The Colorado statesman., 1921-07-02
PARTIES PREPARE
FOR NEXT FIGHT
NATIONAL COMMITTEES START
WORK FOR CONGRESSIONAL
ELECTIONS OF 1922.
J. T. ADAMS, G. o. P. LEADER
He and George White, Who Is the
Democratic Chief, Have More Re.
sponsibility Than the charmen Had
in Former Years.
BY EDWARD. 3. CLARK.

bJ EDWAhO7 o. SLAhN.
Washington.-Th members of the
Republican national committee have
met in Washington and have elected
a new leader, who formerly was the
vice chairman of the committee, John
T. Adams of Iowa. Several Of the mem
bers of the Democratic national com
mittee were In Washington during the
meeting of the rival brotherhood. The
Democrats have for their committee
near new" leader In George white,
who has been In office less than year.
The first prize to be won Is that of
the congressional elections one year
from next November. The two sets
of contestants promise to press for
ward in the race. In one way things
favor the Democratic entrants, because
they can lose and yet win. No poll
tician or any party here believes that
the Republican ma jority In the Sixty
eighth congress will be as big as the
Republican majority in the SiNty-ser-
enth congress, now doing business ut
the old stand on Capitol hill.
John T. Adams probably has no il
lusions or delusions. He knows well
enough that If there is IA decreased Re
publican majority as IL result of the
elections seventeen months hence, the
unthinking will say the new chairman
has not made good. when as matter
of fact he may have made everlasting
ly good. If Adams succeeds, with
the aid of the congressional campaign
committee of his party, in preventing
the cutting of the Republican, majori-
ty by more than one-half, he will have
won u big victory. Things We're alb
normM politically last fall.
More Work for the charmen.
The responsibility of national com
mittee chairman, Republican or Dem
Ocratic, has been increased materially
within the past few years. He is
held accountable now to great eX-
tent almost To the fullest extent. for
victory or defeat in the congression-
al elections. Some years ago. in the
Republican party certainly, the con-
gressional committee largely had to
conduct tie campaigns for the cleo
tion of representatives, ana was com
PEELED to take the blame for defeat
if it came.
Now the congressional committees
and the so-called senatorial commit
tees of both parties which are charged
with the work of electing senator's
work with and really under the direc-
ton of the chairinen of the national
committees. although perhaps the di-
rect leadership of the greater chair
men Is not openly acknowledged. so
far MS one can determine. the con
gressiOnal committees in the last CAM
paign barely turned hand in the
work of the election of members of
the house. The senatorial committees
did work. In truth all the campaign
labors so far as the Republican party
was concerned, and largely in the case
of the Democratic party also, wera
cOalesced, and the labOrers were di-
rected from national committee head
quarters to go forth into the fields.
The members of the Democratic ma
tional committee have been watching
the meeting of the Republican nation
al committee, and are taking note Of
its outcomes. George White has new
ideas and some new men.
Democrats Publicity Chief.
For instance, there is now II new
chief of publicity, information and
propaganda in the person of Richard
Linthicum, whom many western news
paper men will remember well. He
was for years connected in both ex-
ecutiye and writing capacities with
tie Chicago Journal, the Chicago
Chronicle and the Chicago Times-Her-
aid He is II seasoned newspaper man,
IA Democrat with his heart in his De-
mocracy, and he knows how to work.
Linthicum in recent years was con-
nerted with the New York World.
Kellogg Urges Yorktown Park.
Senator Frank Is. Kellogg of Min
nesota has introduced bill in
congress for an appropriation of
100000 with which To purchase and
to m9,ntIin as national military park
the si:o of the battlefield of Yorktown,
Va, tie scene of the surrender of Gen
eral CORVALLIS to General Washing
ton, IL surrender that virtually ended
the struggle of the American colonies
for their independence.
On the introduction of the bill Sen
ator Kellogg said that there are SIX
or seven government reservations COM
memornting the battlefeldS of the CIV
II war, bur that there is only one such
reservation marked by battle of the
Revolutionary war-that ut Guilford
Court House, n. G.
Where the York river joins issues
with Chesapeake bay lies Yorktown.
You can reach the place where Wash
ington overcame CORVALLIS by wa
ter journey that takes little more
than an hour. The trip and the inter
est that lies at its end pay compound
percentages on the time invested.
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