The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-01-20
HENRY CABOT LODGE
HOLDS SENATE SEAT
BY CLOSEST MARGIN
MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR is
ER-ELECTED BY MAJORITY
OF SEVEN VOTES.
MARKS end OF A BITTER FIGHT
Assaults Made Upon Him by Political
Enemies for Past Two Years-Eu-
gene Foss 10 Silent Over Result of
Legislative Election.

gene Foss 10 Silent Over Result Of
Legislative Election.
BOSTON. Jan. 1S.--Henry Cabot
Lodge won today the hardest fight in
his political career and will return
to the United States Senate for a
fourth term, with the support OF 146
out of 279 members of the Massachu-
sets legislature, or six more than the
number necessary for a choice In the
joint convention.
Two Democratic Senators, Martin
H. Curley and Martin ]. Murray, left
their party to vote, for Mr.. Lodge, but
their support was not necessary.
Representative James McInnery, an
other Democrat was In the chamber
but did not vote. He did not care to
oppose Senator Lodge because Of per-
sonal friendship. Senator Lodge was
elected on the part Of the Senate yes
terday, but the House failed to make
selection, 80 today both branches
met, and the result Of the first and
only ballot was as follows:
Number of votes, 279; necessary
for choice 140; Henry Cabot Lodge,
of Nahant, Republican, LAG; Sherman
L. Whipple, Of Brookline, Democrat,
1921 Butler Ames, Of Lowell, Republi-
can, Z; A. Laurance Lowell of Cam
bridge, Independent, Q: Curtiss Guild,
Jr, of Boston, Republican, /; John R.
Thayer, of Worcester, Democrat, l.;
Sylvester A. Mcbride, of Watertown,
Socialist, /.
For nearly two years the senior
Senator from Massachusettshad been
assailed by insurgents and the Demo
cratic party. The attack received
very little attention until Congress
man Butler Ames, a Republican, came
out In the open and threw down the
gauntlet. Even then Mr.. Lodge re.
NAMED silent. In the fall campaign
of 1900 the insurgency in the Republi'
can ranks became recognized fact
Still the Lodge. leaders refused to &C
cept the situation as at all serious
and it was, not until late last spring
when the Democrats joined in the at
tack, that the situation was regarded
as dangerous"
Senator Lodge gave up his accus
toned summer trip to Europe and
opened headquarters in this city. The
fall campaign was hard fought one
in which Mr. Lodge, Gov. Draper and
the Republican party were forced to
bear the storm of Democratic disap
Iproval Gov. Draper was overwaelm
ed by the Democratic landslide that
swept into the Governors chair Eu
gene N. Foss, who was Mr.. Lodve's
bitterest opponent, and 1t was not al
all certain that the narrow Republican
margin in both the Senate and the
House was not undermined by insur
gency.
In the Senate balloting yesterday
Mr.. Lodge won, but ten Republicans
left the party ranks in the House, and
his 1T votes were three short of the
number necessary for a choice.
The total of the two branches, how
ever, just made the required number
OF the joint convention.
The joint convention met at noon
today and less than a half dozen
names had been called, when there
came shift and one Republican In
surgent dashed back into the fold. A
few moments later and another re-
newed his allegiance, and then two
Democratic Senators deserted their
party and voted for Mr.. Lodge
Scarcely had they declared them
selves, when one of Mr.. Ames most
ardent supporters voted for the Sen
ator. All this time the Lodge vote
had held firm.
When the call was lnished, two
members, who apparently had been
absent, appeared One Of the two
who voted for Speaker Joseph Walker
yesterday, turned to Mr.. Lodge today,
and as the other member voted for
Mr.. whipple, the count ended with
I146 votes for Mr.. Lodge.
The Republican members burst In.
tocheers as President Treadway, of
the Senate, announced the result, and
some Of the Democrats Joined in the
demonstration.
Gov. Foss refused to comment on
the result, while Congressman Ames
said that he was convinced that the
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