Evening star., 1922-03-12
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

elections-those in Indi-
w " ana-less than two months
" away, and others in the
near future, interest in the coming
hght for seats in the United States
Senate is growing apace.
Owing to death and resignation,
the humber of contests for the Sem
ate at the elections next November
will be, as it stands today. thirty
five, or three more than the one
third of the Senate who would be UP
for rte-election if there had been no
recent changes. The two Pennsyl-
cania senator's, Senators Crow and
Pepper, are serving under guberna-
torial appointments, filing the places
of TIL late Senators Knox and Pen
rose Respectively. Senator knox's s
term. bad he lived. would have ex-
pired hext March, So one of these
Pennsy lvania seats would have had
IN he ilIed by election next fall in
any ev ent.
Senatl Or Rawson of Iowa is serving
by appd ointment also, filling the va
cancy o. ccasioned by the resignation
of Judg Kenyon, and Senator Good
ing of daho was appointed to sue
ceed fori ner Senator Nugent, who re-
signed mi lore than a year ago to ac-
cent apl Dointment to the Federal
Trade Co mmission. Senator du Pont
also is erving under appointment,
succeedip g former Senator Waleott
of DelaN rare.
Seats n low held by twenty repuoii-
can sena tors and fifteen democrats
are to bA filled The present party
orranizati on of the Senate is sixty
republica his and thirty-six democrats.
If the democrats should win thirteen
Of the re publican seats and hold all
fifteen of 1.-THE seats occupied today by
Hwhose successors are to be
chosen. time control of the Senate
would pasS from the republicans to
tho democrIats There are, of course.
other comb knations Of victories which
wo,ld eiya the democrats control.
put IL ia ihconceivable at this time
that the democrats can win the Sem
.ta next fakl. as a glance at the list
,f states where elections are to be
held will sh$w.
The republicans whose successors
are to be. lefted are Senators Crow
and Pepper, Pennsylvania; Calder
New York; du Pont. Delaware;
France. MARYLAND: Frelinghuysen'
New Jersey: Hale. Maine; Johnson
california: kellogg, Minnesota; La
toilette, Wisconsin: Lodge, MassacfIu-
setts: Mcoumber. North Dakota: Nc
Lean. Connecticut; New, Indiana;
page. Vermont: Poindexter, Washing
,on: Sutherland, West Virginia;
Townsend, Michigan: Gooding, Idaho;
Rawson, Iowa-20.
The democrats whose seats are to
he filled are Senators Ashursf, Arl-
IONA. Culberson. Texas; Gerry. Rhode
leland: Hitchcock, Nebraska; Jones,
New Mexico; Kendrick, Wyoming;
KING. Utah; Mcclellan, Tennessee;
MYERS. Montana: Pittman, Nevada;
Pomerene, Ohio: Reed, missouri;
Swanson. Virginia: Trammell, Flori-
da: Williams, Mississppi-15
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The primaries in Indiana. when the
republicans will select their nominee
for the Senate, are set for May 2.
Senator Harry New. prominent In re-
publican politics for many years, a
close personal friend of President
Harding, is making the race to sue
coed himself and former Senator AL
bert J. Beveridge is his opponent.
This contest is looked upon as the
first real test of the republican ad-
h ministration's strength. Senator New
is SO close to the President and has
supported the administration SO con-
sistentIy that his candidacy takes on
added Significance. Mr.. Beveridge. how
, ever. supports the Harding administra-
tion. and does rot admit that his candi-
dacy raises any test of administration
strength.
Not the least interesting, by any
means. is the contest for the Senate
In Massachusetts,. Senator Lodge,
republican leader, chairman Of the
foreign relations committee, member
Of the American delegation to the
Washington conference. the oldest
member of the Senate in point of
service, is a national figure. The
\ nomination, beyond a doubt. will go
1 to him at the primaries, which take
place in Massachusetts, September IL.
Whom the democrats will put up has
uot yet been oecloeo. foriheK NAoJoi
John F. Fitzgerald of Boston has been
prominently mentioned as possible
: democratic nominee. The democrats.
particularly the pro-league of ma
/ tions democrats, have declared their
intention Of doing their utmost to de-
! feat Senator Lodge. But 1t happens
that in Massachusetts many OF the
democrats were auti-1eaguers, too,
and arguments advanced by the pro-
leaRuers may fall on many deaf ears
in the state. Political wiseacres pre-
dict that Senator Lodge will be re-