State to work the State organization up, and to start the machinery for the election of delegates to the St. Louis Caucus, for it had been decided that the representation in St. Louis must be by duly elected representatives from congressional districts in so far as that was possible.  Each such district was awarded double its congressional representation, in addition to the delegates at large.  It was no easy task to pick these committeemen.  The decision of the Paris gathering that the organization must be non-partisan and non-political had to be adhered to in its fullest sense.  There were soldiers and sailors enough in all the States who would have been willing to have started the organization in their respective localities, but how not to get politicians of the lower order, men who would gladly prostitute the Legion, its aims and ambitions to their own selfish advantage—­that was the problem which faced the temporary committee in America.

About three weeks before the St. Louis Caucus the following names were chosen from the various States as committeemen: 

OFFICERS
  Lt.  Col.  Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., New York, Chairman
  Lt.  Col.  Bennett Clark, Missouri, Vice-Chairman
  Lt.  Col.  Eric Fisher Wood, Pennsylvania, Secretary.

ALABAMA
  Lt.  H.M.  Badham, Jr., Birmingham
  Pvt.  W.M.  Cosby, Jr., Birmingham
  Sgt.  Edwin Robertson, Birmingham

ARIZONA
  Pvt.  Ned Bernard, Tucson
  Lt.  Col.  J.C.  Greenway, Bisbee

ARKANSAS
  Pvt.  P.R.  Graybill, Democ.  Pub.  Co.  Little Rock
  Major J.J.  Harrison, Little Rock
  Pvt.  Walter J. Wilkins, Pine Bluff

CALIFORNIA
  Sgt.  L.P.  Adams, San Francisco
  Corp.  Chas. A. Beck, San Francisco
  Lt.  Col.  Benjamin H. Dibblee, San Francisco
  Chaplain Joseph D. McQuade, San Francisco
  Major Stewart Edward White, Santa Barbara

COLORADO
  Lt.  G.W.  Cutting, Florence
  Sgt.  C.C.  Neil, Greeley
  Major H.A.  Saidy, Colorado Springs
  Sgt.  Phil.  G. Thompson, Denver

CONNECTICUT
  Maj.  Morgan G. Bulkeley, Hartford
  Lt.  Col.  Jas. L. Howard, Hartford

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
  Pvt.  L. Clarkson Hines, Washington
  Col.  E. Lester Jones, Washington

DELAWARE
  Major Thomas W. Miller, Wilmington
  Capt.  John P. Nields, Wilmington

FLORIDA Brig Gen A.H.  Blanding, Bartow

GEORGIA
  Col.  Alexander R. Lawton, Jr., Savannah
  Capt.  Landon Thomas, Augusta

IDAHO
  Major C.M.  Booth, Pocatello
  Pvt.  John Green, Twin Falls
  Major Hawley, Jr., Boise
  Pvt.  D.H.  Holt, Caldwell