The Washington herald., 1920-11-06
COP. LEADER
LEASES SUITE
Senator Penrose Engages
Quarters at Wardman Park
Inn; Other Notes.

wardman Park Inn, on the out
skirts OF Rock Creek Park, will be
G. o. p. headquarters during the
Harding administration, for Senator
Doies Penrose, OF Pennsylvania, has
leased the largest and finest suite
PURPOSES. He is expected to arrive
in Washington and taLe possession
of the apartments almost any DAY
now. Political histery al epoch
making magnitude, IL is fore
shadowed, will he made within
their four walls. New tariff sched-
ules, among other things, are likely
to be Matched there. Quarters at
the Wardman Park have been at
premium for months. Now that the
hotel is to become the Republican
citadel at the Capital it will be
more of a Mecca than ever. The
proprietor. Harry Wardman, who
came to America a poor boy from
Yorkshire twenty-five years ago, is
himself an ardent Republican.
Speaking of Senator Penrose, 1t
is an open secret in @. o. p. upper
tendon that the keystone State this
year failed for the first time to pro-
vide its customarily generous share
of the campaign sinews of war. That
may be one of the reasons why SEN
ator Harry c. New. in charge of all
, speaking arrangements, did not
sanction the appearance of Senator
Harding on Penn soil. Personally
he was anxious to make an address
in Philadelphia under the auspices
of the Union League. Pennsylvania
Republicans in nearly every cam
paign on record have been liberal
with their check books. The con-
test just ended. for some mex
plicable reason, is said to have found
/ them niggardly by comparison with
other times.
The Duchess" is President-elect
Harding's favorite name for his
wife. He has called her by it for
years, and sometimes he speaks Of
Mrs. Harding in the third person
by that title. People should not
jump to the conclusion that the
new First Lady of the Land is adj
dicted to the naughty manners "r
msnnerismS that might be associ-
ated with her pet name. She is
afability and amiability personificd.
III Mrs, Harding can have her way.
the White House under the now
! regime is likely TO revert to the
9ld-time era of homespun hospital
ity traditionally associated with il.
President -elect Harding recalls
that he did not escape the ''hazirg'
which awaits most new Senators
when he entered the Upper House
in 1915. That is to say, he was as
signed to the Committee on Claims,
one OF the offshoots of the Senate
where real plodding work has TO
be done. Far from drudgery," he
said to the writer at Marion the
other day, Il found claims affairs
full of romance. One of the claims
1 settled was a century old and
was originally filed on behalf of
the author of Home Sweet Home
Representative J. Stanley Webster,
Republican. telegraphed washing
ton friends yesterday that he was
reelected for the Fifth Washington
(Spokane) district by 1900 major
ity. Labor made stiff fight on
Webster because of his activities in
trying to have the anti-strike
amendment afixed to the Esch-
Cummins railroad act, Webster Is
a 43-year-old Kentuckian, who, be-
fore migrhtinF to the Coast. made q
brilliant reputation at the Blue
Grass bar. His successful prosecu-
tion of leading figures in the IA
nous Hargis-Ceckrili feud won him
national renown. Prior to entering
Congress from Spokane in 1916. he
was on the Supreme Court bench OF
Washington. He is completing his
nrst term in the House.
Jouett Shouse. of Kansas. is the
first important member OF the Will
son administration to leave Wash
ington after the election. He re-
signed the Assistant Seeretaryship
OF the Treasury on october y and
IN the interval has been campaign
ing in Kansas, Missouri and Ken
tucky. Shouse returned to the Cap
itai yesterday. to close up persona