Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-11

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A large general committee to
frame in advance the arrangements
for the national convention will be
appointed by the executive commit
tee, it was decided. Other action
will be the appointment of a gen.
eral advisory committee, to harmon
ize all the elements of the party.
A platform and policy" commit
tee of II members of the executive
committee and Is others, including
women, to pass on the policies con-
cerning the problems of labor and
agriculture and other industries.
These persons will spend the next
six months in study of the para
mount questions of the day and in
gathering a mass of material for
presentation at the national con-
vention.
Twelve national committeeman
will make the advisory committee
along with eight other persons, both
men and women, representing all
shades of opinion in the party. The
work Of this committee will be adj
visory and conciliatory.
Rosewater Has Place Of Honor.
Republicans from all over the
United States had part in the gen
eral love feast which the open ses-
sion of the committee proved to be.
In addition to the national commit
teemen there were present large
number of state chairmen, editors
of republican newspapers and FIVE
of the six living ex-national chair
men, including Victor Rosewater Of
The Bee; Frank Hitchcock, w. r.
Wilcox, Senator New and Charles
D. Hilles, who were given COM
manding seats facing the audience
that overflowed from the Red par
lor of the hotel into the promenade
beyond. There were host of wor11-
en- present to show their interest in
the coming campaign.
Previous to the main business,
which brought the committee to
Washington, that of naming a place
and time for holding the conven-
ton, the meeting was given rare
opportunity of hearing the issues of
the coming campaign discussed by
two governors, McKelvie of Nebras-
ka,' and Sprout of Pennsylvania, and
Mrs. Medill Mccormick, who made
stirring speech for the women.
McKelvie Given Ovation.
One of the ablest speeches of the
morning session was made by Ne
braska's governor and the reception
he received at the hands of the
wonderfully sympathetic audience
warmed the cookies of the hearts Of
the Nebraskans present, including
the entire republican delegation IN
the house from the state. National
Chairman Howell and State Chair
man Deyoe.
Governor McKelvie burrowed
right into the hearts of the audience
when he said in his breezy western
way that Nebraska had been recent
ly redeemed from eight years Of
democratic rule and so thoroughly
satisfied were the people with the
change "that they are praying for
closed season on democrats so that
the party may not become wholly
extinct"
The remark hit the bulls eye and
thereafter the governor was given
the closest possible attention, and at
the conclusion of his address, which
showed careful and conscientious
preparation, he was accorded an
ovation. "You have some governor
out there in the prairie country"
said an eastern newspaper man, and
that seemed to be the consensus of
opinion.
Governors Address.
Governor McKelvie said in part:
"The republican party is con-
fronted with a great responsibility
even before its representatives are
placed in positions of authority. It
should be the purpose of the party,
as it has been in the past, to deal in
conditions as they are, to anticipate
the needs of the future, and to apply
only criticism that is just and found
cd upon fact.
"The issue is clearly defined and
the word that typifes it is upon the
lips of every true republican. It is
'Americanism, and this means ev-
erything for which the word stands.
The republican party does not claim
any virtue that it does not earn, but
it is only fair to include among these
answering fidelity to our national
principles and traditions.
The farmer is the keystone to the