Indiana daily times., 1922-06-23
SICK MAN in
POLITICSONCE
MORE FIGURES
Attack of Paralysis
Removes Astute
Leader.
M'CUMBER IS SAD
Campaign Managers
Retirement Held
OminOus.
M'CUMBER rs SAD
Special TO Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
nv R0RERT RARRY.

D1
WASHINGTON, June 23.-once again
has a sick man in politics thrown ma
tional results into confusion. At the
Chicago convention of 1920 the illness Of
Senator Penrose. the "sIck man of Spruce
street." was held to have altered the
purposes of the Republican party. At
San Francisco the nomination Of James
NJ Cox was attributed TO the physical
incapacity of Woodrow Wilson, the sick
man Of theWhite House"
This time ii is Alec Mckenzie, most
astute manager Of the northwest terri
tory. He lies in a Minneapolis hospital,
a victim Of paralysis, near the border
line between life and death. He is the
manager Of Senator Porter ]. McCum-
ber His elimination from the do-or-die
stru Egle between Republican conserva-
tives and Non-partisan League radicals
in the great granary came as stunning
blow to Administration forces. To some
IL meant nothing less than the nomina-
ton Of former Governor Lynn j. Frazier,
opponent of McCumber in the Republic
an primaries set for next Wednesday.
MeCUMBER HIMELF
Is TN THE DUMPS"
Senator McCumber was ain the dumps"
and his friends and aides were dismayed
over the turn Of events. They were
candid IN their acknowledgements that
odds were against the incumbent and the
Republican party was in for greater
trouble through Frazier. than through
the results In Indiana, Iowa and Penn
svlvania which are to bring Beveridge
and Brookhart to the Senate and put
Clifford Pinehot in the Governors chair
at Harrisburg.
Defeat of so important a Republican
leader as the chairman of the all-power-
full Senate Committee on Finances TO
which he fell heir under the seniority rule
when Boise PenrOse passed from the
scene last New Years eve, was viewed
by Administration leaders in the light of
what might follow in the national poll
tics of tomorrow, especially 1924. Mr.
McCamber has not been strong chair
man. He lacked many qualities Of his
predecessor. Instead Of dominating the
Senate, as did Penrose prior to his fatal
Illness Mr.. McCumber has been obliged
when in a pinch TO fall back on the
friendship and skill of Senator James E.
Watson OF Indiana 1t was Senator Wat
son ana Mr. Mckenzie who were able
to work together. They know all the
secre s Of party organization and their
comb lned efforts oyercame many DIFF
ficuliies. Together thtey had worked
nigh: and day to bring about renomina-
ton Of Senator McCumber. With Mr..
Mckenzie eliminated from the North Da-
kota equation, the results has been
thrown into such serious doubt as to
cause Administration leaders to regard
Mr.. McCumber's chances as very bad.
MANY MISTAKES
MADE IN CAMPAIGN.
Many mistakes have been made by the
Senator In his campaign for renOmina-
tiOn. He declined the aid of an active
and vigorous organization known as the
/. Y. A.-Independent Voters Associa-
tion-for fear OF alternating support of
nOn-partisan league adherents. That
group had been triumphant in the fight
to recall Frazier from the governorshlp
and was ready 20 fight tooth and nail for
McCumber. He had clear majority in
IL, yet he hesitated to grasp the bull of
radicalism by the horns and failed to
obtain an l. v A Endorsement
The death OF former Senator AISLE }.
Gronna, prospective contestant for the
nomination, has proved to have been a
liability to the McCumber forces In
stead Of an asset Much of the Gronna
support has gone over to Frazier, 1t is
said 1t was Mckenzie who brought
about the defeat of Gronna IN the Re
pubIic,r primaries of 1920. Conservative
leaders never have forgotten that when
they became alarmed over the possible
. defeat of Gronna, a satellite Of La Foil
ette, preferring him to a non partisan
leaguer, It was Mckenzie who reassured
them with the words:
@I'II send you a better Republican than
Gronna ever was" He sent DR.. Edwin
T. Ladd, q man who bore the Non
Partisan League label, but who has
voted with the Administration far oftener
than has La Toilette, and therefore
more frequently than Gronna might have
been expected to do.
ORMSBY MHARG
WEAKENS M'CUAIBER.
The votes which Will go to Ormsby
McHarg, the third candidate in the
North Dakota field. are expected to
weaken the McCumber cause. Although
many unkind things are said and others
suggested about the McHarg candidacy,
the simple fact confronting Republican
leaders is that while he will run a bad
third, a compilation Of the votes might
show that he took from McCumber
enough ballots TO give Senator Reed
SmoOt of Utah the craftsmanship Of the
Senate Finance Committee and make
bob" La Toilette. the ranking member
OF that body. as such, rightful conferee
on Administration tariff and revenue
legislation. Defeat of McCumber would
force, it is predicted, the Republican
leaders to read La Toilette out Of the
party without waiting for him to become
the nominee Of the Socialists for the
presidency in 1924.-Copyright, 1922, by