New Britain herald., 1915-12-15


 cisco and Philadelphia, talked of Monday failed to materialize. It would have made no difference for Chicago had a majority over all
 Representative J. Hampton Moore made the principal argument for Philadelphia; Henry R. Rathbone and Mayor Thompson for Chicago; Representative Julius Kahn H)r San Francisco, and ex-Mayor c. P. Wal bridge for St. Louis. After the vote was taken the contest apparently was forgotten and all sides went to work on campaign plans. Every one of the four cities had it's check ready and before the ballot was taken Chairman Hilles held paper worth $400,OO0. All was returned except the $100,000 from Chicago.
 No Action On Candidates.
 The committee officially took no cognizance of candidates, although the lobby of the hotel where the filled with republicans who have been mentioned as presidential possibilities and their supporters. About 500 of the 9S5 delegates to the convention are to be chosen at primaries, and by the time most of these elections are held the leaders expect to have a good line on what the different states think of candidates.
 The republican fight, the gossip went yesterday, will be waged on few plain principles; defense of American vommerce and industry aLd defense of American lives. One of the points of attack will be that the democratic party In congress had not stood for an adequate plan of preparedness un- til events across the Atlantic forced them to change their position.
 Temporary Chairman.
 One of the last things done by the committee yesterday, was the selec- tion of committee on arrangements, which will select temporary chair man of the convention and name some of it's important temporary com mittees. Chairman Hilles IS ahead of the arrangements committee and the other members are Ralph E. Williams of Oregon, Franklin Murphy of New Jersey, E. c. Duncan of North Caro- lima, Fred w. E. Stabrook of New Hampshire, Fred Stanley of Kansas, Charles B. Warren of Michigan, Alvah
  rich of Indiana, Thomas K. Neidring- haus of St. Louis and John T. Adams of Iowa. This committee will meet either in New York or Chicago in a few days to lay out it's preliminary plans and is expected to have many meetings before June.
 Chairman Hilles said last night he had heard no serious suggestions for toY o6 irrn nf ton, but that there seemed to be sentiment among many members to see whether the winter does not develop some republican orator in Congress who can properly sound the keynote.
 Opposed to Proxies.
 The committee adopted resolu- tion designed to prevent use of proxies at future meetings of the committee, except when the giver of the proxy is i'll, out of the city where the meet ing is to be held. or a member from some territory outside the continental limits of the United States. The reso- iution was introduced by MT. Warren and was said to have been drawn for its effect upon the committee meeting next June, when contests. will be taken up.
 The COIl1IllItee gave dn IlOuT QuT- ing the afternoon to proponents and opponents of woman suffrage. Ap- p1ause and laughter greeted all the speakers. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw asked that the republican platform of 1916 carry a plank promising a federal suffrage amendment, and Miss Frances Joliffe of California and Mrs. Sara Bard Field of Oregon, of the ,Ccn rreScionaI TInion for Woman S11f- frage, served notice that there were 10000, ,OOO women voters in the West whose votes were worth getting and could be had if the republican party would put a plank in it's platform. Mrs. A. J. George was spokesman for the anti-suffragists.