Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-23
INCREASE TO 1000
c. 0. P. CLUB GOAL
Harding and Coolidge Work
ers Hope to Complete En-
rolIment by Thursday.

One thousand workers for Harding
and Coolidge enrolled in the Harding
and Coolidge Club of the District by
Thursday is the aim of a drive start
ed today by the republican leaders in
the District.
This drive is being directed by Louis
Addison Dent. chairman. and Charles
r. Crane. vice chairman. with sixty
picked workers, making District
wide personal canvas of good repub-
licans" who will take off their coats
and work for the republican tickrt.
The membership drive is one of the
features of the active local campo Ign
under the leadership of Henry VI.
Camp. official organizer in the Ma
tional Capital for the republican ma
tionSl committee.
Other Clubs Being Formed.
Harding and Coolidge clubs are be
ing organized in all parts of the Dis
trict. but the Harding and Coolidge
club of which T. Lincoln Townsend Is
president is the parent organization
The members of this master club will
have charge OF the organization work
and arranging for rallies in all parts
of the District.
Confidence that 900 real workers
will be enrolled by he time his com
mittee meets Thursday afternoon was
expressed today by Mr.. Dent. His
membership drive committee is for the
most part composed of the veterans
of the Hughes Club, which Mr.. Dent
organized in 1916.
Edgar {. snyder Speaker mt Rally.
Edgar c. Snyder, chairman of the
speakers committee of the republic
an elections committee. representing
the League of Republican State Clubs
and the Harding and Coolidge Club,
Will be the principal speaker Thurs
day night at rally under the aus
and Coolidge Club in Dominion
Heights. Va Joseph l.. Crupper of
Alexandria, chairman of the Virginia
state republican committee. also will
address the gathering. Prominent
speakers from the National Capital
have been delegated to address a Sc
ries of rallies arranged by this club
Women's Section Enrolls 400.
More than 400 recently enfranchised
women who are registering in their
home states for exercise of the ballot
this fall have Joined the womens
section of the local republican cam
paign committee. Under the direction
of Mrs. Virginia White Speel drive
for 1000 members is being made. The
women will collect their own cam
paisn fund and conduct a series of
rallies to be addressed by noted wom-
an speakers from all the states. but
they VIII work in the closest coop
Grafton with the Joint elections COM
mittee under the management of
Henry NJ. Camp, the official republican
organizer of the District of Columbia.
Democratic Activities.
John F. Costello. the democratic
national committeeman for the Dis
trict. said today that he expects to
calf meeting of the local state CEN
trail committee some time this week"
at the democratic headquarters in the
Woodward building to lay plans for
an active campaign and to perfect
the campaign organization. a feature
of the democratic drive will be to
form organization of woman voters.
and in view of the ratification of the
federal suffrage amendment it is pro-
posed to elect to the committee wom-
en- to represent each of the twenty
two districts.
Mr. Costello has been in conference
with George White. the new chair
man of the democratic national COM
mittee. who is the Cox-Roosevelt
campaign manager Mr.. Costello says
he has received the approval of the
democratic national committee on
several campaign features that he has
suggested