Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-15
BY WILLIAM HARD.

OF 1nolAna ana OF tennessee and OF
New York City to be chairman OF the
Republican national committee is the
largest purely political event of the
moment on the national scene, and
contains an immense meaning Of the
vastest Importance to both political
parties in the United States. That
meaning Is that "Hooverism" and reg
ularism" have found the means OF get
ting along togethdg in q considerable
state Of "normalcy' within the Repub-
lican party organization.
Some such "harmonizing" among the
Republicans was eminently desirable
In view OF the remarkable talents for
devastating polit'"cl warfare exhibited
on behalf e. Democrats and of
their n:t i i committee by the suave
but saN.-s4 Mr.. Jewett Shouse and the
smiling but shifting Mr. Charles Michel
son. From now forward the country
Is going to be blesSed-or cursed-With
two alive and alert party national COM
mitteeB, both in continuous active oper-
ation- The motto of every wary citizen
must presently be:
Look out or either Mr.. Shouse or
Mr.. Huston will organize you and get
you to wearing a button"
Mr. Huston, in his private business, Is
financial physician and health trainer
to ailing corporations He seems to
play no fayorites in his dealings with
different sorts of business undertake
tngs. He seems to cure them all. no
matter what line of commercial actlv-
ity they represent. and no matter what
troubles them. The trouble with the
Republican national committee was the
opossum. which consists Of playing dead.
Mr.. Illusions predecessor as chair
man, DR.. Hubert Work, thought that
playing dead was the best policy Some
time ago he even endeavored to disband
and exttnguish the whole Republican
national committee working staff. He
y emed to calculate that If the Repub-
lican party had the White House. It
needed no national committee at all
That could perhaps be regarded as
"Hooverism" at its highest height. It
seems to have been too high for Mr.
Hoover. Mr.. Hoover seems to have felt
that a party, in addition to q President
would be useful thing to have. When,
therefore, DR.. Work insisted upon
,resigning, Mr.. Hoover cast about for
a successor to him who would enjoy
teaching the party to sit up and
breathe and move.
For that extremely regular" purpose
he found that his intimate friend, Mr.
Claudius Huston, was the instant recip-
lent OF large regular" support. Mr..
Huston got his training in actual ma
tional politics largely under that SUI
preme architect of regularity" Mr.
John T. Adams Of Iowa, when Mr..
Adams was chairman Of the Republican
national committee under President
Harding and President Coolidge. Mr..
Huston was Mr.. Adams chief Of A.
nance"
Then was prepared the situation
which alone now makes the present
situation Ineligible.
y 4 Il
President Harding had wanted to put
Mr.. Huston into his cabinet. Failing
to do 80. he successfully pressed Mr..
Huston into service into the Com
merce Department as Assistant Secre-
tary under Herbert Hoover. Mr.. Hus-
ton soon decided that the irregular"
Mr. Hoover ought by merit some day
spend long laborious hours trying to
break that unbelievable news to his In
credulous colleagues.
Mr.. Huston thus became the first
living link between the "irregularity"
of Mr.. Hoover and Mr.. Hoover's present
Republican presidency Of the United
States. Today, when Mr.. Huston has to
be out Of Washington he puts into his
place in the Republican national COM
mittee headquarters, as'acting chairman,
Mr.. Ralph Williams Of Oregon, one Of
the regular" Mr.. Adams most "regu-
lar" intimates.
The picture is one in which Mr..
Huston brought much of the "Old
Guard" including Mr.. Adams himself,
into allegiance to Mr.. Hoover and In
which Mr.. Hoover now trustr the man
agement of the Republican national
committee and Of a revived Republic
can Nationwide organization to Mr..
Huston and other Old Guard or ex-
Old Guard elements or graduates.
There will undoubtedly ensue q dras-
tic abandonment of some recent "fads
and fancieG
II has been widely stated that Mr.
Huston's appointment means q great
new Republican drive to massacre
lot of local Republican politicians in
Dixie and to replace them with lot
Of FederAlly chosen noble substitutes
End thus to capture the South" for
the Republican party.
The truth is that large part Of
the Republican party Is heartily sick OF
marching through Georgia" with
Sherndans army Of Northern patron
Newton Of Minnesota and James Fran
els Burke Of Pennsylvania and Walter
Brown Of Ohio, and Of trying to ire
form" the Southern Republican organi-
sAtion by means Of edicts and ennis
saries from the Federal City.
The truth is further that there Is no
truth at all in the widely disseminated
rumor that Mr.. Newton and Mr.. Burke
and Mr.. Brown are to be mustered out
and that in their place Col. Horace
Mann Of Tennessee will be dispatched
by Mr.. Huston to ride through the
Southland by himself emancipating the
enslaved whites from political Negro
and promising all OF them
40 acres Of freedom and q Federal job.
Col. Mann, out of the last campaign,
bears upon his person the aroma OF
racial and religious rivalries and con-
llicts which now constitute o bitter
memory for large part OF the Re-