Evening star., 1937-12-03
THE POLITICAL
MILL
BY G. COULD LINCOLN.

Louis on Monday to tackle the lob of
naming chairman Of the Committee OF
One Hundred to draw up q declaration
Of principles for the @. o. p. and to
pass upon the proposed national con-
ventton next year. It will also under
take to select the members Of that COM
mittee outside the chairman.
Already the names Of 80 persons have
been recommended to the national COM
mittee for chairman OF the Committee
of One Hundred-and there may be 9TH
ers. The list is not being given out
But before Chairman John Hamilton
of the national committee leaves here
for st. Louis, he will consult with the
Republican leaders in Congress and seek
their advice regarding the selection OF
chairman of the Committee OF One Hun
dred. This was provided for in the reso-
luton adopted by the national COM
mittee at its recent meeting in Chicago,
the Committee Of One Hundred was au-
thorized. Presumably, too, the Repub-
lican congressional leaders will be con-
suited about the general membership of
the committee. 1t is the desire to have
all elements and groups in the G. O. P.
represented in the Committee Of One
Hundred.
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The names OF more than 500, indeed.
nearly 600, persons have been filed with
the national committee headquarters for
membership in the Committee of One
Hundred. Some have written to the
committee suggesting themselves for ap-
pointment. 1t looks as though the Ex-
ecutive Committee would have its hands
full, picking the Committee of One Hum
dred. not to mention the chairman. In
addition, the Executive Committee must
sound out the person selected for chair
man, to ascertain whether he or she
will serve in that capacity.
AS in the meeting of the national
committee in Chicago, it may be ex-
pected that the contest over the pro-
posed national convention next wear will
crop up in the st. Louis meeting. Those
who favor such a national convention
Will favor chairman of the Committee
OF One Hundred who also looks with
favor on that projected convention. The
opponents OF the plan will want q man
Tor chairman who is against the mid
term convention. Generally speaking,
the Executive Committee has been IA
vorable to the convention idea, although
some of the members may have changed
their minds.
Many Republicans set considerable
store by this new Committee of One
Hundred. They believe that it will be
able to write a declaration of principles
to which the Republicans and all anti
New Dealers throughout the country can
rally. They believe that such declara-
ton is needed and that the Committee
OF One Hundred will have served a USE
ful purpose, even if the national con-
vention for next year is finally aban-
doned. The national committee itself
will be called upon to pass on the con-
vention idea, after the Committee of One
Hundred has made its recommendations.
The report that Mayor F. H. La
Guardia of New York has formally ami
lated himself with the American Labor
party is scarcely news. When he voted
in the recent mayoralty conuest-in
which he was successfully reelected
Mayor-he voted in the American Labor
party line. He has. 1t is said, been in
clined to believe that labor and farmer
labor groups will be dominant in politics
OF the immediate future He may even
have believed that in the mayoralty elec-
ton the American Labor party, which
supported him as its candidate for
Mayor, would roll up bigger vote than
did the Republican party, which also
backed the Mayor. In this he was mis-
taken, for the Republicans cast more
than 100000 votes in that election, and
the Labor party. something over 400, 900.
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Mayor La Guardias political future
has been the subject of much specula-
ton. He has just been reelected for
four-year term as Mayor of Greater New
York. Whether he aspires to be Gov
ernor OF New York. or even to the presi-
dency Is not entirely clear, although
he is believed to have ambitions The
Republicans backed him for Mayor,
and through him were able to beat Tam.
many and the Democratic organization.
Whether they would be willing to take
him for Governor of the State is ques-
ton. Particularly in view of the fact
that he is enrolled as member of the
American Labor party. However, the
Republicans were willing to go into
fusion" with the Labor party and other
independent voters to win in New York
City. They might be willing to enter
into another fusion" with labor to elect
a Governor Of New York. Indeed. it
looks as though the way had been paved
already for future unions of labor and
Republicans in New York State, against
the organization lead by Chairman
James A. Farley of the Democratic ma
tional and State committees.
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Upstate Republicans in New York, who
were exceeding wroth with Kenneth r.
Simpson, Republican chairman of New
York County, because he was willing
to back La Guardia for Mayor, have
changed their tune. They see the wis
dom, now of the fusion" which de-
feated the Democratic organization in
the city. They see that many Repub-
licans were elected to office in the city,
along with Mayor La Guardia, among
them Racket Buster Dewey. Simpson
stock is therefore in the ascendency.
There is strong movement on foot to
have Simpson elected Republican ma
tlonal committeeman from New York,
when the resignation submitted by
Charles D. Hilles, veteran member of the
national committee, goes into effect.
Hilles wrote out his resignation, to be
effective at some future time, saying
that he had served long enough and
wished to give his time and attention to
other matters. He has been in political
harness for long period, and wishes
to be released. When he leaves the
committee the q. o. P. will lose = wise
counselor.
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