The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-24
WILL BE GOOD
Whites Successor Promises to Act
With National Committee.

Chicago, June 24.-Powell Clayton,
Republican national committeeman
from Arkansas. was made temporary
chairman of h new Republican ma
tional committee when that body con-
vened in executive session today in
the Coliseum. Alvah H. Martin of
Virginia was made temporary secre-
tary. A surprise was the absence of
William Allen White of Kansas. from
the committee meeting and the pres
ence of F. B. Stanley of Kansas in his
place. 1t was explained that Commit
teeman White a told the Kansas
whether he could support the candi-
date of the convention, President
Taft, and MI. Stanley was accordingly
chosen as state committeeman. F. B.
Stanley throug the P-re-convention
campaign was an ardent Roosevelt
man. Today he said he was willing to
act with the national committee. Wal
ter F. Brown of Ohio also took his
plan had been decided on by the
Roosevelt members and he would sit
with the committee and see what was
done.
h meeting was brief and adjourn
ed after the appointment of the COM
mittee of nine to confer with Presi-
dent Taft n ascertain his wishes re-
garding a chairman and the campaign.
The Committee.
The committee to wait on the presi-
dent is composed of:
Powell Clayton. Arkansas.
Roy O.. West, illinois
John J. Adams, Iowa.
Charles B. Warren, Michigan.
Thomas K. Nedringhaus. Missouri.
F. w. Estabrook, New Hampshire.
Newell Sanders. Tennessee.
Alvah H. Martin. Virginia.
S. A. Perkins, Washington
As soon as this committee has con-
ferred with President Taft it is ex-
pected another meeting will be called
and. the organization of the commit
tee will be completed with the election
of a permanent chairman, secretary
and other officers.
Victor Rosewater. acting chairman
of the old national committee attended
the meeting, holding the proxy of L.
B. Moseley of Mississippi.
The committee of nine decided to
meet next Monday in Washington and
will proceed to the White House for
a conference with Mr.. Taft. The ma
tional committee authorized this COM
mittee to make the selection of the
chairman. who will have
charge of the campaign and to name
the national committee secretary af-
ter the conference with Taft. Ser
geant-at-Arms stone was unanimously
reelected. It was given out as prac-
ticaIly certain that Charles D. Hilles,
personal secretary to the president,
would be selected as chairman of the
committee. Members of the commit
tee who are all16Q WITH 0OlOHSl tAOOSS-
welt. it was believed would resign. MI.
Hilles, forecasting%that this would be
the result. busted himself in h con-
sideration of men of political power N
home state to fill the places OF
the Roosevelt men.
California, Minnesota, New Jersey.
North Carolina, South Dakota and
Massachusetts were not represented at
the meeting.
4 contest exists in Massachusetts,
a national committeeman from
that state is yet to be named. The
representatives of the other states who
were missing were Roosevelt men, 1t
was not stated whether they intend to
withdraw from the committee. Roose-
men from Oklahoma, Ohio. Ne
Pennsylvania, Maine and West
were present
1t had been expected some move
be made to commit h entire
to the support of President Taft
but nothing developed.