Evening star., 1912-07-16
FIGHT IN THE EAST
Territory Specially Embraced
in the Democratic Plans.
PROGRAM OF GOV. WILSON
Headquarters in New York, Branch
in Chicago-National Committee
Meeting Yesterday.

in Chicago-National Committee
Meeting Yesterday.
CHICAGO. July 16.-Gov. Woodrow
Wilson will make his fight for the
presidency of the United States in the
east Although no definite announce
ment has been made to that effect, it
is practically settled that the general
headquarters for the democratic cam
paign will be in New York. Chicago
will have a divisional headquarters.
Just how soon it will be established or
who will be in charge has not been
determined. Those matters are all to
be agreed upon by William F. Nc
Combs. who was elected chairman Of
the national committee yesterday, and
Gov Wilson himself.
The whole trend of things done by
the national committee yesterday in
dicates that the big fight is to be made
in New York, Massachusetts,, Connecti-
cut, New Jersey and Delaware. The
selection Of officers and the picking
of members of the executive commit
tee, SO far as that has proceeded, cor
roborates that view.
The officers designated were only the
chairman, secretary and sergeant-at-
arms. The executive committee is to
be named by Chairman McCombs. and
will consist of not less than nine MEM
bers, five of whom will be members of
the national committee. Officers al
ready chosen are:
List of Those Selected.
Chairman, William McCombs, New
York; secretary, j. E. Davies, Wisconsin,;
sergeant alarms, John I. Martin, st.
Louis.
Mr. McCombs and Mr. Davies were
picked by Gov Wilson himself and Col
Martin has had his job SO long that 1t
seems to go to him as matter of course.
The members of the executive committee
who have virtually been agreed upon
are: Willard Salisbury, Delaware; r. S.
HudSpeth, New Jersey; Josephus Dan
els North Carolina; A. Mitchell Palmer.
Pennsylvania John 7. McGraw, West
Virginia, representing the national COM
mittee; Senator Gore of Oklahoma, Sena-
tors O'Gorman Of New York and Culber-
son of Texas.
Other members who may be added are
Fred B. Lynch Of Minnesota, Thomas
Taggart of Indiana, Roger G. Sullivan or
Illinois and Martin ]. Wade of Iowa.
The additional officers to be chosen are
a treasurer and vice chairman. For the
first place it is now expected that John
D. Crimmins will be named, and William
G. McAdoo is considered almost a cer-
tainty for the vice Craftsmanship. They
are both of New York. The heads of the
various standing committees will also be
named by Chairman McCombS.
Believe Victory Is Certain.
rho r,..+;nr af xho oo,,vo;t+o. bro,,or,t
nearly all the members to Chicago and
the reports made by all were that a
democratic victory is certain. From every
state committeeman reported that the
chances are better for democratic sue
cess than they have been in a great
many years. The only resolution of gen
eral scope offered was by Senator Gore.
1t was an invitation to all the dissatisfied
Of all parties to come into the democratic
camp and help elect Wilson.
The resolution reads:
Resolved, That we gratefully acknowl-
edge our appreciation of the courageous
and patriotic course of many republicans
and independents, including a number OF
the most influential leaders and editors
in declaring their intention to support
the democratic ticket in the pending pres
idential election"
The committee left late last night in a
body for Indianapolis, to meet Gov. Mar
shall, the nominee for the Vice Presi-
dency. After that the members will scat
ter to their homes, to meet again at the
call Of the chairman.
Each State to Be Assessed"
The first thing members will be asked
to do is to get their campaign contribu
tions ready, and each state probably will
be assessed a certain sum.
f1ll a11
ton of officers was mostly concerning the
raising of a campaign fund. Several OF
the members were eager to start the
political fight at once, but Mr.. Sullivan
who sat in the meeting as the proxy fol
the member from Alaska, brought up the
money question as the most pressing
business.
There will be headquarters to pay for
and the first thing contracts must be
made for printing and distribution, which
will run to $3.50, 600 very quickly he told
the members, and advised them to get tt
work at that part Of the campaign al
once.
"And if you can get a million dollars II
will not be too much,' he said, ''for run
ming a big campaign is an expensive bust
ness.
Gore Makes Appeal.
Senator Gore urged all the members OF
the committee to raise as much as 81 .OO(
each by the time Gov. Wilson is officially
notified OF his nomination, which will be
August T. That date, incidentally, Is tc
mark the real opening of the campaign
Chairman McCombs, after the meeting
held many short conferences with ole
members Of the committee and sought
their advice in the management of the
campaign. Lynch, Sullivan and Taggart
were consulted for the middle west and
they probably will L.ndle the campaign
as far west as the Rockies.
The man behind McCombs in the man
agement of the general campaign is tG
be the blind man from Oklahoma, Sena.
tor Gore. He will be the chief adviser.
INVITE THE TWO COLONIES.