New-York tribune., 1916-07-13
His Acceptance Speech 10
Be Made Here or IN
Bridgehampton.
BLISS is NAMED
CAMPAIGN TREASURER
Candidate to Return from Coast
Trip September 5-Will Then
Open Fight In Maine.

Before Charles +. Hughes was three
hours in town yesterday the last OF
the big off GERS of the national com
mittee was appointed and the date
for the formal notification set. AS
was expected, Monday. July 81, was the
day named for the speech of accept
ance. and when Senator Warren IT,
Harding. chairman Of the notification
committee, arrives here to-day II Is
likely that the place will be fixed. 1t
will be either Bridgehampton or New
York.
The only objection TO having the
ceremony at Mr.. Hughes's summer
residence is the lack of accommoda-
tions, there being only two hotels in
the town, the better boasting OF
only one bathtub.
With the appointment Of Cornelius
~ Bliss, jr., as treasurer OF the ma
tional committee there remain only
two officers to be named They are
two vice -chairmen, one to be in charge
of the Chicago Office and the other to
handle the campaign on the Pacific
Coast. william K. Wilcox, the Ma
tional chairman, expects that the vice
chairmen would be called by some
other name, but would perform the
same type of duties. While there
were many guesses as to who would
be named. the advisers Of Mr.. Hughes
are far from decision.
Bliss Begins Work at Once.
Mr.. Bliss, the new national treas
urer, who succeeds George r. Sheldon,
will begin his duties as collector Of
the campaign contributions to-day.
His father held the same Office during
the Harris and the Mckinley cam
paigns.
Mr.. Hughes will meet the campaign
committee at the Hotel Astor next
Thursday. He had his usual long list
of callers, chief among them being
Senator Boies Penrose, Of Pennsyl-
vania. Another was William NJ.
Thompson, Mayor of Chicago, national
committeeman from Illinois. He was
accompanied by Eugene r. Pike, Con-
troller, and Harry Ward, Corporation
Counsel, Of Chicago.
After seeing Mr.. Hughes and invit-
ing him to open his campaign in Chi
cago, where he guaranteed the biggest
meeting of the campaign, Mayor
Thompson denied there was any opposl-
tion TO the appointment of Harold l..
Ickes, the Progressive leader OF llh-
nois, on the campaign committee.
"He was appointed in the general
scheme of unifying the party" said
Mayor Thompson, "and as national
committeeman from Illinois | give Mr..
Ickes my hearty support"
From Coast to Maine.
The tentative plans for Mr.. Hughess
coast to coast speaking tour, which
starts Immediately after the notifca
than September 5, that he can go into
Maine. and with Colonel Roosevelt and
possibly William Howard Taft, help
get a big Republican majority in the
state election on September II. This
means that he will not have more
than a weeks rest in the Rockies. He
had planned for fortnight.
The ex-justice expects to go to Bridge
hampton this afternoon. His callers
yesterday included William Miller
Collier. Of Auburn, n. Y, former
Minister to Spain; Edward A. Thurs
ton, Republican State Chairman Of
Massachusetts,: W. J. Norton, vice
president of the Hughes Alliance Of
Chicago; Fred Upham of Chicago,
Western treasurer of the national
committee; Frederick c. Tanner. chair
man of the New York State Commit
tee; A. P. Langtry, Secretary of State
Of Massachusetts,; Judge William H.:
Wadhams; John Everett, banker, OF
Orange. n. j.; Gist Blair, of Mary
land and r. Ross Appleton, Brook
lyn banker.
Mr.. Hughes continues to receive re-
quests from cities all over the country
10 make speeches. These he has
answered only in a general way, as
he will be unable to make any definite
plans for addresses until after he has
met the campaign committee. The
coast to coast trip speeches, Mr..
Hughes insists, will be educational,
each on a particular topic of national
interest.
Transforming Speeches Later.
"The trip" he said, will not be of
the transforming variety. Later
there will be the expected whirlwind