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Mills, James W. Wadsworth and a handful of their political associates have in effect had control. They appeared every two years at conventions and elections and ran the works. After the regular defeat they disappeared and the party went to sleep again for two years.

The outcome of the session at the Republican club on Thursday will determine in large measure the position of the New York State delegation in the next national convention. And if the Eaton plan goes through it may deal a death blow to the presidential aspirations of both Ogden mills and Mr. Wadsworth.

Mr. Mills is known to be looking for the nomination. Mr. Wadsworth refused the demand of his party to run for Governor last autumn, fearing that defeat would end his presidential chances, as it probably would have.

Unless he can control a majority of his State delegation a candidate for President cannot make much progress in a national convention. With the new liberal faction in control it is regarded as fixed even at this early date that neither Mr. Mills nor Mr. Wadsworth can hope for the backing of New York.

Helped to Oust Macy.

Mr. Mills is regarded as reactionary and identified too closely with the Hoover group. Mr. Wadsworth led the fight for Fred Hammond as clerk of the State Assembly, and w one of the prime movers in the struggle to oust Kingsland Macy. The Macy faction will join up with the Eaton liberalizers to oust the Old Guard this week.

Mr. Eaton was picked by the Old Guard after the battle had been won in the State convention, but following the disastrous defeat of Robert Moses for Governor the [[cut text]]

AFRICA STILL WORKS A SPELL
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Much of Mystery Lingers Despite Explorers.
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NATIVES A BAFFLING LOT
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Father Gannon, Back From Nigeria, Tells of Them.
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Men have died from time to time in their attempts to brush back the curtain from the mystery of Africa. Their efforts have been rewarded, in a measure, for now, every river has been navigated and every mountain named after its discoverer, but still there is an undeniable aura of the secret and romantic about it all.

The Rev. William J. Gannon, a missionary priest, who spent four years in the jungles of Nigeria in northern Africa, is now for the first time in this country, visiting his sister, Mrs. Peirce H. Power at 5102 Forty-fourth street. He brings with him a fascinating tale of the land and people with whom he came in contact.

"Medical science has done much for men in this hot, unpleasant climate," said Father Gannon, "but still malaria, blackwater and yellow fever are prevalent. Until recent years they worked havoc with white men, cutting their lives there to an average of three years."

There is, however, a lure about the wildness of Africa with its beautiful palm trees and spreading pawpaws. Even the animals, which at first tend to make one uneasy, soon fit into one's mind as an integral part of this compelling land, the missionary reminisced.

In a curious setting the natives are scattered, probably the strangest thing on the whole continent. Primitive, superstitious, they live their lives from season to season in a state of happy subservience, to the gods that they worship with witchcraft and human sacrifice. Among aboriginies, Father Gannon said, men are the superior form of humanity, while women are subject to masculine whims. Marriage is a joke. Today a man may have seven wives, and within  a year he may be a bachelor.

"There are in Nigeria approximately 34,000,000 people," Father Gannon said, "and it is only since the establishment of the British protectorate in 1900 that much