The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-10
LODGE GOING
BACK TO JOB
AS SENATOR
Reelection in Massachusetts
Now Appears Certain
Wilson Democrats May
Abandon Revenge Plan.
DISORGAN|zED
BY MARK SULLIVAN

BOSTON, Mass, Oct 10.-As things
stand four weeks and a day before
the election, put it down that Henry
Cabot Lodge is going back to the SEN
ate from Massachusetts. Put it down
also as the outstanding irony of the
present political year in the United
States that the man whom the Demo
Gratis are running against Lodge is
man who voted against Woodrow Will
son in 1916.
The whole theory of the Democratic
fight, to take revenge on Lodge for
the way Lodge acted toward Wilson,
has gone to nothing. For nearly four
years since the time when Lodge be-
gan his bedevilling of Wilson and his
fight against the league of nations,
the Wilson Democratic leaders in the
nation and the league of nations peo-
pie everywhere nursed the thought
that this coming election in Massachu-
setts would be "the day" when they
would have their revenge. But all
that has collapsed.
Program Failure
All the plans to put forward against
Lodge some ardent champion of the
League of Nations, 10 get the support
of Wilson and Wilson friends behind
him, to bring James Cox into the state
to denounce Lodge as the sordid en-
emy of the league and of all idealism,
the whole plan to make the fight on
Lodge a great Democratic effort and
the principal national political event of
the year-all that program has failed
step by step.
This Massachusetts fight was to be
the vindication and canonization of
Wilson. All the Wilson zealots in the
country were going to help. To per
sons who looked forward to this kind
of an issue the actual fight as it has
developed has little appeal. In fact,
the ardent Wilson partisians are more
than Indifferent. They are embittered
and Sullen.
Castor to Run Well
The man who got the Democratic
nomination against Lodge voted
against Wilson in 1916. The League
of Nations, Wilson, our foreign rela-
tions generally-none of these things
are issues in the campaign. The Dem
ocrats will put up a considerable fight;
but it will be wholly different and
much less appealing than the originally
planned.
The Democratic candidate William
A CASTOR, is a banker who stands
| high in his state; but he offers no con-
| trast to Lodge of a sort that would
appeal to the Wilson League of Ma
tions idealists. CASTOR will make a
good fight, and while lodge as things
stand today, is by every evidence
clearly and strongly in the lead, he
will hardly be allowed a walkover.
Party Disorganized.
| CASTOR is an energetic and resource
! full man, and his heart is set on the
senatorship. Although in the present
fight he is the victim of animosities
stirred up in the recent campaign, and
! is not the favorite of the dominant
element in such organization as the
| Democrats have; nevertheless, he has
la considerable Democratic following OF
| his own, and is the beneficiary of the
gratitude of the party workers for oc
casions in the past when he has stood
by the party and at times led it him
self during periods of adversely. He
is wealthy man, and the Democrats
this year will probably have what is
for them the unusual experience o.
having more funds than the Repub
licans.
All that the Democrats can do in the
way of organization will be of ar
emergency nature, improvised out o.
the almost complete chaos into which
the Democratic party in Massachu
setts fell two years ago.
The Republicans, on the other hanC
have a thoroughly compact organiza
tion, with the prestige Of Victory be
hind them. Moreover. the Repub
llicans are confident and enthusiastic
lover the idea of scoring a success il
the eyes of the nation by sending
Lodge back to the senate. The Repub
lican convention which nominated
Lodge was conspicuous for its enthus
iasm The Democratic primary cam
| paign in which CASTOR fought hart
for the nomination against two other
almost equally strong, was conspicu
Gus for lack Of enthusiasm, and left
good many scars in the shape Of libe
suits and bitter resentments.