Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-04
LODGE SUPPORTERS.
BECOMING NERVOUS
OVER WOMEN'S VOTE
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
, (Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
Copyright, 1929


Lodge in Massachusetts this year?'
Up to a few days ago the answer
would have been: Certain re-elec,
ton"
Nervousness has developed in the
Republican camp. Some of the
managers are shaking their heads
and worrying about the woman vote.
Others are fearful that empty coal
bins will bring a protest vote. Still
others keep barking back to tie
primary vote and wonder why q
candidate of almost no political
strength like Joseph Walker polled
almost a third as many votes as
Senator Lodge. What's the matter
with the western section of the
state-this is asked and variouSly
answered as the whole situation IS
canvassed. Former Senator Muir
ray Crane warmly favored the
League of Nations and many Of his
disciples in western Massachusetts
are believed to have voted against
Mr.. Lodge.
This much may be taken for
misunderstanding Cox, the Repuh-
lican nominee for governor, will run
ahead of Senator Lodge in the
finals just as he did in the pri.
maries. Mr.. Lodge will lose thoI;
sands Of Republican votes because
he voted to override President Ha:
dIng's veto on the bonus because he
did not favor woman suffrage when
it needed help, and because he is
credited by many who favored tire
League of Nations as having been
largely responsible for Americas
failure to participate in that organ
ization.
Republicans Active
1t is significant that Charles w.
Elliott, former president Of Hdr-
ward and Moorefield Storey, former
president of the American Bar as
ISOLATION, have not been able to SUP
I ort William A. CASTOR, Democrats
nominee for United States senator.
an opponent of the League of Ma
tons. They have formed a group
who are campaigning for John A.
Nichols, independent Republican
candidate for senator. The latter
IS actively supported by Joseph
Walker, who ran against Mr.. Lodge
in the Republican primaries.
Mr.. Nichols is also striving for
the prohibition vote because Of Mr..
Lodges presumptively wet position.
Any fight, Of course, which be-
comes three-cornered can be dan
gerous. Mr.. Lodges managers may
not nave sought to appear worried
but their tactics betray uneasiness,
to say the least.
Secretary Of State Charles Evans
Hughes was brought here for the
purpose Of strengthening out num-
erous Republicans. especially among
the business men and bankers who
have not felt that Americas foreign
policy has been particularly direct
ed toward helping the world back
to normalcy. Mr.. Hughes at
tempted to give an authoritative out
line Of the policy of the Harding adj
ministration and got a good deal Of
attention, but the brief reference
with which he dismissed Mr.. Lodge
while he devoted much of his speech
to other things naturally started po-
litical tongues wagging. Mr..
Hughes unquestionably came here
to help Mr.. Lodge, but mostly to
prevent the Massachusetts vote
from being construed as repu-
diation Of the foreign policy of the
administration.
Still Senator Lodge is to be de-
rived of some Republican votes
and he is bound to lose many Of
those who have not forgiven him for
voting to override the Harding
veto on the bonus, and "drys,"
who have not forgotten that he
voted against the Eighteenth
amendment-there is a correspond
ing number of members who like
Lodge for his OPPOSITION to the lea
que of nations and for his wet lean
ings.
The Democratic party in large
part in this state was against the
league Of nations two years ago,
and were it not for the fact that
the league has been minor is
sue in the campaign, Mr.. Lodge
wuold retain most of the Democrats
who voted the Republican ticket in
1920. The voters Of Irish descent
opposed the league because they
thought it meant too close a work
ing agreement between the United
States and Great Britain.
Some of those folks now believe
Mr.. Lodge was unwise in helping to
make the famous Four-Power pact
WIltC1l CONSTITUTES IIlS u ullSo OldIC0
and England partners in the Pacific.
The Irish would prefer to have the
two countries not quite so close.
So there are profits and losses, poll
tically speaking, in being against
the league of nations, but in favor
of the Four-Power pact.
When II is said and done, how
ever, Massachusetts is not particu
10 ~ NV T,n6Onfc
mistakes. The Boston Post, which
has the largest circulation of any
morning paper here, is supporting
Senator Lodge. though this same
newspaper was the thick and thin
champion of Woodrow Wilson
throughout his administration.
If Senator Lodge is reelected -
and it looks on the surface as if
he will winnie will owe his victory
to feeling on the part of the voters
that he can do more for Massachu-
sets in the United States senate
than can newcomer. The position
f majority leader carries with it's
no small influence and whatever
people outside of Massachusetts may
think about Mr.. Lodges leadership,
the opinion would seem to be that
it is valuable asset to this state
Senator Lodge has been in public
life for thirty years. He has ac-
cummulated many enemies-he is
not a chummy sort of character on
the stump and he has made enough
speeches on enough subjects to
cause him trouble in any campaign.
But while the windup of the cam
paign seems to indicate close
squeeze, one should not be surpris-
ed to see Massachusetts follow the
normal Republican trend of the east.