Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-14
SOME SENATE CHANGES

EASTERN NEWSPAPERS are
- discussing the r%eopening of
the Newberry election case after
March a next when the new senate
comes in. There has been a terri
bic slaughter among the senator's
that supported Mr.. Newberry
when his case came before the sen
IT. Many of his staunchest sup
porters were defeated at the polls.
AS he was given his seat by a very
narrow margin at that time it is ar
gued that a reconsideration of that
vote would surely result in his ex-
pulsion now. 1t is another illus
tration of the. truth of the aid
adage that no question is ever real
~ settled until it is settled right.
The Newberry case has been a ter
rible burden for the republican
party to carry. In every state in
the union it cost the republican
party votes last election day. He
was a Jonah in the republican ship,
and it would not be surprising if
the republicans themselves would
be glad to cast him overheard II
the case ONE before them again.
in spite Of the presidents cham
pionship of Newberry.
Henry Cabot Lodge, the repub-
licsn senate leader, goes back to
the senate shorn of much of his
prestige. 1t is true that he got a
small plurality in the Old Bay
state, but if the republican anti
Lodge candidates votes had been
added to the votes of the demo-
cratic candidate Lodge would be
beaten by a considerable major
ity. AS it is he goes back to the
senate as the choice of a minority
of the voters of Massachusetts,. 1t
is said he feels the fact very keen
".
The defeat Of Senator Calder Of
New York is keenly felt by the ad-
r?inistration because he made his
fight largely on national issues.
Concerning this the New York
World says:
Senator Calder's defeat is a
straight-out defeat for the Ford
ney-McCumber tariff. That was
the issue and the only issue, so far
as he was concerned. DR.. Copeland,
Senator Calder's successful oppon-
ent, was an unknown quantity IN
New York politics. He had never
been active in any way politically
and was known only through his
remarkably successful adninistra-
ton Of the New York health de-
partrnent. An adroit and expert
politician, supported by years of
service in both branches Of con-
sress, Senator Calder went into
the campaign with every advantage
except the single advantage Of the
dominating issue. The Copeland
campaign was directed mainly
against the Fordney-Mc Cumber
act, mainly against the high cost OF
living, mainly against the shocking
favoritism in tariff-making which
was revealed through Lucius N.
Littauer's Qualification of Caider's
servility to the Gloversville profit
GERS. Senator Calder invited a ref
erendum on the Fordney-McCam-
Der tariff. Senator Calder had his
referendum yesterday, and the
election returns tell the story"
The defeat of Senator Pomerene
in Ohio and Hitchcock in Nebras-
ka is much regretted by democrats.
Both were able and experienced
men and will be missed by the
senate democrats. These are, how
ever, the only losses the democrats
suffered. In both states demo-
cratic governors were elected, SO
that it seems that the senators
were weaker than their party tick
cts. IN the case of Hitchcock of
Nebraska his opposition to Presi-
cent Wilson cost him votes and the
Ohio labor union voters had a
crow to pick with Senator Pomer-
ere we are told.
With New Hampshire and Rhode
Island going democratic, those re
publieans who regarded the Maine
election as settling the vote of al
New England have some explain,
Ing to do.
The defeat Of Senator Freling-
huysen in New Jersey and Senator
Dupont in Delaware has also caus-
ed q good deal of grief in Wash
tngton.