The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-10-21
ROOSEVELT TO AID.
LODGE
Former President in Boston
to Aid His Old
Friend.

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President Roosevelt arrived in Bos-
ton today to deliver campaign
speech in behalf of his friend Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, whose term in
the United States senate will come to
an end next March and who is cam
didate for reelection Colonel Roose-
welt, it is understood, is going to tell
the Massachusetts voters how Sen
ator Lodge stood by him in the try
ing times when he was striving to
secure progressive legislation from a
reluctant senate and how they could
not hope to have an ADLER represen-
tative in the upper branch of the
national legislature.
The fact that it has been deemed
advisable to have the former presi-
dent speak in his behalf is taken as
an indication that Senator Lodge for
the first time in II years feels that
his hold on his senate seat is not
past the breaking. The fact that
the senator abandoned his annual
vacation trip to Europe this summer
and has been busy with his campaign
since the middle of July is regarded
as further evidence that he realizes
the gravity of the situation.
Massachusetts has always been
proud of Senator Lodge, whose car
eer in many respects has been dis
tinguished and worthy of the best
traditions of the state. But the re-
publican leaders admit that If the
senatorship were to be decided at this
time by a direct vote of the people
Mr.. Lodge would likely be defeated.
No one believes that Representative
Butler Ames, who is the only an
nounced candidate for the Lodge
toga, has much of chance to break
into the senate There is believed to
be chance, however, that Mr.. Ames
may have following enough in the
legislature TO prevent the caucus Sc
lection of Mr.. Lodge. The greatest
danger, however, to the senator lies
in the chance which admittedly ex-
lists that the democrats may control
the next legislature on joint ballot.
While the republicans of Massa-
chusetts have controlled the legisla-
ture for many years by a safe mar
cfCin in the
state in each of which the party ma
iority at the last election for men,
| bers of the legislature was less than
/ 800 votes. The democratic hope for
supremacy is based on expected
changes in these districts where the
republicans have control by very mar
row margins. An Overturn in one
half of the districts where the repub-
| lican majority always has been small
will give the legislature to the demo
Gratis and with it the power to name
senator to succeed Mr.. Lodge.
The tariff is in part the cause OF
republican troubles in Massachusetts
as it is in other states. 1t is to be
assumed that Massachusetts is pro-
tective tariff state and that the dis
affection is directed against the
method rather than the principles
Many republicans are FESTIVE and
there is a feeling in places that there
have been few signs of progress tc
prove that the makers of the ma
tional platform were sincere in their
promises.
The republican leaders hope that
the speech of Colonel Roosevelt will
hold the insurgent republicans in
line and also assist in retaining the
independent and mugwump vote anc
drawing it back into the republican
fold by an appeal to partisan spirit
To Speak i'm New Hampshire.
Portsmouth, n. H., Oct. 21.-Col
Theodore Roosevelt is expected il
New Hampshire tomorrow to speal
in behalf of Robert r. Bass, the re
publican candidate for governor. Mr.