Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-07

up and down stairs two or three steps at
q leap in an endeavor to cinch the one
vote needed TO save the country from the
saucy democrats. But you could hardly
imagine Mr.. Dwight putting on such
stunts He can move pretty rapidly when
he so wills, but he prefers not to break
speed records.
They have a side title for Mr.. Dwight
that describes him. They call him The
Whop," ''Whop'' being a good-natured
contraction of ''whopper,' and is intended
as bouquet TO him as big man. bodily,
Intellectually and in all ways that the
term big is used in a complimentary
sense.
Dwight Not an Orator.
Mr.. Dwight is primarily a business man.
projected into politics against his own
will. He had a long training in success
full business before he came to Washing
ton to serve the district his father repre-
sented years ago. Mr.. Dwight is not an
orator. He never burdens the pages of
the Congressional Record. either with or
without leave to print. His only public
utterances have been in home conven-
tons. where his businesslike statements
often have proved embarrassing to insur-
gents in the southern New York hill re-
gions. Neither does Mr. Dwight intro
duce great numbers of bills, although he
has always found time to take coed care
of the pensioners of his district Also to
see TO il that when measures like the
tariff and public building bills are up
his district does not suffer
Mr.. Dwight came to the post Of whip
at trying time for his party. Speaker
Reed, with only seven majority only
used one doorkeeper for a whip, and
was able to keep his slender margin in
tact. But in Reeds time party loyalty
was ironclad Mr.. Reed had only to call
an erring republican into his Office and
threaten him with the editorial wrath of
the newspapers of that members home
district, to convince him that he would
better remain in Washington and vote
with his party. Even a hint that a re-
publican was flirting with the democrats
meant defeat But in this Congress an
other slant was given party opinion.
Many members found that the more they
insurged the better their home people
and CORY headlines was the way of in
surrection- A fine apparent ma jority be-
came real minority at times.
Predicted Majority for Tariff.
With a dose of bitters like that brew
ing for an organization tonic" no Won
der the administration leaders feared for
the result when the tariff bill came to a
vote.
How many majority will we have on
the final vote on the tariff in the House?'
high administration official asked Mr..
Dwight
Five said Mr.. Dwight
If it's only five, how do you know"
asked the official.
We'll. / know" replied Mr. Dwight
who believes in conserving the parts of
speech.
Five was the final majority. The new
whip had made good. And he has con-
tinued to make good. He knows at all
times just how the House will break"
on any proposition. He was able to as
sure President Taft that the TAFT pro-
gram would go through the House ex-
cept for the injunction and ship subsidy
bills. Many House members doubted
this. but Mr.. Dwight knew.
II Is not possible, nor would it be de-
sirable, from the whips standpoint, to
tell all about the methods used to keep
in touch with House sentiment. To do
that would be to give into the hands of
the opposition information it would
value highly. But in general way the
workings of the whips office may be ex-
planned.
Methods of the Whips.
Mr.. Dwight regards the whips office
rs a business proposition. He has been
asked by the majority to administer the
affairs of that Office. So he organized
the work on business lines. First, he
relied greatly upon the tact energy and
ability OF twenty-five assistant whips
each of whom kept him in touch daily
with certain number of members Mr.
Dwight had in his Office a tally board
containing the names of each republican
every name on white colored slip,
according as the member is present or
absent II absent, the colOred slip bear
ing his name gave the name of the demo-
crat with whom he was paired, if paired
the length of time he would be away
and the missing members address while
absent. Mr.. Dwight also kept In his
ONCE digest OF all legislation pending
before the House This digest was al
the service of members of the majority
and also has been used to a consdera BILE
extent by members of the minority, who
were always treated by Mr.. Dwight with
all the courtesy the exigencies of his
position will permit.
By means OF this tabulated information
IN regard TO members and their bills
plus his own aptitude for mastering de-
tail, Mr.. Dwight was in a position to
know where the House was at on
all propositions.
But the rules fight" one may say.
surely he did not know them"
Dwight's knowledge of Conditions.
Mr.. Dwight did know then. and tried
his best 10 prevent the issue from shap-
ing itself in the manner 1t did Had his
advice been followed the House leaders
would not have gone into that fight, at
least at that time. his friends say
Newspaper folk who were in touch
with the situation in the House and SEN
ate last winter know that there came a
time, following the by-elections and the
mounting of the highest crest of the
wave OF insurrection, when organization
leaders in the upper and lower chamber
lost heart. Senators Aldrich and Crane,
the administration chiefs, and even
Speaker Cannon felt that the session
might end in a welter Of iBdecision and
defeat for the entire administration leg
islative program. This because IL seemed
possible that the insurgents, by alliance
with the democrats, would assume full
shared these fears, but did not give them