The spectator., 1921-07-19
By EDWARD B. CLARK.

By EDWARD B. CLARK
 Washington.-The members of the Republican, national committee have met in Washington and have elected 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 poli- ucian 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- 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 Il decreased Re publican majority as result of the elections seventeen months hence, the minimizing 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 ajori- ty by more than one-half, he will have won Dig victory. Things were ab- normal politically last fall.
 More Work for the chairmen.
 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 10 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 the campaigns for the cleo ton of representatives, and was con- pelled 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 senators, 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 as one can determine. the con gressional committees in the last cam paign barely turned d 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 di. rected from national committee head quarters to go forth into the fields.
 The members of the Democratic na- tional committee have been watching the meeting of the Republican nation al committee, and are taking note of it's outcOmes George White has new ideas and some new men.
 Democrats Publicity Chief.
 For instance, there is now new chief of publicity, information and du in, | hA n, Linthicum, whom many western news paper men will remember well. He was for years connected in both ex- ecutive and writing capacities with the Chicago Journal the Chicago Chronicle and the Chicago Times-Her- aid. He is a seasoned newspaper man. Democrat with his heart in his De- nocracy and he knows how to work. Linthicum in recent years was con- nected with the New York World.
 Kellogg Urges Yorktown Park.
 Senator Frank B. Kellogg of Min nesota has introduced bill in congress for an appropriation of S10000O with which to purchase and to maintain as n national military park the site of the battlefield of Yorktown, Va, the scene of the surrender of Gen. eral Cornwallis to General Washing ton, a 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 con- memorating the battlefields of the Civ il war, but that there Is only one such reservation marked by battle of the Revolutionary war-that at Guilford Court House, N. c.
 Where the York river joins issues with Chesapeake bay lies Yorktown. You can reach the place where Wash .ngton overcame Cornwallis by a wa ter journey that takes little more than an hour. The trip and the inter- est that lies at its end pay compound