The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-09-11
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES.
International News Service.

Washington. Sept 11.-Voters in
seven States go to the polls tomorrow
| to nominate Senatorial, Congressional
and State candidates in the greatest
single primary day of the summer
campaign.
Five seats in the United States Sen
ate, 40 in the House of Representa-
tives and a host of State and munich
pal offices are involved in the ballot
ing that will take place in Arizona,
Colorado. Louisiana, Massachusetts.
Chief interest in the national cap
ita1 centres about the Senatorial con-
tests in Massachusetts, Washington
and Michigan. where the seats of
are in jeopardy-Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, minority leader; Senator Miles
Poindexter, ranking member of the
Naval Affairs Committee, and Senator
Charles E. Townsend, the good roads
champion of the Senate.
Not So Hot Elsewhere.
In other states the controversies
are Jess keen. In Arizona Senator
mated by his party without opposd-
ton. In Vermont Senator Carroll S.
Page (R.) is retiring voluntarily and
Representative Frank L. Greene, one
of the Granite States two Republican
Congressman, will also be nominated
without opposition.
In Louisiana and Colorado only
Congressional and State candidates
are to be nominated.
Lodge, Poindexter and Townsend
all have opposition-the latter two
having stiff fights on their hands to
In Massachusetts, Senator Lodge is
opposed by Joseph Walker, a former
Speaker of the Massachusetts House
acterized by political observers in
Washington as strong. but not dan
gerous."
There are. however. no less than
~ Il k<e
William A. CASTOR, retired banker;
sherman l. Whipple. Boston attor-
ney; John Jackson Walsh, a. former
Democratic candidate for Governor.
sity professor. who endorses Prohibi-
ton and the League of Nations
Lodge Under Fire.
All are anxious for the job of facing
Senator Lodge at the polls next Mo-
yember, because the Democratic
its heaviest guns on Massachusetts, to
defeat the man who led the League
of Nations fight against Woodrow
Wilson.
In Michigan there has been a siren
uous primary campaign. Three can
didates are seeking Senator Town
sends scalp Ohm H. Emery, former
national commander of the American
Legion. Representative Pat Kelly, who
led the fight for little navy in the
House this spring. and Herbert Baker.
Progressive, euuOTSGu
by the farmer-labor element.
On the Democratic side in Michigan
former Governor Woodbridge N. Fer
ris is unopposed for the Democratic
Senatorial nomination.
Senator Townsend has been Sc
verely attacked in Michigan for his
stanch defense. of Senator Truman
II. Newber-y, his colleague.
Senator Townsend's friends are con-
fident he will be renominated-if only
for the reason that the opposition
field is split.
Poindexter Faces Fight.
PoindeXter faces no less stiff oppo-
sition in Washington, where he has
five candidates within his party all
seeking his scalp. They are Austin
f. Griffiths. of Seattle; Mrs Frances
Axtell of Bellingham; George H. Ste
phenSon, of Seattle; George P. Lamp
ing. CT Seattle, and Lee Title, of va
kima. On the Democratic side there
are three candidates for the Senate
rial non,ination-former Representa-
tive c. c. Dill, James c. Longstreet
and Norman Seeley, of Bellingham
Pofndexter has been attacked on a
numher Of iSsues-the fact that he
voted for SENATOR Newberry and on
his vote for the Four Power Pact
which was disliked by the anti-Jap-
anese element of the State.
Party managers in Washington are
watching tomorrow's primaries with
1n1lSnal infRf1S