The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-11
LUCK OF LODGE NOT
SHAREDBY OTHERS
in BAY STATE Fight
Republicans in a Tumultu-
Gus Campaign for Prin-
cipal Offices.
HONEY FITZ' A FACTOR
Likely to Sweet Adeline'
His Way Into the Seat
of the Governor.
ALLEN IN NEW CAMPAIGN
He Is After Gov. Cox and Has
Greatly Disturbed Old Tim
ers i'm the State.
ALLEN IN NEW CAMPAIGN
by LOUIS sEIBOLD.

Special Dispatch 10 THE New YORK HERALD.
BosroN, Sept. 1o.-The political luck
Of Henry Cabot Lodge is not shared by
candidates for nominations for some
of the State offices to be conferred by
Bay State Republicans next Tuesday.
While the Sage of Nahant probably
will make a runaway race for the SEN
ate prize the winner Of the nomination
for Governor will have come through
a battle which for bitterness and in
tensity has suggested something APP
proximating dog fight.
Compared with the contest for the
Republican Gubernatorial nomination
the Democratic contest for this is as
Former Mayor John Fitzgerald
Honey Fitz"--probably will walk away
from three Democratic competitors
after soothing the warlike clans of his
party with Sweet Adeline" few hun
dred times.
The uDctuous rendering of this ditty
which makes special appeal to the
Democratic hosts of all factions has
proved the most effective sort of
speech made by Fitz. the song en-
phasizing the personal popularity OF
the singer. And what is even more
important the singer is likely to be
elected Governor of Massachusetts, in
the present troubled state OF things
Republican.
Old Standards Menaced.
Fitz has handled his end Of the
game quite as deftly, as the scion OF
the Cabots has drawn a red herring
over his own aristocratic trail. Where
fore the experts on both sides concede
the triumph Of Lodge for the Senate
and Fitz for the nominations they seek.
Republicans are torn asunder by party
strife over the State ticket: the Dem
ocrats over the Senatorship.
Perhaps underneath there ferments
elements of insurgency in one or both
parties that may crop out in Novem-
Der TO destroy the old standards and
make for new alignments. The Re-
publican leaders hope against but
fear It.
II Is something OF novelty for a
Massachusetts, Republican Governor
supported by the party machine TO
have to fight for a denomination when
the powers that be want him to
have it.
1t is something approaching a caty-
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the right of a Governor to another
term in recognition of really COM
mendable record. Yet that is what
has happened in the Republican party
in the old Bay State. The facts:
Gov. Claiming Cox wants TO hold
on to his job for two years more
The machine wants him to have IT,
The people generally think he has
made good Governor. Attorney
General J. Weston Allen doesn't agree
with either the machine or popular
sentiment. He wants the job himself
Having been a newspaper reporter he
is pursuing his quarry with persis-
tence and diligence vastly disturbing
tive proprieties.
The Allen methods of campaign
against his erstwhile pal, the Gov
ernor, have grossly shocked every
thing Republican except the sacred
Goldfish and Bunker Hill Monument.
With a sharp sense of the value OF
publicity Mr.. Allen Is getting rather
more than the sedate and orderly ma
chine leaders countenance and thereby
causing much anguish among the sup
porters of the Governor.
Reminder of jerome.
He Is making" news that the daily
journals must print and the Governor
answer. The Allen campaigning Is
reminiscent OF the Jerome or Sulzer
style familiar to New Workers.. The
only device he has overlooked is the
little black book which Mr.. Sulzer
made famous. But he has made adroit
use OF cancelled checks TO prove there
Is some connection. or, at least, SYM
pathetic contact. between the smugly
respectable Republican machine sup
porting Gov. Cox and the underworld
OF politics, as II we're.
He has not made very clear case
against the Governor or the latters
sponsors. but he caused lot OF soft
stepping and elusive men OF influence
in the party TO lose much sleep. His
effort to tie UP the Governor with
Charles II. Innes. 'the man who
knows" and TO prove improper results
OF the association have lacked clarity
and conviction. but have encouraged
lot OF suspicion.
Mr.. Innes, by the way has become
the issue in latter days Of the Repub-
lican Gubernatorial contest. He is a
lawyer with extensive political connec-
tons and influence. IL Mr.. Allen Is
right Mr. Innes is the man who pulls
the Republican strings" selects candi-
dates for ONCE. puts things across" in
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