Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-05
POLITICS AGAIN ASSUME
GREAT IMPORTANCE

to succeed whom are still to be chos-
en-. together with the states and the
dates of the party primaries or con
v%entions thus far fixed, follow:
(Cut out this list for reference)
Charles A. Rawson, Iowa, June 8.
Park Trammel, Florida, June s.
Frederick Hale, Maine, June 20.
Frank B. Kellogg. Minnesota
June 20.
Porter j. McCumber. North Da-
kota, June 2s.
Charles A. Culberson. Texas. July
%.
James A. Reed. Missouri, Aug. 1.
Claude A. Swanson, Virginia, Au-
gust /.
Howard Sutherland. West Virgin
ia, August /.
Atlee Pomerene. Ohio. August s.
John b. Kendrick, Wyoming, Au-
gust s.
John Sharp Williams. Mississippi.
August IS.
Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock. Nebraska,
August is.
Hiram w. johnson. California, Au-
gust 80.
Henry L. Myers, Montana, August
20.
Key Pittman, Nevada, September
5.
Robert NJ. LaFollette. Wisconsin,
September ).
Henry F. Ashurst. Arizona, Sep
TENDER ~.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Massachusetts,
September IL.
Charles E. Townsend, Michigan,
September u.
Carroll S. Page, Vermont, Sep
TENDER ~.
William NJ. Calder, New York,
September 10.
]. C. Frelinghuysen. New Jersey,
September 27.
George P. Mclean, Connecticut,
date not fixed.
Coleman Dupont, Delaware. date
not fixed.
Joseph I. France, Maryland. date
not fixed.
Andreius A. Jones, New Mexico,
date not fixed.
Peter G. Gerry, Rhode Island.
date not fixed.
Kenneth McKeller, Tennessee,
date not fixed.
William H. King, Utah. date not
fixed.
Interest centers largely in these
senatorial contests for many rea'
sons. In the first place, they, to-
| gether with Indiana and Pennsy.-
vania, will be staged in the most i'm
portant states of the Union. Second
ly. the senate is the greatest parlia-
mentary body in the world today.
1t deals directly not only with the
most vital problems of the American
-zA-11 L.,T 18th .hAca ~ arroat snfar-
national moment, and its personnel
is important. .
Moreover, some big men are in
volved. Lodge, of Massachusetts,, is
the Republican leader of the senate
and the chairman of the Committee
on Foreign Relations; McCumber, of
| North Dakota, is the chairman OF
the great Committee on Finance
which has jurisdiction over tariff
making and taxation; LaFollette, of
Wisconsin, has long been the stormy
| petral of the senate and of Repub-
lcan national politics: and johnson,
OF California, nce Progressive nomi-
nee for vice president and more
recently candidate for Republican
presidential honors, looms large
from any political viewpoint.
Interest in Missouri truggSle
On the Democratic side, Culber-
son of Texas, is one of the veterans
of the senate; and Hitchcock, OF
Nebraska, Pomerene. of Ohio, and
Williams, of Mississippi, are recog-
nized minority leaders. Reed, o.
! Missouri, in the fight he is making
to retain his seat, probably arouses
more interest than any of the Demo
Gratis.
Reed is opposed for the Democratic
nomination by Breckenridge Long
former assistant secretary of state
under the Wilson administration,
Long is a young man without a not
able political record. and cannot be
said to be a figure of national size
However, the Missouri struggle is OF
general interest and of national i'm
p~ortance because of the fight which
Reed made in the senate agains
most of the Wilson policies. espe'
cially the Wilson League of Nations
program, and because of the fignl
which Woodrow Wilson is now max
ing to defeat Reed. The formel
president may not have injected him
self into this fight. but he has beer
drawn into it. and he has dons
everything that the use of vigorous
unmistakable language can do 4
bring about Reeds retirement Il