Evening star., 1924-11-05
GOOD WORK DONE
FOR c. 0. P. IN CITY
RpubIiCan Leaders Here Got
Out Many Votes for Cool
idge and Dawes.

There was a united front presented
hy Republicans of the District in the
campaign just ended and it was be-
cause of this and the joining to-
"ether of the various local Repub-
lican organizations under the leader
hip of the Republican State COM
nittee of the District that such eff
iective work was done here in the
interest of the party, according to
those who personally directed the
activities.
Early in the summer Samuel J.
Prescott, chairman of the State COM
mittee, with the assistance of Ed
ward +. Colladay, Republican ma
tional committeeman from the District;
Y. Lincoln Townsend. president of
the Coolidge and Dawes Club; Will
liam Tyler Page, president of the
League of Republican State Voters;
Edgar c. snyder. president of the
League of Republican State Clubs.
and Mrs. Virginia White Speel, presi-
dent of the League of Republican
Women of the District, brought about
his conSolida tion of activities. The
strength and assets of these various
organizations were pooled under one
banner, and under the leadership of
Mr.. Prescott. got off to an early start
in the task of getting out the many
thousands of voters temporarily resi-
cent in this city.
At L meeting of the representatives
Of these allied organizations a joint
campaign committee was formed, Of
which Mr.. Prescott was elected chair
man. The task of organizing the
forces for the campaign was entered
upon, with the result that William T.
t;alliher of the executive committee
of the Republican State committee,
and member of the ways and means
committee of the Republican National
Campaign committee, and T. Lincoln
Townsend were assigned to the rails
ing of the Districts fund for the
national committee and for the local
campaign.
The work of conducting the abb
sentee voters information bureau al
the headquarters was turned over to
the Lea que of Republican state
Voters and a result A. +. Chaffee,
secretary of that organization, who
compiled the various absentee regis
tration and voting laws, was made
director in charge of this bureau.
Heading Speakcrs' Bureau.
Edgar c. Snyder, president of the
League OF Republican State Voters.
was made director of the speakers
bureau, WHICH duty he performed in
the past three national elections. Mr.
snyder was ais" given the added
duties of arranging for all rallies
and meetings and of directing the
publicity.
Mrs. Virginia White Speel was
made director of women's activities.
Besides this work she spent consider
able of her time toward the closing
days of the campaign speaking in
Maryland, West Virginia and Ohio.
Mrs Speel had as her assistant in
directing the women's activities Mrs.
Louis Addison Dent.
To 7. Lincoln Townsend fell what
many consider one of the most siren
uouS dutieS-that of organizing the
newly formed Coolidge and Dawes
Club, which by means of It's $40
memberships served as the principal
money producer for the local cam
paiSn, assisted by National Commit
teeman Colladay and Mrs. Harry
Wardman. Republican national COM
mitteewoman; Louis Addison Dent,
Charles Crane. Charles Waters E f.
Graham and Fred Spaulding.
Fred Spaulding was made executive
secretary of the campaign committee
and throughout the contest from its
earliest days of activity performed
IS the right-hand bower and chief
lieutenant for Chairman Prescott
The work of organizing the colored
Republicans of the District and di-
recting their activities was assigned
to Thomas l.. Jones, who was one of
the delegates from the District to
the Cleveland convention. Among his
Immediate assistants were Mrs. Mary
Church Terrell, Miss Eva Chase, Mrs.
Julia Laton, Lucius Skinner, J.
Franklin Wilson, John r. Hawkins,
Charles +. Robinson, Francis Wells
and y. J. Gaskins. The activities
among the colored voters was con-
Quoted under the auspices of the
Coolidge and Dawes League, Inc, of
which Mr.. Jones was made president.
Under the leadership of its presi-
dent, Francis Wells, the Blaine In
vincible Republican Club, one of the
oldest party organizations in the
United States, conducted a number of
rallies in this city and in sections near
by in Maryland.
Aattention has been called to the fact
that one of the really effective bits of
work done by Mrs. Mae d. Lightfoot,
treasurer of the League of Republi-
can Women, who gave a series of
stereopticon lectures in this city and
In Maryland and Virginia.
In discussing the campaign last
night Chairman Prescott said that
from the very start there was a rigid
concentration upon the work of get
ting out the absentee vote.
By means of publicity and meet