The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1912-01-04
SESSION HARMONIOUS
Committee Repudiates Lees State
ment That Taft Cannot Garry
Indiana-County Chairmer To
Be Elected Jan. 90.

The Republican State committee
met at Indianapolis Dec. 27 and
after a short and agreeable session
fixed Feb. 2 as the date on which the
new state committee will choose a
new chairman. JAN &c and u were
the dates fixed for the selection OF
precinct committeeman and delegates
to the district conventions. The new
precinct committeeman viii meet on
Monday, Jan. % and elect the new
county chairman. The thirteen con-
gressional district meetings for the
selection of new district chairmen
viii be held Jan. 81.
About the meeting of the state
committee the Indianapolis News says
The selection of February 2 as the
date for the meeting Of the new
committee for the purpose of select
ing a state chairman was q sort of
compromise, although it is regarded
as more of a victory for the pro-
Taft Republicans than for Chairman
Edwin M. Lee and those who
sympathize with him. Both sides
professed to be well pleased with the
date. Chairman Lee, Henry w.
Bennett, the Seventh district chair
man, and others who wished later
date, said that February 2 was more
nearly satisfactory to them than
January IL, the date they thought
Harry s. New and his friends would
prefer.
New Agrees to Date.
While the committee was In ses-
sion, Mr.. New, who is the Indiana
member of the Republican national
committee and is Influential among
the Republicans who are opposing
Chairman Lee, said he was not In.
sisting on any particular date il
January, but would be satisfied will
the fixing of the day for the selec
ton of a state chairman In the latter
part of January or the first part o.
February.
January &c and 81 were the date
chosen for the election of precinc
committeeman and the election O
delegates to the district conventions
The precint committeeman of all tn
counties will meet the followin.
Monday, January %, and selec
county chairmen. The thirteen con
gressional districts will hold thei
conventions January 81 for the pur
pose of electing district chairmen
After considerable discussion, thes
dates we're finally agreed on b.
unanimous vote.
An interesting feature of the com
mittee session was the unanimou
passage of the resolution disclaim
i. ing responsibility for the recent in
terviews of Chairman Lee in whic
he said that if President TAFT oh
tanned the nomination for the presi
dency he could not carry Indiana
Chairman Lee got wind of the fac
tha. such resolution was bein
prepared and he took the initiativ
bv proposing at the opening of tn
. meeting that a resolution of tina
kind be spread of record He e,
plained that he had come to the col
clusion that Taft could !. : win
Indiana after he had visited almos
every county in the state and thu
he had announced his conclusion o
his own responsibility and not o
behalf of the committee.
Cracker on Resolution.
Thereupon, Elmer Bassett, ehai
man of the Sixth district, who is OF
posed to Mr.. Lee, offered the follow
ing resolution, which was adopted:
ssResolved, That the Republics
state central committee hereby di
claims that Chairman Lee in his r
cent interviews bearing upon IL
political conditions in Indiana WI
speaking for the committee as al o
> eanization or the individual mer
bers thereof"
AS offered, there was a cracker
!. 10 this resolution, which did not g
through The Cracker read /
follows:
s1And this committee disavo'
and repudiates in advance all futu
interviews of like character"
Mr.. Lee objected to the adopti'
Of this provision. He sai9 that
interviews he had already given O
he had made his position on TIE Ia
ousstion sufficiently clear and if Il
committee so desired he was with