It has been the usual practice in the past to elect as temporary chairman one of the Congressmen, partly on the theory that as a member of Congress, he is familiar with the wider problems of the party, and better able to sound the keynote speech in the case of Mr. Saunders, it was pointed out last night, some embarrassment might arise with reference to the important preparedness question, which promises to be the big issue in the presidential campaign.

As late as last January, Mr. Saunders was taken to task for his apparent lack of sympathy with the administration's full preparedness program. Pertinent requests for a statement of his views on this question were addressed to him by Dr. S. T. A. Kent, of Halifax, a member of the House of Delegates, and himself at one time mentioned as a possible rival for the seat now held by Mr. Saunders. The correspondence, however, failed to disclose marked differences between the preparedness ideas of the administration and Mr. Saunders, and little more was heard of the charge that he was lacking in loyalty on this point.

Any keynote speech that Mr. Saunders might make, it is assumed, would express the prevailing sentiment of the administration on all questions of national interest.

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