The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-05
BITTER ATTACK
 ID BE MADE ON
 SENATOR LODGE
Friends of League of Nations Hope to Secure Defeat of Republican Leader
 Next Fall
By EDMUND HART

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 Boston, March 4.-Today Henry Cabot Lodge entered upon his thir- tieth year in the Senate of the United States. A year from today he will have completed his fifth consecutive term This fall he will have to run the gauntlet of the voters of the Bay state.
 The democratic leaders of the na- ton. as well as the state. are going to center one, of their two strongest attacks of this years campai gn against Senator Lodge. The other great drive will be in President Harding's home state of Ohio. The democratic national committee in- tends to help in the anti-Lodge cam paign and former President Wilson's friends far and wide have sent word 10 Massachusetts that they wish to come into the state to help beat Lodge.
 SIX years ago Senator Lodge was elected over his democratic oppo- nent John r. Fitzgerald, by a plu l. rality of 23000. It was Mir. Lodges s first election by direct vote of the people. His other four elections were at the hands of the legislature. Mfr. Lodge had been one of the consistent opponents of the election of United States senators by direct vote.
 Would Like to Run Again
 His opponent of six years ago wants to run against him this year, but it looks, at the present writing, as if MT. Fitzgerald would have diff aZ A.. nomination. His old political enemy and brother in politics, Mayor Curley of Boston, whose two elections as chief executive of this city MT. F'itz- gerald opposed. is grooming Sherman l.. Whipple of Brookline for the nomination. Mir. WhippIe is one of the leading lawyers of Boston rich and ambitious to shine politically, and would like to end his career as member of the United States Senate At one time Mir. Whipple was consij- cred by Woodrow Wilson for Attor new General in the cabinet
 There Is unusual interest in the outcome of the Massachusetts sena- torial campaign this year. because of MT. Lodges prominence in the Sen ate and his leadership of his party at Washington. To MT. Lodge, by reason of his position as chairman of the committee on foreign rela- tions, has been committed the task of putting the new treaties through the Senate, just as it was his job to kill the League of Nations fathered by President Wilson. To Mir. Lodge also was assigned the role of cur tain dropper at the closing scene of the historic tragedy of the Wilson administration, when as the Senate's representative, 1t was his duty to notify MT. Wilson that the Senate had transacted all of'its business and was ready to adjourn to make way for the coming in of the Harding regime
 Meeting With Wilson
 Those who we're privileged to wit ness the meeting of these two oppos- ing political leaders-Wiison. broken in health. and Lodge, erect and mili- tant. will not soon forget the mem orable scene as Lodge conveyed the Senate's message and President Will sons cutting reply that he had no further communication to make to that body. There was a studied cool ness in MT. Wilson's curt answer, as he dismissed the republican spokes- man on that occasion. Wilson's friends have not forgotten Lodges opposition to Wilson and his policies
 
 do everything in their power to pre- vent his election this fall. They also state that they are not SO particular who runs against MT. Lodge as they are in seeing the latter compelled to drink the bitter cup of defeat.
 Senator Lodge has already opened his campaign for reelection. The echoes of that opening gun in his campaign for reelection had hardly ceased reverberating before enemies in his own party began to fire back at him. The lead was taken by Joseph Walker, easpeaker of the Massachu- setts house of representatives, one time candidate for governor. whose father, Congressman Joseph Walker, of Worcester, the Gray Eagle of the Qunsi gamond," hailed Lodge with the venom of an Indian. MT. Walker used to be standpatter, but of late years he joined the progressives of the c. o. P. His chief reason for op- posing MT. Lodge is the latter's stand on the League of Nations.
 There are many new elements which he will have to reckon with. Always consistent opponent of equal suffrage, Mr. Lodge cannot count on the support of the women voters as enthusiastically as his friends would wish.
 Prohibitionists Oppose Him
 The prohibitionists would like to see the republicans nominate a dry, like ex-Gov. John l.. Bates who is strong also with the church element. Many of the two elements blame Sen-