Evening star., 1934-05-29
c. 0.P. TOP|CKNEW
HEAD IN CHICAGO.
Meeting Will Be Held Tues
day-Members of "Old
Guard" Stunned.
RY G.. GOULD LINCOLN.

Republican Leaders Will JOuile W
Chicago Sunday and Monday to take
part in selection of new chairman
of the partys National Committee.
Chairman Everett Sanders, who
called the meeting of the National
Committee in order to tender his res
jgnation and permit election OF MS
successor, is expected to leave wash
lngton Sunday for Chicago, where ne
will have charge of all arrangements
for the gathering. The meeting VIII
be held in the Palmer House at III
am. Tuesday. ~,
Influential Republicans are stlil
asking each other here who the ne"
chairman should and will be. Pre-
sumably the uncertainty exists IN
other parts of the country.
Out of a welter of conversation
about the new chairman and plans
for the future of the party, there
emerees at least one hope. 1t Is tnat
the National Committee will be able
to select a chairman who has not
been too strongly tied IN with the
'old guard" chairman who Will IN
iect new blood and new enthusiasm
into the organization.
Desire Not Aimed at Sanders.
This desire for a new face at Re-
publican national headquarters is not
aimed particularly at Mr.. Sanders. but
is rather a desire to get away from
the old crowd which has dominated
the party councils for the last score
of years, if possible.
The suggestion has been MADE IN
some quarters that the best way OUT
would be to elect no new chairman at
this time, but just fail to accept Mr.
Sanders resignation and let matters
rest until after the congressional elec-
tions. That suggestion, indeed, has
been advanced by some of the most
astute Republican leaders now IN
washington. But it does not appeal
to others.
Indeed. one man who is to have
much to say about what is and what
is not done at the Chicago meeting,
said today that in his opinion nothing
more foolish could be done by the
Republicans than to gather In Chi
cago, coming from all parts of the
country, and then admit by their fall
ure to elect a new chairman that they
were hopelessly confused and had no
leader to offer. Nor is it expected that
Mr.. Sanders would in any way acqui-
eSce in such an outcome of the COM
mittee meeting. While Mr.. Sanders
has almost fully recovered from the
serious illness which laid him up for
a number of weeks, it is understood to
be his desire to give his undivided at
tention now to his law practice.
First Gathering Since 1882.
The conference of the Republicans
in Chicago next week may be Of far
reaching importance. 1t will be the
first gathering of the party'S repre-
sentatives of all the States since the
disastrous 1882 campaign. The Re
publicanS have had time to catch their
breath and get their second wind since
then, and to turn over in their minds
what course they should follow. More
and more a militant spirit is arising
among them. While there has been an
inclination on the part of some Re-
publican members of Congress who
are up for reelection this year to go
their own gait and fight out their own
particular campaigns as they see fit,
Republicans generally are beginning
to ask that the party as a whole
assert itself and outline a certain
course.
Just how the more conservative and
more progressive wings of the Re-
publican party can get together in
the selection of a new chairman, it is
difficult to figure out. Some of the
more progressive Republican members
of the Senate say they do not believe
a progressive will be picked and that
they expect the conservative wing to
dominate at the meeting in Chicago.
1t always has in the past, it is point
ed out.
Candidates and possibilities for the
Craftsmanship have been mentioned by
the dozen. There is one man whose
name has been mentioned many times
In the group conferences, which seem
to get nowhere. He is Walter j.