The Cordova daily times., 1922-06-06
LODGE FACES HARDEST FIGHT
 OF STORMY POLITICAL CAREER

WASHINGTON, June 6.-There will be some pretty senatorial battles waged during the forthcoming cam paign, but none of them will hold more national interest than that to be decided in Massachusetts in Novem Der.
 For thirty years Henry Cabot Lodge has sat in the United States Senate watching men come and go. He has seen a lot of them come in like lions and go out quite lamblike since that chill fourth day of March back in '93 when he came to the Senate for the first time and Grover Cleveland moved l into the White House for his second term.
 Senator Lodge has always smiled a sort of superior little smile at the political difficulties of his colleagues. He has never had many himself, at least any serious enough to really menace the retention of his member ship in "the most exclusive gentle ] mems club in the world"
 Year after year for the last three decades the capital has seen Henry Cabot Lodge return to Washington, little grayer, little more wizened, a little more amused at the whims of the electorates south and west of Cape Cod.
 PARTY SPLIT IN 1912
 Only once in that span of thirty years has Massachusetts strayed from the straight Republican pathway in national election. That was ten years ago, in the big split of 1912, but fortunately for Senator Lodge he was not up that year and so escaped the fate of many of his Republican col | leagues.
 Four years later, when he was up again, the split had been healed. and Massachusetts once more took her place in the Republican column.
 Senator Lodge is the oldest man in the Senate in point of service. NO man is there now who was there when he came in '93. Gradually he has risen until today he is the recognized Republican leader of the Senate. He is seventy-two years old.
 This year the Democrats are out to "get" him. More Democratic ammu milton is to be poured into Massachu- setts this Fall than in any other To- cality in the country. The Democrats all factions of 'em, North, South East and West-would like to take his scalp for exhibition purposes and to settle a few grudges, new and an, cient.
 The Democrats have not forgotten that it was Lodge who led the Senate to the spectacular repudiation ot Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations. There were others, some perhaps more bitter and hostile at the time, but it is Lodge who will go down in history as the man who, more than any other, planned the strategy of the thing and was the tactical gen eral during the long fight.
 To the Demicrats Lodge is the epito me of all that they feel they must fight against. He fathered bill once many years ago, aimed at having l Southern elections conducted under Federal supervision in order to insure the negroes a fair deal. The South erners have never forgotten it; it is still mentionel in the Senate from time to time. And his name is ana, thema to all those Democrats who are of Wilsonian persuasion. So they want" him, all factions of em.
 Whether or not they will get him is matter of doubt but it is ques tion which is agitating most of the political discussion in Washington these languid spring days.
 CHANGE FOR DEMOCRATS
 The Democrats feel they have a good chance. They point to the gen eral unrest in the industrial world be- cause of poor business, unemploy ment, restricted credit and times that are semi-hard.
 They point also to the Irish vote in Massachusetts, always a considerable factor. In other years the Irish vote was against Wilson because of some of his policies before this country en tered the war. It became solidly in op position two years ago because of the league. Now the Irish vote is report ed, rightly or wrongly, to be against