Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-06

Henry Cabot Lodge, MASSACHUSETTS,
Sept. II. 49,.
Charles K. Townsend, Mlcnlgan,
Sept. II.
William NJ. Calder, New York,
J. C. Frelinghuysen, New Jersey,
George P. Mclean, Connecticut, date
not fixed.
Coleman DUPONT, Delaware, date not
fixed.
Joseph /. France, Maryland, date not
fixed.
Andreius A. Jones, New Mexico,
date not fixed.
Peter G. Gerry, Rhode Island, date
not fixed.
Kenneth Mcclellan, Tennessee, date
not fixed.
fixed.
Interest centers largely in these sem
atorial contests for many reasons. In
the first place. they, together with
Indiana and Pennsylvania, will be
staged in the most important states of
the Union. Secondly, the senate is the
greatest parliamentary body in the
world today. 1t deals directly not only
with the most vital problems of the
| American people, but with those of
great international 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 jur-
isdiction over tariff making and taxa
ton: LaFollette. of Wisconsin, has
long been the stormy petrol of the SEN
ate and of republican national politics;
and johnson. of California, once pro-
gressive nominee for vice president and
more recently candidate for republi-
can presidential honors. looms large
from any political viewpoint.
Interest In Missouri Struggle
On the democratic side, Culberson.
of Texas, is one of the veterans of the
senate; and Hitchcock, of Nebraska.
Pomerene, of Ohio, and Williams, of
Mississippi. are recognized minority
leaders. Reed, of Missouri, in the
fight he is making to retain his seat,
probably arouses more interest than
any of the democrats.
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 notable po-
litical record, and cannot be said to
be q figure of national size. However.
the Missouri struggle is of general in
terest and of national Importance be-
cause of the fight which Reed made
in the senate against most of the VIII
son policies, especially the Wilson
| 1aa ono of nations nropram and hapauSa
of the fight which Woodrow Wilson
is now making to defeat Reed. The
former president may not have inject
ed himself into this fight. but he has
been drawn into it, and he has done
everything that the use of vigorous.
unmistakable language can do to bring
about Reeds retirement to private
life.
The returns from the Missouri prim-
airy of August |. therefore. will be
scanned eagerly by all those who are
concerned TO know just how much of
a hold Woodrow Wilson still has on the
democratic party. A new epoch in the
history of democracy may date from
| that event, and it. is certain that the
result will have an important bearing
on presidential politicsc of 1924.
After the nominations have been
made interest will be focused of course,
on the November battle of the ballots
when the political complexion of the
next congress will be determined. In
Importance this election ranks with the
two other notable off-year contests
| 1910 and 1918. In the former the
republicans went down to inglorious
| defeat. and in the latter the democrats
bumped the bumps. As TO 1922-hang
! up a large question mark.