The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-15
Wilson Declines to Dis
cuss Message to Ma
tional Committee.
VIEWS EXPRESSED
BY CLOSE FRIENDS
McCombs Regarded as His Choice
for Chairman. McAdoo or
O'Gorman for Chair
man, and Joseph (. Davies
for Secretary = Other
Probable Suggestions.

at seagirt gathered from party leaders
with whom Governor Wilson mas been
la constant consultation recently. are
that William z Mc-omne. OF Sew
I York. is his choice for chairman vi the
Democratic National Commi,tee Will
liam VI McAdoo. 81 New sey. builder
OF the Hudson tunnels. or senator
james a OGorman OF %c, York. FOG
vice chairman, and Joseph L. Davis.
rational committeeman from Wiscon-
sin. tor secretary. These views have
been sleanei from a canvass % the
Governors closest political Intends AS
To the contents Of the mess8ee which
/ ROber, : Hudspeth Governor Wilson'S
spokesman is conveyins to the nstiona!
committee al Chicago FOR its action
! tomorrow. Governor Wilson has di-
I yulged no word. On the coutrarY he
has consistently declined 10 speak for
! publication or that subject His OBJ
lection he bases on tho fact that ne Is
acting by courtesy OF the national COM
mittee In placing his preferences be-
fore il, To sag what the message
would contain 10 any particular. the
/ Governor asserted. would be a stinct
violation OF that courtesy
Nevertheless there j. an unanimity
Of opinion among the nominees close
friends that the message will contain.
in addition to the foregoing. other sug-
gesiicns In substance. as follows
Suggestion in MESSAGE.
That the national campaign head
quarters he fixed at New York, with
branch at Chicago and another In q
! Western city. unnamed in the message
That there VIII be no specific sug-
sestion concerning tho identity OF the
treasurer OF the committee or the IL
nance committee. except that Henry
Norge n-hau. . &Iplthy roe estate
operator of New YORK DC given a place
on the committee. Nj. Norgenthau
contributed largely TO the Wilson cam
fight. and the Governors friends be-
lieve he will he given a prominent
place on the finance committee II the
Governors suggestion Is followed
That the campaign committee con
sist of men who have been associated
with the Governor in his fight for the
nomination and viii include Robert $
Hudspeth. national committeeman from
New Jersey. probably "a chairman. Io-
sephus Daniels. national committeeman
FIR m North Carolina. Joseph l. Davies
national committeeman from Wiscon-
s'n. senators OGo-man OF New York
and Core OF Oklahoma; Representative
\. Mitchell Palmer. Of Pennsylvania
willard salisbury. national committee
"
Adoo and William L Coombs
There are three Texans upon one
OF whom, tho Governors friends as
sert, representation on the campaign
committee may fall They are Repra-
sentatives BGrleson and Henry and
Judge Cato Sells There IS also pos
sibllity they say that Senator Obadiah
Gardner. of Maine. may be given
place on the committed
1t is part of the Governors plans
In the opinion OF his friends to have
the campaign committee decide all the
vital matters concerned with the cam
paign. and that tho national chairman
be guided BY q majority vote OF the
campaign committee in which ne will
Of course. have vote Mr. McCombs
they say. would thus be placed I'm
position where ne could not act alone
but only on the advice OF seasoned po-
lii cal leaders
McCombs ns Director-in- Chief
Governor Wilson's friends assert that
his plans regarding Mr.. McCombs arc
that he act as director-in-c chief OF the
campaign on the advice OF the cam
paign committee. and THAT he make his
headquarters in New York 1t IS also
the Governors plan. according to his
councillors. To request each national
committeeman TO direct. under Nc
Combs. the campaign in his own State
I Publicity matters. It is understood.
are not covered in the Governors
message to the nat'o al committee.
but viii be LETT TO the campaign com
mttee if Governor Wilson's wishes MS
expressed Tonight by his friends. are
to be followed Their information is
that the Governor IS inclined to favor
Thomas j. Pence as head of the pub
lcitv bureaus. Mr.. Pence was head
Of the Wilson publicity bureau in
Washington. He was born in North
Carolina. and his carly newspa per
work was done at Raleigh He had
heen Washington correspondent for
several southern newspapers prior to
Joining forces with the Wilson pub
Lefty movement
Governor Wilson himself left hts
summer home to-day for needed tost
OF twentyfour hours Before his de-
parture he told his secretary to give
the Key to what he called the retrcatr
to the NEWSPAPER correspondents so
that they might reach him in case ~
emergency, but obtained their promise
that they would not disturb him unless
the emergency was great indeed No
one. save the reporters. his immediate
family and one or two intimate friends
knew whore he had gone.
In Chicago for Meeting