The Washington times., 1922-09-11
STATES
VOTE TUESDAY.
IN PRIMARIES
Old Guard Is Worried by Pro-
gressive Trend Shown In
Recent Votes.
By GEORGE r. HOLMES,
international News Service.


international News Service.
Voters In seven States 60 to the
polls tomorrow to nominate Sem
atorial, Congressional and State
candidates in the greatest single
primary day of the summer cam
paign.
Five seats in the United States
Senate, forty-nine in the House Of
Representatives and a host of State
and municipal offices are involved
in the balloting that will take place
in Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana,
Massachusetts, Washington, Ver-
mont and Michigan.
Chief interest in the National
Capital centers about the Senatorial
contests in Massachusetts,, Wash
ington and Michigan, where the
seats of three prominent Repub-
lican Senators are in jeopardy
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, minor
ity leader; Senator Miles Poin-
dexter, ranking member of the
Naval Affairs Committee, and Sen.
ator Charles E. Townsend, the good
roads champion of the Senate.
Not So Hot Elsewhere.
In other States the controversies
are less keen. In Arizona Senator
Henry +. Ashurst tDetn) will be te-
nominted by his party without op.
position. In Vermont Senator Car
roll s. Page RepD is retiring volun'
tarily, and Congressman Frank L..
Greene. one Of the Granite states
two Republican Congressman, will
also be nominated without opposi-
ton.
In Louisiana and Colorado only
Congressional and State candidates
are to be nominated.
Lodge. Poindexter and Townsend
all have opposition-the latter two
having stiff fights on their hands
to be renominated.
In Massachusetts, Senator Lodge
is opposed by Joseph Walker. for
mer speaker OF the Massachusetts
house Of representatives. Walker
is characterized by political observ'
ers in Washington as strong. but
not dangerous"
There are. however, no less than
four avowed Democratic candidates,
William A. CASTOR, retired banker;
Sherman l.. Whipple, Boston attor
ney; John Hackson Walsh, a for
mer Democratic candidate for gov
ernor. and Dallas Sharpe, Boston
university professor, who indorses
prohibition and the League Of Ma
tions.
Lodge Under Fire.
All are anxious for the Job Of fac
ing Senator Lodge at the polls next
November. because the Democratic
party, nationally, is planning to
train its heaviest guns on Massa'
chusetts to defeat the man who leo
the league OF nations fight against
Woodrow Wilson.
In Michigan there has been q
strenuous primary campaign. Three
candidates are seeking Senator
Townsend's scalp-JohR H. Emery
formal national commander of the
American Legion; RepresentatiYt
Pat Kelly. who led the fight for a
little navy in the House this spring,
and Herbert Baker. a pronounced
Progressive, indorsed by the far
mer.labor element. ~
On the Democratic side In Michi'
gan former Gov. Woodbridge n
Ferris is unopposed for the Demo
cratic Senatorial nomination.
Senator Townsend has been Sc
verely attacked in Michigan for his
stanch defense Of Senator Truman
II. Newberry, his colleague.
Senator Townsend's friends are
confident he will be renominated-
II only for the reason that the op
position field is so split.
Poindexter Faces Fight.
Poindexter faces no less stiff op
position in Washington, where he
has five candidates within his party
all seeking his scalp. They are
Austin Z. Griffiths, of Seattle; Mrs
Frances Axtell, of Bellingham
George H. Stephenson, Of Seattle
George p. Lamping, of Seattle, ant
Lee Title, of Yakima. On the Dem
ocratic side there are three candi
dates for the Senatorial nomination
former Congressman c. c. Dill
James c. Longstreet and Norman
Seeley, Of Bellingham.
Poindexter has been attacked or
q number Of issues-the fact tha
he voted for Senator Newberry anc
on his vote for the four.power pact
which was disliked by the anti
Japanese elements of the state.
Party managers in Washington
are watching tomorrow's primariei
with unusual Intensity.