New-York tribune., 1922-10-16
Lodge Expected
TO Win by at
Least 10000
Axes of Enemies, Whetted
During Last 3 Years,
Dulfed by Absence of
an Effective Opposition
Senator's Campaign Brisk
Massachusetts Prosperous,
With Mills All Running
and Tariff Is No Issue
BY Carter Field

BOSTON, Oct. 15.-Fate has surely
confounded the enemies Of Henry
Cabot Lodge this year. For three
years their number and strength have
been increasing, first one group and
then another Joining in eager anticipa-
tion of the day they could cleave off
his political head with a mighty swoop.
The day is rapidly approaching for
which they had hoped, but the razor
edges of their axes, keen from three
years of whetting, have been made
useless for chopplng. They have
swung nightly and hit flint before
reaching that much-hated neck.
As this is written all the indications
are hereSthat Lodge Will be re-elccted
by comfortable but not excessive
majority. Enough voters Of the va
rious groups who dislike hfss Lodge
! will go to his oppoaent, Colonel VIII
liam A. CASTOR, to prevent his ma
jority from being a landslide, but
there is very little evidence to justify
a hope that CASTOR can win.
Friends Predict 10000 Easily
Lodges majority will probably be
larger than it was in 1916, when he
was elected by something like $4,000.
but even with the women doubling the
vote it is not likely that he will muster
twice that lead. His close friends who
are not carried away by enthusiasm
say that he will get more than 10000
and will do very we'll to get $4,000.
~L-n Ls,.zolP 4 now,
paigner, and Massachusetts, loves to
be proud of her statesmen, so that the
stumping tour on which he is now en-
gaged--really wonderful feat for a
man Of his age-may result in in
creasing that majority.
The groups in the state which had
hoped for crushing defeat for Mr..
Lodge, and which include the Wilson
admirers in both parties, the League
of Nations advocates, the prohibition
lists and the progressives, all had their
weapons snatched from their hands in
the two primaries.
In the Republican primary Mr..
Lodge was opposed for the nomination
by Joseph Walker, who advocated the
League Of Nations. Walker piled up
70,O00-odd votes, only about one-third
of the number cast for Mr.. Lodge, but
opposition when it it realized how Mas
sachusetts usually rallies to the sup
port Of her leaders who have attained
national prominence.
$4,000 Voters Ignored Both
Another interesting point is that, al
though in national interest the Sena-
torial fight overshadowed everything
else, some $4,000 men and women who
voted in the Republican primaries did
not vote for either Lodge or Walker
1t is assumed shat for the greater part
they were voters who objected to the
League Of Il Nations and therefore
would not support Walker, who made
that his chief issue, but who were so
strongly opposed to Lodge on other
issues that they would not vote for
him either.
Which is another illustration Of
Lodges remarkable luck in the utter
impossibtlity of all the voters who OPP
pose him finding any one they can
support.
In the Democratic primary, mean
while, the same battle on the League
of Nations was fought out between
Sherman Z. Whipple, the prominent
Boston lawyer, and Colonel CASTOR.
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