Evening star., 1926-10-16
PLAN c. 0. P. RALLY.
THURSDAY NIGHT
Leaders of Party in District
Propose 0Id-Type Cam
paign ArousaI.

Republicans of the District are pre-
pairing for a rally next Thursday
night at the Willard Hotel. which 10
designed to be the largest political
meeting held in this city during the
present congressional campaign
Edgar c. Snyder. United States
marshal of the District. president Of
the League of Republican State Clubs
and chairman of the committee ar
ranging for this rally. promises a
rally of the Old-fashion political type.
There will he plenty of band music,
singing, red fire. orators galore and
possibly street parade preliminary
to the meeting.
First Real Rally of Campaign.
This will be the first real rally local
Republicans have had since entering
upon the campaign. Those who have
been interested in getting out the
thousands of absentee votes In the
District have been busy arousinE
those who are entitled to vote in the
several States to register in time and
to get their ballot blanks preparatory
to mailing their vote. Now that the
registration periods arc virtually past
and the time for casting the ballot Is
rapidly approaching II was decided TO
arouse interest and to awaken voters
to the Importance of exercising the
rights and privileges of the franchise
by an old-time rally. There have been
few meetings during the present
campaign, hut these have been con-
fined principally to State groups anG
campaign units. Chairman Snyder in
his call for next Thursdays meeting
invites the public to come.
Array of Oratory I'm Program.
Besides the entertainment promised
there will be an array of oratorical
talent. including Representative Fred
Zihlman, who Is in the midst of a hot
campaign to retain his seat in the
House from the sixth district of Mary
land; Mrs. Mary T. Stock of Bethesda,
Md, who created a real sensation in
Montgomery County in the recent pri-
maries when she won the Republican
nomination for the Maryland state
Senate from her county; Mrs. Eva C.
Chase of Riverdale, Md, who is Re
publican candidate for clerk of the
Court of Appeals of Maryland, the
first one of her sex to aspire to this
high post, and Thomas =. Littlepage,
vice president Of the League OF Re-
publican State Clubs, who has just re-
turned from the Middle West, where
he made political survey of the situ-
alton in that section
Edward F. Colladay, Republican ma
tional committeeman for the District
of Columbia, will preside, and officers
of the League Of Republican Organi-
cations Of the District, a combination
Of the various party clubs and asso-
Citations functioning here, will tell
briefly of the campaign work being
| done here.
Will Outline Cooperative Work.
Samuel J. Prescott, Republican
State chairman for the District, who
is personally in charge of the cam
| paign here for his party, will tell of
the unity In Republican activities, and
of what is being done to get out the
! State votes; A. +. Chaffee of Nebraska,
reading clerk of the House, who COM
| piled a digest of the absentee regis
tration and voting laws of the States.
| will tell about his work as director Of
| the voters information division OF
| the local headquarters. T. Lincoln
| Townsend, president OF the Coolidge
and Dawes Club and secretary of the
Republican State committee for the
District, will outline what has been
done In the matter of raising money
for the conduct OF the campaign,
Thomas B. Mudd Of La Plata. Md, who
,, is candidate to win back the seat
In the House held SO long by his
brother. the late Sydney Mudd. will
have a seat on the speakers platform,
| and although he is not on the speak
ers' program, he very likely will be
called upon for "a few brief remarks. :"
The entertainment program has not
been completed. but already II in
cludes music by Mrs. Eva Purnell,
wife of Representative Purnell of In
diana, soprano; Fred Fast of the Grid
iron quartet, baritone, and William
+. Raymond, tenor.