The Washington herald., 1921-01-22

G. O.P. DEFICIT
IS BEING MET
Republican Chairman Is
Here for Conferences
With Leaders.
FUNDS POURING IN
$4,000 PER DAY
Thompson, Originator of
$1,000 Limit, Off to
See Harding.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
Republican party patriots have
come handsomely to the front in
making up the s1,5O0,OOo deficit
with which the C. o. P. ended up
the triumphant Harding and Cool
idge campaign. That was the
principal thing VIII H. Hays, ma
tional chairman. had to report to
Republican leaders with whom he
was in conference at Washington
yesterday.
Two or three weeks after cleo
tion Hays appealed to the party for
a thank Offering" Up to the end
of 1920 some 100000 Vas sub
scribed. The total today is very
considerably in excess of that
amount. Checks now are coming
in. it is stated at Republican ma
tional headquarters, at an average
rate of $4,000 a day.
On the eve of election, when the
party managers realized they were
going to wind up the campaign
with a heavy deficit the executive
committee was authorized to con-
tract loans and sign notes in the
name of the national organization.
Fred w. Upham, treasurer of the
national committee, and James G.
Blaine, Eastern treasurer, were
designated for that purpose.
Current Obligations Met.
Through the generosity of a num-
Der of well-to-do members of the
party, their operations were
crowned with success. Enough
funds were Immediately made avail
able to square urgent Indebtedness,
and individual subscriptions now
rolling in promise that shortly the
entire debit balance will be wiped
out. -, D..
Col. william Boyce Thompson,
chairman of the ways~snd pieans
committee OF the national commit
tee, was one of President-elect
Harding's last front-porch visitors
at Marion. 1t is Thompson who was
mainly responsible for inducing the
Republican organization to limit
1920 campaign contributions strict
ly to $1,000. Senator Harding thor
Oughly approved of that rule, even
though the rigid enforcement OF it
shut the G. o. P. off from many ira
ditional sources of campaign sinews.
Col. Thompson now is en- route to
Florida. Probably his first objective
in Florida is a conference with Ma
tional Treasurer Upham, now at
Miami.
Hays Sees Many Leaders.
Hays was in incessant conference
with Republican managers. One of
the decisions taken was to hold a
meeting of the national committee
in Washington on the eve OF in
auguration, for filling of vacancies
and mapping out of fresh plans of
campaign.
Hays was in protracted consulta-
ton up to a late hour with John w.
Weeks, who, like the national
chairman. still ranks as one of the
probabilities of the Harding Cabl-
net.
Weeks at length has decided the
War Department is the portfolio he
gested in these dispatches at the be-
ginning OF the week. that the Secre-
taryship of the Navy, which an An
napolis graduate naturally would
prefer, ought not to be held by a
man whose academy classmates Of
1880 today are high officers of the
United States feet. Weeks expects
to Join the Harding houseboat in
Florida during the weekend.
Hays stIlI Uncommunicatiye.
HAYS, who saw Senators Smoot
and New among other Republican
leaders, continues coy and uncom-
municative regarding his own Cabi-
net fortunes. There are future In
diana Senatorial angles" compli-
eating that situation, and those may
not entirely be ironed out as yet.
Hays. like host of other G. o. P.
dignitaries, will doubtless be mi
grating Floridaward before many
DAYS. Already 1t is evident Hard
fngs anxiety for a holiday will be
more honored in the breach than
in the observance. From the mo
ment he leaves the Frelinghuysen
floating stag party the President
elect will hold virtually incessant
court at his st. Augustine head
quarters, the Ponce de Leon Hotel.
Information that there will be no
final and complete announcement OF
the Cabinet-if any at all-until
time still holds good.
The Cabinet maker has not finished
his wearisome and worrisome task.
Indeed, many indications foreshad-
ow that the pressure and counter
measure under which Harding has
been growing grayer since election
day will not reach their crescendo
until February. Rivals for place
are fighting hard and dying hard.
They seem determined to make
life a burden to the last.