The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-02-20
MISSOURI COP.
FIGHTS TOFHL
REED'SPLACE
Republicans See Big
Chance to Elect An
other Senator.
FIGHT IN DEMOCRAT
RANKS PREDICTED
Walter S. Diekey Will
Enter Race Soon,
Is Belief.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. 10
Republica nleaders here and in st.
Louis are preparing to make the
most of What appears to them an
unusual opportunity to elect Re
publican Senator from Missouri this
year to succeed James A. Reed.
Democrat.
The steady growth of the Repub-
lican party in this border State, to
a point that has shifted Missouri
from the sure Democratic to tho
doubtful column. and the bitter
strife among the Democrats are
the chief considerations on which
Republican hopes arc based. ,
Whether Senator Reed will be a
candidate for denomination is un-
certain. The Senator is now in the
State making a few speeches and
looking over his fences. but says
he has not decided whether he will
seek reelection. He has talked Of
retiring from public life and re-
moving to New York to practice
law. Some of his closest friends.
however. are convinced he will be
a candidate in the August primary.
Has Created Havoc.
As an irreconcilable and abusive
opponent of the attitude of the
Wilson administration on the Ver-
saillcs treaty, the league of nations
and many other issues Reed has
created considerable havoc in the
Democratic party in Missouri, from
which arises some doubt of his
ability to win denomination and
considerably more doubt of the pos
sibility of his election.
The regular Democrats are said
to be down on Reed and vowing
vengeante. Many will support any
opponent in the primary and II
Reed be nominated, there are many
who will vote for the Republican
candidate, according to some of the
auti-Reed contingent.
In his speeches 4n Missouri in the
past few days Reed has been en-.
deavOring to rally to his support
all those who are disposed to blame
the HardinG administration for
hard times.
Organization Is strong.
With times improving generally,
however. and the farmers in pa
ticular beginning to receive pre-
war prices for gran. hogs and
sheep, the value of this appeal be-
comes doubtful. -
The Senator also works himself
up into a fury over the loaning of
American billions to the bankrupt
mili:aristic nations of Europe.
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that none of these loans WAS made
by the Harding administration.
Reeds strength lies in his polit-
ical organization and in his hold
on the population of German ex-
traction. ap important factor in
Missouri. His opposition in the
Democratic party is largely unor-
ganized and lacking in strong lead
crship, wherein would lie his chief
chance of success in the primary.
Long Followers Conhdent.
The only candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination so far formally
declared is Breckinridge Long, a
young man who was Third Assist
ant Secretary of state in the Will
son administration. He was de-
feated for the Senate by Selder P.
has gone after the place again with
redoubled vigor. He is going up
and down the State making
speeches chiefly in glorificaiion of
the league of nations and other
wAsonian policies, evidently de-
signed to solidify and keep alive
that bitter opposition to Reed in
the Democratic party which famed
forth tonce in the denunciatIon of
the Senator by the Missouri legis- |
lature and again in the refusal of
the party to accord him a place in
the delegation, to the San Francisco
convention in 1920.
The managers of the Long candi- |
dacy are enthusiastic over the pros |
pect, reporting significant ebulli-
tions of anti-Reed sentiment wher- |
ever the Senator's young antagonist |
has made speeches. Whereat the |
friends of Reed smile and murmur |
that this has happened before, but |
somehow has not been registered |
at the polls.
Diekey to Enter Race.
Republican National Committee
man Babler and other Republican |
leaders are confident they can de-
feat the Democratic candidate |
whether he be Reed or Long. They |
count on a serious division OF the
Democrats in either case and pro-
tess to perceive no danger of SIM
liar dissension in the Republican
party.
No candidacy for the Republican |
nomination has been formally an
nounced, but 1t Is not doubted that |
Walter S. Dickey, long the mil |
lionaire angel Of the party in Mis- |
souri,, who recently purchased the |
Kansas City Journal. will get into |
the field. before long. Dickey was |
defeated by Reed six years ago.
Other possible Republican candi- |
dates are Samuel o'Fallon. speaker |
of the State assembly: Representa-
tive. Charles Faust, of the st. Joseph |
district: State Senator David NJ |
Proctor, of Kansas City: E. E. e. |
McJimsey publisher Of the Spring. |
field Republican, and John McEin- |
ley, Of Unionville, a perennial aspir- |
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