Evening star., 1936-12-18
HAMILTON TO GET
$4,000 ANNUALLY
Voted Salary to Devote Full
Time to REHABILITATION"
of G. 0. P.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 18.-Members
of the Executive Committee OF the Re-
publican National Committee disclosed
TODAY that Chairman John Hamilton
had been voted a salary of $25,000 a
year to devote his full time to the
party's rehabilitation.
It was the first time the chairman
of the Republican National Committee
had been put on full-time salary
basis in the interim between presi-
Dental campaigns, the committeeman
said.
The action was taken at meeting
of the Executive Committee late yes
terday. after the national committee
gave Hamilton a vote of confidence
and refused to accept his resignation.
Associates OF Hamilton said the Ex-
ecutive Committee agreed to pay Ham,
ilton $4,000 year and to give him
another $4,000 year for base ex-
penses" Hamilton received a salary
of $4,000 year when he was general
counsel for the committee under for
mer Chairman Henry P. Fletcher.
Fletcher never received a salary as
chairman, Hamilton's aides declared.
and previous chairmen always had
been rich men," able to serve without
compensation.
They described Hamilton as in mod
est circumstances.
Campaign Is Mapped.
Heartened by the National Commit
tees overwhelming vote of confidence,
Hamilton today mapped a campaign
10 revive party spirit.
Soon after the committee rejected
his resignation by a 74-to-2 vote yes
terday, Hamilton disclosed he would
make a tour Of the United States to
solidify Republican power in State and
congressional elections.
He announced permanent head
quarters would be set up in a dozen
States where present organization was
temporary. that State chairmen would
be advised to hold State and county
committee meetings more frequently
and that he would attack the party's
1901 sol deficit with the aid of spe-
cial committee.
One of the first to congratulate the
red-haired Kansan after the vote was
Representative Hamilton Fish of New
York, whose demand for "liberaliza-
tion" of party policies precipitated
three and half hours Of outspoker
oratory at the committees session ir
Loop hotel.
Wanted to Express Self.
I'm a Republican" said Fish. TIN
going along with him. I just wanted
an opportunity to express myself"
The roll call on the chairman's
resignation brought anti Hamilton
votes only from Mrs Katharine Ken
nedy Brown of Ohio and I, w. Nc
Cormick of Philadelphia, who held
the proxy of James w. Arnold, Geor-
gia.
Fifty-nine committee members at
tended the meeting. The council ap-
proved Is of 81 proxies held. OF the
eight votes not cast. six were proxies
held by Hamilton, one was his own
vote and one was a proxy held by
Fish.
Fish precipitated the liberalization
argument by declaring:
IF the party does not liberalize and
reorganize, you die. Hamilton led the
fight against the social security act
which alienated millions of wage
earners. He went to Boston and
made a speech which drove millions
out. He has shown that his associ-
ates comprise the Old Guard.
Behind the Times"
'We are quarter of a century be-
hind the times. The wage earners do
as much thinking along political Lines
as any one. They believe the Re-
publican party lined up with the
forces OF privilege"
Representative Everett Dirksen of
Illinois took up the discussion of So
cial problems, declaring Republican
chieftains needed "a damned good
lecture" OH ascertaining what the peo-
pie wanted.
Referring to a statement on the
American way of life by Col. R. B.
Creager of Texas, Dirksen said it was
rhetorical pap"
John L. Green and Henry A. Wise
of Virginia and E. F. Colladay of the
District of Columbia were among those
who supported Hamilton in the rapid
Ere exchanges.