Evening star., 1926-06-01
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! v. y. HODGES WE'D
G. O. P. National Committee
Treasurer Will Marry
Mrs. c. T. LoWndes.
l:Y FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.


Administration wedding bells will
ring again this week, or, to be more
strictly accurate. Republican national
committee wedding bells. AS in the
Ease of Miss Ailsa Melons marriage,
he President and Mrs. Coolidge will
grace the occasion, which will mark
the union of William V. Hodges of
Denver, treasurer of the Republica.c
national committee, and Mrs Charles
Thomas LowndeS of Maryland. The
wedding, which will be an eminent
social and political affair, will take
place next Saturday at pm. at
Iilenelg Manor, Howard County, Md.
the country estate of the brides
hrother-in-law. w. Bladen Lowndes,
well known Baltimorean. The bride
groom has been widower for several
years, and the bride for some time has
been a widow.
An imposing suite of men and
women prominent in the national
councils of the Republican party will
accompany Mr.. and Mrs. Coolidge to
Cilenelg Manor when they motor to
Howard County on the afternoon of
June 5. Senator and Mrs. William
NJ Butler of Massachusetts. expect
% be present.
Succeeded Fred w. Upham.
The chairman Of the Republican
national committee selected Mr..
Hodges to succeed the late Fred
W. Upham as chancellor of the G.
O. p. eXchequer, when the longtime
party treasurer was depoSed, follow
ing the 1924 convention. at Cleveland.
Mrs. Alvin T. Hert of kentucky, vice
chairman of the national committee,
also will attend the Hodges -Lowndes
wedding, as will others from the
headquarters staff in Washington
Mr.. Hodges sprang suddenly into
party prominence two years ago
when the new Coolidge Butler re-
Gime decided to make q virtually
clean sweep of the former Harding
influence in the organization. The
Denver lawyer. who enjoys IA large
corporation practice in Colorado and
the intermountain country, probably
owes his political emolumentS to the
fact that he was at the law school
of Columbia University in the late
90s, with two of Calvin Coolidges
closest Reconsideration Fisk Stone,
now an Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court, and Dwight w. Nor
row. Stone and Morrow are both
Amherst men. like the President, but
took their law degrees at Columbia
Stone was graduated in 1898 but
Morrow and Hodges got their LIB
degrees together in the class of 1899.
They have remained firm friends for
more than quarter of century
Bride of Old Family.
Mrs. Lowndes was formerly a Miss
Catherine Stockton Beasley of Prince
ton, y. j.. and member of a colonial
family that received historic Jersey
original grants from the English
crown in pre-revolutionary times. She
is several years Mr.. Hodges Junior
the latter being on the verge of 49,
He is the father of a couple of boys
aged about IA and 16. The national
financier of the Republicans is one of
their biggest" men. He tips the
scales at more than 225 pounds.
In his own part of the country the
made a highly creditable record in
1924. is said to be marked for high
political honorS. Mr.. Coolidge thinks
well of him, as is attested by the
PRESIDENT s desire to attend next Sat
urday's wedding in Maryland.
United States senatOrShip is the goal
his friends assign Hodges. who last
year also was mentioned as Il pos
sble ambassadorial appointee to the
then vacant post at Toxic.
Colorado has quietly come into con-
siderable prominence in Republican
national affairs. The State has a
cabinet portfolio. DIR. Work, Secre-
tary of the Interior, coming from
there. Senator Phipps, senior Sena-
tor from the centennial Common
wealth, is chairman of the senatorial
campaign committee in charge of the
crucial 1926 contest. Senator Rice
w. Means of Colorado was the selec-
ton of the Republican leadership in
the Senate on the occasion of the
recent big inquiry into prohibition.
Copyright. 1920