The Washington herald., 1922-01-08
Senate Election in Indiana
Likely to Be Spectacular
Close Primary Race Between New and Bev-
eridge Foreseen in State Called
Always Doubtful.

Beverage at the age OF oO, IN
new Senatorship would stand out
incontestably in a way to appeal to
the pride of p State like Indiana.
That Geveridge would restore to
the Senate some of the more COM
pelling interest It had in the public
mind ten or dfteen years back goes
without saying. The Senate would
become a vital body by much more
than the addition of a single person.
atty. Beveridge In action would
recharge the most dronipg elder
statesman with some of the surplus
of his own dynamic abundance.
Since his own retirement Bever-
idge has made probably the most
fruitful use OF his time that any
American statesman in retirement
ever made. His Life of John Mar
shall" even IL he has no other pub
lie service to his credit, is q work
of such outstanding quality In the
world of literature and constitu-
tional history as will undoubtedly
commend him to a State that pays
rather unusual Difference to that
kind of achievement.
At the same time, no portrayal of
this Indiana situation can be COM
plete or fair that fails to do JUS
tice to Senator News less striking
but no less valuable and dependable
qualities. The men are so different
that it is difficult to compare them
justly. 1t is always battling to try
TO compare a man whose especial
and greatly useful virtue is keep
Ing the ship afioat and pointed in
the right direction with one whose
Qualities are more striking and pic
turesque. New is a Republican party
man and the Republican party's
poIlcles are his policies. II the
country is to be managed by the
republican party along lines laid
down by the party leadership in the
Whlte House or elsewhere, New in
the senate will give 100 per cent
OF teamwork and strength in a null
ttude OF ways. He does not de-
pend on great initiative or striking
qualities of leadership to commend
MIN, but, rather. on sure-footed
common sense. loyalty, and the
qualities that other men come to
recognize as dependable wisdom.
Ne" has qualities which in his per
sonal contacts. inspire deep affec-
ton and loyalty. There is not
Senator of either party and hardly
man in Washington who would
not feel poignant regret at seeing
New retired from the senate. how,
ever they might feel about the is-
sues involved.
hoosfer Progressives Strong.
New OF course, belongs to tn. old
standpat element in indiana noIi-
TICS, and in that State the eIement
that is described by contras, a.
progressive is very strong when
In the Presidential primaries a, tuo
years ago. President Harding ana
n ram Johnson contended, among
others, for the Indiana deleratss
Johnson beat Harding conspIcuon,'
ly- II the coming Senatorial nrju,-
aries were to divide along ljnes
comparable to those between Hard
ing and johnson. IL would look er-
tremely promising for Beverage
but L am told that the cleavage ~
there should be one, would NOT nv
any means duplicate that of Hard
ing and johnson. A good deal of
Johnson's strength was whollv nsr-
sonal and came from tie populous
districts around Gary, in the north
ern end of the State, where he bad
reused the people personally by his
speeches. ms
II Beveridge is to make beadvav
assuming that he enters the fight
ne Will need to get his strength in
much the same way that johnson
got his, that is. by force of ner-
sonahty. He will have very little
OF the party organization. New
Will have the great bulk of tina,
Beyeridge will need to make the
SOFT OF light that overwhelms party
organizations in a landslide of un-
organized popular support. Bever-
idge will need to stir up that feel
ing which is always potential in
any State and rather more so in
Indiana than most States, of in
stinctive insurgency against the
organization. He will need to can
italize his personality. his past nub-
lie service and the distinction that
attended ii. together with his new
incarnation of distinction as the
author of an incontestably great
work. The Life of John Marshall
Moreover. when Beveridge or
New. whichever one wins the pri-
mar1es, as well as the candidates for
the Lower House in the thirteen In
diana districts. look forward from
the earlier contest to the election
In November they may well be
troubled. Indiana is a doubtful
State always. 1t is true that Hard
Ing carried il by close to 200. Oo0.
But everybody knows that was not
a normal vote. Much nearer nor
NAL was the scant 5000 by which
Hughes car>ied the State over Will
son in 1916.
G. o. r. Strength VALVES.
There isn't a Republican politi-
clan in Indiana who would contend
that the Republican strength there
today is what ii was at Harding,
election. In fact there were some
elections in Indiana two months
ago In which the results were not
calculated to give comfort to the
OF seventy-four cities
that elected mayors. forty-six cleo
ted Democrats, twenty-six Republi-
cans, and two were carried by can
didates nominated on Citizens tick
cts. So it seems certain that the
Republican candidates who win the
Indiana Senatorial primaries in
May will face real fight for elec-
tion in November.
The Democratic Senatorial NOM
ination seems much less near to
than that of the Re-
publicans. The Democrats who are
''nantinued - the roHffcor