The Sentinel=record., 1918-02-13

St. Louis, Mo-, Feb. Today's meeting Of the republican national committee was a troubled one and it was hoped tonight would spread calm over the restless waters, the vital matter of the selection of chairman was postponed until 1.30 o'clock to- morrow afternoon.
 The schedule called for an election today but those in power ordered that some resolutions should be passed. that some woman suffragists and some anti-woman suffragists should air their views, that newspaper re porters should be admitted to hear the airing of views and should not be admitted while the committee decided contests from Tennessee and Missis- sippi and that the council of tho pil- ! 'o14-~ should oe ta6en on Che chair manship
 Apparently the council of the pil- low became inevitable when the most reliable available figures indicated g votes pledged to John T. Adams. of Iowa, for chairman. 23 pledged to will II Hayes, chairman of the state cen lral committee Of Indiana. and hailed as the great harmonizer of that state with five votes non committal. It was predicted also that the neutral five would be able to take but little counsel of their pillows.
 Fred Stanley Of Kansas. who pce.ed out last night as possible dark horse and who loomed more plainly during the forenoon. disap- peared as candidate during the aft e'nooH by reason of his insistence thar hc desired to vote to the last for Adams
 The expected public attack on Mr. Adams did not materia!ize. Ills friends asserted that he was fighting mad and they were with him. He was good American, they said, and all the fight in them had been stirred 55 the allegations that he had been leader in pro Germanism prior to the entry of the United States into the war
 The object oT the attacks was little in view during the day. He was se- aluded and busy directing his fight The decision of the committee seatina Jesse NJ. Litleton Tennessee. as committeeman from that state brought joy to the Adams camp as he was regarded as a partisan of the Iowan M w. 4ulvahin. of NIissls sippi was also seated, but he was re- eerded as on the fence.
 William Hale Thompson. mayor of Chicaeo, not unmindful of the fact that in population Chicago is the fourth greatest city in the world. en- rolled himself on the Adams side. He was asked
 Tn your opinion do the charges against MT Adams, true or untrue. iu any way initiate against him as your choice for chairman of the republican national committee9"
 "I can see nothing in what Mr. Adams has done or said which would disqualify him as a good American and good republican," replied the mayor,
 Mir Thompson introduced a resolu- ton of some length which was re- ferred to the committee on resolu- tions. Ii was of some length but the mayor said that to epitomize it. ii endorsed the constitution of the United States with regard to free speech and called for rigid adherence 70 the rules separating the powers of the legislasive, executive and judicial departments of the federal govern ment
 h the first of Mayor Thompson $ "whcreases" he touched on search md seizure under the espionage act in a way that suggested the cases oi swift X Company and the l. W. w recently decided by Judge Landis at