New-York tribune., 1920-08-02
White House
Keen to Defeat
Senator Moses
New Hampshire Mans Ref
erence to ssBrain Le-
sion'' Still Rankles and
Reprisal Is ON Program
Aid to Wood Also Calls
Tumulty Sends Opponent
Pledge of Most Ardent
Administration Support
Bv Carter Field


WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-Democratic
plans to overturn the slight Repub-
lican majority in the Senate are COM
plicated, it was learned here tonight,
by the desire on the part Of the Demo-
cratic managers to punish Senator
George II. Moses, Of New hampshire.
Senator Moses, it will be recalled,
wrote letter to a constituent In New
Hampshire early during the Presidents
illness diagnosing the'Chief Executives
ailment as brain lesion.
1t developed some time later, during
the memorable conference on Mexico
between the President and Senators
Hitchcock and Fall, that the President
had heard about the incident and re-
membered it. After telling Senator
Fall that doubtless it would be a great
disappointment to OR" Moses to
find his diagnosis wrong, sne President
asked Senator Fall to convey a message
to the New Hampshire Senator.
After the Presidents aiiment had
been pronounced "thromboss" over the
signature of DR.. Hugh H. Young, of the
Johns Hopkins Hospital, one OF the ex-
perts called in, most laymen seemed to
think that CDR" Moses had been as
tonishingly accurate in his informa-
ton, but among the close followers of
the White House there is still keen re-
sentiment
Plan of Reprisal Revived
1t now develops that there is to be
an especial drive against Senator Moses
by the Democratic managers. Nothing
was said early after the nomination OF
Cox, but now that the new national
chirman George White, has left most
of the old crowd of workers on the
lob in the national committee head
quarters, there is taking up of the old
plans.
Senator Moses apparently increased
the Administration hostility by his ac-
tvities as Southern manager for Gen
eral Leonard Wood during the pre-
convention fight. His statements issued
frequently during that fight "bit in"
under the skin Of the strong Admins
tration men just little more than did
other candidates, and Senator Moses's
name during that period was seldom
mentioned in ardent White House
circles without heat.
The Presidents secretary, Joseph P.
Tumulty who has had influence at
Democratic National Committee head
quarters out Of all proportion to his
real Importance in the party, due to
the inaccessibilty of the President him
self, is especially bitter against the
New Hampshire Senator, and it is said
to be his influence which largely has
determined the heavy drive against Mr..
Moses.
Aid Pledged to Spaulding
Tumulty is said to have sent man
to see Huntley N. Spaulding, who came
out in the primaries against Moses be-
fore he announced himself and again
since he entered the race, promising
him all the Democratic support pos
sible.
The Democratic managers justify
this by saying that Spaulding, al
though a Republican, is pro- Wilson and
is strong for the League of Nations
whereas Senator Moses on the Foreign
Relations Committee, fought the Will
son league from the beginning of the
fight right down to the final ballot. As
a matter of fact, Mr.. Moses shared with
Hiram Johnson the unusual honor of
being put on the tremendously i'm
portant Foreign Relations Committee
which handled the treaty, in their very
first session of Congress. Usually g