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Show NEW VICE-CHAIRMAN OF NATIONAL COMMITTEE IS AGGRESSIVE AND FAIR The career of John T. Adams of Iown, who was recently select cd ns vice chnlrmnn of tho republican national committee, indicates indi-cates that if the committee desires efficiency in political manage ment they made no mistake in their selection. Mr. Adams is an enterprising and successful business man, n student of politics in the broadest sense, and a political worker along such lines as to win tho esteem of republicans and arouse the fear of his demo cratic opponents. Prior to 1008 Adams had taken no active part in politics, but had confined his attention almost entirely .to tho monagement of a hash and door manufactoring establishment at Dubuque, la., of which concern he has been president for twenty-two years and with which he has been associated for thirty-five years. Although not activo in politics he has taken an interest in governmental problems such as would bo n credit to any American citizen. He has been n life long student of history, and particularly of the economic problems confronting the people of the United States. His privntc library is known ns one of the best in the slate of Iowa, and is particularly well supplied with best known works on economic econ-omic subjects. He reads German and French fluently and has studied German nuthors on economic subjects. His extensive ptudics have won him n reputation among his intimate friends ns a mnn of scholnrly tastes. With this broad foundation for useful political service, Adams becamo active in politics for tho first time in 4008 when his neighbor neigh-bor and personal friend, the Into Senator Allison, induced him to take charge nf his campaign for election to the senate, at which time the contest was letwccn Allison nnd Cummins for the nomination. nom-ination. His nbility ns political worker is attested by the fact Hint lie won the nomination for Allison but did it in such a mnnncr as not to forfeit cither the respect or the friendship of Cummins, who was later elected to the'sennte after the death of Senator Allison. . Although thereafter active in politics, Adams was never a candidate can-didate for any office. However, lie wns elected by the people of Dubuque to membership on tho Ixnml of education, and has served very acceptably us a trustee of Dubuque college. He was elected a member of the republican national committee of 1012 and was chosen n member of its executive committee. In 1016 ho was an active supporter of the candidacy of Senator Cummins for the presidential nomination, and wns elected a member of the national committee in a statewide primary in which he won by an overwhelming over-whelming majority. His relations are coidial with both Senators Kenyon and Cummins of Iowa, all of the members of the Iown congressional delegation, and all the officers of the state government. govern-ment. No person in his own state opposed his election to the national na-tional committee on the ground that he was lacking In progres-siveness. progres-siveness. If the republican party desires the leadership of a man who can bo aggressively anil effectively active in party affairs and yet so tactful as to retain the confidence and friendship of members of all factions of his own party, it wjuild seem that the selection of Mr. Adnms as vice chairman was no mistake. |