Evening star., 1925-05-24
BY n. o. MESSENGER.

- EVERAL happenings and exist
ing conditions contribute to the
current interest in national pol
- itics, standing out above an
otherwise rather dead level of
political affairs and serve to draw
public attention.
Chairman Butler of the Republican
national committee makes a fervent
appeal to that organization of hard
boiled" Republicans, the Union
League of Philadelphia, urging the
necessity of eternal vigilance and ac-
tivity in politics as the price of con-
tinued Republican supremacy, Will
liam G.. McAdoo stirs curiosity by a
pilgrimage to the East, accompanied
by reports that he is pushing his
presidential boom and laying the
ground work for another attempt to
abolish the two-thirds rule In DEM
ocratic national conventions. Mayor
Hylan encounters setbacks In his
mayoraIty boom. New York County
Republicans resolve that fusion must
be the Republican policy and that
Tammany must be fought along with
Hylan. So the political pot keeps on
boiling.
Deemed Call to Arms.
Unusual attention was attracted to
Chairman Buffers speech because his
remarks were interpreted as being
"a verita BILE call to arms in time of
profound political peace in the coun
try at large. The construction
placed upon his speech by politicians
was that the national chairman Is
concerned over the activity of the
Democrats in preparing for mill
tant campaign to capture the House
of Representatives in 1925 as a pre-
liminary to the next presidential cam
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concern the maneuvers of the Dem
ocratic congressional campaign COM
mittee and realizes that it behooveS
the Republicans to put on their war
paint and prepare to take the trail
He Is thought to attach much I'M
portance to the establishment Of a
National Democratic Weekly in
Washington for the dissemination of
Democratic propaganda.
Chairman Butler told the Union
League Republicans that there never
was time when the demand for posi-
tive concerted participation in the
organized political activities in the
Nation was as insistent or as impor-
tant as now. "To make 1924 effec-
tive" he admonished I'VE must win
in 1926. I have no delusion that the
victory will drop into our hands. We
must fight for it,
Cites Party Danger.
Chairman Butler pointed out that
one of the dangers which always
threatens a political party directly
following success at the polls is that
victory is apt to lull the members Of
the organization into a state of salts
faction, of confidence that the hour
has arrived when they can rest on
their oars. He said that when it hap
pens that an election is won with
Nationwide sweep such as marked the
selection Of Calvin Coolidge for the
presidency, the tendency toward a
general assumption that we have en-
tered onto a political millennium which
Of itself and by itself will continue in
definitely is apt to be even more pro-
nounced.
He declared his goal and his ambi-
ton 10 be to develop the Republican
party 20 the point where of itself 1t
will embrace so great a ma jority of the
citizens of the Nation, men and wom-
en-, wis are Republicans by deliberate
convection, that they can face every
election without doubt as to the re-
suit satisfied that within the party
ranks there has been ingathered
strength sufficient to confound those
who may seek to work harm to the
National life. Chairman Butler con-
tended that Republican success al
ways spells National success, and
that in asking the voters to carry on
and help them. Republicans are NOT
seeking aggrandizement of the party.
but the welfare of the people.
Hylan Meets Rough Seas.
Affairs do not seem to be going
smoothly for Mayor Hylan in his cam
paign to capture the Democratic nomi-
nation for the mayoralty. Everything
was lovely and the goose hung high
for a halcyon period after William r.
Hearst came to his support with
Threat u nominating him as an inde-