Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-11
GREET SPROUL
AS CANDIDATE
[Continucd from First page.l
Lautic1 by Knox

of him for President and of the nc.
eomplishment of his Administration
Laudcd by Knox
| At the conclusion of the Cover
nor's address, Senator Knox referred
to him as Young, aggressive and
strong candidate for the Presidency
of the United States, and that he
himself would shrink in the pres
ence or Governor Sproul. the most
aggressive representative of present
day Republicanism."
Representative Thomas s. Butler
of West Chester. presided ~ the din
ner. Governor Sproul repeated much
of his speech made before the Re.
publican National Committee meet
| ing and invited the Republican dele
cation to come to Harrisburg to be
! his guests.
! Senator Knox. as the chief speak
er, paid an earnest tribute to Cover
nor Sproul.
Representative George S. Graham
of Philadelphia. also paid tribute to
Governor Sproul. He criticised tbs
international policies of this Admin
t istration and said: ''The time has
come when the United States must
/ become firm with Mexico"
| Chicago was selected for the next
convention city over st. Louis,
Pennsylvania gave its votes to the
latter city. Tuesday. June s, was
selected as the convention date.
On the roll call Chicago mustered
IL votes to nine for st. Louis, whose
boosters had made a stubborn fight
for the honor. The choice of the
convention date was unanimous,
Asbury Park. n. J., and Cheyenne,
! Wyoming, made bids for the conven-
ton but withdrew before the voting
began.
Two New Departments.
The committee also authorized the
creation of two new departments OF
party organization to deal respec-
lively with policies and general
party welfare. The former, COM
posed of selected members OF the
committee and other men and
women representing labor. capital,
the farmers and others, will go to
work at once sorting out subjects to
! be dealt with in the 1920 platform.
I The second committee comprises
an equal number of national COM
mitteemen and outside party lead
ers and will function as an advisory
council in the conduct OF the cam
paign.
/ The plan of Will H. Hays, the ma
tional chairman, for limitation of i'm
| dividual campaign contributions to
$1,000, formally was approved and
the committee announced some
changes in the apportionment of
delegates to the national convention.
These changes were not of sweep
ing nature, however, and affected
only seven states.
Much Time to Platform
It was explained by party leaders
that the purpose of the special COM
mittee on policies was to overturn
the usual practice of writing the
party platform in a few all-night
sessions of the resolutions commit
tee at the convention. The new
body, 1t was said, was not intended
to supplant that committee, but was
calculated to bring to it the result
of six months of concentrated
thought in which all elements of
party opinion would be represented.
Chairman of the Senate and Con-
gressional campaign committees will
take part in the work of the policies
committee, which will include twelve
members of the National Commit
tee and probably a score or more
of others.
The same twelve committeeman
will sit also on the new council.
together with twelve others, four of
whom will be women. The purpose
of this body. it as said. was to de-
liberate on matters touching party
welfare and to make recommends
tions to the National Committee it
self
Two states will gain and FIVE states
- ~
state representation in the national
convention which was based on a
detailed system of { calculation
adopted at the last national conven-
ton. The net result will be a re-
duction of seven in the number of
delegates to vote in the 1920 con-
vention, the total being 9S4 in place
of 991 in 1916. The changes are
as follows:
New York gains one, making the
states total in next years convention
SS; North Carolina gains one, max
ing %: Alabama loses two, making
/ IA; Arkansas loses two, making 13i
Massachusetts, loses one, making So;
Tennessee loses one. making 20, and
Texas loses three, making %.
On motion of Senator Smoot,
committeeman from Utah, the COM
iliNNCC doOPNCu Il ACoOAuNiOh GOIu-
mending the states which have rati-
fed the national woman suffrage
amendment and urging that the
others do so in time to permit
women to vote in all states in 1920.
Miss Mary Garrett Hay. chairman
of the executive committee of the
Women's Division of the National
Committee, held the proxy of Com
mitteeman Sweet, of Maine, at the
meeting.
Committees Named
Announcement was made of the
membership of various committees,
the following men being among
those selected:
Committee on Policies and Plat
| forms-Penrose, Pennsylvania.
Advisory Council Committee
| composed both of committeeman
and leaders not members of the Ma
tional Committee)-Penr Penn
sylvania.
Executive Committee-John t.
King, Connecticut; Senator Penrose,
Pennsylvania.
Committee on Publicity-GeneraI
T. Coleman Dupont, Delaware.
Committee on Finance-T. Cole
man Dupont, Delaware, chairman:
John T. Long. Connecticut.