San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
6. O.P.
P|CKSCREAGER
To HEAD PARTY
Election as Committeeman
Seen as Endorsement
for Ambassador.
HARDING IS MOURNED
Wurzbach Predicts Re-elec-
ton and Republican Con-
troll in State.

y Dallas, Tex, Sept. 22.-Harmony
prevailed in the ranks of the State
= Republican Executive Committee fol
81 lowing the election here today of X.
i. Creager, Brownsville, as national
- committeeman from Texas.
Creager, who has been mentioned
prominently as probable appointee 10
IN the post as ambassador TO Mexico,
was chosen after a threatened split
- in the committee ranks failed TO de-
:. velop.
Roll call OF the 81 committeeman
% showed not a single dissenting vote.
= What differences had existed among
= Republican leaders over naming OF
!. the national committee, were adjusted
s before the meeting today and the re-
- ported opposition failed to appear.
y Committeeman who were lined up
for r. L. Lee of Houston, for the
~ place, voted for Creager when their
s, candidate refused to let his name he
= advanced.
- Creager succeeds the late H. F. Nc
Gregor of Houston.
= Mrs. ]. G. Griswold of San Antonio,
:. was introduced at the meeting as the
new associate national committee
- woman from Texas.
Creager Is Stronger.
The action of the committee IN
= selecting Mr.. Creager strengthens his
chance for becoming ambassador to
Mexico, political leaders said here to-
night. The view held by the COM
mittee members is that Mr.. Creager
81 now holds the official endorsement of
the Republican organization in Texas
: as its leader, whereas he formerly
= had been occupying position of
secondary Importance to the one he
now occupies.
There is no legal bar to a national
committeeman gliding an ambassador
= ship but party precedent has made it
customary for the appointee TO give
up the minor position when an am
- bassadorship is accepted.
Today's action is regarded as the
official endorsement of the Texas Re
publican party of Mr.. Creager for the
position.
- Texas has never furnished a foreign
ambassador, it is said, to an import
ant mission.
q Wurzbach Predicts Reelection.
Representative Wurz5ach Of the
= Fourteenth District in an address to-
day, predicted his reelection in 1924
g and sasserted that. within fifteen
g years or so. the whole state will be
within the Republican ranks.
The committee adopted today reso-
lutions of respect on the death of
Warren G. Harding. II. +. McGregor
3 and DR.. Z. p. Wilmot, Austin bank
,er.
< The resolutions contain the follow
z ing paragraph. regarded as particular
]y significant:
"Resolved we. representing the Re
3 publicans of Texas, tender our sympa-
thetie and loyal support to our Presi-
y dent. Calvin Coolidge. in the difficult
! work he has undertaken under such
exacting circumstances. and we look
q forward with confidence 10 the wis
dom and patriotism of his leadership"
= Resolutions o! Respect.
= The resolutions adopted, save for
the clause quoted above, were as
= follows:
a. Resolved by the Republican execu-
tive committee of Texas that, while
y bowling to the Divine Wisdom which
has removed Warren G.. Harding,
1wenty-ninth President of the United
= States. from earthly affairs, we deep
1y mourn the passing of a great and
grand man. a wise and patriotic lead
e er, friend Of the people and of