The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-07
Society Surveys the Situation After
Listening In to Election Returns
Many Changes Promised;
ELECTION Parties" NuS
merous; Joy and Gloom

Well, it's all over but
talking it over. That, how
ever will probably keep
Washington busy for the
next few weeks.
And it seems to us here
like a triumph of the "home
town folks. = For the Presi-
dent-elect and Mrs. Hoover
have been so long with us
as to be rated genuine
Neutrality-suspicious., while the
Vice President-elect, Senator
Charles Curtis, has a long
record of service sup on the
Hill, - and his sister, Mrs.
Edward e. Gam, who has
been his hostess, has made
the Capital her home for
many years.
Many Changes
There will be many changes
in the official group, of course,
when the new administration
comes in, but no such clean
sweep rs would have followed q
Democratic victory. And, while
many Democratic Senator'S were
buried in the landslide, several
of those who have been most
actively identified with social
life in Washington seem to
have come through safely.
Balm in Gilead
we viii lose senator and Mrs.
william CabelI Bruce, of Mary
land. whose son, David X. z.
Bruce, married Miss Ailsa Mellon,
daughter of the Secretary of the
Treasury. We are still hoping
that Senator Peter Geolet Gerry
viii come back from Rhode
Island, although at the moment
OF writing he is running behind.
Mrs. Gerry, who is president OF
the Concessions Club, is one or
the most popular and distinguished
women in the opposition" group
and her loss would be deeply re-
GREETED.
Moreover, it would appear that
among those counted safe" in the
Democratic group are Senator
and Mrs. William II. King, Sena-
tor and Mrs. Key Pittman, Sena-
tor and Mrs. Royal s. Copeland,
Senator and Mrs. Claude Swan
son--in spite of the political revo-,
luton in Virginia Senator and
Mrs. John b. Kendrick. Senator
Park TrammelI and Senator Ken
meth Mcclellan.
Feminine Bloc"
One of the most interesting
features Of the election to us here
is the fact that It brings three
more women to Congress. Tho
three Ruths are all in-Ruth
Hanna Mccormick, Of Illinois:
Ruth Bryan Owen, of Florida,
and Ruth Pratt OF New York.
We know Mrs. Medill Mccormick
well and admire her enormously.
But, in spite OF the fact that she
is William Jennings Bryan's
daughter, Mrs. Owen is more or
less a stranger to us; and so is
Mrs. John T. Pratt. The first
woman to come to Congress from
New York, she has been serving
for four years as alderman in
the Seventeenth assembly dis
trict. She is a woman Of con.
siderable social experience and is
described as clever and charming.
Listening In
Listening in to the election re-
turns was Washington's major
oreoccupation last night-with the
Republicans growing more jubi-
liant as the hours wore on and a
thick pail of gloom descending
over the Democratic camp.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge
turned on their radio as soon as
they had returned to the White
House from Northampton, where
they went TO vote. The Secretary
of State and Mrs. Kellogg, the
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Wilbur and Mrs. Jardine, wife or
the Secretary of Agriculture, al
listened in assiduously. An9 the
Secretary of Labor and Mrs.
Davis, who had returned iate
YESTERDAY afternoon from a trip
to Pittsburgh to vote, had a Few
guests with them to hear tne re-
suits. The rest of the CABINET
contingent had gone to their re-
spective homes to vote.
At Republican headquarters
there was an animated company
keeping a collective ear to the
radio while Jimmie" Reynolds,
in the role of local announcer,
,s1ppIemented the program with
reading of kilograms from all over
the country. Coffee, sandwiches,
and dougInuts were served
through the evening and well
into the morning hours.
Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, vice chair
man of the Republican National
Committee, was on hand, and one
found Mrs. Sydney Clonnan in the
role of official hostess. The
Undersecretary Of the Treasury
and Mrs. Ogden Mills Joined in
this Republican jubilation at the
Barr Building. So did the Assistant
Secretary of War, Col. Charles 3.
Robbins; the Assistant Secretary
of Commerce for Aeronautics and
Mrs. William P. McCracken, jr.;
Mrs. James Carroll Frazer and
Mrs. Cabot Stevens. Tied" Clark,
President CooIidge's personal Sec
rotary, who had accompanied his
chief to Northampton to vote,
dropped in after his return, and
another visitor was Earl Kinsley,
of Vermont, national Republican
committeeman.
The Women's National Demo-
cratic Club had an election dinner,
and its drawing rooms were
crowded all evening with "deserv.
ing Democrats '-growing momen-