New-York tribune., 1918-02-13
Hays or a New Man to Win.
Say Opponents of
Adams
Committee Favors
Ballot for Women
Ants Chagrined at In
dorsement of Suffrage
Amendment
LStuf Correspondencc1

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 12.-The decisive
nattle for the control of the Republi.
can National Committee between the
friends of Will II. Hays, of Indiana
the candidate of the more progressive
element in the committee, and the
hackers of John r. Adams, the Du-
puque manufacturer, whose pro-Ger-
man letters, written shortly after the
war started, nearly has put him out of
the contest, is scheduled for 1:3O
O'Clock tomorrow at the Planters
Hotel, where the committee has it's
headquarters.
Adams is believed to be out of the
race, but his friends do not admit it.
cia1mlng that he has upwards Of twenty
votes out of the fifty-one.
The Hays men tonight are saving
that it will be either Hays or nnTS
man, but that Adams cannot win. anv.
way They add that, inasmuch as moth
ing can be said against the brilliant
young Republican Indiana state chair
man, ne is sure to win. At the same
time, the Hays men do not care to saw
1t must be Hays or no one, as that
would hurt the chances of their canli-
date.
The Hays men gained vote in the
settiement OF a contest in Mississippi
Io-uay, ! nay, when the committee seated NJ.
:: Mulvlhlll, of Vicksburg. over Perry
W. Howard, contestant. by vote Of
=, to 23. While this was not, strictly
speaking. test vote between the Ad-
ans and Hays men, still the Adams
men were losers by the decision.
Anti-Adams Programme
The programme of the anti-Adams
men In the committee meeting TODAY is
to wait until the last minute to see
whether Adams stays in the race. If |
ne does, It is understood that Senator
oaIder VIII read to the committeeman
not only the letter he read yesterday to !
the executive committee, written by Mr. |
Adams ;ni while in Germany in August
1914, in which he attacked Great Rrit' |
am, defended the Kaiser and justified |
the invasion of Belgium but he will |
produce other evidence showing the un-
mlstakable pro-Germansm of Mr..
ADAMS, not only prior to the United
states getting into the war, but as late
as year ago
1T Is understood that George w. Per-
kins has intimated to his Republican
friends IN the committee that neither
Adams nor any one that votes for Adams
Tor chairman will be acceptable TO the
progressive Republicans of the nation.
and that if Adams, by any chance.
should be elected chairman, the patri-
QUO organizations of the United States.
IKE the National Security League. will
make it so hot for Adams that he will
not be IN his new office six months.
The antiAdams men do not think 4
mat 1t Will come to this They exncct
mat on the first rollcal tomorrow
there Will be about twenty or twenty ,
Two votes cast for either candidate.
WIN WIN ten or twelve scattering and COM {
Z! !inentary votes, thus reaching no de- (
-lslon on the first ballot Then thew ,
: : hticipatc proposition from the /
,Aoams people to withdraw both Adams !
ana Hays in favor of new man. The r
Hays men say they will win on the sec- c
ond ballot, as half dozen waverinp
supporters of Adams will leave hn7 c
alter the first ballot and GO to Havs I
ne trends of Hays say that he would t
AYE enough votes to win on the first v
'olicail II his full strength in the COM q
hlttee is needed. They believe. how. :
ever, that it would be unwisc to exert
'"uue pressure, as time as an element
lays. 1"'"se Oh
- All around the hotel tonight there
Iehrose has a lot of callers. So ho.
General y, du Pont, and so has Ce,.ao
W. Perkins. Frank II. Hitchcock fnrl
ner CHAIRMAN of the National Renuhli-
,an committee, is openly in favor Of q
compromise candidate. He had Innr
ak this afternoon with Senator pnns'
-osc. ch- Il
-, not o! so much is heard tonight of the G.
'n"uldacy OF Fred Stanley, of Kansas. n
h.t tSho ho OLA, ol deadlock, his friends yay b
promise candidate, Tie is belicved w ~ e
Hitchcock N" oS MI. -