Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-05
PERMANENT c. D. P.
/. DRIVE IS PROPOSED
Campaign Costs Could Be
-HaIved by Keeping Units
Intact, Work Says.

The Republican cohorts who rallied
behind the Hoover-Curtis banner last
November will be retained for the CAM
paign to elect Republican President
in 1882. If the advice given by Chair
man Hubert Work to the Republican
national committee today is carried into
effect.
Chairman Works address was de-
livered at meeting of the national
committee at the Mayf1ower Hotel, fol-
lowing luncheon at which the Re-
publican State chairmen and vice chair
women were present. The meeting of
the national committee. on call Of DR..
Work, setting a precedent for meetings
Immediately after the Inauguration Of a
new Republican President, was intended
to discuss plans for continued prepared
ness to meet the Democratic opposition.
DR.. Works proposal was, in effect,
that in time of peace the Republican
army should prepare for war by the
continuance of effective organization
throughout the States If only In skele-
ton form. His plan Is to maintain the
Republican national organization in
working order. His suggestion today was
that Republican State committees should
maintain permanent headquarters just
as they are now being maintained by
the national committee.
Sees Expenditures Halved.
The chairman argued that If perma-
nent organization is effected and MAIN
tanned 1t will be possible to 60 through
a national campaign with the1expendi-
ture OF one-half the SUM of money
which was expended tn the last cam
paign.
At one point in flis address the chair
man stressed the point that the Re-
publican national committee and its
members are not setting themselves up
to deal out Federal patronage and to
take the power of recommending men
and women for Federal appointment
from the Republican members of the
Senate and House When it became
known that DR.. Work was planning to
carry on permanently the work of the
national committee and 10 nuild it up,
it was hailed in some quarters as an
effort to dominate Federal appoint
ments. In this connection, DR.. Work
said:
The selection of Federal officials is
not prerogative of the national COM
mittee In States or districts having
party congressional representation. III
States lacking this, committee men,
bers, acting as referees, should consult
their substatial citizenry as advisers.
No policy In politics can or should sue
ceed that is not frank and pursued In
the OPEN"
Congratulates Organization.
At the outset of his address Chair
man Work congratulated the national
organization on it's success In the last
campaign. and referred to the fact that
there is no campaign deficit. He said in
part:
"The Republican national committee
is facing a new era in national poll
tics which should be appraised in an
ticipation of the modern public concep-
ton of party politics.
Thoughtful voters demonstrated in
the last election that a new political
perspective has come into public view.
That an American party is forming is
to be reckoned with. Not under a new
name. Not building on the ruins of the
Republican party, but as its super
structure. We need not anticipate a
third party movement in the near fu-
ture. Such movements have heretofore
failed, but the independent voters NAV
| sway old parties at will and adapt one
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