The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-09-10
HUSTON NEW
 CHAIRMAN OF
 REPUBLICANS
Is Selected as Chairman of National Republi-
 can Committee
HAND OF PRESIDENT
 SEEN IN SELECTION
Hoover Gradually Strength ening Control Illus
 ton to Be Active

WAot1lNGlON, Sept. 1O.-FCr the first time in the 73 years of its history, the Republican Party yesterday reached into the South Tor a chairman of the National Committee, selecting Claudius Fl Huston, of Tennessee, who succeeds pr. Hubert Work.
 The new chairman was the choice of President Hoover.
 Huston, native of Indiana, was reared in Tennessee and is now a resident of New York City.
 In his speech of acceptance, Hus- ton said the National Committed must be year round task, not a mere spasmodic campaign effort.
 The new chairman said he was severing all connection with firms with which he now holds executive posts in order to devote full time to the work of the National Con- mittee. He intends to move tc Washington and take up the affairs of the Party as soon as possible.
 Ralph Williams, First Vice Chair man, will take charge of the Ma tional headquarters as Acting Chairman until Huston can re- lieve him.
 The selection of Huston shows thst President fIerrcr. aftcp sis months in the White House, slow ly is tightening his hold on the control of machinery of the Re- publican Party.
 More and more the President $ individual policies will be reflated in the direction of the party af- fairs as the 1880 by-elections ap- proach.
 Huston succeeds Dr. Hubert Work, who retires to private life after refusing an ambassadorshir and after nearly eight years of ser vice in the cabinet and a year and more as chairman of the national committee.
 Work was the first of the Coo lidge cabinet openly to support Hoover'S candidacy for the presi- dential nomination, and unques- tionably that fact entered into his selection as director of the cam paign in which Hoover was swept into the White House by an un- precedented majority of the elec- toral college.
 But it is not alone in the affairs of the national committee that the Hoover influence is being felt. He is credited with having had large hand in the selection of Senator George H. Moses, New Hampshire to head the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.
 Moses was one of the first of the senators to declare for Hoover's nomination; was very active in the general campaign last year, and as he is campaigner of long experi- ence his friends say that it was natural that Hoover should turn tc him as director of the senatoriaI campaign.
 A strong believer in coordination the President conceived the idea oi closer cooperation between the na tional and the senatorial and con- gressional campaign committees and he selected Charles A. Dawson a former member of Congress, te act as liaison officer between these three organizations.
 That means the creation of a new post in the National Committee; that of Executive Secretary. Daw- son will have that job When he first was selected there was a bit of mystery surrounding the sub- ject due to disinclination of party leaders to make any formal an nouncements pending the formal election of Dr. Works successor.
 While the President is likely tc adopt a neutral attitude in the party primary contests for Senators and Representatives next spring and summer, some of those in his counsels look for him to throw the weight of his influence in certain states where Republican candidates especially for the Senate, find themselves in a close fight with Democrats.
 What particular means he will find to accomplish that will depend upon circumstances during the campaign, but undoubtedly the means will come to hand. as the President naturally is interested ir maintaining a working majority ot his party in Congress.