The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-27
Will. DEFEAT
M'CUMBER IN
NORTH DAKOTA
Senator Not Being Supported
by All Conservative Repub-
licans in Primary-Frazier
Has Best Chance.
ATTITUDE NOT LIKED
BY MARK Sullivan


WASHINGTON, June 27-Tbe con-
dltions would seem to indicate that
Senator McCumber is not likely to win
In the North Dakota primaries on We'd
nesday. The writer has not been in
North Dakota, but has dependable
information from many sources which
indicate that McCumber is not receiv-
ing either the kind or degree of sup
port, which would seem essential to
make him a winner.
McCumber's opponent, Frazier, is
the Non-partisan league candidate. 1t
would be expected to follow that Nc
Cumber would have The hearty sup
port of all conservative Republicans,
and all others to whom the non-parti-
san league Is anathema. But this is
not the case. McCumber can be class
flied justly as a conservative Repub-
hcan But in the fierce fighting be-
tween the two factions In North Da-
kota, he has failed to make his an
tagonism to the Non-partisan league
sufficiently conspicuous and whole
1t successfully. In such a fight the
leaders.
Fight Is Bitter.
1t occasionally happens that a SEN
ator, residing in Washington, can man.
age to keep himself free of the ami
mosities of local politics in his own
state. But when a fight is as bitter
and prolonged as the contest between
the Non-partisan league and its op-
ponents in North Dakota, it is not
possible for any one to keep clear of
1t successfully. In such a fight the,
sentiment is: whoever is not COM
pletely with US. is against u.s."
McCumber is charged, not with
identifying himself with the Non-par-
tisan league, but with failing to help
intellectually in various past efforts
to chush it, and as result McCumber
is failing to receive whole-hearted
support from the only faction upon
which he has any reason to depend.
In addition to this lukewarmness and
in consequence of it, there is another
Republican candidate in the person
of Ormsby McHarg, who will receive
a certain amount of conservative Rep
ublican support, although he will not
get the nomination.
Frazier to Win
Frazier, the Non-Partisan League
candidate, seems most likely to be the
suspecting that the conservative ele-
ment in North Dakota expects to make
its real fight against the Non-Partisan
League, not in the present primary
but in the election afterwards.
The man who will receive the Dem
ocratic nomination in these North Da'
kota primaries on Wednesday, O'Con-
nor, is satisfactory to the conservative
elements generally in the state. Here
in Washington, it Is conceded that Nc
Cumber's defeat, If it happens, will be
interpreted as blow at the conserva
tive wing Of the Republican party in
the national sense and to the Republi-
can tariff to which McCumber's name
is attached. incidentally in this latter
sense the possible defeat of McCumber
may turn out to be a more serious mat
ter for the Republican party and its
program and its leaders than they as
yet apprehend. To this extent the pos
sible defeat of McCumber would be
sincerely deplored by his orthodox
Republican associates.
Stand Not Liked
Nevertheless, disaster to McCumber
will not be looked upon with the same
sentiment of regret as disaster to Sen
ator New. for example, was. Many of
the conservative Republican leaders
feel that while McCumber has been
prevailingly with them, he has not al
ways played the game" with entire
satisfaction. Just recently he has
pushed his personal bonus measure in
way and at a time hat has openly
embarrassed the other Republican
leaders here. Also, he was the most
avowedly pro-league of nations Repub-
lican in the entire senate.
The defeat of McCumber would, of
course remove him as chairman of the
committee on finance. In that posi-
ton, he would be succeeded. under the
seniority rule by Senator Smoot. who
would be more satisfactory in that
position to the conservative Republi-
cans in the senate, and to the conser-
vative business element of the country
generally than cCumber-Copyrigh
1922, by The New York Evening
Post Inc