The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-19
HENRY CABOT LODGE WINS HARD BATTLE Massachusetts Man Is Re-elect-
 ed To the Senate A CHANGE IN VOTES Lodge Failed To Get Majority in House on Separate Ballot But
 Switch on Joint Ballot
 Settles Contest
CHANGE IN VOTES

Boston, January 1S.-Henry Cabot Lodge won today the hardest fought battle in his political career and will return to the United States Senate for a fourth term with the support of 14s out of 279 members of the Massachusetts legislature, or six more than the number necessary for choice in the joint convention. Two democratic senators. Martin H. Cur ley and Martin J. Murray, left their party to vote for MT. Lodge, but their support was not necessary. Representative James H. McInerny, another democrat, was in the chamber, but did not vote. He did not care to oppose Senator Lodge because of personal friendship. Senator Lodge was elected on the part of the senate yester- day but the House failed to make selec- tion, so today both branches met and the result of the first and only balolt was as follows:
 Number of vote 279. Necessary for choice, 140.
 Henry Cabot Lodge of Nahant (repub- lican), 146.
 sherman L. whipple of Brooklne ((dem- ocraD, 121.
 Butler Ames of Lowell (republican) '.
 A. Lowell Lawrence of Lowe (repub- lican), ?.
 Curtis Guild, Jr, of Boston republi can), 1.
 John R. Thayer of Worcester (demo- craD, 1.
 Sylvester A. Mcbride of watertown (socialisD, l.
 AssaiIed for Two Years
 For nearly two years the senior senator of Massachusetts has been assailed by re- publican insurgents and the democratic party. The attack received very little at tention until Congressman Butler Ames, republican, came out in the open and threw down the gauntlet. Even then MT. Lodge demained silent. In the fall cam paign of 1909 the insurgency in the re- publican ranks became a recognized fact. Still the Lodge leaders refused to accept the situation as at all serious, and 1t was not until late last spring when the dem ocrats joined in the attack that the situa- tion was regarded as dangerous
 Senator Lodge gave up his accustomed summer trip to Europe and opened head quarters in this city. The fall campaign was a hard fought one, in which MT. Lodge, Governor Draper and the repub- lcan party were forced to bear the storm of democratic fdisapproval. Governor Draper was overwhelmed by the dem- ocratic landslide that swept into the gov ernor's chair Eugene N. Foss, who was Mr Lodges bitterest opponent, and it was not at all certain that the narrow republican margin in both the Senate and House was not undermined by insur- gency.
 In the separate balloting yesterday MT. Lodge won in the Senate, but 10 repub- licans left the party ranks in the House and his IF votes were three short of the number necessary for a choice.
 The total for the two branches. how ever, just made the required number of the joint convention.
 Switch To Lodge
 The joint convention met at noon today and less than half a dozen names had been called when there came shift and one republican insurgent dashed back into the fold. A few moments later an other renewed his allegiance, then two democratic senators deserted their party and voted for Mir Lodge. Scarcely had they declared themselves when one of MT. Ames' most ardent supporters voted for the senator. All this time the Lodge vote had held firm.
 When the call was finished two mem bers who apparently had been absent appeared. One Of the two, who voted for Speaker Joseph Walker yesterday, turned to Mir. Lodge today, and as the other member voted for MT. Whipple the count ended with 146 votes for Mir. Lodge.
 The republican members burst into cheers as President Treadway of the Senate announced the result, and some of the democrats joined in the demonstra- tion
 Governor Foss refused to comment on the result while Congressman Ames said he was convinced that the desires of a large majority of the people Of the state have been submerged by the influence of financial interests MT. Ames also declared his intention of continuing the