Wilson Plans To Run A Business Campaign.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 15, 1912:
His Committee to be a Board of Directors Striving for Good Results Through Efficiency.
BOSSES ARE TO BE RETIRED
McCombs, Daniels, McAdoo, Morgenthau, Davies, and O'Gorman Will Be Among Advisers.
Special to The New York Times.
    SEA GIRT. N. J., July 14.— Interest has been for the moment transferred from political pilgrims to the Little White House to the six men who are speeding to Chicago, "loaded and locked," as Gov. Wilson expressed it, with the Wilson plan for conducting the Democratic National campaign. These six leaders will appear at the meeting of the Democratic National Committee when it convenes at noon tomorrow in the Congress Hotel. One of them, Robert S. Hudspeth, National Committeeman from New Jersey, will make a motion, and thus will broach to the National Committee the first item in the Wilson programme.
    Committeeman Hudspeth's motion will be that the National Committee proceed to the business of electing a Chairman, and that Col, William F. McCombs, manager of Gov. Wilson's pre-convention campaign, be elected by acclamation. National Committeeman Josephus Daniels of North Carolina, one of Gov. Wilson's closest political and personal friends, will second Committeeman Hudspeth's motion.
    The Wilson plan will then be fairly launched before the committee and unless opposition develops that so far has not shown upon the surface the programme will establish itself practically by unanimous consent.
    The meaning of the motion if it carries will be that the day of the old political bosses in Democratic politics will come to a definite and yet wholly peaceful end. McCombs, a young man in every particular, and especially a young man in politics, will begin immediately to call about him the young men who have been his aids and allies since the Wilson propaganda began to make itself felt. Old leaders, famous bosses, and powerful men behind the throne who operated through the old leaders, will find themselves suddenly out of contact and out of touch. Norman E. Mack will pass as National Chairman, and with him will go the dominating influence of the New York State boss over Democratic politics.
    In his pocket National Committeeman Hudspeth carries to Chicago a long memorandum prepared by Gov. Wilson. It is addressed to Hudspeth to serve for his own guidance and is not to be laid formally before the National Committee. Besides preparing this memorandum covering his views, Gov. Wilson held conferences almost daily for a week with the man who carries his message to Chicago and with the five other leaders who accompany Committeeman Hudspeth for the purpose of assisting to interpret Gov. Wilson's message and to reinforce its conclusions upon the National Committeemen.

Business Methods in Campaign.
    Those in the party are State Chairman Edward E. Grosscup of New Jersey, who has spent most of his time at Sea Girt since Gov. Wilson was nominated; Col. W. F. McCombs, who is making the trip in order to take immediate charge of the National Committee after his selection for the place by Gov. Wilson has been ratified; National Committeeman Hudspeth, who was chosen to be Gov. Wilson's spokesman because he is an intimate personal friend, as well as on account of his official position as the National Committeeman from Gov. Wilson's home State; National Committeeman Josephus Daniels, the North Carolina editor, who has been at Sea Girt constantly since the nomination; Col. Robert Ewing, National Committeeman from Louisiana, and Thomas J. Pence, formerly Washington correspondent for the paper owned by Josephus Daniels in North Carolina and more recently manager of the Wilson campaign headquarters in Washington.
    Mr. Pence, it is practically certain, will emerge from the meeting of the National Committee with the post of publicity manager for the campaign. He will work directly under a Campaign Committee which Mr. McCoombs will name, to be composed almost exclusively of National Committeemen known to be friendly to Gov. Wilson's cause.
    In this campaign committee will centre the authority of the National Committee for the campaign.  Mr. McCombs will be permitted, as its Chairman, to exercise a free hand only so far as he may be backed up by a majority of the committee. His own vote will be on an exact par with that of the votes of all other members of the committee, and his executive policies will be only such as he may be directed to undertake.
    In the plan of organization an entirely new influence will control. This will be an influence of the sort that controls large corporations, but not in any way the harmful influence of corporations. Gov. Wilson has taken note of the effective way big corporations organize their workers to obtain efficiency and economy in management and direct action upon any given problem. He has taken note also, of the vast wastefulness of the old methods of political organization and of the antiquated manner in which they meet the modern campaign problem, and he has decided to replace these old methods with the business methods of the up-to-date corporation.

McAdoo and Morgenthau Advisers.
    At Gov. Wilson's elbow to advise him about the way corporations get things done for corporations has been William G. McAdoo. builder of the Hudson tubes. While no official confirmation can be obtained of the fact, it is entirely probable that Mr. McAdoo suggested the plan of organization which National Committeeman Hudspeth carries with him to Chicago, and which calls for the creation of a campaign organization such as any visitor to the office of a successful business concern might expect to encounter there.
    Immediately behind the executive officer, Mr. McCombs, will stand the campaign committee. But it will not be like any previous campaign committee. It does not divide authority with the National Committee, as was done in the Parker campaign, and there will be no chance for a conflict with the Finance or any subordinate committees. The head of the Finance Committee and the head of the Publicity Committee, as well as the head of the National Committee, will all come together on equal terms as members of the Campaign Committee. And all will be under the field generalship of a single individual.
    When those close to Gov. Wilson learned of the general plan of organization and the devices to be employed to insure efficiency, they became curious to know what names had been talked over for places of trust and responsibility. They learned that the names chiefly mentioned were those of the men who have been present in Sea Girt since the nomination.
    William G. McAdoo heads the list, and it is taken for granted here that he will be chief adviser to Col. McCombs on campaign matters, while Henry Morgenthau, will be chief adviser on finances. Some who Know Mr. McAdoo and are acquainted with the close relationship existing between him and Col. McCombs insist that he will be the real director of the campaign, and that McCombs will reduce to action the general plans of the man who invented and applied the corporation policy of "The public be pleased." The place said to be selected for Mr. McAdoo to fill is that of Vice Chairman of the Campaign Committee.
    On the committee will be, unless present plans are altered, members representing chiefly Eastern and Southern States. In this geographical distribution the trend of the telegrams of congratulation to Gov. Wilson is oddly enough almost duplicated. The telegrams were most bulky from the South, only a little less so from Eastern States, while from the Far West there was a meagre showing. The furthest West of any city represented on the proposed Campaign Committee is Milwaukee.

