Evening star., 1949-10-02
Labe-Scorner and Vote-Getter iead Parties
GobrieIson Rules
Out "Togs" When
Classifying Self .

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Classifying Self
By Saul Petit
NEW YORK.-Guy G. Gabriel
son is q label scorner.
The recently chosen chairman Of
the Republican National Commit
tee rules out tags such as Glib
eral" or conservative" in speaking
of himself.
when you start using Names
he explains, you stop thinking. !"
When you chat with this stocky
|58-year-old lawyer industrialist
about politics you find he's no
phrasemaker, nor a man anxious
to capture headlines.
His mien radiates self-assur-
ance, at the same time reveals
little of his inner self and displays
no mannerisms or idiosyncrasies.
He is friendly without trace of
intimacy.
Mr.. Gabrielson is careful to dis
courage notions that he is a Taft
man or q Stassen man. He quick
ly points out that in becoming
national COP chairman he was
elected with "some Dewey votes,
too."
Freedom Preserver.
The party leader says he went
into politics to "try to help pre-
serve freedom in this country"
This freedom, he warns, is being
endangered by the present trend
of bureaucratic government"
If you visit Mr.. Gabrielson in
his Office in the Wall Street finan-
cial district. you're apt to find
him working in shirt sleeves,
smoking a pipe or making a lunch
date at the Union League Club.
The Office is small and far short
of suggesting a Wall Street tycoon,
although MI. Gabrielsons busi-
ness interests are broad and
varied.
His law practice is mostly cor
poration work. In addition, Mr.
Gabrielson is president of Car
thage Hydrocol. Inc. which is now
building a s40,000,000 plant to
make high-octane gasoline out
of dry gas.
With one partner, Mr.. Gabriel
son also owns three asbestos firms
and one company fabricating light
steel. Additionally, he holds direc-
torships in several firms making
range boilers. hot-water heaters,
milk cans and gasoline computing
pumps.
Amateur Farmer
He was reared in Sioux Rapids,
graduated from high school there,
and obtained his B. A. at the Uni
versity of Iowa. A short time
after he was graduated from Har-
ward Law School he joined the
Army. Because Of bad eyesight
he was turned down for combat
in the First World War. He en-
tered the Army as a private
emerged as a second lieutenant.
Shortly after the war he started
law practice in East Orange, N. j.,
and in 1886 moved his home to
Bernardsville. BY this time he
was practicing law in New York,
80 miles from his home.
Bernardsville is a town of 1000
in North Central New Jersey.
Wealthy country gentlemen live
in the huge estates of the sur
rounding hills. Townsfolk refer
to them as mountain people"
It is here that he likes to spend
his spare time, working on the
farm. But he is realistic enough
to poke little fun at his own ex-
pense as a farmer.
Every Monday morning" he
laughs, "the men who run the
farm go around seeing how much
damage I've done"
In the town, a local reporter
found that most of the folks were
proud that one of their number
now heads the Republican Ma
tional Committee.
Mr.. Gabrielson has been active
in New Jersey politically for some
time but politics on a national
level is comparatively new to him.
Beginning in 1926. he served
four terms in the New Jersey State
Assembly, the third as majority
leader and the last as speaker. He
was aligned with the Essex County
Clean Governement Organization
and though in later years he
moved from the county he re-
tanned his strong ties with the
group. Essex County is the most
populous in the State and tradi-
tionally Republican even though
it includes Newark, a Democratic
stronghold.
Wilkes State MANAGER
In 1882. there was some talk
of Gabrielson becoming a dele
gate to the Republican National
Convention but little was heard of
him politically until 1886. At that
time he was named executive
director of the COP State cam
paign. The experience resulted in
his appointment in 1910 as State
manager of the Wendell Willkie
campaign.
Following WILKES defeat, Mr..
Gabrielson faded from the po-
litical scene until 1914, when he
was reported a candidate for the
unexpired term of w. Warren
Barbour, Republican United States
Senator, who died in Office.
Party leaders. however, agreed
on H. Alexander Smith. then Re-
publican national committeeman
from New Jersey. In the interests