Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-07
The Political Mill
BY G. Could Lincoln.

peen postponed apparently until Thurs
day. Chairman Claudius H. Huston,
whose political scalp has been de-
manded by a number of prominent Re-
publicans because of the unfavorable
publicity given him by the Senate Lobby
Committee. called a meeting of the Of
ficers of the committee and of Senator
Moses, chairman of the Senatorial Cam
paign Committee, and Representative
Will Wood, chairman Of the House Cam
paign Committee, for today, but later
postponed the meeting until Thursday.
In the meantime Republican leaders
have been discussing the Craftsmanship
matter further. Most of them profess
the belief that Mr.. Huston in the end
will eliminate himself. But Mr.. Huston
so far has given no indication that he
intends to do this thing. 1t will be re-
called that few weeks ago, after
listening to a flock Of his committee
men and other Republicans at a meet
ing here in which they pointed out to
him the advisability of vacating the
Craftsmanship Mr.. Huston declared he
had no intention Of quitting.
The Democrats are laughing up their
sleeves while the Republican leaders are
mulling about their party's national
Craftsmanship. They would be entirely
satisfied to have Mr.. Huston continue
in the role of campaign leader for the
G. o. P. Practically ever since Mr..
Huston was selected as national chair
man to succeed Hubert D. Work, who
said he was tired of the job, the &C.
tivities Of the Republican National Com
mittee have been at a standstill. In all
that interval the Democrats, through
their national committee headquarters
in Washington, have been plastering the
press of the country with attacks on
the Republican administration and the
Hawley~Smoot tariff bill, not to mention
the farm relief act put through at the
instance of the Hoover administration.
The Republican National Committee has
done practically nothing to offset these
broadSides of the Democratic party
They have held their hands while the
Democratic Press Bureau has filled the
newspapers With columns of denuncia-
ton of the tariff bill. II Mr.. Huston is
going to stay on the job, it is high time
that he did something. If he is going
out, the sooner the new head of the
national committee gets to work the
better. A great deal of time has been
lost and thousands of voters have been
told so often that the tariff bill is an
Ubiquitous piece of legislation that many
of them believe it to be so, although few
Of them know what it is all about.
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Some of the Republican leaders are
selfish enough from the point of view
of Mr.. Huston, to wish to make a sacri-
flee of him for the benefit of the party.
Mr.. Huston's attitude has been that he
has done nothing wrong and that it is
merely cowardly attitude on the part
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to resign at this time. 1t seems to be
the interests of one man against the
interests of the party.
A suggestion has been made that
Senator Simeon d. Tess of Ohio be
made chairman of the Republican
National Committee in place of Mr.
Huston to carry on during the coming
congressional campaign If not longer.
Senator Fess name has come into the
discussion largely because of his success
when he was chairman of the House
Republican Campaign Committee back
in 1920. Furthermore, he is recognized
as a stanch supporter of the Hoover
administration and strong party man.
Personally Senator Fess has not the
slightest inclination to become national
chairman at this juncture, his close
friends say. The Craftsmanship of the
Republican National Committee, with
the party in power, is very consider
able office. The constant demand,
however, to settle questions of patron
age, etc.. makes it a burdensome job.
Senator George Moses of New Hamp-
shire. the chairman of the Republican
Senatorial Campaign Committee, would
scarcely view the selection of Mr.. Tess
to be national chairman with equanirn-
ity. Mr.. Moses and Mr.. Tess are not
likely to trot well together either in
tandem or doubles harness. And Mr..
FeSs does not care particularly for the
manner in which Mr.. Moses conducts
party affairs, according to reports. The
President and some of his advisers have
been looking over the situation for
weeks, it is said, in the hope of select
ing a national chairman, who will be
and efficient, whenever Mr..
Huston should step out. In some quar-
tiers there has been hot tip out that
the choice would fall on Postmaster
General Walter Brown, and that if Mr.
Brown stepped out Of the cabinet to
take the lob, Walter Newton. one Of
the Presidents secretaries, might go
into Office of Postmaster General.
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The Senatorial Campaign Investigate
ing Committee, headed by Senator Nye,
is to take up July ID its further in
quiry into the primary campaign won
last April by Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCor-
mick. The report has been circu-
lated in number of newspapers that
Mrs. McCormick's campaign cost great
deal more than the quarter of million
dollars to which she testified sometime
ago before the Senate committee. Mrs.
taking note of these pub
lished reports, has written letter to
the New York Times about the matter.
In that letter Mrs. Mccormick says
that the only other expenditures were
by three volunteer organizations"
total expenditure in her campaign APP
$4,000. This Is a tidy
sum, but Mrs. Mccormick explains that
she was up against the Deneen organi-
cation and she had built up State
wide organization of her own. She in
sists that she made no deal with the
City Hall crowd in Chicago and that
expenditures by the organization there,
IN opposition to the Deneen ticket, were
not chargeable to her campaign for
the senatorial nomination.
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Those who are interested in my
large vote in Cook County" said Mrs.
"are prone to overlook the
fact that carried SIS counties in addi-
ton to Cook and had a majority Of
49 528 outside of Cook County. Il do
not believe that even the least informed
on Illinois politics believe
that the Chicago City Hall patronage
which Yields no power out
side the Chicago city limits, was busy
In my behalf down on the banks of the
Wabash or in the Corn Belt. or away
down in Pulaski County, where the
Ohio rushes to meet the Mississippi"
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Mrs Mccormick is a clever and re-
sourceful politician as she has already
proved, She Is not likely to wait to be
attacked and she will give j. Ham"
Lewis. the Democratic nominee, plenty