The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-06-30
NATIONAL COMMITTEES START
WORK FOR CONGRESSIONAL
ELECTIONS OF 1929.
J. T. ADAMS, G. 0. P, LEADER
He and George White, Who Is the
Democratic Chief, Have More Re.
sponsbility Than the Charmen Had
in Former Years.
By EDWARD 3. CLARK.

/ Il. 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 OG.ce less than a 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.
tiClan or any party here believes that
the Republican majority in the Sixty
eighth congress will be as big as the
Republican majority in the SiXty-sev-
enJh congress, now doing business at
the old stand on Capitol hill.
John Z. Adams probably has no il
lusiOns or decisions He knows well
enough that If there is a 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 a matter
of fact he may nave 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 MAORI
ty by more than one-half he will have
won a big victory, Things were alb
normal politically last fall.
More Work for the Chairmen.
The responsibility Of a national com
mittee chairman, Republican or Dem
ocratiC, has been increased materially
within the past few years. He is
held accountable now TO a 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-
gressiOnai committee largely had to
conduct the campaigns for the cleo
ton Of representatives, and was COM
PEELED to take the blame for defeat
if it came.
Now the congressional committees
and the so-caled senatorial commit
tees of both parties which are charged
with the work Of electing senator's,
work with and really under the direc-
tion Of the chairmen of the national
committees although perhaps the di-
rect leadership of the greater chair
men is not openly acknowledged. SO
far as one can determine, the con
gressional committees in the last cam
paign barely turned a 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, were
cOalesCed, and the labOrers were d.,
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 a 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
the Chicago Journal, the Chicago
Chronicle and the Chicago Times-Her.
aid He Is a seasoned newspaper man.
a Democrat with his heart In his De.
mocracy, ana he knows how to work
Lnlhlcum IN recent years was con.
neclcd with the New York World.
Kellogg Urges Yorktown Park.
Senator Frank Il. Kellogg of Min
ncsota has introduced bill III
congress for an appropriation OF
100000 with which 10 purchase and
tom0Intain as "a national military park
the site of the battlefield of Yorktown
VA the scene of the surrender of Gen
eral CORVALLIS to General Washing
ton, a surrender that virtually ended
the struggle of the American colonle,
for their independence.
ON the Introduction of the bin Sen
ator Kellogg said that there are siS
or seven government reservations com
memomtng the battlehelds Of the Civ
/ IL war, but that there Is only one sucl
reservation marked by battle of the
Revolutionary war-that nj Guifort
/ Court House, n. G.
Where the York river joins issue,
with Chesapeake bay lies Yorktown
You can reach the place where Wash
/ ingtou oyercame CORVALLIS by IA wa
ter Journey that takes little mor'
than an hour, The trip and the inter
est that lies ut its end pay COMPOUND
percentages on the time invested.
Yorktown has been spoken of a
lettering village. II Is more thai
a bit decreplt with age, but It's year
have been honorable and in this lie
the hope and the belief that the Amer