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...Trenton, N. J. last week a platform was being concocted for the State Republican Convention by its Resolutions Committee. Outside the meeting room in the Stacy-Trent Hotel, newsgatherers waited excitedly, for in there with the committeemen had marched Dwight Whitney Morrow, nominated fortnight ago to run for the Senate as a Wet (TIME, June 30). Would he prevail upon the State Republican leaders, traditionally Dry in word if not in deed, to make the platform express his revolutionary personal views? If he did, it would be the first time since the passage of the 18th Amendment that its repeal...
...buzz of voices ceased in the hotel room; the door opened; committeemen came out. "Did you ...?'' newsgatherers asked. "Was the Morrow plank . . . ? Did Mr. Morrow...
Furthermore, it must be remembered that the members of this committee are not elected, but appointed. If there were some sort of competition for positions on the committee some division of spoils might be justified. As it is, the committeemen are responsible to their classmates for putting over the Jubilee at as low cost as practicable...
...Huston has not been a successful G.O. P. Chairman. He has been sued on private debts, which he settled out of court. He has closeted himself at committee headquarters, refused to see the press or visiting G. O. Politicians. He has few friends among the 48 Republican National Committeemen. Many a Republican Senator eyes him with disfavor because of his noncooperation on patronage...
...Female members of the national committees are chosen by the male committeemen from their States with the idea of giving themselves two votes instead of one. The most desirable quality in the female politician is docility. . . . Contrary to precedent Mrs. Pratt was not chosen by Dewey [Hilles]. . . . She will not be docile . . . will neither revere nor follow him in the way of her fair predecessor. Last year she exhibited a distressing lack of faith in Dewey's political judgment, refusing to follow him in the 'draft Coolidge' movement, preferring to ally herself with the early effort...