HUSTON RESIGNS AS NATIONAL G. O. P. CHAIRMAN
HUSTON RESIGNS AS NATIONAL G.O.P. CHAIRMAN Calls Attacks Against Him 'Persecutions'; Bitter Toward Personal Enemies (Special to The Progressive! WASHINGTON, I). C—Characterizing the many attacks...
...Simeon D. Fess of Ohio as his...
...Huston handed in his resignation to a meeting of the Republican executive committee without, comment, he Immediately issued a public statement to the press concerning his action...
...Lucas is a commissioner of internal revenue and Keim is a retired banker...
...The executive immediately accepted Huston's resignation, and appointed Sen...
...Huston declared that his personal inclination was to carry the fight against his attackers through to a finish, but that out of consideration of the welfare of the Republican party and because he did not want, to be sceused of imposing any burdens personal to himself upon it during the coming senatorial and congressional campaign", he had decided to resign...
...he asserted, "I expected to bear philosophically the usual burden of abuse that has come to be recognized as the penalty attaching to high places in American politics...
...C—Characterizing the many attacks against him as "persecutions" and taking a final verbal trust at his opponents, Claudius H. Huston of Tennessee brought to a close his brief but tumultous career as chairman of the national committee of the Republican party by resigning the position last week...
...Huston charged that, almost, from the time he took over the national chairmanship he had suffered abuse and persecution at the hands of others...
...I am conscious of my own integrity, and I have never been accustomed to give ground under fire," Mr...
...Huston contended...
...successor to the national chairmanship...
...Huston stated, he had been made to bear the brunt of it...
...In his statement, Mr...
...Although Mr...
...When I became chairman...
...In his statement to the press...
...Almost immediately a persistent campaign of persecution was instituted for the purpose of injuring my effectiveness.'' Although this attack was made generally against the Republican party and the Hoover administration...
...In addition, the committee named a new slate of officers to the national committee, including Robert...
...He claimed that the results of the Senate lobby investigation proved that he was guilty of no wrongdoing...
...Lucas of Kentucky as executive director to take charge of fall campaigns, and George D. Keim of New Jersey as secretary...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 37
