The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-11-02
by DAVID LAWRENCE.
( Special Despatch to The Reformer

Copyright 1922.
BOSTON, Nov. Prom coast to
coast the writer has encountered the
query what win happen to Lodge
in Massachusetts this yearT'
Up to few days ago the answer
would have been certain reelection"
Nervousness has developed in the Re
publican camp. Some of the managers
are shaking their heads and worrying
about the woman vote Others are fear
full that empty coal bins win bring
protest vote. Still others keep barking
back to the primary vote and wonder
why candidate of almost no political
strength like Joseph Walker polled al
most a third as many votes as Senator
Lodge What's the matter with the
western section of the state-this is
asked and variously answered as the
whole situation is canvassed. Former
Senator Murray Crane warmly favored
| the league of nations and many of his
disciples in western Massachusetts are
believed to have voted against Mr..
| Lodge.
This much may be taken for granted
Charming Cox, the Republican nomi-
nee for governor. will run ahead of SEN
ator Lodge in the finals just as he did
| IN the primaries Mr.. Lodge will lose
thousands of Republican votes because
| he voted TO override President Harding's
veto on the bonus. because he did not
! favor woman suffrage when it needed
help and because he is credited by many
| who favored the league of nations as
| having been largely responsible for
| Americas failure to participate in that
| organization.
| Detection from CASTOR.
| 1t is significant that Charles w. Ell
! lot. former president of Harvard and
| Morefield Story. former president of the
| American Bar association, have not been
| able to support William \. CASTOR,
| Democratic nominee for United States
senator, an opponent of the league of
nations. They have formed a group who
are campaigning for John y. Nichols.
/ Independent Republican candidate for
| senator. The latter is actively sup
ported by Joseph Walker. who ran
| against Mr.. Ledge in the Republican
| primaries.
Mr. Nichols Is also striving for the
prohibition vote because of Mr.. Lodge 5
preSumptively wet position. Any fight,
| of course. which becomes three cornered
{ can be dangerous Mr. Lodges manag-
| ers may not have sought to appear wor-
| ried but their tactics betray uneaSinesS.
| to say the least. Secretary of State
| Charles Evans Hughes was brought here
| for the purpose of Strengthening out
/ numerous Republicans. especially among
| the business men and bankers who have
/ not felt that Americas foreign policy
has been particularly directed toward
/ helping the world back to normally. Mr..
| Hughes attempted 70 give an authorita-
II tive outline of the policy of the Hard
ing administration and got good deal of
/ attention but the brief reference with
which he dismissed Mr.. Lodge while he
devoted much Of his speech to other
III things naturally started political tongues
wagging. Mr.. Hughes unquestionably
came here to help Mr.. Lodge but mostly
To prevent the mass vote from being
| construed as a reputation of the foreign
policy of the administration.
Another Loss for Lodge.
Still if Senator Lodge IS to- be de
prived of some Republican votes-anC
he is bound to lose many of those wht
haven't forgiven him for voting to over
ride the Harding veto on the bonus ant
| "drys" who haven't forgotten that h'
voted against the 18th amendment
there is y corresponding number of Dem
ocrats who like Lodge for his opposition
to the league of nations and for his We
leanIngs. The Democratic party IN large
/ part in this state was against the league
of nations two years ago and were ii no
tor the fact that the league has been
minor issue in the campaign, Mr.. Lodge
would retain most of the Democrats WHIT
voted the Republican ticket in 1920
The voters of Irish descent opposed tn
league because they thought il meant to-
close n working agreement between TIN
United States and Great Britain. Some
of these same folks now believe Mr.
Lodge was unwise in helping to max
the famous Horsepower pact which con
stitutes the United States and England
partners in the pact. The Irish woul,
frgaE
quite so close. So there are profits ant
losses, politically speaking, in beins
! against the league of nations but in fa
! vOr of the fouF-powers pact. Or. whel
1 all is said and done. however, MasSachu
/ sets is not particularly bestirred up OF
4 MIR. Lodges mistakes. The Boston Post
which has the largest circulation of an,
morning paper here, is supporting Sena
4 / tor Lodge. though this same newspape
4 vas the thick and thin champion o
j Woodrow Wilson throughout his admin
istration.
4 Looks rs Though He Would Win.
If Senator Lodge is re-elected-and i
Z looks on the surface as if he will win
N he will owe his victory to feeling o.
8 the part of the voters that he can d.
4 more for Massachusetts in the Unitet
States senate than can a newcomer. TIL
u position of majority leaders carries Wit
1 / II 10 small influence and whatever PEG
4 pie outside of Massachusetts may thinl
i s,bcut Mr. Lodges leadership. the opin
s ion would seem to be that it is a valuahl
d asset TO This state Senator Lodge Ia
been in public life for 30 years. He ha
accumulated many enemies-he is not
d chnmmy sort of character on the stunt
and he has made enough speeches o.
enough subjects to cause trouble in an
3 campaign. Bat while the wind-up o
i the campaign seems to indicate clos
4 squeeze one should not be surprised t
3 see Massachusetts follow the normal Re
= publican trend of the eastern seaboard
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