The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-01-27
NEW OF
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
COMMITTEE

lUMMtIIEE
The career OF John T. Adams Of
Iowa, who was recently selected as
vice-chairman Of the republican ma
tional committee indicates that If the
committee desires efficiency in politi.
cal management, they made no mis-
take in their selection.
Mr.. Adams is an enterprising and
successful business man. a student
OF politics in the broadest sense, and
a political worker along such lines
as TO win the esteem OF Republicans
and arouse the fear Of his Democratic
opponents.
Prior to 1908 Mr.. Adams had taken
no active part in politics. but had
confined his attention almost entirely
to the management Of a sash and
door manufacturing establishment at
Dubuque, Iowa, of which concern he
has been president for twenty-five
years and with which be has been
associated for thirty-fve years. AL
though not active in politics, he has
taken an interest in governmental
problems such as would be a credit
to any American citizen. He has
been a lifelong student of history.
and particularly of the economic
problems confronting the people Of
the United States. His private library
is known as one Of the best in the
State of Iowa, and it is particularly
well supplied with best-known works
on economic subjects. He reads Ger
man and French huently and has
studied German authors on economic
subjects. His extensive studies have
won him a reputation among his i'm
mediate friends as a man of scholarly
tastes.
With this broad foundation for use
full political service, Mr.. Adams be-
came active in politics for the first
time in 1908, when his neighbor and
personal friend, the late Senator ALI
son, induced him to take charge of
his campaign for election to the
Senate, at which time the contest was
between Allison and Cummins for the
nomination. His ability as a politi-
cal worker is attested by the fact
that he won the nomination for ALI
son. but did it in such a name as
not to forfeit either the respect or
the friendship of Cummins. who was
later elected to the Senate after the
death Of Senator Allison.
Although thereafter active in poll
tics, Mr.. Adams was never a candidate
for any Office. However, he was
elected by the people of Dubuque to
membership on the board of educa-
ton and has served very acceptably
as a trustee of Dubuque college. He
was elected a member of the Repub-
lican national committee of 1912 and
was chosen a member of its execu-
tive committee. In 1916 he was an
active supporter of the candidacy of
Senator Cummins for the presidential
nomination, and was elected a men,
Der of the national committee in a
statewide primary in which he won
by IN overwhelming majority. His
relations are cordial with both Sena-
tors Cummins and Kenyon of Iowa,
all of the members of the Iowa con-
gressional delegation, and all the off,
Gals of the State government. No
person in his own State opposed his
election to the national committee on
the ground that he was lacking In
progressiyeness.
If the Republican party desires the
leadership of a man who a be ag-
~gressively and effectively active in
party affairs, and yet SO tactful as to
retain the confidence and friendship
Of members of all factions of his own
party. it would seem that in the Sc
lection of Mr.. Adams as vice-chair-
man no mistake was made.