Evening star., 1922-08-04
MISSOURI RESULT
BOOSTSG. 0.P. MAN
Election of Republican Sena-
tor Seen in Reed Victory
at Primary.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Senator James Reeds victory in
TIE democratic primaries is the po-
lirical sensation OF the moment here.
not because the Wilson democrats are
disappointed that Breckenridge Long
because an anti-league-o -of-nations
man triumphed, but because both
democrats and republicans admit the
chances are brighter that a republi-
can will be elected United States
senator from Missouri next autumn.
AS personal proposition the re-
publicans wanted Jim Reed to win.
They like the way he fought along
side of them in the treaty fight after
the war and they admire his coura ge.
But when 1t comes to hoping for Jim
Reeds reelection to the Senate in
November that's a different story.
and the republican leaders already
are beginning TO say that the sores
of the primary cannot be healed in
time to help Reed and that repub-
lican will he added to the senatorial
list from Missouri
Bitter AntaEoEism.
The fight between Long and Reed
was mostly one of bitter antagonism
to Reed rather than affirmative eager
ness for the nomination of Long. Now
that Reed is the victor. the plain
truth of the matter is that enough
democrats in Missouri are sufficiently
independent of party ties to throw
their strength to a republican candi-
date.
Naturally Mr. Reed will make an
effort to recover some of the demo-
cratic vote which was obviously op-
posed to him. But his majority
wasn't big enough to make certain a
cratic-republican fights in the last
rev years have shown that the state
shifted by narrow majorities. Even
II Reed can recover half of the Long
vote or three-quarters. it would not
be enough to win.
As campaigner Jim Reed has few
equals in American politics. He may
swing votes galore before the cleo
t1ons roll around. He is shrewd
enough to make a bid for the Wilson
vote in Missouri and to do it boldly.
though In similar circumstances demo-
cratic candidates who have found a
divided party in their, campaigns have
turned to the republicans for support.
Former Senator Chamberlain of Oregon
Is one of the men who used to count
n,
and that's why more than once he
was able to exhibit his independence
of the Wilson administration.
Eject of Campbell Defeat.
Apart from the result in Missouri
the republican administration can
privately derive much encouragement
from the defeat of Representative
Phil Campbell of Kansas, chairman of
the rules committee of the House.
Just as Senator McCumber. as chair
man of the finance committee, has
shown a disposition to go along in
dependently of White House wishes.
SO has it been difficult ever now and
then for the administration to get
Chairman Campbell to give rule
whereby important legislation could
be brought to an early vote.
1t Is an open secret that Mr.. Camp
bells unwillingness to give the admin
istration rule SO as to bring the ship
subsidy bill to a vote has been a handi-
cap to Mr. Harding's pet measure.
The democratic leaders here do not
take a pessimistic view of any of the
elections. The Missouri contest they re-
gard as a personal affair with an ex-
traneous influence brought in by Mr.
Wilson's earlier letters on Mr. Reeds
ing national or far-reaching. As for
Mr.. Campbell's defeat in Kansas, they
point to it as a sign of the times. Mr.
Campbell himself says idle strikers
voted almost solidly against him. This
straw is naturally made the most Of by
the democrats, who count upon tine
cumulative power of all the discontented
elements in the country to swing
Congress in their direction next fall