Evening star., 1949-01-28
Republicans
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Worthington Scranton Of Penr syl-
Ivania; Walter 8. Hallanan of West
Virginia, Mrs. Margaret Rockwell of
Arizona. who took the place Of Mrs.
Cecil M. Harden Of Indiana; Carroll
Reece of Tennessee, who took the
place of Jouett Ross Todd Of Ken
lucky.
Mrs. Edna Bssten Donald Of Ne
braska, Harry Darby Of Kansas,
Mrs. Charles g. Hickman Of Iowa, in
place of Mrs. Daniel J. Schneider of
Colorado; Mrs. Roy r. Priest OF
Utah, Mcintyre FAIRIES Of California,
Mrs. William Preston Few Of North
Carolina, Col. r. B. Creager of Tex
as and Mrs. Marshall E. Cornett OF
Oregon.
The members Of the new Executive
Committee voted 8 to 8 for Mr.. Scott.
The members ofsthe old committee
voted 13 to 2 for Mr.. Scott-which
means that four new members were
anti-scott, before he was retained as
chairman.
When the anti-Scott coalition was
formed here early in the week, Roy
E. Dunn of Minnesota was picked as
the coalition candidate to succeed
Mr.. Scott.
It originally had been proposed TO
place MIR. Dunn's name in the reso-
luton ousting Mr.. Scott. as his sue
cessor. But this was not done
There were rumors that coalitionists
had decided to substitute Guy
George Gabrielson. the national CON-
mitteernai1 from New jersey, for Mr..
Dunn should the resolution to ditch
Mr.. Scott prevail
The national .chairman's victory
was in effect a defeat for the Ma
tticnal -Committes sOldr Guard, NJ
Scott, who was elected national
chairman last June, at the request
OF Gov. Dewey after the latter had
been nominated for President.
Leading the fight against him were
such veteran Republican leaders as
Col. Creager, MIR. HallananS >Rep-
resentative Brown of Ohio, Ralph
Cake Of Oregon, Harrison E. Spangler
Of Iowa and Mr.. Reece.
Called Fair Haired Boy"
In the debate over the France
resolution Mr.. Scott was attacked as
Gov. Deweys fair-haired boy. He
was blamed for the Republican
defeat in November; for not having
asserted himself and run the cam
paign as Natioanl chairman, instead
of appointing Herbert BrcWnell, jr.,
to be campaign manager and turn
ing everything over to him.
Ezra Whitla Of Idaho, defending
Mr.. Scott. pointed out that it was
the National Committee itself which
instructed Mr. Scott to appoint a
campaign manager who was to be
selected by Gov Dewey.
He charged that the opponents
of Mr. Scott we're seeking to place
all the blame for the Republican
defeat on the national chairman
when the blame rightfully rested on
them and the other members of the
National Committee.
! Among the Scott defenders was
George L. Hart, jr.. of Washington,
D. c., who held the proxy Of Clyde
D. Garrett, District Of Columbia
National committeeman.
MIR. Hart said that members Of
the committee were saying to Mr..
Scott:
Hugh Scott we love you, but we've
got to cut your throat. We took
a terrible licking in November but
Is there one among us who is with
out blame? 1t seems to me we are
picking Mr.. Scott as g. symbol to
try to excuse ourselves. I say to
you, we are not going to beat Harry
Truman by squashing Hugh Scott.
II have heard it said here, that
If Scott stays in Office, he will have
opposition and that is a reason we
should turn him out. If Scott wins,
let's get together and fight with him
against the Democrats
/, Mrs. Thad H. Brown, the other
District of Columbia committee
member, voted against the national
chairman.
Mr.. France and Miss Bertha 8.
Adkins, the other Maryland COM
mittee member, voted against Mr.
Scott, while the two Virginia men,
. mers, Curtis NJ Dozier and Mrs.
7 William Logan, voted for him.