The Washington times., 1924-10-15
ROMANCE LOST
IN POI ITIGs
SBlSRARD
Ever hing systennatized Like
a'tvell Run Business G. Q. /
Has Slogan sIeuth"
~ WILLTAST HARD

- AeASt eA1os klIS OF our letlOWp
S q who save us from national
N.sahter every four years BY politi.
claneerlng around for q few 1ovial
weeks In our various national cam.
Daign headquarters.
In Chicago. which II the politi-
clans capital Tor the whole Middle
West and Far West. there are three
great headqua rters- 1.-The Republican.
kite. - s''
Each Of them is distinctive. Each
them Is characteristic. Each OK
them, In itself tells the story OF
the forces back Of It.
Ehe La Follettite headquarters is
On the fourth floor OF hotel, Oc-
scupylng various exlaleeping rooms
ana Is fun Of piacards and fanatics
and volunteers and scurrY and
noise.
The Democratic headquarters Is
u hotel, but on the mezzanine
Moori thus being somewhat grander
than the La Follettite headquarters;
and It Is mostly one quite large
open space divided up into half
open cllbby holes by temporary
screens. It Is free and easy
sort Of headquarters inhabited by
cczy and chatty people who arc
Perhaps just as enthusiastic as the.
La Follettites. but who certainly
are less fanatical and more happy
gO-luclxy. y
g. o.. r.. Dlsdains HoteIs.
The Republican headquarters.
EneanWhile. disdains all hotels It
W1thdraws from the cluttered hotel
atmosphere. II lis installed. in q
highly modern and highly brisk
business block. Ri s.s
The Republican Headquarters, IN
outward appearance, is like the
head office OF some particularly Sc.
s0ates large business firm
On the door of one OF the rooms
there a severe sign saying:
accounting Division" One Is In
formed that In this division Mr.:
Calvin Coolidge's idea about soIv-
encY finds strict observance. IL
the money. is not in the treasury,
~ is not spent. On the evening
OF November 4, one is told. there
will be, no deficit. Republican ma.
honal headquarters this year are
being run on the payaS-you-enter
and cash-and-carry plan.
Cut Expenses This Year.
Further inquiry develops the
0tafemeIlts that this year the Re.
publican national expenses win be
approximately only one-haf OF
what they were four years ago.
I'VE calculate" says the gentleman
making this statement ,s'that Il
will cost the Republican party only
half as much to defeat both Davis
and La Toilette as we spent de.
j4eating Cox
AS one approaches this years
Republican headquarters one sees
first a bulletin board on which In
meat, clear letters one is told the
number of the room in which each
division and each bureau Of the
headquarters will be found. No
other headquarters seems Ito be
equipped with this little tribute to
efficiency.
Moreover, in this Republican
headquarters there are certainly
more divisions and bureaus than IN
any other headquarters.
The Republics s, for instance,
uniquely have a Research Blu.
sFeau.''' It is presided over by a
O. nibative, red.headed, encyclopedia,
Weather-wise politician and research.
Or named J. Rennet Gordon.
u Needs Big Library.
Mr.. Gordon is equipped with a
great library Of fat volumes and
with high stacks of metal filing
cases. He needs Them -
Republican county +chairmen write
in to him and say: 4.
sstGive. us the history of the tariff
on. beans and the imports Of beans
before, and after the tariff,
They also say:
~ when Iohn w. Davis was am.
bassador to Great Britain, did he
wear silk knee breeches?"
They also say:,
Give us the living costs tn each
country In Europe from 1913 down
TO- date, together with che, wages in
each country
When any Republican county
chairmafl-or, for that matter, when
any Republican United States Sen.
6t0r shows a sudden dazzling sta.
uEtical memory, the reason may
,gedde- in the Republican Research
Bureau. ~ ss
ssi Gin cross-examination Mr.. Gordon
hays that he receives ten times as
many questions on La Toilette as
on any other subject.
i One particular earnest questioner
oaid;
"Give US the total number Of rcIT
calls that have happened in the
Senate since La Toilette became
Senator and tell us how often he
was present. and how often he was
absent"
s{ s5 sEgaag Sl0oa,, NNov
81 The Republican headquarters also
has b man who does nothing ali
Gay long but invent Slogans"
What il a slogan
Well. here's one:
''LauEh-a.lot and vote for Cool
1dge. te% a'#
That's slogan.
4 The Republicans have a man
who all day long, does nothing
hut think up sixty or seventy Of
&ncse. This gives the Republicans
An awful advantage.
The Democrats, on the other
hand, In their headquarters here,
suffered q dreadful disaster the
other day. They had been employ.
ing e. genius who did nothing all
day long but write campaign
songs. For lack Of funds the
otlier day. they had to let him 60.
Thus the campaign will 60 on
now with the Democrats having
no song writer, but with the
Republicans still having q slogan
Sleuth. The Democrats think 1t
n The Republicans also, besides
having a speakers bureau and q
A,,l,lfLrifv hIlrnan and q Rornlrrr,