Evening star., 1924-07-24
Nelson in Charge of Or.
ganization-SpreckIes Is
Among Member.
WIDE POWER GRANTED
IN PUSHING CAMPAIGN
Conference Scheduled in CAPITAL
to Take Up Arrangements
for Procedure.

Ten OF the eleven members Of the
joint executive committee which will
manage the La Follette-W Wheeler
campaign-the independent progress
sive campaign-were announced today.
John NJ. Nelson. progressive mem
Der of Congress from Wisconsin. is
chairman Of the executive committee
as it was understood he would be In
cluded in the committee are Rudolph
Spreckels San Francisco banker
Senator Frazier of North Dakota.
Robert VI. La Toilette, jr.. son Of the
Senator: William II. Johnston. presi-
dent of the international Association
of Machinists, and Morris Hillquit of
New York. The eleventh member
will be selected soon. it was said.
Senator Frazier was elected to the
Senate as a Republican. bu, has been
a member of the progressive group
in that body since the opening Of the
present Congress.
Gets Republican Aid.
The powers given to the joint
executive committee in the manage
ment of the La Toilette campaign are
very broad. The joint committee
itself represents the Conference for
Progressive Political Action and the
La Toilette for President committe.
and promises the closest kind of CO.
operation on the part of all those
supporting the independent progres
sive ticket
The committee viii be called to-
gether as soon possible for
meeting with Senator La Toilette To
formulate campaign plans. Repre-
sentative Nelson will return from
Chicago tonight or tomorrow for tiI-
meeting.
statement issued today. defining
the powers and duties of the committee,
follows:
Powers Are Defined.
The chairman of the committee
shall manage the general campaign
under the direction of the joint eN
ecutive committee.
The joint executive committee
shall be authorized to establish such
regional headquarters and branch of
fees as may be necessary, whose dut!
it shall be TO organize the territories
within their respective Jurisdictions
and to supervise the campaign in such
territories. subject TO the direction
of the national campaign manager.
NO nominations or Endorsements Of
congressional, State or local cand:-
dates by State or local conferences or
committees shall be official and bind
ing unless submitted to and approve"
by the joint executive committee.
The joint executive committee is
hereby empowered, after conferenc,
with the State executive committed
to remove any State chairman foi
sufficient cause. and. after conference
with the State executive committee. to
appoint another chairman with full
authority to act, as herein provided. IN
any case where such removal may bc
necessary or where the position j.
vacated by death, illness or othe;
cause.
PersonneI of Committee.
The ten members of the join
executive committee which wi.
manage and direct the policy of IL,
campaign follow:
Representative Nelson, chairman.
Mr. Spreckels, president First Ma
tional Bank. San Francisco. H.
organized the San Francisco graf
prosecution" in 1906. and is prom
inent in the Waterpower League.
Mrs Edward P. Costigan, Colorad"
a member of the executive committec
Conference for Progressive PolitiCa!
Action, vice president National Con-
SumerS' League, eX-chairman living
costs committee, League of Women
Voters.
Mr.. Johnson. president Inter
national Association of Machinists.
chairman national committee of Con-
ference for Progressive Political
Action, vice president of the Mount
Vernon Savings Bank, Washington:
director, Commercial National Bank
of Washington.
Mr.. Hillquit, New York, lawyer,
candidate for. mayor of New York
City. 1917. and chairman of the ma
tional committee of Socialist party.
Senator Frazier.
Basil NJ. Manly, economist, former
director United States Commission on
Industrial Relations; joint chairman
National War Labor Board. director
Peoples Legislative Service.
Mrs. Elizabeth Glendower Evans
Boston, member of the Massachusetts
Minimum Wage Commission, 1911-12,
and active in woman suffrage
movement.
D. B. Robertson, Cleveland, presi-
dent Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen
Robert M. La Toilette, jr.