The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-15
M M'CORM|CK QUITS AS CHAIRMAN OF PARTY COMMITTEE Report Says Former Chair man Slated to Succeed Sharp asAmbassador
 to France
By A.ssrlatcs Pres, .

py SsSoVtAteu Ffeet !
 WashinGton, January 14.--Vance
 C. MeCOrmick has resigned as
 chairman of the democratic nation
 al committee and it is understood
 that he ia under consideration for
 appointment as American ambassa-
 dor to France. to succeed William
 Graves Sharp. MT. Sharp's resigDa-
 tion fs said to be now in the hands
 of the President, hut no announce
 ment of the fact hns yet been
 made.
 The fact that MT. Mccormick has re- signed became known here tonight. al though there had been no suggestion of it when he sailed for France two weeks ago to assist with work in connection with the peace conference.
 He went to Paris in his capacity as the chairman of the war trade board posi- ton to which he was appointed last year.
 DECLINE TO TALK
 Officials at the White House declined to discuss the report that Mir. Sharp would return home to be succeeded by MT Mccormick. but it seemed to have credence in other official circles. MT. Sharp was understood to have desired for sometime to return to this country for rest after his arduous duties as the American representative at the French capital during the long years of war.
 Mir Sharp whose home is at Elyria, Ohio. was appointed ambassador to France or June 12, 1914. and resigned from Congress to accept the post. He succeeded Myron T. Herrick in Decem- Der. 1914.
 MT. Sharp returned to the United States for a brief vacation in 1916, the only one he had during the war Re- gently he was called home by the illness of his brother and is now in the United States, although it is understood that he expects to return to France soon.
 Mir Mccormick, who is newspaper publisher of Harrisburg, Pa was demo- cratic candidate for governor If penn- sylvania in 1914 and was selected as chairman of the democratic national committee in, 1918. conducting Prehcent Wilson's campaign in the fall of that year.
 Upon being appointed chairman of the war trade board, after the United States entered the war he devoted all his time to that work.
 It was said here tonight that Homer s. Cummings, vice chairman of the dem ocratic national committee, very prob ably would succeed MT. Mccormick as the committee chairman. He has directed the committees work since MT. McCor- mick became chairman of the war trade board and directed the last congressional campaign. He is intimate friend of President Wilson
 LEFT RESIGNATION
 Before departing for. Flance Mir. Me- cormicll left h's letter of resignation .ith the committee here. but this fact vas not made pubic at the time because Mir Mccormick desired to personally .nform t.le Pfesidentsof his decision. He reached fdEs last Sunday.
 On sailing MT. Mccormick expected that his work in connection with the peace conference would require his pres ence in France for six months. His friends here said tonight that the reas- son for his resignation was that he did not care for the committee chairmanship to be inactive for that length of time.
 Mir Sharp, before his appointment as envoy at Paris was under consideration as the American ambassador at Petro- grad. Going to Paris soon after the war