Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-18
LODGE FACING
FIGHT OF LIFE
TO HOLD SEAT
Foes Of Senator On Warpath In
Massachusetts-Two Demo
Gratis In Race
BY EDWARD M. THIERRY


tional significance and an eager ma
tional audience, because it is fight
to unseat Senator Henry Cabot
| Lodge.
BEAT Lodger' is the slogan.
"Who can do it?" is the question.
Two millionaire lawyers are chief
William A. CASTOR, has announced
| figures in the battle. One, Colonel
/ his candidacy for the Democratic
nomination The other, Sherman l.,
Whippie, will probably oppose Gas
ton.
Both are fighting men. But Whip
pie seems to be generally regarded
as the most formidable Democrat
likely to beat Lodge.
/ Another complication is that for
mer Governor Samuel W. Mccall
may give Lodge battle for the Re-
publican nomination. If Whipple
runs and Mccall runs there will be
two spectacular struggles at the Sep
tember primaries as a preliminary
to the grand knock down battle in
November.
Silk Over Hard Knuckles.
Silk gloves cover hard knuckles IN
this remarkable situation.
All belong to the upper tens; all
are wealthy; all are personal friends.
"Colonel CASTOR is a charming
Igentleman," says Senator Lodge.
"Mr. Lodge is charming person
ally-it's the things he stands for"
says Whipple.
And Whipple feels the same way
about Colonel Castor; and Colonle
CASTOR has similar sentiments to-
ward Lodge and Whipple.
Lodge is 72 and has spent half his
life in Congress, six years in the
house and 80 years in the senate.
Whipple is go, and never held office.
CASTOR is 63 and has made three un-
successful tries for governor.
Wilson Democrats are in open re-
volt against Gaston's candidacy, for
CASTOR has as much foe of the
League of Nations as Lodge. And
lWhipple, strong League of Nations
Imam, regards CASTOR as being tarred
with the same big business" stick
as Lodge
It's State Fight
Here in Massachusetts, the people
are Jealous of these friendly enc
mics" of theirs. They want the rest
of the country strictly to understand
that this is a private fight, not a
public one.
Thinking Democrats say the more
Lodge is attacked nationally the
more able he will be to don the cloak
of martyr and in that role gain SYM
pathy and support at home. They
regard the Lick Lodgew battlecry,
now being heard over the country
1 in connection with Lodges leader
ship against the League of Nations
and for the four-power treaty, as
Lodge propaganda = designed to
make Massachusetts mad and rally
the state aroun da native son.
CASTOR hasn't announced his plat
form and will not until he returns
from a business trip to Europe a
month hence.
Whipple, though not yet an
avowed candidate, will fight Lodge
on the ground that he has neglected
labor and the masses generally in
favor of special interests, and on his
vote for Newberry and against such
! things as women's suffrage and the
soldier bonus.
Mayor and Ex-Mayor Divided
The age-old enmity between the
two big Democratic bosses, Mayor
James NJ. Curley, of Boston, and for
mer Mapor John F. Fitzgerald, may
have an important bearing on the
fight Fitzgerald, who opposed Lodge
in the last senatorial election, an
nounced his candidacy for governor
the same day CASTOR came out for
senator Curley, whose power has
increased tremendously since his re-
cent election as mayor, IS regarded
as favorable to Whipple.
Whipple has been practising law
in Boston since 1885 and has ma
tional reputation as trial lawyer
Twice he has refused seat on the
state supreme court. He is under
medium height, bulky, with close
clipped brown hair going gray, and
fighting face. He is Yale man.
CASTOR has gained fame as COM
bination lawyer, business man and
banker and is chairman of the hoard
of the National Shawmut Bank. Like
Lodge, he is a Harvard man, class
mate of Theodore Roosevelt, and still
remembered at Harvard for his fistic
battle for the college middleweight
| boxing championship in 1879 when,
seconded by Roosevelt he beat Ram
on Guiteras. He is short, stocky,
with a firm mouth and sandy hair
and mustache.
! Everybody here thinks Lodge has
/ the stiffest fight of his career ahead.