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Show E. 0. P. LEADERS It CONFIDENT State Chairman Henry Welsh Returns From National Conference. IIo::ry "Welsh, state chairman of the Repubheun party in Utah., returned yesterday yes-terday frum 'ashin?,rti.m, where he attended at-tended the meeting' of the Republican state chairmen. Mr. Welsh last night issued the follow inp statement concerning his Washington visit: "On arri iug at Washington, D. C, on the evening of the tun ult., found the Wilii rd hoi el was indeed well thronged with Republicans who were there from almost every state in the, union. Amongst them were many congressmen, senators and governors, together with the heads of tho various departments of tho Republican national committee. Of this last aggregation, tho most be-j be-j loved Will II. Hays was the unquestioned ! leader. Tho representatives from the ! various states met each other, exchanged notes and views, and with many of the committeemen were individual Republicans Republi-cans who had visited Washington because of tho deep interest In national affairs. In addition thereto the various representatives repre-sentatives from tho cities of Chicago Chi-cago and St. Louis were pursuing their propagandas in an endeavor to have tho national committeemen select their respective re-spective c.ties as the place of hold.ng the next national Republican convention. Ad already known "hicago won tho prize. Amongst the committeemen of these cities who seemed to attract much attention at-tention w;is Mayor Thompson of Chicago, who was: an important advocate of that place. He delivered un address before the national committee which had a thoroughly Republ.ean ring to it, not-withstand.ng not-withstand.ng the fact that there- existed in the minds of some it doubt as to his attitude. "Gnu "of the most distinguished speakers speak-ers at the convention was Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania who del.vered a rinsing address which was well received. He was followed by Governor McKelvie who delivered . a short, but terse, eloquent elo-quent and much applauded address. At this point Mrs. Medill McCormick was called for by the audience and she responded re-sponded with one of the most pointed and appropriate addresses of the occasion. occa-sion. Tlie sp.rit of th.s meeting was in- : deed opLm.stic. Jn the afternoon the closed meet ing of tiie national commit tee met and decided upon Chicago as the place for meeting, and June 8, 19-0, as the- date. On tiie following morning the state chairmen of the various states of the union met on the same floor of the Willard on which the nat.onal committeemen com-mitteemen meeting was held and tiie session lasted from ten o'clock in the morning until after five in the evening. Every state chairman answered the most important questions put to him by the various departments of the national committee and the situation from out all parts of the United States was indeed cheering from a Republ.ean standpoint. "One of the notable points which seemed to be in the minds of all of the delegates at both meetings was that no particular presidential possibility should be given any preference at these meetings. meet-ings. That a fair field and equal chance for all should be. the manner of treating the various candidates. Tlie absence of tlie promoters of individual candidates was quite lio'able, it having been understood under-stood that such promoters would not be favorably considered. ! "While in the Willard I had the pleas- I ure of meeting several distinguished people peo-ple of national reputation, amongst them tlie Hon. Senator Watson of Indiana. This gentleman was very desirous that Senator Smoot of Utah should be returned re-turned to Washington, and in giving the reason why, he stated that Senator Smoot was "the most profitable employee of the United States government. "One of the things that I heard upon tho last, day of my sojourn in Washington was that the people of the White House were tearing down the statue of Abraham Lincoln which sat in the White House yard. The reason given for the removal of the statue was that a sun room was to be built for some inmate in-mate of the White House. From my own observations I think we are safe in staLing that at the present hour there is no question as to the preponderance of Republican sentiment in at. least two-thirds two-thirds of the great -suites of the union." |