Evening star., 1926-05-28
D. c.
| LURES POLITICIANS
congress Elections Resolved
! Into Scramble to Get
| Back Here.
BY ROBERT L. SMALL.

~. While politicians high and po!lti-
y cians low are seeking for tissues" In
4 Abe coming congressional campaign,
ffmany keen observers have come 10
I, the conclusion that the affair Is re-
~ solving itself into ,pothine more than
scramble on the part of Senators
I h nd Representatives to- continue their
S'1winter residence in Washington. or
+. course, it already Is decreed that a
A,tlarse number will not come back. Re.
e publican Senators, for instance, are
= Suffering greater havoc in their own
n party primaries than there was rea-
! son to believe and consequently long
: sbefore election time it is decreed that
the pleasures Of Washington life are
lost to a number of distinguished cftf-
! gens of the United States.
n That this life of Washington Is
is evidenced on many
!. sides. 1t catches and holds within its
-sspell men who might attain to untold
: riches in other, spheres but who pre-
! fer to remain in the more or less
= classic shades of the CAPITAL City,
content to live the modest existence
which is possible on governmental
salaries.
Once a statesman gets a real taste
Of Washington life he is ioath to
1eave it. y
g. Mr.. Coolidge. fW. Instance.
There is President Coolidge. for in
sta nee The President has told num-
ber of his intimate friends that he
finds Iife in the White House extreme.
~ly comfortable. He frankly has said
rhe never enjoyed such true comfort
before. As Vice President. Mr.. Cool.
idce was offered an official residence.
hut he declined it on the ground that
his own salary was inslf fiTc;ent fo' It's
,apkeep and he did not feel like asking
2rongress to make an appropriation
for the purpose
4 Fate eventually led Mr. Coolidge
into the White House, with its atmos-
phere of ease and unostentatious
American luxury. and many believe
he will find ii difficult voluntarily to
make up his mind to leave the place
sfter 1925
. Then there is Mr.. Mellon Of the
Treasury Department. His friends
predicted he would not stay in Wash
s,ington two years. He has been here
more than five and has thoroughly en-.
joyed every moment of his time.
! Herbert Hoover. Secretary of Com.
merce, plucked from an active and
wide ranging professional life, has
: been in Washington ever since the
World War. and there is no present
indication- on his part of desire
20 live anywhere else in the world.
1T was predicted by Mr.. Hoover that
he, too. soon would tire OF Govern.
Sment restriction and, red tape and
ell that sort of thing. and would kick
The bucket of official life into smith.
Greens. But he did nothing OF the
kind. He has remained in the Cab.
inet under two Presidents.
! Hughes a Frequent Visitor.
Charles Evans Hughes. who first
fame to Washington as an associate
Sustice of the Supreme Court. and
.leventually as Secretary Of state.
found il exceedingly difficult to tear
himself away from his duties At the
State Department little more than
year ago. He has found excuse
after excuse to come back to Wash
..ington since then and spend week
or more. His law practice brings
him increasingly before the bench
;Mhere once he sat.
:. stllliam S. Butler of Massachusetts.
busy manufacturer, chairman of the
SRepublcan national committee, ana
what not, was appointed to the Senate
something more than a year ago and
this year is going to make the hght
of his life TO remain in Washington.
L1e is prepared W 80 tHe Wioic Hih1t.
7f5e will have the President squarely
behind him. and the issue in Massa-
-chustts will be squarely a test Of
standing by the President-the favor
ite son of the old Bay State and the
first New Englander to occupy the
3NVhite House in something like so
years.
i Frank B. kellogg. Secretary Of
State, is another who has become
,enthralled with Washington life and
would not know what to do without
2it. Mr.. kellogg first came to Wash
7Sngton as a famous trust BUSTER
lie liked it SO we'll he got himself
elected to the Senate After his term
there he went to England as Am
hassador al the court of st. James
Sind then returned to Washington to
take his present post as head Of the
Coolidge cabinet.
These are hut a few of the states
tnen who find life in Washington 30
inviting and so compelling that they
refuse to quit it. There must be
zkomething to- the old place after all.
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| The worlds largest hotel, now un.
der construction in Chica 60, will have
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