The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-29
REED BITTER
IN HIS FIGHT
TO HOLD JOB
Has Made Remarkable Gains
Toward Recovery From
Political Grave But Cannot
Overcome Wilson Doom.
IS OPPOSED BY WOMEN
BY MARK SULLIVAN

the three senatorial primaries that oc-
cur next Tuesday. by far the most
interesting one is the Missouri one. in
which Senator Reed has been engaged
Tor 10 weeks in an extraordinary per-
sonal attempt to effect a return from
what was. as everybody supposed, his
political grave.
The information that Washington
gets is to the effect that Reed has not
succeeded in overcoming the doom
that settled down on him when he in
CURED the opposition of ex-President
Wilson. Not all of Washington, by
any means, is glad to hear this news
The thick and thin friends of Wilson
are as eager to see Reed annihilated
as Wilson himself is; bu. in the SEN
ate, among many Republicans as well
as Democrats. the still lingering hope
is that fate will enable Reed to re-
buke the audacity that tried to read
him out of his party
The senate. beneath all its factional
cleavages and beneath all its personal
enmities. is at bottom a club--a club
of loyal brothers, and nothing would
please it better than to have the Mis-
souri, primary turn out, not as a re-
buke to Reed. but a rebuke to the
ex-president who dared to prescribe a
senator. This sentiment is shared
even by many of those senators who
carry the wounds, incurred in the
course of various senatorial debates,
from Reeds fists feet and teeth.
Letters Dangerous.
Even outside the senate even, in
deed. Missouri. Wilson's outlawing If
Reed went perilously near to that dan
ger point where such an action fails
to have the result intended. but re
acts in favor of the victim. 1t is said
that in addition to those letters from
Wilson which Reeds enemies already
have published, there are several 9TH
ers which they have been led to retain
in their files through prudent esti-
mate of the boomberang possibilities
Of this sort of thing.
Even though Reed should be
beaten, the strength he has been able
TO show is a surprise, considering the
depth from which he started. Even
before Wilson denounced him, as long
ago as 1920. Reed seemed to be as
hopelessly an autlaw from his party
in Missouri as could be. When he
tried to be a delegate at the Demo
he succeeded in being named by his
= local party organization in Kansas
City. But the Democratic state con-
vention turned him down by a vote of
112 to ., and Reed was prevented from
carrying out the intention he avowed
OF going to the national convention to
oppose Wilson and to oppose any plat
form that Wilson might be assumed
to favor.
Recovery Remarkable.
That Reed should be able to recover
from this opposition, even to the ex
tent of making any kind of a fight al
all for denomination in his state, is
a tribute to certain remarkable, if MOI
wholly happy traits of his personality
On personality Reed has had the best
of this fight
The newspaper men who we're sem
out to follow Reeds tour, all report
having had an interesting and agree
able time; while some of those SEN
out to cover the tour of Reeds opon
ent. Breckenridge Long, have asket
their papers to bring them back and
assign them TO a more spectacular
show. Even so hard-boiled veteran
follower of fighting, fire and famine
in every part of the globe, as Mr. Viii
liam Hard, wrote, in a dispatch from
the town of Washington, Mo. 'Wh!
the Honorable James A. Reed mad,
me cry, talking about mothers t
some $500 people whom he was per
suading to vote for him for United
States senator. Ii is not a politica
correspondent this man Reed needs t
follow him around and report him
it's a dramatic critic.
This sentimental speech of Reed
about motherhood is his way of trying
TO overcome the fact that most of tn
women Democrats of Missouri are OF
ganized against him. The women don
like Reed. They resent what seem
to have been in Reeds course on var.
Gus matters coming up in the senat
affecting women, an old-fashioned "ge
thee back to the kitchen" attitude Of
the part of Reed toward their sex
This attitude has in a general wa,
colored many of Reeds votes in tn
senate and his speeches on issues il
which women were interested.
Got Into Trouble.
Among the positions taken by Rec
which got him into trouble with tn
women. was his resistance to til
Sheppard Towner maternity bill
reeds way of meeting this in his pres
ent campaign has been to deliver
series of prose poems on maternity
The newspaper men who have follow
ed Reed say that these poems cor
stitute as moving theatrical perform
anca as has ever been heard on III
one-night stands among the Ozarks.
Reed has varied this speech fror
time to time, speaking on one night {
Motherhood among the birds; on al
other night of motherhood among tn
Wild animals, and so on throughout th
mammalian kingdom. The speeche
have been extremely sentimental bt
thew don't seem to have been effectiv
The women's rid Us of Reed club
continue to be the most formldaol
finger of fate pointing toward Reed
eclipse. -,
To Reed the fatal thing about tb
opposition by the women is the IA
D that women in politics seem to hay
longer memories and to be more oil
posed to go through to the END ina
men. Even if Reed should win u
primary. which he is not likely 70, IL
women who have become stirred up
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