The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-07-08
NEW POLITICAL STAR.
Young McConbs, Wilson's Manager, Out
generated Shrewd Veterans.

A Baltimore special to the Brooklyn
Eagle SAYS William F. McCombs, a nov
ice in the game Of politics, is the Ma
poleon in the Woodrow Wilson cam
paign who out generated Charles L. Muir
ply, the veteran of many Tammany
campaigns, defeated the Ryan Belmont
interests and brought about the NOM
| nation of the chief executive of New
Jersey by the Democratic national con-
vention.
Murphy might well take few lessons
from this quiet, unassuming young man.
Thomas Fortune Ryan and August Bel
mont would also do well TO look him
over. His ingenuity, his capability for
organizing and his shrewdness made the
Wilson steam roller the most formidable
machine at the convention.
| Mr.. McCombs, who is a lawyer and
a New Yorker, with offices in lower
Broadway, was the originator of the
| Wilson boom. The remarkable showing
that the New Jersey executive made in
! his gubernatorial campaign aroused the
Princeton pride in the young lawyer
He figured out that Governor Wilson
| was not only the man who would be ac.
eepted b. the Democracy of all the 9th
or states in the union, but that his
principles made him the logical candidate
Of the Democratic party for president.
| Eighteen months ago Mr.. McCombs
organized the Wilson club, composed Of
Princeton students, to carry his ideas
into execution. But those who prom
ised to assist him early began to lose
interest.
Soon the organizer of the club was
left alone. Instead of being discouraged.
Mr. McCombs took up the work single
handed He drew upon his private for
tune to the extent Of $4,000 With this
Through this medium the name Of Wood
row Wilson was given prominence in
every state where preferential primaries
We're to be held
The publicity work accomplished by
Mr. McCombs was demonstrated at the
convention.
The care he took in selecting the per
soanel of each state delegation Is an
other compliment to his political astutc-
ness.
State delegations instructed for Champ
Clark became divided factions as the
balloting proceeded. But with the
states instructed for Wilson the vote
on each ballot was kept intact. Me
Combs personally knew the caliber OF
each man selected on the different state
delegations for Wilson.
That is the reason they stuck to the
New Jersey governor on each ballot
This youthful Princeton graduate. he
is only &c. has not only been Governor
Wilson's field marshal in the primary
campaigns in the different states, but
at the national convention as well. The
governor left everything to his discre-
ton here. Whatever suggestion Mr. Me
Combs made in the line of publicity
the Democratic presidential nominee car
ried them ont to the letter.
The field marshal did not seek any adj
vice from hattle-scarred political vet
Grams. In his campaign here during the |
last week, he was surrounded only by |
young men Mr. McCombs had enough !
confidence in himself to believe that he /
could play the political game as well as
some of the politicians who are old
enough to be his father.
Governor wilson's campaign manager |
ia wealthy in his own right ,He is a
graduate of Princeton, class of '9S. He !
then took another course in Harvard and |
graduated in 1901
Mr.. McCombs was born in Arkansas /
and received his early educational train. t
ing in Tennessee, He practically gave
up his practice of law when he took |
charge Of Governor Wilson's presidential
He is bachelor and lives
with his mother at the Royalton, Man
haitian.
McCombs will in all probability be
chosen as chairman Of the Democratic
national committee or as chairman Of
the campaign committee to direct the
political fortunes of Woodrow Wilson
Mr.. McCombs learned last night that
be is Governor Wilson's choice as the
man who should pull the wires and
push the workers from now until cleo
ton day.
Il don't know that anything has been
decided about it," said Mr. McCombs
But I've had my coat off
working thus far, and | am ready to
Keep going