Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-13
LODGE HAS FIGHT
OF HIS CAREER TO
WIN REELECTION
Single Senate Old Guard
Survivor Faces Politi-
cal Crisis.
ADMINISTRATION WILL.
GO TO HIS SUPPORT
Hughes to Turn SpcIIbiudcr
in Effort to Save
Day.
hCALL UNCERTAIN A> YET
Republican EH-Govrrnor. However
VIII Not Kun Ms Ind-pcnd
In uhrce-IorncrrI t,..
ADMINISTRATION WILL
GO TO HIS SUPPORT
TCALL UNCERTAIN As YET
Republican k:S-Goyrrnor. However.
VIII Not Run ns Indrpcnd.,,
In Thrce-Corncrrd Race.
B. Robert j. BENDER

United News STAFF corrc spuuden,
WASHiNGTON juno Ex-senator
Lodge. dean % tho Senate and out
standing figure Tor r"-cIcction this
I ialI. has mapped on. the strategy for
ms battle line. which viii be To the
political situation this year what
the west front was To the World
war
IL Is generally admitted that Lodge
faces the contest of his life for re-
election. For that reason tho ad =
ministratinn is maeshaling all it's
most effective reserves to gc, be-
hind him when tho critical stage
oi operations arrives.
VIII Make No P~rsonnJ Effort,
Lodge viii make no big fgh, for
denomination in the primaries. In
IN. FIRST place II is conceded he
should win the primary hands down
In the second place he feels that
"it"r four terms in Congress and
"chrly ,hirty Years in tn. Senate
tota!ing almost thir:y-sevcn years in
phoIlc iii"--h!S record and what he
stands for Is sufficiently well known
TO the rank and file OF his own
party 10 make it unnecessary for him
|" contest the primary fight with
any one--formcr Governor Samuel
Mccall included.
Once nominated. however, Lodge.
strategy calls for the most active
campaign he ever has waged. either
personally or through his friends.
Rcalizins the bitter fight that Is 10
he made upon him. the administra-
ton, throwing personalities aside.
is going into the melee with all
oil its efec,ives.
Thc thought OF Lodge--a conspic-
uo"s figure In Republican politics
for over Twenty-Five years. now Re
publican leader in the senate. chair
man Of the Foreign Relations Com
Mittec and last remaining pillar Of
the Old Guard party in the upper
hlanch OF ConGress-in danger of de-
icat. has sent qualm through the
whole Republican organization.
So il is that arrangements al
ready have been made for the active
p'riicipat ation in the campaign OF Sec
ietarH OF State Hughes. who worked
with Lodge during the arms confer
cnce here. Secretary OF War Weeks
and every R.publican II member uI th,
Massachusetts, delegation in the House
TO get nto the fight on behalf of
Lodge. Even President Harding, who
has declared for general hands
or policy. will find ii convenient
during the campaign to write n let
fEt In nIr tNaI,
does not speak in Massachusetts.
Apparently the Massachusetts
situation is clearing in So far as Nc
Calls independent candidacy for the
Senate is concerned. He has told
friends here that II he found the de-
mand strong enough ne would enter
the Republican primaries in oppo-
sition TO Lodge. Once he did this
1t would preclude The possibility. un-
ing tho fight as an independent
spite candidate" in the elections
He thus far has indicated he would
make the primary race il any, and
would not run as an independent in
the clections--as Republicans had
feared and as Democrats had hoped
III | go TO bat" he told friends
here recently. ''it will be TO knock
n home run and not to drive out
sacrifice hy that would score a Demo-
Crat on base"
If Mccall runs in the primary.
however. il will he well TO note his
vote, say political leaders in touch
" irh the Massa chusetts situation.
For the vote FOR Mccall will be
The vote Of protest against Lodge and
will figure conspicuously in the
chances the Democratic nominee has
for election.