The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-12
WILSON MESSAGE ID COMMITTEE DRAF TED Governor Outlines Thoughts
 on Campaign PROMINENT VISITORS Speaker Clark Will Go to Seagirt Tomorrow and MT. Underwood
 Is Expected One Day
 Next Week

Seagirt, N. J., July 11.-For the first time since the Baltimore convention ad- journed, Governor Wilson closed his of- flee tonight to all visitors, took off his coat settled down In his easy chair with a pad and pencil and committed to paper his thoughts on the national campaign. He was writing the rough outline of his message to the national committee. which meets In Chicago July IS. Page after page of shorthand notes.-the governor has written short hand for 40 years-was torn from the pad and placed on the desk beside him
 In two hours or so he had finished sso win go over the draft. tomorrow with Robert S. Hudspeth and the rough outline will be made ready to be placed before the committee No word of Its contents, the governor said tonight, would be made public in advance of the meeting.
 The message will contain the name of the governors choice for national chairman, his decision on whether there shall be a campaign chairman to help the national chairman, direct the fight, the nomnee's views on the sort of campaign he wishes to conduct and | probably his selection of the executive committee. Discussion of the platform and issues will be reserved for his speech of acceptance August :.
 Many Prominent Visitors Preparation of the message tonight | fpo of haI6 daV af Seaeirt for men high in the councils
 of the democratic party. The governor
 entertained dozens of callers of polit-
 ical prominence, including five mem-
 bers of the democratic national com
 mittee, Maryland leaders of his pre-
 convention fight and leaders from
 Brooklyn Among the visitors were
 John T. McGraw, national committee man from West Virginia L. A. Jones, national committeeman from Maine; 1 David R. Francis of Sts Louis, Thomas | J. McCue national committeeman from Colorado. Edward F. Goltra, national committeeman from Missouri Harvey Garber, former national committeeman from Ohio; John II. McCoory of Brook : lyn, Representative J. F. Fitzgerald. chairman of the appropriations com mittee of the House; Reese M. Ling. na- tional committeeman from Arizona l. Nearly all or these were pOSltlVe lH rtheir declaration that when the na- tional committee elects a chairman next Monday 1t will be the man whom Gov ernor Wilson selects. and more than half were inclined to believe William | F. Mccombs would have the governors | preference.
 | Governor Wilson Is going to be the real manager of the campaign. The governor himself said tonight he in- | "A. fAr cnn closely the campaign contributions and keep tally of the expenditures. That. of course,p he said, "is noth- Ing more than my duty,
 Contributions Pour In
 There has been a growing stream of contributions emptying into the gov ernor's office daily. Nearly score came today varying In amounts from sf to $20O with $25, perhaps. a fair average. More than half of them came from men with whose names the gov ernor was not familiar. It was a whole some sign. he said, and the right sort sent money he wrote personal letter of thanks.
 Col. John l. Martin, sergeant at arms of the Baltimore convention brought him as a present the gavel used in the convention. Ii was made Colonel Mar tin told the governor Dy l'onald Mar tin. the colonels son, at iillsboro, Mo. The governor grasped 1t firmly and tapped the porch.
 "So that's the gayel that did the business, Is it?" he asked
 Colonel Martin assured him 1t was and added that the Upper Mississippi River Improvement association. com posed of men of affairs in Iowa. Wis oonsin, Minnesota and Illinois felt very kindly toward the ticket this year be- cause of the plank in the platform pledgiDg the party to the improvement of the Mississippi for navigation.
 Clark Comes Tomorrow Governor Wilson announced today that he had set aside three hours Saturday aft ernoon for q conference with Speaker Champ Clark. who Is coming to Sea girt to see him. Representative Under
 wood, the governor said. probably would come to seagirt for conference next week.
 Governor Wilson declared he had, set aside no topic for discussion with the ~>~>~I-~>-~~~~
 (ContInued on Page Nine.l