The Washington herald., 1913-12-17

While Alyah II. Martin, member OF tne
Republican committee from virginia. y
counted from the South he has big busi-
ness interests In the North. with affilia-
tons in New York that keep him IN
touch with Northern affairs more than IA
usual with Southern Republicans. In the
old days the committee representation
from the South was chiefly. made Up OF
oniceholders or candidates for once VINO
thought only Of what they would get
from q Republican administration with
out giving anything In return. In more
recent years men OF Affairs ike Aarun,
OF Virginia, and Saunders, OF Tennessee.
have taken place In the party orsaniza-
ton and did much to elevate the stan
dard Of national committee membership
from the South. Besides, the Hon. Alvah
n. can point with pride to the fact that
MS State has been sending one Republi-
can member Of Congress for several
years, which is more than any Southern
State except Tennessee can exhibit.
Campbell Bascom slemp is the one Re-
publican CONGRESSMAN for Virginia, and
his father served several terms before
him, the son promising to keep the dis
trict Republican q long, long time. Slemp
is no less active for the party than his
friend Martin. and every national cam
paign finds him as active as II his State
could furnish electoral votes for the Re
publican nominee.
Hon. F. A. Estabrook. the calm. un-
ruined citizen OF New Hampshire, who
represents the Granite State on the Re-
publican National Committee, has had to
explain the slump in his State to his fel.
low-members who never expected New
Hampshire to break from the Republican
column. Estabrook Is moved almost to
tears when he admits the awful defeat
OF last year which sent a Democratic
Senator and two Democrats to the House
for the first time in New Hampshire's
history. Other members Of Congress
never dreamed that Cy sulloway or
Frank Currier could be beaten, yet they
went down, thanks to the progressive
detection and the general confusion Of
things. Even SO the hopeful Estabrook
insists that another year will see a return
TO the true faith. with both Sulloway and
Currier coming back. ell the better for
little rest, and rejoiced to ind more Re-
publicans doing business in the House
than when they left last March. There
Is lament, of course. that Hollis. the
Democratic Senator, has over five years
to go before he can be succeeded by a
Republican, but the Gallinger campaign
for a NTH Senatorial term. ending in
1874. will put the State in shape for con-
tinued Republican Control throughout a
generation.
A striking group of representative
younger Republicans from West vir-
ginia attracted unusual attention In the
Willard way last night not so much for
all they have done as for what they
promise in the future. The coming to-
Eether was accidental and there was no
suggestion OF a conference. but any one
familiar with West Virginia politics
could not help remarkIng that the Re-
publican party organization and welfare
In the State for twenty years to come
will be in the hands OF these young men
who are even now very much in con-
troll OF things
There was Virgil Highland, Of Clarks-
burg. big enough to decline a high Of
fetal station but no less active in party
affairs for the good OF others. Then
there was ]. S. I1akin, late chairman OF
the State committee and now holding
cflce under DR.. Hatfield, the young gov
ernor OF the Commonwealth. Col Sperry,
of Clarksburg. who wants no ONCE him
self but is eager to keep the party In
power, was in the group much more in
rlined to ask for information than to
advise.
Congressman-at-Iarge Howard Suther-
and who with one Democratic Sena-
tor from the State is looked upon as