New York to Be "Tactical" Headquarters.
    Several friends of Gov. Wilson who already have commented upon the meagre showing of the Wilson contact with the Far West declared that they thought it a mistake to leave the intermountain and Pacific Slope country out of the campaign councils. They were assured that the plan decided upon was adopted in order that there might be constant and close contact between members of the committee, and not with any idea of shutting out a large section of the country from participation.
    The same meagreness of contact with the Far West is shown in the naming of the cities where Wilson headquarters are to be established. The plan now calls for a central "tactical" office in New York, with a branch in Chicago, and only one other office for States further West, the exact position of the second branch headquarters to be left for further consideration.
    Next to William G.. McAdoo the man who will be chiefly depended upon for advice and counsel to the Campaign Committee will be Senator James A. O'Gorman of New York. Senator O'Gorman held a long personal conference with Gov. Wilson at Sea Girt, and his son-in-law, Dudley Field Malone, has been here several times.
    Prominent Democratic leaders who are reported to have been placed upon the provisional list of the Campaign Committee are Robert S. Hudspeth of New Jersey, Josephus F. Daniels of North Carolina, Joseph E. Davis of Wisconsin, who may be Secretary of the National Committee; Senator O'Gorman of New York, Senator Gore of Oklahoma, A. Mitchell Palmer, the young leader from Pennsylvania; Willard Saulsbury of Delaware, William G. McAdoo, Col. W. F. McCombs, and Congressman Albert Burleson of Texas. Besides these leaders, who are equal in number to the number of places on the committee, names discussed for appointment to committee places include Robert Henry and Cato Sells of Texas and Senator Obadiah Gardner of Maine. It was pointed out here that practically none of the names mentioned are those of old-time politicians or of men, of machine affiliations."
    Joseph B. Davies of Wisconsin, who is the probable favorite for the secretaryship of the National Committee, and also of the Campaign Committee, has been induced to become a candidate for the place at a distinct personal sacrifice. Davies aspired to become Governor of Wisconsin. His campaign already had been started and his friends were in the field in his behalf. When he was told that it was Gov. Wilson's wish that he enter the National campaign he demurred, declaring that he had his own plans perfected for his career in Wisconsin. Finally he was induced to forsake his own programme in order to help along where he was assured he was much needed.
    To Chicago National Committeeman Hudspeth carries no specific instructions as to the organization of the Finance Committee. Henry Morgenthau was named as its possible Chairman, but the details were left for the consideration of the Campaign Committee.
    It is practically certain that Gov. Wilson will have another conference at Sea Girt next Wednesday, or as soon as the Chicago meeting of the National Committee is over, at which there will be present many of the National Committeemen who came here after the convention at Baltimore adjourned. Those expected include all members of the proposed Campaign Committee and such members of the National Committee as may feel a disposition to come. The Campaign Committee will be organized here and will take up the details of its work directly with Gov. Wilson in person. In the conference here it is expected that all questions will be thrashed out that are not completely adjusted at Chicago.
    From the National Committeemen who are not included in the Campaign Committee Gov. Wilson hopes, according to his friends here, to receive valuable services in the form of local campaign work, it being the present programme to make the National Committeeman from each State general manager of his State's campaign.
    From a number of Republican and Democratic editors pledges of support to Gov. Wilson arrived in to-day's mail. Frank Webster of The Denver Post wrote that he was for Gov. Wilson with a large Phi Kappa Psi yell, both Webster and Gov. Wilson being members of the Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity. Arion Archofsky, editor of The Jewish Outlook at Denver; Henry C. Campbell of the Milwaukee Journal, I. H. Giben of The Pittsburgh Post, James W. O'Brien of The Catholic Union, New York; James Morgan of The Boston Globe, and E. A. Grozier Of The Boston Post were among those who wished to be listed in the Wilson column.

Says He Will Carry Massachusetts.
    Editor O'Brien of The Catholic Union wrote a prediction that Wilson would carry New York by 150,000 and the Electoral College by a two-thirds vote. Editor Morgan wrote that he was sure Wilson would bring Massachusetts into the Democratic column on a Presidential year for the first time in nearly a century.
     One young man, known to be a favorite with Gov. Wilson, will not participate in the National campaign. Since the nomination was made a constant question in Sea Girt has been "What place will Tumulty get?" the subject of the interrogation being Joseph P. Tumulty, private secretary to the Governor. Mr. Tumulty has just answered the question by letting his friends know he has accepted a position as clerk of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and will retire as Gov. Wilson's secretary on Nov. 1.
    Gov. Wilson himself was nowhere in evidence to-day. On Saturday evening he pledged his friends to keep the place of his Sabbath retreat a secret, and he then went away in an automobile. He asked that no telephone messages be sent to him over Sunday, and the only item of the day's programme he would announce was that he proposed to sleep until 2 o'clock P.M.