Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-13
Mr.. HANNA CHAIRMAN
Perry Heath Secretary Of National
Executive Committee.
CORNELIUS n. BLISS TREASURER
Mr.. Heath Will Resign Place in
Post Office Department.
CONFERENCE AT CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND. Ohio, July 13.-An import
ant political conference. attended by a num-
Der of prominent republican leaders. was
held at Senator Hannas office here today.
The meeting was called by Mr.. Hanna to
discuss and decide upon the personnel of
the new executive committee, and to name
a secretary of the national committee, to
succeed General Charles F. Dick.
Before the conference closes it is also
probable that a member of the national
committee, to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of George B. Cox of Ohio,
viii be chosen.
Among those present at the conference
were Chairman Hanna, Cornelius N Bliss.
Perry S. Heath. Charles F. Dick, Henry
c. Payne. Charles Dawes. Myron T. Her
rick. R. c. Kerens, Graeme Stewart, NJ. B.
Scott Harry S. New and Frederick Gibbs.
At noon Senator Hanna announced that
the following named had been chosen
members of the national executive commit
tee: Graeme Stewart. Illinois: Henry c.
Payne, Wisconsin: Richard c. Kerens. Mis-
souri,: ]. H. Manley, Maine: n. b. Scott.
West Virginia; Frederick S. Gibbs, New
York: Franklin Murphy New Jersey; My
ron T. Herrick, Ohio; Harry S. New, In
diana.
Chairman. NJ A. Hanna: secretary, Perry
S. Heath; treasurer, c. N. Bliss.
Col. Dick Resigns.
Gen Charles F. Dicks resignation as sec
retary of the republican national committee
was received and accepted. Messrs Hanna,
Heath and Payne were named as commit
tee to draft resolutions concerning the
resignation of Gen. Dick Mr.. Hanna stated
that the personnel of an advisory commit
tee was under consideration. but that it
would not be announced for ten days
two weeks.
a nf ha mo- her
of the old national committee of 1896 re-
quested President Mckinley to consent to
the resignation of Mr.. Heath first as
SiStant postmaster general in order that he
might become the secretary of the national
committee. The President, it was added.
strongly demurred to this proposition until
yesterday, when he finally gave his consent.
Mr.. Heath will tender his resignation to
the President in about week ten days.
Secretary Heath.
Perry Sanford Heath was a well-known
newspaper man prior to his appointment
first assistant postmaster general in 1897,
a few days following the inauguration of
President Mckinley. Mr.. Heath was born
in Muncie, Ind, August 81 1857, and had
common school education. He learned the
trade of a printer and became a newspaper
reporter at the age of twenty. He was at
one time editor of the Muncie Times, and
later, in 1881, moved from Indiana to Aber-
deem, South Dakota, where he established
the Aberdeen Pioneer. Mr.. Heath was
prominently identified with the framing of
the constitution when it was decided to
divide the state of Dakota. After this SER
vice he again came eastward and located
in Cincinnati. being president and general
manager of the Cincinnati Commercial Ga
Zette from 1894 to 1896. During the cam
paign of the latter year he was in charge
of the publications and printing of the re-
publican national committee, with head
quarters at New York and Chicago. He
during a atar
part of the campaign.
Treasurer Bliss.
Cornelius Newton Bliss was formerly Sec
retary of the Interior, being one of the first
appointees in the cabinet of the present ad-
ministration. He was born in Fall River,
Mass, January 26, 1893 He was educated
in the public schools and the academy there
and afterward took course in the High
School at New Orleans, La. His first busi-
ness occupation was clerk in his step
fathers counting room at New Orleans.
After being there for a year he became a
clerk in Boston commission house
In 1866 he entered the firm of j. S. and
Z. Wright & Co. of Boston as a member.
Later he moved to New York and took
charge of the interests there. the firm finally
resolving into Bliss, Fabyan & Co, dry
goods and commission merchants. 1t was
in 1881 when the firm was SO established.
Mr. Bliss was a member of the pan-Ameri-
can conference: was president of the Pro-
tective Tariff League; was chairman of the
New York republican state committee, 1887
until the following year. He was treasurer
of the national committee during the cam
paign of 1899 and again in 1896. In 1885
and again in 1891 he declined to become a
candidate for governor of New York. He
resigned from the cabinet on account of
the necessity of giving personal attention
to his many business interests