Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-19
MAINE, MINNESOTA
PRIMARIES TODAY
Politicians Watching for Indica-
tions Of Spread Of Pro-
gressive Movement
2 SENATORSHIPS AT STAKE
By a stat Correspondent

Washington. June 19.-Mainc and
Minnesota will hold the attention of ma
,tional political leaders today.
They come next in the procession Of
State primaries. which began in May
and will end in September. The results
will be watched chiefly for indications
of the insurgcnt tide which swept out
reactonarics in Indiana, Pennsylvania
and Iowa.
Curiously enough. the principal can
didates involved-United States Sena-
tors Frederick Hale in Maine and
Frank b. Kellogg in Minnesota--are
members of President Harding's "golf
cabinet" Their chief claim to fame
into power has arisen from their asso-
citation with the Executive on the links
around Washington.
Neither Senator Hale nor Senator
Kellogg is rated among the heavy
weights of the Senate. They are, how
ever, especially close to the White
House. Their personal and political
relations with the President are espe-
cially cordial. They frequently figure
in presidential fOursome. The two
Senators are often at the White House
for luncheon or dinner. Consequently
their fate in today's primaries will have
special interest here.
Kellogg Apparently Safe
Senator Kellogg is apparently safe
is In no danger of defeat for the Re-
publican nomination. His opponents
on the Republican side are former Con-
gressman Ernest Lundeen and Richard
r. Titus, both of Minneapolis. Lun-
deem is expected to run second. He is
backed by labor, the Nom Partisan
League and by radical elements gener-
ally. Kellogg, on the other hand, has
the support of the Republican organi-
zation.
SO confident are Kellogg and his
| friends of his nomination that he is
staying here in Washington and max
ing virtually no campaign. He is run.
ming on his record.
Kellogg was one Of knOx's "trus
busters when the Pennsylvania was
Attorney General in the Mckinley Cab.
inet. lie has had an unusual career. A
native of New York, he went to Min.
ncsota as Il boy. He studied law
ecuting dissolution suits against tn,
Standard Oil Company, the 'papc
trust" and the Union Pacific Southern
Pacific merger and in 1928 served
rs president of the American Bar AS.
sociatiOn. lie is completing his frs
term in the Senate, where for SOM
reason he has not shone as one of 1T
luminaries as might have been expected
from his record.
His real fight to return to the Sen
ate will come in November. Tie will b.
opposed either by Mrs. Anna ID. ,Olcsen
an extraordinarily able woman who ha
been active in politics, suffrage and clu,
work in Minnesota for thirty years, o
by Thomas j. Mcighen. farmer an
banker, who once was n grccnbacke
rMcighen are cOntesting for the Dem
ocratic nomination. Observers VIII
have studied the Minnesota situation q
close range recently recIare the radica
trend in the West nay endanger Kellog
in the general election.
Hale Beau as Well as Senator
BachclOrhood is II factor in Hale
. fight Hale Is unmarried. He is rated
in fact, as one Of the most dcsirabl
catches" in capital society. Relative
~ young. gOOd looking, wealthy, dcbb
nair, he Is beau as well as Senator
| And his bnchclorhood is one of the ar
. gumcnts his opponent for the Rcpubli
can nomination is using against him.
state Senator Howard Davies Is h
opponent. Mrs. Davies. as an ncti,
( sampaisner In her husbands behalf,
, an important factor in the contest
They are running the Davies cnmpaig
together. Mrs. Davies is telling d
voters of Maine that Il married ma
possesses II broader viewpoint than
bachelor, that he il better able to com
, prehcnd the vcxatious social and ccc
. nomic problems which confront Congres
. than any single man and that her hus
band therefore should be elected.
So far as Washington has heard, II
q issue of bachclOrhoOd is the only one
consequence in the Maine primaries.
y it defeats Hale, score of bachelors
q Congress nay have to run to cover, {,
it is traditional in politics that %,
goes Maine, so goes the Nation"
That Hale himself regards 1t ser
ously and recognizes its political dal
gers is indicated by the fact that
q went home to campaign,