The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-18
III. N. Spaulding Seeks Sen
atorship Against George
III. Moses
SUFFRAGE ISSUE
II SHARPLY DRAWN
Moses opposes Suffrage. and spaulding
FayOrs It-Democrats Will Nominate
RAYMOND B. Stevens = Moses OPP
poses League.


poses League,
CONCORD, n. H., Aug. 1S.-There
are two classes of Republican votes I'M
New Hampshire One is the Moses
vote; the other the anti-Moses vote
And after having talked to all sorts of
New Hampshire folks-in the towns, on
the farms. in the lumber camps, the
granite. quarries, the textile factories,
railroad shops and so on-you come
very near deciding that George H..
Moses. senior United States senator
from New Hampshire, transcends, as a
local political issue, pretty nearly all
party principles, platforms national
candidates and even the tariff problem.
Probably the most amazing thing one
recognizes in the characteristics of the
political status of New Hampshire is
the apparent dominance of the Moses
question over the usual sterotyped is
sues.
On September 7, the Republicans in
this ancient state are going to the polls
TO nominate a candidate for the United
States senate. The Moses vote will
insist that CHOSE return to Wash
ington TO continue his vigorous cam
paign against the treaty, the league,
wisconsin and other sundry Democratic
propositions The anti-Moses vote, I'M
organized but vehement, viii seek to
nominate Huntley n. Spaulding, who
insists that he is as good a Republican
rs Senator Moses-if not so regular.
Mr.. Spaulding, head of the great cor
poratio ~. Spaulding & Sons, manufac-
turers Of leather board in various parts
of New England, was state food admin
istrator in Herbert Hoover s organiza-
ton. and his quest for the senatorial
nomination is easily 5likened to Mr..
Hoover's campaign for presidential
honorsy It is obvious that. his measure
of success viii be greater than Mr..
Hoovetss because, despite the senator $
splendid organization and personal
knowledge OF how to conduct a polit-
zeal campaign, Mr. Spaulding will poll
many Notes and at least will give SEN
ator Moses a terrific race.
Senator Moses's opponent for the
nomination is q liberal. He enjoys an
annual income of nearly $300,000 He
20 whbop it up for an unaltered league
of nations, and now accepts the Lodge
reservations. He is militant believer
in wonlan suffrage and is devoting con-
siderable time to praying that either
Tennessee or North Carolina ratify the
Susan b. Anthony amendment. He
claims he can win if the women folks
are enfranchised. Senator Moses, who
opposes the Anthony amendment, ac-
ccpts the challenge and replies that
his margin over Mr.. Spaulding will be
greater if the women vote because, the
senator believes, there are more women
who do not want to vote than there
are women who want to vote, and tho
latter will be fought at the polls by
the former. Besides all this Mr.
Spaulding is a brother of Rollin III
Spaulding, former governor of New
Hampshire, who ran for the senate two
years ago and was thoroughly defeated
in the primaries by Henry w. Keyes
present junior senator.
There is no question about the iden
tity Of the Democratic nominee. The
Democrats, already admitting that thPi
chances for success are not so brigh
rs 10 blind them to the probabilities
will nominate Raymond B. Stevens, for
mer vice-chairman of the shipping
board and viee,president of the emer
gencv fleet corporation. Mr.. Steven
runs as the representative of the viii
son administration. is we'll liked by Ia
Dor and, from the viewpoint of tn
most conservative of New Hampshire
farmers, is a radical However, so pc
cent of the labor vote in New IIamp
shire is Democratic anyway and, there
fore, the fact that Senator Moses head
Samuel Gompers s blacklist and tina
Mr.. Spaulding maintains and insists up