New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
January 10 Set
As Roosevelt
Memorial Day
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thompson IN developing the idea. The
motion was unanimously carried.
For the first time, women voted ir
the National Committee. Miss Mar,
! Garrett Hay, of New York, held the
proxy OF Gunder, of North Dakota, anc
took part in the debate in executive
session. Josephine Corlss Preston haG
the proxy of S. A. Perkins, of Washing.
ton. Mrs. Medill Mccormick. wife al
Senator-elect Mccormick, of Illinois
as chairman of the Woman's Republi-
can National Executive Committee
read the committees report, calling at.
tention to the effective work of women
voters in the states where women have
the franchise.
Woman Suffrage Indorsed
Colonel Thompson, who held the
proxy of Major Herbert Parsons, Com.
mitteeman from New York, presented
the following resolution, which was
unanimously adopted:
The Republican National Commit
tee, IN meeting assembled in Chicago
January 10, reiterates its belief in
the necessity for the enfranchise
ment of the women of America and
therefore calls upon the United
States Senate for the immediate pas
sage of the Federal suffrage amend
ment, and further calls, upon all Leg
lslatures to stand ready to ratify the
amendment when presented"
Rudolph K. Hynicks, of Ohio, spranp
a surprise, when, without consulting
Chairman Hays, after the chairman
had finished reading his report, he
moved:
"That Chairman Hays be directed
to carry out the plans for the ad-
vancement of the Republican party
IN the nation; that the rules be sus-
pended, and that the chair, an be
authorized to name an executive
committee and such other commit
such times as in his Judgment he may
deem advisable, and with such
(powers as may be Indicated"
This resolution was adopted without
dissenting vote. 1t was about two
years ago that the National Committee
took this very power away from the
chairman of the committee and vested
it in itself. The management of the
committee by Chairman Hays during
the eleven months he has been in
charge of the work has been so salts
factory that the committeeman to- day
thought it would be good thing to
q,
that is what they did.
The paragraph in Chairman Hays's re-
port, read in executive session, which
provoked the greatest enthusiasm was
one that dealt with the victory on
November s.
"On the basis of the total Congress
slonal vote, the Republicans received
342 electoral votes, as against 189 for
the Democrats said Chairman HAYS
"President Wilson received PIT elector-
al votes"
John T. King, of Bridgeport, long
time personal friend of Colonel Roose-
velt, presented the following resolu-
tions:
"The Republican party mourns the
passing of Theodore Roosevelt. In
an hour of difficulty and danger, he
mas fallen like a warrior in battle,
leaving place in national and inter
national leadership which cannot be
filled.
THE truest tribute it is possible>to
pay to his memory is in the pledge
that his party, the Republican party.
shall remain true to the ideals of
Americanism and Of social advance
ment with which his name will for
ever be linked and for which through
out his useful career he struggled
with such heroic and inspiring ardor
and Devotion
History will write his name high
on the roll of those who, not only
Of this nation but of all the modern
world. wrought greatly in humanity's
behalf
"Under the leadership of Abraham
Llncoln, the Republican party proved
its loyalty to the nation when
charged with the full responsibility
OF government in supreme crisis in
the life of the Republic.
Leadership in Crisis Praised
"Under the leadership of Theodore
Roosevelt the Republican party in
world crisis proved that as party
cut OF power it could rise to the
same high level of devoted service
and by its patriotic course insure
complete national unity in support of
the country's cause.
Above all others, as the European
war came on, his virile voice was
heard arousing Americans to a sense
of their duty and their peril and to
the imperative necessity of subordi-
both public and private life to the
one purpose of achieving by victory
Just and enduring peace.
with all his limitless energy and
dauntless courage, his farreaching
vision, his genius for organization
and leadership, his tremendous force
! OF thought and gifts of expression;
with his breadth of human interest
and human sympathy and his re-
parkable range of personal at
tainments-t quality in Theodre
Roosevelt which most ennobles a life
crowded with high achievement, is
that like his great prototypes in the
Presidency, Washington and Lincoln,
he was ready to lay his all, his own
life and the lives of those dear to
/ him upon the altar of self-sacrifice.
All ne had to give he gave to his
country.
"His gospel of Americanism is to-
day the heritage of his countrymen.
His message to all patriots, could he
but speak, would be, regardless of
the new made gap in the ranks:
Garry on! Carry on!'
Therefore, in the spirit Of Wash
ington and Lincoln and Roosevelt,
the Republican party will 20 for
ward, ever forward, that the cause Of
liberty, fraternity and American ma
tionality may be advanced and gov
crnment by the people, Of the people,
for the people, may not perish from
the earth.'"
Mr.. Kings resolution for a Roose-
yelt memorial Sunday follows:
''Thc Republican National Commit
tee recommends that Sunday, Janu-
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