The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-10-26
MISSOURI CAMPAIGN
EXCEEDINGLY HOT
Senator Reed, Democratic
Nominee, Is Main Issue
In His Home State
MANY REPUBLICANS
WILL VOTE FOR HIM
VIII Lose Some Democrats Who Dislike
His Attitude Toward Wilson-Fight
With Brewsteg. Republican, CIose-
Reed Playing Hard for Labor Vote.


With Brewsteg. Republican, CLOSE
Reed Playing Hard fer Labor Vote.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Despatch to The Reformer.)
Copyright 1922
ST. LOUIS, Mo. Oct. 26.-Miss0uri
is afame with the fires of personal and
partisan rivalry in politics such as no
other state in the Union is experiencing
this year.
The issue, in brief, is Jim Reed, nomi
nee on the Democratic ticket, who will
owe his election, if he wins, TO the sup
port he will get from the Republicans
of Missouri.
There are those who hate Jim Reed
with as intense a political hate as has
been visited on public man. There are
those who would fight ut the drop of .
hat Mt the mention of his name IN ad-
verse terms. Jim Reeds remarkable
personality, his singular eloquence and
power of persuasion on the stump will
have been responsible for victory if that
be the outcome.
One says if with feeling that it
ought to be eliminated. For one can
vassing people of all beliefs and preju-
diceS, the fear is much more pronounced
on the part of Reeds Democratic oppon
ents that he will win than is among Re
pubicanS.
The league Of nations, the wet and
dry issue, the martyrdom of the man who
says that he paid the penalty of indie
pendence of Judgment when he incurred
the disfavor of Woodrow Wilson and the
fact that Missouri was torn apart by the
bitter primary fight between Reed and
Long-all this has completely upset all
calculations. Men who have been able
for years to call the turn on Missouri
elections throw up their hands in des-
mixed-up situation.
Reeds Forces.
First of all. the forces behind Jim
| Reed are these:
~ Practically all the Germans and
~ The wet element of the state.
Democrats and Republicans.
90 The foes of the league of ma
| tions-DemOcrats who have stuck to
| Jim Reed throughout and many Repub
| licanS who care more about voting for a
man who helped kill American participa
rion i'm the league than they care about
party affiliations.
80 Many independents who like a
man of Jim Reeds fighting qualities.
Summing up the forces behind r. L.
Brewster, the Republican candidate, one
finds:
III The regular Republican strength,
minus. of course. those who would de-
sert temporarily to help Jim Reed.
t2) Most of the Democratic women
who fought against Reed in the prima
ries because of various references in pre-
vious speeches by the senator to women
| in politics.
90 Tens of thousands of men who
/ dislike Reeds career in politics and his
| opposition TO Woodrow Wilson. They
/ openly say they will bolt the ticket.
See More Republican neserters.
Curiously enough, most observers
| think the Republicans deserving Brew
| Ster will be greater in number than the
| Democrats deserving Reed.
It's because nobody can tell in adj
vance of the actual count how many
| boilers there will be on either ticket
| that the result is so uncertain. The
state is normally Democratic. The Dem
,crats who fought Reed in the primaries
| are not n solid bloc. Many will stay
| regular at the last minute. This states
| democracy Is counterpart of the old
Solid South. 1t was only due TO the
! nastcrful organization perfected by Wal
/ fer s. Dickey of Kansas City and other
Republican leaders that Missouri went
over 100000 for Harding in 1920.
Senator Reeds victory in the pri-
maries is. of course. the only basis for
| my forecast but IL is so unsatisfactory
| because while Breckenridge Long. who
an against Reed. is a man of high
l principles. he is not rs fOrceful char
| rctCr as the present senior senator from
Missouri As for Mr.. Brewster. he is
more likely to attract neutrals than was
| Mr.. Long He is. in other words, a
| ytronger candidate against Senator Reed,
md the chances are he would have won
| naSilv this year if Hr. Long had won
| the Democratic nomination.
Dramatic Campaign.
Senator Reed has made a spectu cular
| gEd dramatic campaign His desperate
| leSire TO win has not interfered with his
| eafIu and careful political tactics. He
| Is not rushing in to attack his opponents
! with thoir issues as he was in the pri-
| mary. he isn't even answering many Of
pIaying to the ''wets" but is trying hard
| for the labor vote. It's hard. however.
| for Jim Reed to eliminate inycctive and
| sarcasm in his speeches. SOMEONE asked
| r. r Brewster what his full name was
| md tho newspapers printed his reply as
| Reginald Raymond Brewster, Jim Reed
| always refers 20 his opponent now as
| Reggie" It's his characteristic way Of
| campaigning Enemies and friends alike
| say Jim Reed win win single handed
/ # he does triumph. His organization is
! secondary. His party support is of
| doubtful value He is fighting at this
| time however, with better chance TO
! win than his opponent though one is
amazed at the number of Democrats who
supported Long who hint that they viii
vote the Republican ticket but who
| probably will never acknowledge the
fact It's anybody's race at the finish