The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23
LODGES FRIENDS FEAR CANDIDACY
 OF SAM M'CALL
Former Governor May Be Able to Unite All Republican Elements Opposing
 Senator
By EDMUND HART
Special Dispatch to The Age Herald
 ICopyright, 1929. by The ABe-Heraid)

Copyright, 1922. by The ABe-Heraid
 Boston, April 22.-Opponents of Senator Lodge believe that Samuel W. Mccall, ex-governor, and for 20 years a prominent member of Con- gress, will enter the republican pri- maries as a candidate for the sena- torial nomination. Word has been passed by Mir. McCall's old campaign manager, Col. Charles Summer Bax- ter, to the Lodge opponents to hold themselves in readiness for the promised fight. MT. Mccall was a strong League of Nations supporter.
 MT. McCalPs friends say that he may be able to unite all of the anti Lodge factions of the party. MT. Lodges friends are not so much con cerned with developments in the democratic ranks, where Sherman L. whipple and Col. William A. Gaston are seeking the nomination for senator, as they are in the Mccall talk in the G. 0. P. The senator and his friends realize that a big vote for an opponent in the republican pri- maries might spell disaster in the November election and, to offset this, 1t will be necessary to keep the op- position vote down as small as pos sible. All things considered, Mccall Is regarded as the most dangerous republican in sight by the Lodge men.
 For years the feeling between Sen ator Lodge and Mir. Mccall has not been cordial. The latter. while gov ernor, never consulted Lodge on state affairs, and few of McCalrs ap- pointees were rabid Lodge men. In deed the senior senator from Massa- chusetts Is said to have told more than one applicant for his support for as the position that he feared such an indorsement would injure, rather than help their chances of appoint ment The Lodge men breathed easier when Samuel W. Mccall closed his career as governor.
 Hostile to Weeks
 The relations between Mccall and the Secretary of War, John W. Weeks, are also strained. They have not spoken for sometime. When President Harding visited the New Hampshire summer home of the Sec retary of War last year. it was mo- ticed that Mir. Mccall, near neigh bor of MT. Weeks, was not invited to meet the President The only time Mir. Mccall saw President Harding in New Hampshire was the day the lat ter made his public address in the village of Lancaster. when Mccall mingled with the crowd gathered in the park to greet the chief execu- tive.
 The feeling between Weeks and Mccall began some years ago, when the latter was defeated for the Sen ate by the former. For days the leg islature wrestled with the problem of choosing a successor to the late Sen ator Crane, who resigned owing to failing health. The honor was con- tested for by a half-dozen repub- iicans. On the twenty y-second caucus ballot, in that memorable contest, Mccall led the poll with 73 votes two more than Weeks. but not enough to nominate. That was on a Friday and the legislature adjourned until Monday. When the caucus re- assembled, John w. Weeks received 97 votes on thirty first ballot. Nine ty-four were necessary for a choice and in due course of the legislative proceedings, Weeks was elected as Cranes successor. Mccall never congratulated Weeks on his election to the Senate. The breach between them has never been healed.
 Close to Wilson
 During the Wilson administration, republicans accused Mccall of close association with tho White House hoping to be recognized by the democratic President. His name was presented by democratic friends for delegate to the Paris peace confer ence, but instead he was nominated for the tariff commission. Weeks and Lodge. 1t is said, saw to it that the nomination never got out of the committee, although it was demo- cratic committee. When the repub- licans came back into control in She Senate. Mccall was definitely shelved
 A seat in the United States Senate has been the goal of MT. McCalrs ambition. His friends regard him as particularly well fitted for that branch of Congress. He is more of 8 statesman than a politician. He ii the author of several biographies among which are the lives of Thad- deus Stevens and Thomas B. Reed. Mccall. a native of Pennsylvania came from the section represented House. but he was educated in New England. where he settled down to practice law. after his graduation from Dartmouth college. He was a close and lifelong friend of Tom Reed and delivered the address when the latter's monument in Portland was unveiled.