Show INSIDE STUFF By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON June 4 4 The The big figure at t the Republican reunion on in Chicago is not Mr Hoover Mr Sanders Sanders San San- ders Ogden Mills or any other of the publicized figures of ot the party It will be a barel barely mentioned elderly elder elder- Iy ly gentleman who hates publicity publIcity- Mr tr Charles D. D Hilles v Letters Lettera Put of or New York Mr in Mr Hilles has been i Drivers Driver's Seal Sut found asleep at cr very few political switches I f during durin the last 20 years car He knows how to make the trains go Co the way he wan wants them without getting out in inthe inthe the middle of ol the tracks with a red flag fIa Some months ago Mr Hilles bought ft n extra supply or stamps and began writing letters around the country His IUs innocent purpose was to get the yi views ws of ot national committeemen and j Women about a new national chair- chair aan Joan and other party matters He to Mrs on the Pacific to toast coast t and and when he received her reply reply re- re Ply he wrote to Mr in New England and said Mrs be be- kved such and s such ch should be done j Soon he had established a mutual correspondence understanding with s Continued on n Pa Page e Two I INSIDE STUFF Continued from Pate Pare One nearly every national committeeman and woman You can readily see where that put Mr right right in the middle o of everything e eThe The state of ot affairs was discovered by the party insiders when they started start start- ed cd out a few weeks ago ngo to organize the national notional committee for election of ot a successor to Sanders The They found Mr 1 Hilles HUles played his game carefully as he always does He lie had no candidate candidate candi candi- date of or his own At least no one was ever able to find out that he had one But he expressed In his correspondence correspondence correspondence corre corre- some very vigorous views about who should not be chairman of the national committee In short Mr Hilles turned thumbs down on about half hal a dozen aspirants who were trying to get support from committee members member In this nearly everyone seems to agree Mr Hubs HUles had no personal feelings but was working for tor the best besL Interest o of the party Some of ot those he turned down would be notorious misfits In the existing ex ex- party situation 0 S 0 It is too early for anyone except Republican politicians to talk about presidential candidates for 1936 1939 but they talk a good deal about it in an off hand way Coming to the fore lore In their d discussions discus sloan is Senator Arthur of oC Michigan He is one of ot the Young Mentioned in Turks who did not Earl Early Talk like Ilke the way things were going under the Hoover regime There is nothing in his senate votes which would label him as u either a radical or conserva conserva- tive He gets along with liberal Senator Sena Sena- tor tar Couzens as well as the conservative conserva conserva- live tive wing of ot the party He Is young makes a good appearance and is a sharp campaigner Unquestionably he will be a leading candidate 00 One of the main troubles about getting getting get get- ting a a good man for tor the Republican national chairmanship now Is that he probably will be tossed out two years hence when the presidential nominee takes charge 0 as asAn An unusual tribute was WM paid to 33 year-old year representative Dies of ot Jasper Texas rec recently He was supposed to testify for 15 minutes minute on silver before the house ways and means committee but he was kept ept on the stand more than three hours S S C You have to have a cold to understand understand under under- stand the pun of ot an eminent Washington Wa Washing Washing- hing ton newsman who contends the N R A Ahad Ahad Ahad had a Darrow escape C C CLife Life Lite Is just one thing after another for Senator Glass His physician Admiral Admiral Ad Ad- miral Grayson ordered h him m to cance cancel several engagements down in Virginia because of his health For once Glass Glas followed the doctors doctor's lions Then Thea the good doctor insisted on dragging Glass ot off to a prize fight h here e to make certain that Glass re reo re- re News photographers photographers' spied him and snapped his picture Now Glass is trying to explain to his constituents He would stage a fight o of his own with his good friend the doctor if he were able Copyright 1934 for The Telegram |