The Washington times., 1938-11-28
G. 0. P. GATHERS
FOR NATIONAL.
"ROUNDUP" HERE.
Session of Committee
Opens Tomorrow

All dLlCIClb ClCPALdAALs AAOGAH
eaten in spots but still going
strong will roar his defiance anew
tomorrow as the Republican Ma
tional Committee meets in Wash
ington for its annual roundup.
Until the November elections
brought in a fresh supply of blood
and a faster circulation, there was
q suspicion in the minds of party
pessimistS that this or some other
gathering of the near future
might be the last roundup" That
pessimism is past. 1t had diSap-
peared so completely today that
party managers we're beginning to
speculate on Cabinet appoint
ments after 1910.
QUARRELS SHOW LIFE
Arriving tomorrow, committee
members will exchange reports OF
Q reinvigorated party membership.
Ouarrels over the Spoils already
have broken out in two spots
over the leadership of the Repub-
lican minority in the House and a
New York vacancy on the eXecu-
tive committee of the national
committee in New York. These
are looked on by early arrivals
among party leaders as evidence
that the elephant is picking up.
C, Barney Goodspeed of Chi
0a1o here for a preliminary re-
view Of finances before the COM
mittee meets, was optimistic over
the outlook for contributions. For
the past year the national COM
mittee deficit has remained fairly
stationary around 100000.
FORECASTS CLEAN SLATE
But for the cost of the congress
Sional and senatorial campaigns,
It would have been practically
cleared this year. The half mil
lion OF more put into these fights
was raised chiefly by Goodspeed
and his aides, as contributions to-
the national committee, and
turned over to Chairman Joe
Martin Of the Congressional COM
mittee and Senator John Town
send Of Delaware, chairman Of
the Senatorial committee, to fin
0nce the congressional fights.
Mr.. Goodspeed predicted today
that the 100000 which still
shows on the red side of the party
ledger will be wiped out by the
end of 1899, so the G. o. P. may
60 into the 1910 presidential cam
paign with a clean slate.
OPPOSING FORCES
In general, tomorrow's gather
ing is expected to produce excite
ment at only one point.
Resignation of Charles D. Hilles
last spring as national committee
man for New York, and the elec-
tion of former Chairman Kenneth
r. Simpson of New York county
committee to succeed him, has
precipitated an intraparty strug-
Gle which to insiders appears to
have in it the elements Of con-
test between forces favoring nomi-
nation of Herbert Hoover for an
other term as President in 1910,
and those who think District At
torney Thomas E. Dewey or some
other new figure in national poll
tics should carry the party banner
In the next presidential contest.
It comes about this way:
Simpson wants to go on the ex-
Ocutive committee of the national
committee, succeeding Hilles in
this post, also, as he has in the
national committee spot from New
York.
DEWEY PARTISAN
He is a Dewey partisan, having
played leading part in lining up
New York Republicans for the
candidacy of Mayor La Guardia
several years ago, and turning in
for Dewey as district attorney.
He was active also in the draft
Dewey" program which resulted in
the youthful district attorneys
nomination for governor Of New
York; post he almost captured
against the combined opposition
Of entrenched Democratic State
and national administrations and
Tammany Hall.
Simpson is opposed for the
executive committee post by Mrs.
Ruth Baker Pratt, national COM
mitteewoman for New York, for
the double reason that she wants
at herself and hopes to use it to
advance the interests of Hoover,
whom she regards as the logical
choice Of the party for 1910.