaster General Heath said
10 the Associated Press correspondent:
THE subject, which eliminated to-day
in my selection as secretary OF the Repub-
Ucan National Committee, was first
members of the committee some weeks
ego and was renewed with much earnest
ness and insistency at the Philadelphia
Convention.
AT first I was much adverse to taking
up this work. knowing what it meant in
volume and character. President McKin-
ley did not wish me to quit my position
in the postoffice department. I was sum-
moned from Maine on Saturday last to
Cleveland, by Chairman Hanna, and re-
quested to attend a meeting of the Exec
utive Committee here to-day.
Here the subject was renewed by all
the members of the Executive Committee
in such a personal and earnest manner
that consented to undertake the work"
Concerning Mr.. Heath's resignation as
first Assistant Postmaster General, SEN
atOr Hanna said this afternoon that in his
conversation with the President yesterday
a. Canton, the latter expressed deep re-
gret that the committee deemed it neces-
sary for Mr. Heath to leave his position
IN the postoffice department, where he had
rendered such satisfactory service, and
expressed the greatest confidence In and
admiration for Mr.. Heath, both officially
and personally.
The Executive Committee chose Col. My
ron T Herrick of this city to fill the va
cancy on the National Committee caused
by the resignation of George B. Cox of
Cincinnati.
The committee, late this afternoon. re-
newed the lease of the rooms occupied as
headquarters in the Metropolitan Life In
surance buildin, Madison Square, New
York
Messrs. Payne and Stewart were in
etructed to look over the grounds in Chi
cago with a view to securing a location
for the National Committee in that city.
II is expected that the Chicago headquar-
teFs will be opened during the latter part
of the present month.
The committee, after considerable dis
cussion, decided to maintain no special
bureaus during the coming campaign. In
1886 number of these, including negro,
German and women's bureaus, were oper-
ated as auxiliares to the national head
quarters. This work will all be assumed
now by the officers of the several commit
tees.