New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-12-24

seems like the twlnkling of an eye.
The Washington headquarters Of the
two great parties are open today. and
The labOrers are at their desks.
The senatorial committee Of in
v~estigatiOn into the expenditure of
campaign funds stirred up consider
abse commOtiOn and the stirring
process brought to the top of the pot
a good many facts that were attest
ed as such by the leaders OF both
party organizations who were sum-
moned to testify under oath. The
lessons of the last four years have
taught the two organizations a good
many things, and the word is that
both will profit thereby.
Hard and fast organization coupled
with hard and fast work helped to
the Republican party. There is not a
Democratic leader in Washington
who does not admit this. 1t may be
that victory would have come to the
Republicans because of the supposed
desire for change In the American ad-
ministratiOn oil the part of the people,
but facts cannot be blinked. II IN
q~uestionably Is true that cohesive
ness of plans and what may be called
firmness of organization helped to in
crease the size Of the Republican vic
tory If II was not responsible entire
ly for the victory itself. The Demo-
cratic leaders have resolved, so far
as organization and work are IN
cerned, that they will not be OutdOne
during the next four years by the Re
publicans.
White and Hays on the Job.
The Democrats have re-established
their Washington headquarters In the
Woodward building, with Chairman
George White, who has just returned
from a hunting trip, in charge. The
Republicans. who moved their head
quarters some time ago from the
building In which they were %neighbors
to the Democrats to a Pennsylvania
avenue structure, already have put
the last campaign, except for Its les
sons, behind them and are engaged
OF the problems of the future. Wheth-
er or not George White and VIII ii.
Hays, chairmen respectively Of the
Democratic and the Republican COM
mittees, will remain as chairmen Is
for the future TO disclose. but at the
present time they are working and are
diraottp0 fhafr GENERALIZATION In tho
work as II there were no chance that
either Is to retire.
1t takes money to run campaigns
and keep organizations alive In the
interim between the actual contests.
The Republicans had a budget Of
something over 100000 for the ex-
penses OF the last campaign. They
not only kept subscriptions within the
budget but they are some hundreds
Of thousands of dollars in debt today.
The Democratic organization did not
get down to worf in the last cam
Republicans had perfected their Or
ganizatiOn, and this fact has been 70
borne into the consciousness OF the
Democratic leaders that the declara-
tion today Is that nothing of the kind
shall happen again.
Democratic Plan Didn't Work.
II developed during the investlga-
tion by the senatorial committee that
prior to the actual opening Of the
presidential campaign OF 1920 the
nnpnAoratS bod nyalvnl a nnuJ cahapnn
for raising money, or perhaps rather
had revived an old scheme. II did
not work and the lesson that was
learned was rather n costly one.
The attempt by the Democrats was
to raise money by personal appeals
to individuals by means of letters.
Everybody knows what generally hap
pens to n letter which comes to a
man asking for money. There Is no
n present TO back up personally the
appeal which the letter makes. and
therefore the recipient generally puts
II to n side TO act upon at a later
date, or peradventure drops II into the
waste basket. What might be called
with peculiar emphasis the personal
touch" seems TO be necessary when
money Is needed for any specific OBJ
ject.
The work In the headquarters OF
the national committees during the
years between actual campaignings IL
interesting. II Is then that the am
munition is stored up for the post
convention battle. Every speech
that is made by any Republican or
Democrat of note Is clipped from the
newspapers or from the Congressional
Record and stored away. Party lead
ers. In congress and out. frequently
say things three years before the
campaign opens that they would not
say while the campaign is on. Dur
ing the campaigns some Of these gen
tlemen frequently deplore the fact
that they have opened their mouths
on certain subjects.