The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-08-17
SENATE BATTLE HOT
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
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the people OF New Hampshire. They
dibpNiy considerable apathy when the
Treaty OF Versailles Ia mentioned. The
| Eighteenth Amendment creates little dis
sension because New Hampshire d.
vorced Itself from the gin mill some
time before national prohibition became
law. II is an agricultural State, popu-
lated by people not given to emotions
l ana rather prone to like what their fa-
| thers favored. Women do not vote there
yet. lust one Democrat has gone from
New Hampshire to the United States
\ Senate in sixty years--Henry f. Hollis.
However, President Wilson carried New
Hampshire In 1919 and 1915.
7 Senator Moses Is no popular idol in
New Hampshire. Folks do not 20 mad
nor do they dellriously scream with 10y
when he appears But he possesses
something far more valuable than frothy
popularity; he holds the respect and ad-
miration OF every regular Republican
and large number OF the regular DEM
ocrats. He Is past master at the game
or state politics. He knows the State as
he knows his own house on the outskirts
OF Concord, He has bullded himself
personal political machine that is n mar
vellous example Of coordination and efil-
cheney. He has tremendous contempt for
pussytoot diplomacy, and says that even
when he was Minister to Greece and
Montenegro under the Taft Administra-
tion, he never had to resort to that sort
OF diplomacy. He Is of volatile tenn
perament that gets him into trouble oc-
casionally. and he's Iaving the fight of
his life just at present to keep his tenn
per while the Spauldlng faction goes
about calling him unpleasant names and
resorting to rather dubious personalities
In his Characteristic way Senator
Moses calls upon Spaulding to come
forth and let the people know how he
manages to- reconcile himself as a Re-
publican to the national Republican plat
form and ticket, Moses wants to know
whether, Spaulding II elected will sup
port Senator Harding II the latter is
elected, and Spaudings spellbnders.
obviously hard pressed to make definite
statements regarding their candidates
political creed, begin calling the Senator
"Old Doc Moses" and making refer
ences to "the recall of Old Doc Moses
from Greece by President Taft" They
harp on this latter In face of widely pub
lished letters from Mr.. Taft to the effect
that Senator Moses was not recalled
from Greece. but retired voluntarily, and
much to the regret of the State Depart
ment and Mr.. Taft, then President. And
while Senator MoSes's friends urge him
TO resort to the libel courts to shut the
mouths OF the soapbox orators who utter
ugly hints (and hints only to the effect
that Moses was illegally interested in a
certain White Mountain lumber deal and
that Moses made much money at the ex-.
pense of other stockholders, the Senator
fivvers around the State talking tarin
and home Industries, and the folks com
ment along these lines:
"Well Nose does get on some folks |
nerves by being kind Of headlong, but |
he knows everybody from Nashua TO |
Colebrook and from Portsmouth to |
Woodsville and he knows what they |
want and how to get it for them The |
highbrows come knGckin' Nose and say
in he's nothln' but professional poll
ticlan, but they amt sayin' much about
what they expect to do"
Moses WRRing "A Lone Fight.
That about sums up the campaign
Just at present It Is absolutely true
that about the only direct accusation
the Spaulding faction has to make
against Senator Moses is that hes
professional politician" And virtually
everybody including Moses, will agree
with them. Most Of New Hampshire
goes further and says that he's about as
able professional politician as this
continent possesses
Moses is fghtlng lone hand. Fred
Estabrook, the Republication National
Committeeman from New Hampshire, is
out for Spauldng. And Gov John II.
Bartlett, lampooned by Quintus' Hora-
thus Flaccus. the political genius of the
Concord Patriot. as Sir John Hightax,
while non commhtal upon the situation,
is attended by Wee Willie Wallace. his
secretary, who is fervent in his advo-
cacy Of Mr. Spaulding.
Moses is fighting a willy campaign.
He is making the tariff his principal
issue. For that reason the great manu-
facturers Of Manchester, the States
largest city, are backing him up and
those workers who know that New
continued prosperity means
their own are with him. Manchester
represents 20 per cent Of all the States
votes, and despite the fact thai the ma
jority Of the labor vote is centred in
Manchester and Moses ran afoul Of la
Dor by voting for the anti-strike clause +
in the Esch-Cummins bill the chances b
are that he'll carry the big towns with
out trouble. AS has been said before,
so per cent of the labor vote of the
State is Democratic anyway, but Moses
is popular with numerous labor leaders.
majority Of the labor leaders are
Irish, and Moses's fight for the Irish res
ervation to the League of Nations has
endeared him to the hearts of those
Irish labor leaders who are themselves
fighting for Ireland's independence.
Spaulding they regard as a 'highbrow
theorist" who actually offers them moth
ing. inasmuch as he insists upon the
open shop. phey may not vote for
Moses, but certainly none will favor
Spaulding Mr. Stevens undoubtedly