South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-24
lodge FACES HIS
HARDEST BATTLE
OF LONG CAREER
Democrats to Throw Heaviest
Guns Against Sturdy Re
publican Leader.

WASHINGToN. April 2a-There
j so be some pretty senatorial bait
Is wsged during che forthcoming
Ten campaign. but none Of them
81 mold more national interest
ban that 10 De- decided in Massa-
i'm November
Il For thirty years Henry Cabot
! odRe has eat On tho United states
i cnate watching men come and 90.
e has seen a lot Of them come
/. , like lions and 20 out quite lamb
ke since that chill fourth day or
>ls-ch back On 90 when ne came 90
. be Senate for the first thine and
Tsver Cleveland moved into tho
White House for his second term
! Senator Lodge has always smiled
4 sort % superior little smile at the
I0iitiCal dimculties ~ his col
cagues He has never had many
! mself. az least any serious enough
p really menace the retention Of
is membership IN "the most exclu-
I've gentlemen's club in the world"
4
&ecades the capital has seen Henry
abot Lodge return 20 Washington.
little grayer. "a little more wien
T.. little moro amused at the
hims ~ tho efcrtorates south and
4 est Of Cane Ccd.
Party split i'm 1912.
Only once in thar span ~ thirty
ears has Massachusetts, strayed
. rom the straight Republican path
as IN a national election That was
en- years ago. IN the big split OF
9l2. but fortunately for Senator
.odge he was not up that year and
T. escaped the fate OF many OF his
Republican colleagues
Four lears later when he was up
4gain the split had been healed. and
Massachusetts, once fore took her
lace in the Republican column.
Il Senator Lodge is the oldest man
II the Senate in point Of service.
10 man is there now who was there
hen no came iu 90 Gradually he
as risen until today ne is the rec
gnized Republican leader Of the
/ Senate. TIC i- scvcnty-two years
ID
This year the Democrats are out
u get him More Democratic
fnlmunitiou is TO be poured into
|Iassachusetts this FAN than i'm any
Their locality in the country TIE
Democrats ~ az factions Of cm,
North. South East and West
culd ike co. take his scalp for ex-
'ifitien purposes and TO settle
lew grudgee new and ancient
Democrats Haven't Forgotten.
The Democrats have not forgotten
|hat 10 was Lodee who Ted the SEN
T. % the spectacular population
D Woodrow Wilson and the League
+ Nations There We're others.
|one perhaps more bitter and hos
lie az the time. but it is Lodge who
|vi'l go down in history as the man
|vho. more thar any other. planned
De strategy Of the thing and was
ne tactical general during the long
ght
To the Democrats Lodge - tho
pltome OF an that they feel they
|must fight against Hc fathered
20
having Southern elections con-
Quoted under Fe6 raj supervision
IN order to insure the negroes
|air deal The Southerners have
|1ever forgotten it. &c is still mem
|ioned I'm che Senate from time to
lime And his name IS anathema
- all those Democrats who are of
wIlsonian persuasion So they
want" him all factions of en-.
Whether or not they viii get him
J. a matter 90 doubt. but IL is
question which is uEitating most of
Ehe political discussion ir Washing
ton these laneuid Spring days.
Chance for Democrats
The Democrats feel they have
good chance. They point To- the gem
|ral unrest in the Industrial world
because Of poor business. unemploy-
/ ne1t. restricted credit and times
! ma. are scmi-hard
They point also To the Irish vote
tn Massachusetts, always a consider
'aole factor I'm other years the Irish
vote was agaius. Wilson because of
some 81 his policies before this
country entered the war IL became
soEdly i'm opposition two years ago
because of the league. Now the
irish vote is reported rightly or
wrongly, to Dee aEainst the Admin
st-ation and consequently against
AR. Lodge. because Of his share in
|framiug the Four Power Treaty.
So. with labor and the Irish vote
a-ains- the "Sta-e OF Nahant." as
DIE likes o. De called. the Demo
Gratis believe that by pouring a great
nUl Der OF national speakers into
this Fall they can re-
Sire Senator Lodge and even mp
Dot 90 old scores. AZ any rate. they
are going 90 try-ha~d. James NJ.
Cox Is one of The Democrats who u.s.
Intending Co speak his mind COM
cerning Henry Cabot Lodge i'm Mas
sochIsetts this Fan There are
numerous others.
It IS cCneetcGe u. Washington
that Senator Lodge VIII have little
difficulty iu being rouom.uated by
the Bay state machine The pri-
mary is yer a long way Off Sep
temher 12-and 90 date no real OPP
position has developed within his
own party
Bates May Run.
There is talk OF Ex-Governor John
J.. Bates runninE. as also Joseph
Walker. but they have not advanced
much further than the speculative
STAGE a. vet
Who the Dem ocrats will put up IS
nrnl Iar-nficaI hrrt 81 thIs aarl-- latn