The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-06-30

good presidential possibility. And even if
he is not mentioned as leader he might make
a good running-mate
The old political order seems to be chang
ing all over the country. Some of the Sena-
tors who have been in Con
MASSACHUSETTS, gress until they felt it their
IS GOiNGf TO home forever are destined
HAVE A HOT to have jolt or two, even
CAMPAIGN FOR If they are not thrown out.
SENATOR Staid old Massachusetts is
wrought up over the posi-
bility of hot campaign, and Henry Cabot
Lodge has a rival in the field AS is to be
expected from Massachusetts, the campaign
is on dignifed grounds and words of three
syllables will be conspicuous in all the cam
paign literature. Senator Lodges rival is
Representative Butler Ames, and he states his
reason for announcing is solely because no one
else would take up the fight against Lodge
and his political machine. 1t would seem, &C
cOrding to Mr.. Ames, Senator Lodge repre-
sents the railroad, banking and manufacture
ing interests of that thrifty State, and all
these including Mr.. Lodge are opposed to
the system of direct primaries. In part Mr..
Ames said, in his card announcing himself as
a candidate:
with direct primaries, it is universally admit
tea Cnat Mr. Lodge would have possible change
OF reelection. The Lodge machine and lobby
worked in the Massachusetts Senate again this
year to successfully defeat the direct primary bill
which had passed the House.
1.-The defeat of Mr.. Lodge and the termination
of this machine will tend more than anything else
to party success not only in the Senate but in the
nation 1t will restore confidence in the Republic
management by divorcng the Legislature lob
by from the political machine and defeating a
public official who has long served the private
interests rather than the public good"
And Massachusetts is not the only State
where the people have become tired of old
methods and fixed rules.
SPAIN has been feeling the unrest which
has resulted from the conditions existing be-
tween the Government and
is SPAIN FACING the Vatican. A religious
RELIGIOUS reform policy advocated by
WAR WITH the Premier Canaejas. has
THE NATlCANF aroused bitter antagonism
from the Roman Catholics,
and it is predicted that the country is on the
verge of civil war. A dispatch from Madrid
thus outlines the conditions existing:
Upon the day that the radical government as
sumed power Canalejas announced that he would
further the program of religious freedom mapped
out by the preceding ministry. This included a
revision of the concordat and the compelling of
unauthorized religious orders to seek authorize
ton under the law adopted in 1887. The estab-
Hshment of some religious orders not complying
with the terms of this law have since been closed
by the government.
can imperial decree of June II permitted non
Catholic religious edifces to display the insignia
for public worship. The Vatican protested on the
ground that the status quo should be continued
until the revision of the concordat had been COM
pleted. Canalejas replied that if the issue of the
decree coupled with the revision negotiations
the latter would be broken off. The Vatican re-
manned firm in it's attitude that the subject of the
decree must be first disposed of, and following