Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1918 — Postpone Work of Selecting Chairman [ARTICLE]

Postpone Work of Selecting Chairman

St. Louis, Feb. 12.—The republican national committee after postponing until tomorrow the selection of a chairman, today adopted a resolution endorsing the vote of republican congressman for the Susan B. Anthony suffrage amendment. Tonight opposing forces were claiming victory for their respective candidates, John T. Adams, of lowa, and Will’H. Hays, .chairman of the state central committee, of Indiana. Most reliable figures however, indicated twenty-three votes pledged to Adams, twentythree to Hays and five non-commit-tal.

Fred Stanley, of Kansas, who appeared as a possible “dark horse,” tonight put reports of his candidacy to rest with the terse statement: “I’m not in it, and I won’t be in it”

Friends of Mr. Stanley, declared he would “vote to the last” for Mr. Adams. The expected public announcement. of Mr. Adams, whose Americanism had been questioned by his opponents, did not materialize, and his friends declared they would quickly disprove allegations that he had taken the initiative in calling a mass meeting at Dubuque, lowa, before America entered the war to protest against Americans traveling on munitions ships. The decision of the committee, seating Jesse M. Littleton, of Tennessee, as committeeman from that state, was hailed with joy by the Adams adherents who regarded him as a partisan of the lowan, M. W. Mulvihill, of Mississippi, also was seated, blit his position was not made known. William Hale Thompson, mayor of Chicago, came out in favor of Mr. Adams today. Mr Thompson introduced a resolution which was referred to the committee on resolutions and which, Jie said, in a word endorsed the, conviction of the United States with regard to free speech and called for rigid adherence to the rules separating the powers of the legislative, executive and judicial departments of the federal government.