The evening world., 1920-08-03
GRAY WOLF BAND
HOWLS IN VAIN AT
COX HEADQUARTERS
Hungry for Jobs With Real
"Emoluments," Find White
Has Full Staff.

The front half OF the eleventh floor
Of the Grand Central Palace, running
a whole block on Lexington Avenue.
went into action to-day as the Cam
psign Headquarters of the National
Democratic Committee. The action
began with a preliminary firing prac-
tice.
Chairman George White and the
other genial but calm common-sense
gentlemen of the committee began "A
general slaughter OF the fatuous
hopes II persons who cannot make
living any other way and look toward
a National Presidential campaign as
the one chance in four years when
they can attach themselves to some
body in the hope of struggling
Through until another Presidential
campaign. The preliminary firing
practice was the casting forth of the
Gray Wolves. The Gray Wolves are
the gentry who stand around and
howl TO the general effect that the
party" Is lost II the Gray Wolf whose
moment II is to howl is not taken
care or at once. They kept coming
over from Republican Hcaduuarters
In West 44th Street all day in spite OF
the best efforts OF the minions Of the
Republican National Committee 10
persuade them there was "a chance
Tor every good man yet" Many OF
ohem went back again, disconsolate.
to perch on the Harding doorstep'
Some went back TO real work-pain-
ful as that course is to the thorough
bred of the Gray Wolf species.
Chairman George White OF tho
Democratic National Committee in
no fnncier Of the Gray Wolf pack.
On his retlrn from Washington yes
terday he walked through the corri.
dor OF the offices between 46th and 47th
Streets on the eleventh floor OF the
Grand Central Palace building. The
rail- which divides the inner offices
from the outer world was lined with
'etn. Some of them whined. Others
groWied. There were some who XII
r yied and yet others who merely
woof-woofed hopefully.
What they did not know and what
Chairman White did know, was tlat
he already had the executives Of an
entirely satisfactory business staff Sc
lected to work under him at the 500
desks which are or will be placed in
the Grand Central Palace and the
Murray Hill Hotel.
Next to the National Chairman is
Patrick Harrison, Chairman of the
Speakers Bureau, and Mrs George
Bass, WHO has charge OF the special
lied interests OF women voters, and
Wilbur Marsh, Treasurer. and w. II.
Hollister, Executive Secretary, and
Hans Rleg, Director of the Bureau OF
Naturalized Voters, and w. j. Coch-
ran, the Director OF Publicity.
Just at present Cochran and his
Immediate lieutenants, Wells Hawkes.
and Sloane Gordon, and half dozen
others have been ;nobiliZed as a
Gray Wolf Defense Squadron. Sup
posed TO know all the Gray Wolves
IN the United States, because of
their newspaper experience. they
have a suite OF offices at the end OF
the alley, which opens or. balcony
overlooking by eleven stories the
46th Street improvements of the
Grand Central Station. All they have
to do when n thoroughly discredited
self-recommended candidate reaches
their end Of the corridor is TO heave
him to the riveting machines below
Within a day or two the four or
flve hundred men and women who
have for some time since been as
signed TO desks in the Grand Central
Palace and the twenty Ave or more
rooms engaged In the Murray Hin
Hotel will be in their chairs and
az they used to say in that dear old
Army. characterization
As one parades down from the
north end OF the headquarters seek
ing the office into which the i'm
portance of his business will admit
him. he will come first to the suite
occupied by Chairman White him
self, with his assistants and his hold
ep-off- a-minute men and his hand
shakers and slzers-up.
Within day or two, when the rush
Of no 1r,v
are new jobs in the world now is the
time TO grab 'em OF. the Democratic
National Headquarters will be a
mighty effective smooth working or
ganization. Mr.. White, wishing he
had as much money as some of the
members OF the opposition wickedly
and untruthfully deny they have
themselves. win have machinery at
work comparable 70 that Of almost
any great commercial corporation.
Under Mr.. Cochran he will have
printing offices In q score OF cities
supplied with copy" by leased tele-
graph wire and mail 10 be distributed
AZ minimum cost from advantageous
centres. He viii have talking sales
men, or spellbinders, working from
every State capital and railroad cen
tire into every village and crossroads
telling just where James NJ. Cox
just everywhere nobody has fodnd
Warren G.. Harding standing
Franklin ID. Roosevelt, candidate
for Vice President, was in and about
1he headquarters yesterday. He took
a look at the Gray Wolves and
Brinned. He has been long enough
ia politics 10 know what becomes OF
thsm--they go back TO living by their
slim wits and wondering why Il Is
that There's no liberality in poll
tics any more" Then he glanced
over the complication Of duties and
activities. including those OF Riggs
bureau. which superintends the send
ing out OF educational articles suited
10 the inherited habits OF thought OF
f0rty-three different nationallties OF
the American melting pot and said
I he GUESSED he was glad he was merely
q candidate and a resignlng Assistant
Secretary OF the Navy and not q