New-York tribune., 1922-10-17

lis to accept current gossip here. rs
how much Senator Gerry is going to
spend 1t is freely predicted that Z
he spends enough he will win. How
much enough is no one Is willing to
estimatc--for publication but the
amounts talked about are staggering.
Main Gerry Issue n Dud
Senator Gerry is attacked by the
Republicans for attempting to inject
Tammany methods in Rhode Island.
They charge that he has brought lot
Of New York people up here To work
for him politically. So far, however.
the Senator has nat Jared very we'll.
Most observers believe that the upsrts
Ia the conventions OF both parties
operated against him. The overturn
In the Republican convention hurt
Gerry because it destroyed one Demo-
cratic issue, that of boss rule by the
Republicans. The Democrats had been
counting heavily on gains at the cg-
pense Of es-scnator Lippitt, who Is no.
on the ticket this year, but who at
tempted to control the Republican
convention. Six years ago the cleo
tioh of Gerry over Senator Lippitt was
one OF the big political surprises.
Rhode Island did got go for Wilson
that year, but she aid elect d Demo-
cratic Senator. Other states which
split their tickets that year, as for
instance California, Washington, New
Hampshire, and Maryland, gave their
electoral votes TO Wilson and elected
Republican Senators,
Rhode Island is always having
strikes and troubles in her textile
mills, SO that mill owners are not very
strong ut the ballot boxes. Lippitt is
big mill owner, and though curl
ously enough he has probably had less
trouble with the workers than any
other operator, the voters seem glad to
pay off their gradges against mill
this one, who offered himself as a
political target.
The same psychology is offered as
the chief explanation of what hap
rened at the secret ballot this year in
the Republican convention.
Mill Issue Looms Big
So that, aside from the intrinsic
merits of the ticket as proposed by
Lippitt, as against the one which the
Republican named, there is a dis
tirct advantage to the Republicans in
having an "insurgent'' ticket, the
naming of which, every one in the
State declares, was a distinct blow at
the bosses. The Democrats by the same
token, are deprived Of their slogan:
"Vote against the ticket put up by
the mill owners"
The issue is more important this
year than usual, as the textile mills
have just ended thirty-eight weeks'
strike, with the workers absolutely
beaten. There is still lot of sore
ness, and naturally, while every one is
working now and there is every indi-
cation Of prosperity, the workers have
not caught up with the procession, and
money as the workers in Connecticut
and Massachusetts,, where prosperity
is fat and sleek.
There is no betting so far on the
Senatorial result, but at the present
moment the odds ought to be fairly
near even, with just shade of favor
to Beeckman.
"But, of course" every one hastens
to add as soon as this statement is
made, ''it all depends on how much
Gerry spends"
Clean G.. o. P. Victory Likely
The probability as this is written is
also that the three districts of the state
will all send Republicans to the ouse.
There is possibility that the Demo-
Gratis will gain one seat, in the first
district, where George r. O'Shaunnessy,
former member, has been nominated
against Clark Burdick, the sitting mem
ber Burdick's great strength lies in
the fact that he has left no stone un-
turned while in Washington in the way
of running errands and doing chores
which the home folks wanted. Nothing
wae too small for him to attend to and
nothing which anyone in his district
wanted was too big for him TO go after.
In the second district, Richard Aid
rich, son of the late Senator, some
times called the boss of the United
States, is the Republican nominee, and
Percy Cantrill, . member Of the Ameri-
can Legion, is The Democratic. Cantrill
was never in politics before. The Demo-
Gratis had rather hard time finding
suitable candidate At their first caucus
they named William Miller, after some
one had mentioned his name. Later de-
velopments showed that Miller was at
q Republican caucus at the time, which
might have caused complications had he
not at once refused the Democratic
nomination.
III the third district jeremiah E.
O'Connell is the Democratic nominee
against Isaac Gill, but this fight may
possibly be changed, as already told,
By the substitution of Kennedy for Gill,
if Kennedy can be persuaded to take it.
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