The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-11
|EV SECRETARY Of WAR To Be NAMED
WITHIN THE NEXT TWENTY-F0UR HOURS
BY Garrison than that Of any other
responsible leader.

by Garrison than that Of any other
responsible leader.
After Garrison had completed his
plan. which he thought would elfmin-
ate the two chief objections to the
present militia system, he found In
the Hay bill actually entrenched the
conditions to which he objected.
First of all Garrison favored q plan
whereby officers Of state guards
should be under national board of
officers to test their efficiency.
e Appointment of officers by COVER
nors for political favors or their Sc
lection by men in the ranks. he con-
sidered fatal to any plan OF military
effectiveness. He put this condition
UP to the convention OF national guard
officials in San Francisco, but his plan
was turned down. Later he found
Hay had decided to stand by the state
Euardsmen and also to pay them. 1t
Ia known that Garrison considered
this whole proposition as unwise
spoils politics.
His second objection to the present
militia is that 1t Is governed from
forty-eight different centers and has
forty-eight different standards Of ef-
f1c1ency He wanted 1t all directed
from washington.
Garrison did not propose to elm
mate the national guard or to substi-
tute the continental army for It. But
he believed his plan of volunteer
army of 100000 controlled from Wash
ington would attract young men who
would not enlist in the militia. He
planned to enlist $4,000 men each
year for a term of three years, and
to retain them under regular officers
near their own homes in summer
camps. They would receive regulars
pay while on duty. The estimated an
nual cost was $45,000,O0O. State
guardsmen believed this plan surely
would encroach upon their preserves.
Some regular army oficers believed
thet so many men could not be- OBJ
tanned except by compulsion-
Retires From Public Lie.
NEW YORK, Feb 11.-Making his
first statement as to his future plans
since his resignation as secretary or
war, Lindley M. Garrison today de-
clared he had retired from politics,
and that he could not conceive of
his taking the stump against Presi-
dent Wilson"
1uo b0CIOIdAy 1CSCANCu ho"o.
per men early this afternoon at the
homo Of George Leary on Fifth Ave.
He went to the Leary home imme.
diately on his arrival here last night
but during the morning all communi-
cation with Garrison was denied and
it was first declared he would make
no statement whatever.
Get it out of your head that there
is anything political in my action y
was one of Garrison's first statements
when word was finally sent out that
he would meet the reporters.
II am going to find some place
where I can pursue my vocation or
avocation, support myself and my
wife, and lay by little for the fu-
ture," he continued.
'T am out Of politics. I am not a
candidate for the governorship Of
New Jersey and would not accept the
goyernorship If I were handed GER
tificate Of election"
Asked If he intended to carry his
opposition to President Wilson's
plans for the army in connection with
his preparedness campaign further
and openly oppose the president, Gar
rison said:
"T cannot conceive Of my taking
the stump against the president.
II have served the public for
twelve years and circumstances are