Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
HUSTON TO DIRECT
SOUTH'S COP. PLAN
National Committee Members
Indicate He Is Man
for Big Task.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Policies regarding the Republican
party organization and leadership in
the South will be left largely to Claud-
ius Huston of Tennessee, slated to be
the new chairman of the Republican
national committee, to work out, it was
indicated last night.
Mr.. Houston, the first Southern man
to be picked for the job of chairman of
the Republican national committee, is
understood to have very definite ideas
regarding the problem of the G. o. P.
in the Southern States. He was in
conference mere yesterday with Dr.
Hubert Work, the retiring chairman,
and with a number of other party
leaders who have already reached
Washington in order to attend the
committee meeting at the Willard Hotel
at 10 am. tomorrow.
Friend Of Hoover.
The Tennesseean is known already to
the great majority of the party leaders
He has long been personal friend of
President Hoover, for whom he worked
hard during the preconvention cam
paign and in the general election cam
paign last year. At one time he served
as Assistant Secretary of Commerce
under MMr. Hoover. He is regarded as
conservative Republican, and his sell
ection to head the national party or
ganiZation Is not likely to strike terror
into the hearts Of the so-called Old
Guard. Indeed, / is expected that the
Old Guard will work in harmony with
the new chairman.
Mr.. Huston would make no statement
OF his plans for the Republican national
organization yesterday. Nor Is he ex-
pected to make any statement for pub
lication until after he shall have been
elected chairman. Whatever opposition
there was to his being made chairman
seems to have evaporated, and all If
the old-time leaders and committeeman,
as they arrive in Washington, are an
nouncing they intend to vote for Mr..
Huston.
Liggett Arrives Here.
Louis K. Liggett, Republican national
committeeman for Massachusetts,, who
at one time was reported to look
askance upon the selection of a South
ern man to head the national commit
tee. was here for short time yester-
day, but went to Warrenton, Va. to
visit his daughter. He is expected back
tonight and will attend the meeting to-
morrow. Mr.. Liggett recently raised no
little commotion In the Bay State by
asserting in speech that he believed
a man had a right to take drink when
he could get one. Also he charged that
former Mayor Curley of Boston, DEM
ocrat, had been responsible for circu-
lating anti-C Catholic propaganda during
the campaign in Massachusetts, last
year. The problems of the Republican
party in Massachusetts, need attention,
and possibly there may be some discus
sion of them by the party leaders while
they are here for the national commit
tee meeting.
The first business to come before the
national committe when it meets to-
morrow, according to DR.. Work, will be
the election Of chairman. AS soon as
that is accomplished, DR.. Work plans to
turn over the meeting to the new chair
man.
The committee is expected to ratify
the selection of two new women mem.
bers of the national committee, chosen
by the State committees. One Is Mrs
Ruth Baxter Pratt, Representative in
Congress from New York, and the
other is Mrs. Margaret M. Tucker oi
Vermont.
Pass Up Georgia Case.
There is a vacancy on the committee
from Georgia. But that highly con.
troversial matter is not to come up
unless the plans for the meeting are
changed. The Republicans are having
their factional differences in Florida
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