The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-18

The reSurgence or party con- signed to the grave in 1896, yet which won II Senate seats, 169 House seats, IS governorships, and control of both houses in 19 state legislatures, is common knowledge, but some of the forces back of the resurrection" are less familiar. GOES INTO
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 Pew, at violent odds with the New Deal since MIRA Petroleum Code dasy, turned for assistance to Washington and Philadelphia. He the Republican party offices in found apathy and decay in both places. So he decided to do some thing about it, by means of mill lion dollars of his own and his rela- tives'. He bought two farm papers of wide circulation, but mostly he worked among business men.
 In Colonel Estes, who had been
 conducting a one-man purge of radicals within the Democratic party, Pew found a kindred spirit.
 Under assumed names Pew and Estes journeyed about campaign ing in Georgia, Iowa, and iMnne- sota, wherever there seemed chance to beat New Dealer.
 But it was in Pennsylvania that this duo got in their best licks. Pew ran Arthur James for governor, and Estes, operating under the pseu- donym of Colonel English" became their one-man brain-trust. James carried Pennsylvania by 300,000.
 With a dozen associates of like views, they are grooming James for the 1940 presidential race, or, fail- ing that, they hope to put him in a bargaining position where he can guarantee resolute Roosevelt candidate.
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 The Republican national commit tee headquarters at Washington is already spending $2O,O00 month, with an expandible organization that can probably reach $1,000,00O a month when the actual campaign is on.
 One of Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamiltons less-known &C., tivities was trip to England in 1897 where he studied the actics of the British conservative party, which though 16 years ou of power, managed to maintain tight and effective oppositional organiza- tion. Hamilton returned to write a ponderous report, and some of the Republican activities today are based on what he learnled of Brit ish minority party tactics.
 The research division headed by Glen Saxon, Yale professor of busi- ness administration, is an example. Eight fact-diggers keep congress- men and the publicity bureau, headed by Franklin Waltman, sup piled with plenty of ammunition at all times. Waltman has weekly con- ferences with the effective Repre- sentative Joe Martin, minority lader, and Hamilton convenes each week a meeting of eight or 10 con- gressional leaders with his "brain trust" to discuss intelligent tactics against New Deal legislation.
 The party is well xed nancially, reducing its debt, with funds re- ceived from 86.OO0 contributors last year.
 A strenuous effort is also being made to define Republican party policy in simple and distinctive terms. Dr. Glenn Franks Progrom Committee is still working, at a cost of 5000 a month, to gather basic material out of which the next party convention can frace a plat form.
 Thus the resurgence of the Re- publican party is not entirely an &C., cident, nor spontaneous popular reaction. There has been, and there is, a more intelligent and concerted rection than most people have sus- effort being poured into the resur- pected,