Evening star., 1938-11-28
6. 0. P. Committee
Meets in Annual
Session Tomorrow
Seating Of Simpson
In Place Of HiIles
Is Expected
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
The Republican National Com
mittee will meet in the Carlton Ho-
tel at 10 am. tomorrow to discuss
the results of the recent elections
and to make plans for the future.
The committee Is expected to seat
Kenneth F. Simpson as Republican
national committeeman from New
York, in place of Charles D. Hilles,
who resigned many months ago.
Mr.. Simpson was elected to fill the
vacancy by the New York State Re-
publican Committee Under the
rules, the State committee is fully
authorized to fill vacancies in the
national committee. Officials of the
national committee said today that
there seemed no doubt that Mr..
Simpsons election would be ratified
and he would be seated tomorrow.
Protests From Old Guard.
Some of the old guard Repub-
licans in New York have protested
against the seating of Mr.. Simpson,
asserting that he sold the G.. o. P.
down the river" when he agreed to
unite with the American Labor
party in 1887 to elect Thomas E.
Dewey district attorney for New
York County and to re-elect Mayor
F. H. La Guardia.
Protests against the seating Of
Mr.. Simpson have been made by
John Burke of the New York Chap
ter of Republican Builders, and by
Charles S. Leeds, president of the
Committee for Republican Integrity.
Mr.. Simpson may figure also in
contest for vacancy in the Execu-
tive Committee of the Republican
National Committee, created when
Mr.. Hilles retired. Mrs. Ruth B.
Pratt, the national committeeWoman
for New York, may wish this place
In the Executive Committee. There
Is report. too, that former Senator
Daniel o. Hastings of Delaware may
be a candidate for the place.
How far the conservatives on the
National Committee will go in their
efforts to prevent Mr.. Simpson from
being seated or from becoming a
member of the Executive Commit
tee remains to be seen. There Is
q feeling that, In view OF the VIC
tories at the polls on November 8,
the conservative wing Of the party
may seek to dominate again party
councils and party controls.
Another Vacancy.
There is another vacancy in the
Executive Committee, caused by the
resignation of Earl Warren OF Cali
fornia. It may go to Harvey JeWett,
jr., of South Dakota. Mr.. Warren
will be succeeded on the National
Committee by William F. Know
land, associate publisher of the
Oakland Tribune, the youngest
member of the committee. MI.
Knowland is 80.
The National Committee is ex-
pected to give attention to plans
for paying off the 100000 deficit
which still remains from the 1886
campaign.
Another matter to be considered
is the work of the Program Commit
tee, headed by DR.. Glenn Frank.
This committee has been at work
for months, with headquarters IN
Chicago. What is to be done with
It's report, and when it is to be made
are questions agitating the national
committee.
Prior to the creation of the Pro-
gram Committee, "mid-term" ma
tional convention of the Republican
party had been suggested. The pro-
gram committee was the result OF a
compromise on that proposal. 1t
does not appear likely now that the
mid-term convention idea can be
revived successfully. 1t met with
considerable opposition when the
plan was first broached in 1887.
Officers and Members Here.
Among the officers and members
of the National Committee, who ar
rived today for the meeting tomor-
row. are c. B. Goodspeed of Illinois,
treasurer; Henry P. Fletcher of
Pennsylvania, general counsel: Mrs.
Worthington Scranton of Pennsyl-
vania, Mrs. Katherine Kennedy
Brown and F.. F. Taggert of Ohio,
Harrison E. Spangler of Iowa, Hugh
A. Butler of Nebraska, former Sena-
tor Jesse H. Metcalf, former Sena-
Fitzsimons of Rhode Island, r. B..
Creager of Texas, Mrs. Ralph A..
Harris of Kansas. Representative
Joseph w. Martin, jr., of Mass.
Mr.. Martin is candidate for the
Republican leadership of the
House, made vacant by the retire
ment Of Representative Smell of
New York. 1t is not expected that
the National Committee will under
take to mix in the impending con-
test for the House leadership. How
ever, Representative James w.
Wadsworth of New York, recognized
as a member of the conservative
wing Of the G. o. p, has announced
his candidacy for the leadership in
opposition to Mr.. Martin, and the
matter may enter informal discus
sions among the National Commit
tee members.