The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-05
NEW NATIONAL
c. 0. P. HEAD
TOBE NAMED
Republican Trainers Will
Revamp Elephant for
Voters Eyes.
THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer


opened it's meeting here today, is
seeking to camouf1age the old G,
o. P. elephant of Harding, Coolidge
and Hoover so it will look little
different to the voters, but will be
the same old elephant to it's train
ers
Which is to say that conservatives
are dominated in the committee
as always-but that a few clever
phrase-makers are drafting decla-
ration of party principles which,
| though it will eXcoriate the Roose-
welt policies, will at the same time
deny that there is to be a reversing
to the old order.
The few here of mildly liberal in
stincts, and they get fewer by the
hour, realized today as the party
prepared to declare itself through
the committee that any really pro-
gressive statement of party policy is
impossible.
WheelhOrse Is Sought
The toying with words for this
declaration of policy IN numerous
hotel rooms has showed into the
background the original purpose for
which the committee was called to-
gether; that is, elect new chair
man to succeed Everett Sanders,
resigned.
This was because it has become
evident that a compromise candi-
date must be selected who will, of
himself, not be of sufficient Unfit
ence or standing to direct party pol
icy, but will be largely wheel
horse.
The committee proceeded to this
job today as the first order of bust
ness, leaving the declaration of pol
! icy to a group which probably will
not get chance to present it until
tomorrow. For selection of a chair
man is proving to be quite diff
cult task.
KOhler Declines Job
Former Governor Walter j. Koh-
Ter of Wisconsin, the bathtub manu-
facturer, was agreed upon at one
point by the insiders, but his boom
collapsed when he sent word that
he would under no circumstances
accept the job. 1t is understood he
wants to run on the Republican
ticket in his state against Senator
Robert M. LaFollette, the Progress
Sive, and the Democratic selection.
Walter S. Hallanan, West Virginia
national committeeman and oil pro-
Queer, now has cornered the most
votes, but he is being shot at on all
sides by sponsors of other candi-
dates. 1t has been decreed that he
will be given run" by Charles D.
Hilles, New York national commit
teeman-who is virtually directing
the show hereto see how he takes.
The meeting, in this way as in
others, is miniature national con-
vention-even including the confer
ences in the well-known smoke
filled" rooms
If Hallanan fails to make the
grade, then the numerous Dark
Horses" will get chance.
Hamilton Boom On
quite boom has developed for
the trim, 42-year- old, red-headed
John D. M. Hamilton, Kansas ma
tional committeeman, who is Spon-
Sored by Senator Arthur Capper and
a group in congress. There is some
support still for Henry P. Fletcher,
former ambassador to various
foreign countries, who comes from
Pennsylvania. Other dark horses
include Governor Harrison E. Spang-
Ter of Iowa, Hanford McNider of
Iowa, former secretary of war, and
Albert Gallatin Simms of New Mexi-
co, former member of congress and
husband of Ruth Hanna Mccormick
Even such eastern leaders as
David A. Reed of Pennsylvania now
concede that the new chairman
must come from west of the Ale
ghenies, and thus have dropped the
original hope of the Hooverites that
former Senator Walter E. Edge of
New Jersey might be selected.
Senator Reed, still recuperating
from an attack of pneumonia, ar
rived here to become a sort OF
lounging robe Warwick To the
apartment of the Pennsylvania
who carries charm because he re-
Gently was renominated, f1ocked the
leaders-Ogden l.. Mills, former
treasury secretary; former postmas-
ter-general and National Chairman
Walter F. Brown of the air mail
episode, Charles D. Hilles, Theodore
Roosevelt Jr., Reed, who will help
draft the declaration of policy, went
back to Theodore Roosevelt to sug-
gest the square deal" as Substi-
tute for the new DEAF in state
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