The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-13
FESS LIKELY
TO WIN OHIO
SENATE RACE
Republicans Manage to
Squeeze Through Delicate
Situation = Democrats to
Nominate Atlee Pomerene.
DRY QUESTION FACTOR
By MARK SULLIVAN

WASHINGTON, June 13,-The Re
publicans managed to squeeze through
a delicate situation in Ohio and avoid
ed another senatorial primary contest
like those In Indiana and Iowa, be-
tween an orthodox Republican and a
Roosevelt one or a radical one. June
9 was the last day for candidates to
file, and a good many prominent Re-
publicans. both in Ohio and in Wash
ington, sat up until midnight to learn
whether Walter F. Brown, of Toledo,
did or did not intend to throw his hat
in the ring.
Brown is the old Roosevelt leader in
Ohio; and when the results in Penn
sylvania Indiana and Iowa become
known he began to act, or at least the
acutely apprehensive old guard lead
ers thought he seemed to be acting in
a way to cause a good deal of sus-
pense.
What arts of dissuasion may have
been used upon him, or whatever other
motives may have led him, he kept
out of the primary and left the field
clear to Congressman Simeon D. Fess.
it is true there are other entrants,
among them ex-senator Dick. but Dick
will not cut much figure Neither will
the third entrant.
After the primary on August s. Fess
VIII be the Republican nominee with
even greater certainty the Democratic
nominee will be the sitting SENATOR
Atlee Pomerene. When the later cam
paign comes on between these Demo
cratic and Republican nominees, a
good deal of the fight will hinge
upon the difference in the records
of Pomerene and Fess on the ques-
tions of prohibition and woman
suffrage
Pomerene Consistent
Fess has been clearly on the af-
firmative side of these two issues To
say that Pomerene has been on the
negative side would be technically cor
rect, but would not be wholly fair.
Pomerene, in his senatorship, has had
a consistent theory. He has always
said that he represented his state, and
that on each question as it came up
he should vote, not according to his
personal convictions, but according to
the wishes of his state.
When the question of prohibition
came up it just happened that there
had recently been a local election in
Ohio on this question. That local cleo
ton had gone against prohibition and
Pomerene felt that he was bound by it
The same thing happened as to
woman's suffrage. A fairer issue on
which this contest between Pomerene
and Fess should be fought would be
the Adamson act, affecting railroad
labor In any event, this Ohio Sena
torship contest will be a good fight
on legitimate public issues and it viii
undoubtedly be one of the centers o.
interest as the national campaign ap
proaches. Fess is the type of the
scholar and churchman in politics. Ht
used to be superintendent of his loca
Methodist Sunday school, and San
Blythe once spoke of him as "the MAJ
who put the "Fess" in Professor"
Before he came to congress tel
years ago, he was president of Antioch
college. and before that he had spen
his life as a teacher of American his
tory and similar subjects in various
Ohio institutions and for a brief tim,
at the University of Chicago.
He was also, at one time the edito
of a periodical called Worlds Event
and has written some worthy books
among them American Politica
H6OTS anu al OuJllue OIL OnlI6
States History"
In congress he has been an orthc
dox Republican. His nomination c
the senatorship, which he is sure t
get, is a deserved reward of his rec
ord in congress. Fess illustrates tn
rule that it is easy rather than diff
cult for man to impress himself o
his fellow members.
The chief quality that is needed
more thoroughness and the will t
work. Many of his speeches hav
shown that completeness of prepar;
ton which always causes the othe
members of the house to come bac
from the cloakrooms and listen to
man who knows his subject
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= Evening Post, Inc)