Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-04
States senate. He is a most elo-

States senate. He is a most elo-
quent speaker, a forceful debater
and not afraid Of mar or the devil.
He seems to take delight in array
ing his great talents on the unpopu-
lar side of many questions. He
ranged himself with the bitterest
enemies of Woodrow Wilson dur
ing the latter part Of the democrat
ic administration and savagely. as
sailed that great leader of his own
party, voting with the republicans
against the League of Nations,
which he called "a league of hell"
He also opposed the majority of his
party on all of its foreign policies,
and some domestic ones. So IN.
popular did hhe become with his
own party that a majority of the
democratic members of his home
legislature sent him a petition ask
ing him to resign, and a democratic
| state convention refused to ratify
his selection as a delegate to the
democratic national convention
though his own home district had
selected him for that honor. In
the present campaign, Woodrow
Wilson Endorsed his opponent and
described Reed as a trouble maker
which he certainly was.
But that was not the only issue
in this campaign. In the senate
and on the stump, Senator Reed has
been scoring the prohibitionists
with blistering epithets and I'M
measured scorn. He was not sat
isfied with merely announcing him
self in favor of light wines and
beer. He went the whole hog as
usual. denounced the eighteenth
amendment with flaming words
The prohibitionists and all their
works he dashed with sarcastic in
vective.
AS though that was not enough
he assaulted the women's pet bill
the maternity bill. and assaulted the
wone who put it through congress
declaring that they were a lot Of
old maids and barren wome who
sought at the taxpayers expense te
tell mothers how to have babies anc
how to bring them up. He wal
also opposed to woman's suffrage
Naturally he had the active ane
violent opposition Of women:
clubs, churches. church societies
and all the dry element in the state
They organized Get Rid Of Reed
clubs and worked hand in glow
with the disgruntled democrats wht
could not forgive him for his as
sault on President Wilson. II
spite of all that, he won the nom
nation. 1t is no small persona
triumph for Senator James A. Reed
lust how much figure the we
and dry issue cut in this campaigl
J we cannot say, but we suspect tina
. it was the principal factor in tn
result. We are led to this conelu
sion by the fact that St. Louis AM
the big cities where the wet senti
ment is strong piled up enormou
majorities for Reed, while tn
country districts split more event,
or went against him. OF course
on the League of Nations issu
also the cities like St. Louis wit
a large foreign population wer
more favorable to the Reed positio'
than they were to the Woodrow
{ Wilson idea. On the other hanc
5 the wonen's clubs which Tough
t Reed were naturally more active
the big cities.
Senator Reed. stubborn, obst'
nate, a fearless fighter and battlin
for his political life against power
full foes during his old age, made
dramatic appeal to the minds Q
men and women, and he stumpe
the state thoroughly. Few me
equal him as a campaigner. Pei
haps the secret of his success lie
! there. The American people lk
: a fearless fighter gifted with
: silver tongue to tell his story. w
, expect that a good many citizen
of Missouri voted for him who d
: rot approve all of his ideas or hi
political actions. and we can't blam
them at that.