Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-29
Issue Is Woodrow Wilson.
Women Turn Backs on In
cumbent = Prohibitionists
Also Back Long
BY LOUIS SEIBOLD
Copyright, 1922, by New York Her.
ald-Sun and Atlanta Journal)

Copyright, 1922, by New York Her
ald-Sun and Atlanta Journa1)
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 27.-Mis-
souri,, which fights out its differ
ences somewhat after the Irish
method, is determined to make a
Roman holiday of the Democratic
senatorial primary contest next
Tuesday.
There are several hundred candi-
dates with only half as many Of
fees to be filled, but the popular
interest, which is more or less of a
sporting character, Is almost COM
pletely monopolized by the struggle
between United States Senator
James A. Reed and former Assistant
Secretary Of State Breckenridge
Long. There Is a long third aspir-
ant named Young. He is q rank
outsider and seems to be helping
Reed more than himself. The Reed
Long contest, already has reached
the impressed brick and passed egg
stage. The yoemanry in the rugged
Ozark and hog and corn raisers
along the Missouri bottoms. are
manifesting the most avid interests,
as well as finding a lot Of entertain
ment in the row.
Circus tents, movies and all the
enticing features Of modern political
contests have been employed to
bring the folks from their farms and
FORCES to give ear to cascades of or
atory and straight from the shoulder
talking.
The leading actors in the conflict
start in by calling each other liars
and work along progressively to
more trenchant forms Of metaphor.
The seven Republicans who are
competing for the honor of oppos-
ing the Democratic nominee are in
dulging in most decorous and al
most lady-like campaign, interest
ing, but lacking the pep" and acr1'
monious attractions of the Reed-Long
dispute. But that is another story
to be told later. It Is the Republi-
can contention. that the Democratic
row is grist to the Republican mill
that will assure the election OF a
Republican to the seat now held by
the stormy petrol Of the Democratic
side of the senate chamber.
Wilson the Issue
In one respect the Missouri pri-
mary contest differs from those held
in other states. The radical wave
which engulfed regular" Republi-
can candidates in Indiana, North
Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Penn
sylvania does not mean that the
trend Of the voting mind in Missouri
is not grasping at vagrant straWs In
an effort to find relief from irksome
political evils, real and fancied. (
But it does mean that the matters
with which the Missouri voter con-
Germs himself are not connected with
any of the things that have dictat-
ed results in other states, save In
one point. This touches the extent
to which the regular Republican and
Democratic machines have held or
lost their hold on the voters. The
result Of next Tuesdays primary con-
test for the senate and sixteen con-
gressional seats, to be filled perhaps
will furnish an answer to the ques-
ton.
The Democratic senate fight is
unquestionably the most impartant
event in the history of that party
since the unprecedented victory OF
Mr.. Harding nearly two years ago.
Upon the result of it will turn tbs
control Of the party much in the flu
ture. This is because the real issue
is not whether Senator Jim Reed &C
curately reflects Democratic senti
ments in his own state, but whether
the policies and principles Of Wood
| row Wilson shall be respected or
thrown aside with contempt by the
spokesman Of his party. The is
sue in Missouri, therefore, Is in fact,
| Woodrow Wilson. Mr.. Long, the op'
ponent Of Mr.. Reed, has made ii
so. His campaign has been con
| Quoted on the theory that the vast
majority Of the $4,000 Democratic
voters who registered their approx
| al of Mr.. Cox two years ago, and
who Endorsed the casting aside Of
Mr.. Reed by the Democratic nation
al convention look upon Mr.. Wilson
as the leader of the party.
| Women for Long
Mr.. Long, therefore, offered little
| else than his sentimental appeal
which is admitted by some Of the
more lucid of Mr.. Reeds supporters
| to have taken deep root in Missouri
Around the Wilson sentiment Mr.