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With Mr. Huston safely out, the G. O. P. committee proceeded to the selection of a new chairman. As prearranged with President Hoover's active approval, Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio was chosen to head the national committee. As not prearranged this was done on a permanent basis, for Mr. Fess refused to take the job temporarily. Ousted Mr. Huston was reported as saying at once: "Enter the Ohio Gang again." If uttered, this bitter remark was aimed at Walter Folger Brown of Toledo as much as at Simeon Davison Fess. The latter was never a member...
Selected to replace Mr. Huston as party chairman, at least temporarily, was smallish, solemn, fuss-budgety Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio, who cancelled steamship bookings for a European holiday to take over his new political duties. In imitation of the present Democratic setup, in which National Chairman Raskob yields the spotlight to Executive Committee Chairman Jouett Shouse, the Republicans decided to have, in addition to their party chief, an active committee manager to do the real political work. For this new professional post, with $15,000 salary, Robert H. Lucas, now Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the Treasury Department...
Washington thereafter brimmed with rumor. Bets were even that the chairmanship would be vacant by Aug. 1. Many believed it would still require a public demand from President Hoover to get Mr. Huston out. Speculators selected Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio as his probable successor. To avoid a public explosion on the eve of an important campaign. Republican leaders strove to get the whole unpleasant to-do out of the headlines...
...Independence Week End President Hoover went to his Rapidan camp, rode horseback, worked over his Treaty message to the Senate. With him at the camp were Republican Senators Watson, McNary, Fess, Walcott. Topmost in the minds of all, though denials were later made that it was openly discussed at the camp, was the case of Claudius Hart Huston, chairman of the Republican National Committee whose political effectiveness has been damaged by the disclosure of his Muscle Shoals lobbying (TIME, March 31). Many had been the demands for Mr. Huston's resignation...
...this "General" Brown replied, through Senator Fess on the Senate floor, that he had not seen the files on the case because the Department of Justice held them in connection with the Kulp company's suit to obtain unpaid rent. The Department of Justice, stirred by Senate criticism, issued a statement defending its handling of the St. Paul case...