Show SOCIAL LOBBY the prominence given by the press of the country to one of the issues almost lead uninformed people to might campaign of the iowa senatorial including members of the two believe that leading public officials into social butterflies as a result of their branches of congress are turning matter of fact washington is made residence in the national capital As a else in th the e united found everywhere up of the same kind of people that are and representatives are not apt to undergo any particular states and senators degree of change by reason of the fact that they live in washington where folks and society are about the same as that which they left at home the correspondent of this paper asked a number of old residents of the national capital all business and professional people this question what can you vou tell me about the acial social lobby of washington 1 I never have seen it and do not know in every case the answer was whose custom it was to representative that there is one A senator or his home town making the rounds of card spend night after night in avail himself of the opportunities parties theatres theartres the atres and dances would likely to indulge in the same kind ol 01 pleasures of a large city like washington it is significant however that most men of that kind are unable to secure a favorable verdict from the voters to pe permit amit them to move headquarters to washington on the other hand the hardheaded hard headed lawyer or business man who succeeds in the election is usually the man who made it a habit to stay home nights in ills his home town when then he gets to washington he be brings his fixed habits along with ills his other old possessions rents a house or apartment a and nd settles down to his duties just the same as any other useful citizen it is safe to say that halt half of all the men in the two branches of congress do nut not go out oftener after dark than the lawyers teachers and merchants of washington who have nothing to do with political matters presumably the social lobby works after dark it is reasonable to assume that it if the congressmen who are supposed to be victims of 0 the social siren remain quietly at home and keep away irom from nightly parties that they are not being lulled into a state of unconsciousness ness regarding their sworn duty to their state and country of course washington has a larger number of social gatherings of significance than other cities but that is merely because there are so many official affairs that are made more interesting by adding a see social a flavor to the gatherings in order to meet this situation the president tor instance is furnished a house that is as big as a hotel but most men in congress are living on their salaries and they are not able to splurge touch rauch after settling campaign expenses and other demands that continue to pour in from their homes the social lobby at washington may be correctly compared to the social lobby ot of any city in all of them there is apt to be suspicion that this lobby seeks favor at official headquarters the business of the national government is conducted almost entirely in the offices of its officials and that is where lobbyists hobbyists citizens countrymen all go when they have political chestnuts in the tire fire politicians are wary men and they are not spoiling perfectly good evenings or social pastimes talking shop after atter hours or in permitting themselves to be worked by social schemers in full dress clothes the subject of the social lobby is usually good material tor for writers ot of fiction and it often serves the purposes of political demagogues aside irom from that it is principally bunk |