Evening star., 1924-05-05
G. 0. P. WOMEN STUDY
POLITICS IN SCHOOL
$50 Enroll for Four-Day Course
Being Held Here-Will Meet
President Coolidge Thursday.
FESS ADDRESSES STUDENTS
Deplore Efforts of Certain Sena-
tors to Scandalize Honorable Men"

Pledging their allegiance to Presi-
dent Coolidge, $50 Republican women
from Washington and many OF the
states today took their first lesson in
political campaign school that will
last for the next three days. The
school is being conducted at the New
Willard Hotel under the auspices of
the League of Republican Women and
the students number some of the most
prominent women in Washington.
Through the four days of the school
sessions the women will listen to
addresses by some of the nations
most prominent Republicans and Will
meet the President at the White
House Thursday, the closing day or
the sessions. Examinations in prac-
tical politics will be held Thursday
afternoon and diplomas will be pre-
sented that evening by Mrs. Virginia
White Speel, president of the League
of Republican Women.
Enthusiasm has been manifested
for President Coolidge in the state
conventions of Tennessee and North
Carolina, Mrs. Lindsay Patterson OF
North Carolina told the convention
today. Mrs. Patterson urged that
the woman voters must organize and
must bring to politics all their own
good qualities if they would hold
their balance of power, granted them
by a constitutional amendment. do
not let us worry and fuss ABOUT the
ward heeler and his methods" Mrs;
Patterson said. Let US get out and
be ward heelers ourselves. With or
ganization we can bring TO politics
our better qualities and swing our
entire strength behind what we De-
lieTe to be the right"
Allegiance to Coolidge.
Mrs. Patterson said that when
women get started they break all
speed laws" and urged that they
work more and more to make poll
tics the science of government"
The school adopted the following
pledge: II pledge allegiance to Cal
vim Coolidge and to the Republican
platform upon which he will stand
"a government of honest integrity,
with protection and progress for all. :"
Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio ad
dressed the school at noon today on
Why the Two-Party System"
Other speakers today include Sec
rotary of the Navy Wilbur. Mrs.
Harriet Taylor Upton, vice chair
man of the Republican national com
mittee. and Mrs; George Barnett.
mitteeman of the District of Co
lumbia, will preside at d session to-
night at which the speaker will be
Attorney General Harlan Fisk Stone.
ne SCllOOl Hdu DblOFS II IOT con-
sideration and discussion n resolu-
tion recently adopted by the League
of Republican Women, which de-
nounced as "un-American the present
efforts of certain Democratic SEN
atorS and representative to scandal
ize the names of honorable men by
the unsupported hearsay statements
OF confessed crooks and bribetakers"
The resolution called upon Repub-
lican senators and representatives to
meet these attacks and to demand
that the reprehensible conduct of one
or two Republicans shall not be held
to reflect upon the thousands who
have always stood foursQuare in the
country's defense and who are now
its best reliance"
VIII AnaIyze Message.
Speakers tomorrow at the school,
which is under the direction of Mrs
William Wolff Smith, include Secre-
tary of Labor Davis, Representative
Johnson of WaShin gton, chairman of
the House immigration committee.
and d. Butler Wright, third assistant
secretary of state.
The Presidents message to Con-
gresS will be analyzed Wednesday by
Representative Burton of Ohio, to be
followed by an address by Senator
James E Watson of Indiana Gen.
Herbert NJ. Lord, director of the
budget, will speak Thursday.