The Washington times., 1922-06-23

Whipple Is going to try in this year
1922 to push Henry Cabot Lodge out
Of the United States Senate. Remem-
ber, say the prophets, who always
gain their wisdom about the future
from their "reminiscences about the
past-remember that every Democrat
who has been elected to the Presi.
dency since the civil war has gained
his national prominence just two
years before he was so elected!
! This gives us two Democrats to re-
member-Wilson and Cleveland. VIII
son was certainly politically nothing
until he was elected governor Of New
President in 1912. Cleveland was
certainly politically not much until
he was elected governor of New York
in 1882-and thereupon elected Presi-
dent in 1884. In order to get elected
President as q Democrat you appar-
emily have to be quite obscure until
just two years before II happens. and
then-exactly twenty-four months
before the day on which the people
cast their ballots for you as their
Presidential hope-you have to swim
into their ken on the crest Of q sud
den local Democratic flood. That Is
how II Is 'done-it seems.
hate to call either whipple or
Pomerene obscure. But they GER
| tainly are not household words at
every fireside In America, like Bryan
-or McAdoo-or Cox, who fs clearly
remembered as having run for Presi-
dent quite a lot last time. Whipple
and Pomerene are-let us say
sufficiently unnotorious; and they
certainly are both Of them standing
right where a Democratic flood
might make them enormously con-
spicuons.
Pomerene IL trying to come back
to the Senate from President Hard
candidate most likely to run against
him is Fess. Fess is today q men,
Der of the Rules Committee Of the
House Of Representatives. He is
regarded as being an orthodox
authoritative representative Of the
Republican national organization.
II Pomerene defeats Fess in the
Presidents own State, he will have
made himself just about as conspicu-
Gus as a Democratic politician could
well be; and Ohio contains large
numbers of Republican politicians
who gravely fear that Pomerene Is
going to do II. The Ohio political
professional betting Is distinctly OH
Pomerene,
"In Massachusetts, the political
professional betting IL on Lodge
and not on Whipple. But notice
that Joseph Walker is going to
run against Lodge in the Republi.
can primary. 1t is not thought
that he will defeat Lodge, but 1t is
widely thought that he Is very espe-
cially fitted for the cruel task of
developing anti-Lodge sentiment.
He Is a person Of Bull Moose ante
cedents and ideas, and he conduct
ed the Massachusetts fight for the
initiative and referendum in the
Massachusetts, constitutional conven-
ton. He knows Massachusetts poll
tics and he knows the lines along
which the progressive elements In
Massachusetts, can be most effec.
lively reused to do battle against
Lodge and reaction" and all that
kind of thing. q. "
Then those elements. II Walker
falls before Lodge in the Republi.
ICdh PRIMARY Will ,tuEH--SO bay Ine
Democratic optimists--to Whipple
in the ensuing regular election.
Why not? Remember history, as
follows:
Wilson was a highbrow. So Is
Whipple. Wilson was lofty his
torian, Whipple Is a lofty jurist.
Wilson was a conservative. So was
Whipple. Wilson took a sudden
slant toward progressivism. Whip
pie Is taking It. Wilson was pug
nacious. SO is Whipple-very. VIII
son liked to hit his enemies. Whip
pie loves II. The resemblance be.
tween the two men is manifest. And
! IL Whipple defeats Henry Cabot
Lodge he will have done something
immeasurably more spectacular than
anything that Wilson did in carry
ing New Jersey In 1910, -.
Therefore Democratic eyes in
Washington are watching him-Ahim
and Pomerene. The omens learned
from Democratic history say thar
In him or in Pomerene there may
be the man whom wise Democrats
may soon rush to greet in words
which will enable them on March 8,
1925, to say:
Mr.. President. remember that I.
was the original Pomerene-for- -Presi.
dent man, or whipple- for President
man. as the case may be.