The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-22
HOPE TO CUT
LODGES LEAD
IN HIS STATE
Contest Between Old Line
Parties in Senator Horse
District Will Prove Inter-
esting One.
WOMAN WANTS IN RACE.
BY MARK SULLIVAN

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept 22.-i
Fully as interesting as New MexiCo's |
election of a senator on Tuesday of |
this week is one that is going to oc
cur in the sixth congressional district |
of Massachusetts next Tuesday. This
coming Massachusetts election mar
rowly missed having dramatic quail
ties which would have focused the
attention of the country on it.
The sixth Massachusetts district is
the one in which Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge has his home, and there is gos-
sip in Washington to the effect that
Senator Lodges daughter, Mrs. Au-
gustus Peabody Gardner, wanted to
try for the Republican nomination but
vas dissuaded by persons close to her
Nomination Was Certain
II Mrs. Gardner had tried for the
Republican nomination she would un-
doubtedly have got it. If she had got
the nomination, she would with equal
certainty have won the election. In
that event she would have been the
third woman to occupy seat in con-
gress. and her political and personal
background being what it is, and her
personality being as forceful as it is,
her presence in congress would have
had greater significance than that of
her two feminine predecessors in that
body. one from Oklahoma and one
from Montana.
Mrs. Gardner is not only the daugh,
ter of the senator from Massachusetts
but is also the widow of the man who
represented this district in congress
for 10 years.
He was one of the most promising
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which occurred in a southern army
camp, where he had enlisted to go to
war as private, lost to congress one
OF its most useful and intelligent
members.
After Representative Gardner died.
his secretary, w. w. Lufkin, succeeded
him and had the office through two
elections until July of the present
year, when he resigned to become col
lector of the port of Boston.
District Strongly Republican
Through all these years of the ten
ure Of Gardner and Lufkin the sixth
Massachusetts district has been
strongly Republican. Gardner and
Lufkin rarely failed to get twice as
many votes as their Democratic op-
ponents. and on more than one occa-
sion got three times as many.
Under the circumstances it is not
to be expected that the Democrats
carry the coming special election, but
they do hope to make gains suffi-
ciently impressive to be presented to
the country as evidence of shifting of
sentiment in the home district of the
Republican leader of the senate
For their hopes the Democrats rely
not only on changed business condi.
tions since the election last year and
on changed sentiment as to national
Issues, but also on local factional
strife among the Republicans
Rake Up Old Quarres
The primary contest for the Repub.
lican nomination was marked by much
bitterness, of sort that usually leaves
among the defeated faction residue
OF resentment, of which the Demo
Gratis, in this case, hope to be the
beneficiaries.
No doubt considerable number oi
votes, in this election next Tuesday
will be determined by national issues
but neither here nor anywhere else
are the people as yet sufficiently ex
cited about national issues to go tC
the polls in large numbers because
of them alone.
In the recent Republican primary
contest in this district, for example
the chief interest seemed to turn OF
personal episodes in the careers o.
the two candidates. AS TO one of the
candidates the question was raised
whether or not he was justified il
staying home from the war by the
fact that he had wife and three chill
dren.
He being 33 years old when the wa
began and having rich father-in-law
Can't Judge by This.
AS to the other candidate mucl
was made of the fact that in 1912, HI
had been dismissed from the Office o
the treasury because he had been alb
sent without leave in order TO attent
the Republican national convention o
that year.
In district where trivialities lik,
this occupy the front of the stage
can hardly be said that the election
next Tuesday will have much barome
trical value as to change of sentimen
on national issues.
The man who won the Republican
nomination. Col. A. Piatt Andrew, 1
an anti-Lodge man and his victory b.
a vote of two TO one has been ar
nounced as an anti-Lodge anti-organ
zation triumph of large proportions
The Democrats don't hope to win mex
Tuesday but they do hope to make a
impression by reduction of the norm
al Republican majority.
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