Evening star., 1932-06-20
The Political Mill
By C. Could Lincoln.

dltlon to having a new chairman,
Everett Sanders Of Indiana, has a lot
of new members. One of them is Post
master General Walter F. Brow of
Ohio, a master mind In the Hoover
| ton and election In 1928. Unless all
signs fail. Mr.. Brown will have a very
important and influential part in the
campaign this year. For long time
it was believed that he would be elected
! chairman of the National Committee.
Two things were against this. First,
Mr.. Brown did not want to take the
| job and leave the cabinet. second, be-
cause of his persistent and effective
efforts to bring the G. o. P. to stand
for revision, if not repeal, OF the elgnt-
zenith amendment, Mr.. Brown hao come
to be looked upon with disfavor py the
dryer Republicans. Now he Is mem
Der of the National COMMITTEE. now
/ ever, and in a position TO Wleio muCh
influence In the committee ana on the
campaign.
The custom has been for a national
committeeman in Ohio TO serve two
terms and Maurice Maeschke OF Cleve-
| land completed his allotted span thls
wear. It was arranged that Mr.. Brown
should take his place. All OF which
fitted In with the picture. ONO Is 10
| be a real battle-ground this year, ana
what Ohio does in the National election
NAV settle the presidential contest: MI
Brown will have much to do WIN tne
campaign there, and he Is particularly
effective. Perhaps the most quiet-spoKen
man in the cabinet, Mr.. Brown mas
way Of getting things done.
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Senator Fess Of Ohio, when he retired
Thursday night from the chairmanshlp
of the Republican National Committee,
| took with him the respect and regard
| of the members of the committee. he
took the Craftsmanship to help serve tne
party when Claudius H. Houston was
1 forced out of the chairmanshlp alter
revelations before the Senate Lobby
Committee. He had been chairman OF
the Congressional Campaign Commit
| tee while he was a member OF the
House. He was, however, particularly
anxious to get back to being just Sen
ator of the United States from OHIO,
| free to speak his own mind on pubic
questions without having to consider
| that what he said would be attributed
to the President or to the Republican
national organization.
Among the veterans who this year
! go off the Republican National Com
mittee Is former Senator Charles A
Rawson Of Iowa, Bascom Slemp of Vir-
| ginia, Mrs. Ellis A. Yost of West Vlr-
ginia, former Senator William A. Jack
son of Maryland, Louis Liggett OF Mas
sachusetts and Bert M. Thurman OF
! Indiana.
"Tieless" Joe Tolbert of South Caro-
1tv1o rf,o fnr hac ild
around in his vest pocket the Repub
lican party in his State, IS out after
fight, and so is Mrs. George S. VIII
liams, national committeewoman from
Georgia. They both went down in the
effort Of the administration to clean
up" for the Republican party in some
Of the Southern States. Both went
down fighting. Mrs Williams sought
to have contesting delegation seated,
a delegation which would have re-
elected her. Tolbert did the same.
He had greater success with the Ma
tional Committee than did Mrs. Will
liams. but the Credentials Committee
backed up the administration and
threw him and his delegates out.
Roy o. West, national committeeman
for Illinois. is probably out He has
been victim Of the resurgance of the
Len Small, Big Bill Thompson and
kindred spirits in the Republican set-up
in Illinois. Small is the Republican
nominee for Governor. He has been
backing Frank L. Smith, elected Senator
in 1926 but denied q seat in that body
The Illinois delegation to the Repub-
lican National Convention found itself
unable to elect a national committee
man. The delegation deadlocked over
Smith, West and Gov. Emmerson. If
Emmerson and West forces had COM
bined they could have defeated the
Small. Smith and Thompson alliance.
Now the election OF the committeeman
goes to the Republican State Committee.
That committee is expected to be DOM
mated by Small and his friends in
favor of Smith. Mr. West, who was
Secretary Of the Interior in the Coolidge
administration, has been national COM
mitteeman for number of years. He
has been leader in the Deneen fac
tion here.
The changes in the makeup Of the
Republican National Committee give the
administration a stronger grip on 1t.
With the election Of Hoover delega-
tions to the National Committee this
was to be expected. Up in Massachu-
sets, for example. John Richardson,
one Of the original Hoover men. sue
ceeds Louis K. Liggett, who did not
stand for reelection. Richardson de-
feated William NJ Butler, who managed
the Coolidge campaign in 1924. Butler
had been talked of for chairman of the
Republican National Committee to sue
ceed Fess. But when he was side
tracked for Richardson it was at once
apparent that he was not in the run
ming for the craftsmanship.
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Clarence C. Hamlin, national commit
teeman from Colorado for long time
and one of those who sought diligently
to bring about the nomination of a
vice presidential candidate other than
Mr.. Curtis, has been retired from the
committee and former Senator Law
renee Y. PhippS has taken his place.
The Phipps faction in Colorado Repub-
ucan circles came out on top in the
fracas there this year. Other changes
in the committee include the substitu-
ton of John E. Harris for Glenn B.
Skipper in Florida, Senator Bronson E.
Cutting of New Mexico for Edward
Sargent in New Mexico, William Stern
for Fred j. Graham in North Dakota,
Ernest Bamberger for Harold Fabian in
in Washington and E. H. Rasmussen for
A. E. Lathrop in Alaska.
There have been no changes in the
District of Columbia's representation in
the Republican National Committee.
Edward F. Colladay remains as national
committeeman and Mrs. Virginia White
Speel national committeewoman. Frank
Hithcock is national committeeman for
Arizona and apparently is back in the
political game strongly, from which he
seemed to have dropped out for few
years.
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Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who
ran the prohibition enforcement end of
the Department of Justice as Assistant
Attorney General, took a prominent
part in the vice presidential fight in the
Republican National Convention. She
was delegate from California. She
Is credited with having helped to engi-