The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12
REPUBLICANS ARE BETTER ORGANIZED
 THAN DEMOCRATS
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sation here, is typical of the high de- gree of organization which the re- tPuoHcans have built up nationally It extends from the Chicago headquarters 10 every state and to every county in every state where there are any com siderable number of republicans. It IS partly national, partly state and partly local in character having a national ways and means committee, state ways ana means committees, and local repre- sentatives of the latter, and like an army, it has a sort or a general staff with staff officers out in the state and sometimes in the counties The republicans began planning this organ ization right after the election of 1918 and 1t exists in high degree of per lection today, enlisting the services 5f thousands of volunteer workers evcry- where, and interesting a large number of contributors throughout the coun- try in the republican, candidate.
 In all the organizing that has been done this idea of enlistipg the people who usually take no active part in politics has been carried out. The purpose has been to avhid :ne dan gers of centralizatlon by awakening in terest IS widely as possible in party activities. The more people working for the party and giving money to the party the more votes to the party, at least so they think at republican headquarters.
 This same idea of bringing in out siders into active work has been car ried out in the executive committee of the party, where, for the first time, men and women who do not usually give their time to party organization now outnumber the party regulars. TheorItically, these non professionals control tho mt blyi the real power is in the hands of those who have had experi ence and know the game of politics.
 The advisory committee on platform which Chairman Hayes appointed before the national convention was another ex- ample of the extent to which organization has been carried by the republicans, and also of the attracting into party service of men and women who usually do noth- ing but vote and perhaps make campaign contributions. It was a good idea, though it did not work especially well the first time it was tried. Still it probably had the effect of interesting a great many outsiders in party work.
 The democrats have done nothing at all corresponding to what the repub- lieans have done. They present the other extreme. Theoretically their state organ ization is galvanized into activity for na- tional campaigns. As already said they have no effective national machinery for collecting funds, though they will prob ably initiate the republican system four years from now Privately and more or less publicly they have expressed their approval of the republican party plan
 The democratic tendency away from centralzation is unusually strong this year. The emphasis is all on the state or ganizations.
 This may be Gov. Coxs idea He often expressed his belief in the greater impor- tance of the state organization. Litera- ture is being sent out this year by the democratic state committee instead of by the national committee. It is being pre- pared by the national body but distrib- uted locally. This is change from the past practices of the democratic party. Money for the democratic campaign is as usual being largely collected by dem ocratic state and local organizations, in stead of as among the republicans by a single national organization. This has it's disadvantages, since the organization which collects money tends to hang on to it and funds are not always available for distribution where it is most needed In actual campaigns neither party has gone very far. Gov. Cox has made his speeches. And Senator Harding has talked from his front porch.' The repub. licans sent out the first two campaign | speakers. Col. Theodore Roosevelt and Raymond Robbins a few days ago. Lit. erature, although printed some time go is just beginning to be distributed