The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-08
LODGE FACES
HARDEST FIGHT
OF HIS CAREER
xuk Gloves Over Hard Knuckles
win Characterize Battle In
Massachusetts,.

R0stOn. May o. Ne Digest pO-
,i,ical fight in the United States is
hreving in Massachusetts. 1t has
national significance, and an eager
national audience, because it is a
erbt to unseat Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge.
BEAT Lodge!" is the slogan.
.Who can do it2" is the question.
Two millionaire lawyers are
chief figures in the battle. One,
colonel william A. CASTOR, has an
nounced his candidacy for the
Democratic nomination. The other,
sherman L. Whipple. will probably
oDpose CASTOR.
Roth are fighting men. But Whip
pIe seems to be generally regarded
As the most formidable Democrat
/ likely to beat Lodge.
Another complication is that for
mer Governor Samuel w. Mccall
NAV give Lodge a battle for the
Republican nomination If Whip
nile runs and Mccall runs there will
he two spectacular struggles at the
september primaries as a prelim-
mary to the grand knock-Gown
battle in November.
All Are Friends.
Silk gloves cover hard knuckles
IN this remarkable situation.
All belong TO the upper ten;
all are wealthy; all are personal
friends.
Colonel CASTOR is a charming
gentleman" says Senator Looge.
Mr. Lodge Is charming person.
ally-it's the things he stands for.
says Whipple.
And Wnlpple feels the same way
about Colonel Castor; and Colonel
CASTOR has similar sentiments to-
ward Lodge and Whipple.
Lodge is II and has spent half
his life in congress, six years in the
house and 80 years in the senate.
Whipple is 60, and never held Of
fee. CASTOR is CO and has maze
three unsuccessful tries for gov
ernor.
Wilson Democrats are in open
revolt against Gaston's candidacy,
for CASTOR was as much foe If
the League OF Nations as Lodge.
And Whjpple, q strong League of
Nations man. regards CASTOR as be-
ing tarred with the same Big bus
mess" stick as Lodge.
Is Z STATE Fight
Here in M4SSaCuuSGL the people
are jealous OF these ''fr.e 1dly en-
emies" OF theirs. They want the
rest Of the country strictly u u44
derstand that IN IS private fight,
not a public one.
Thinking Democrats say the
more Lodge is attacked nationally
the more able he viii he to dGn
the Cloak of martyr and n that role
gain sympathy and support at
home. They regard the Lick
Lodge!" battiecry, new icing heard
over the country in connection with
Lodges leadership against the
League of Nations and for tIe four
power treaty, as LOdge prUpa ganda
designed to make Massachusetts
mad and rally the state around a
native son.
So the state fight will not be 50
much on LoGge'5 ait tude in for
eign relations as on his record in
home affairs.
CASTOR hasn't announced his
platform and will not until he re-
turns from business trip to. Eur
ope a month hence.
Whipple. though not yet an
ayowed candidate, will fight Lodge
On the ground that h. has neglect
ed labor and the masses generally
In favor Of the special interests,
and on his vote for Newberry and
against such things as women's
ETfff
Democrats Divided.
The age-old enmity between the
two big Democratic bosses, Mayor
James NJ Curley OF Boston, and
former Mayor John F. Fitzgerald,
may have an important bearing on
the fight. Fitzgerald, who opposed
Lodge in the last senatorial cleo
ton, announced his candidacy for
governor the same day CASTOR
came out for senator. Curley.
whose power has increased tr2-
mendously since his recent election
as mayor, is regarded as favorable
to WhippIe.
Whipple has been p-acticing law
IN Boston since 1885 and has ma
uonal reputation as a trial lawyer.
state supreme court. He is under
medium height, bulky, with close
clipped brown hair going gray, and
anything face. He is Yale man.
CASTOR has gained fame as a
combination lawyer, business man
and banker and is chairman of the
BOARD of the National Shawmut
bank Like Lodge, he is Harvard
man, a class-mate of Theodore
roosevelt, and still remembered at
Harvard for his fistic battle for the
college middleweight championship
u 1879, when, seconded by Roose-
velt he beat Ramon Cult eras. He
Is snort, stocky, with firm mouth,
ana Sandy hair and mustache.
!, everybody here thinks Lodge has
me stiffest fight of his career
ahead.
nm Hkl RAHETlH