Evening star., 1923-06-17
FIRST COURT TEST
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Harding Plan Divides State;
With Senators Reyes and
Moses at Odds.
Special Dispatch to This Star.

Special Dispatch to The star
CONCORD. n H., June 16.-Public
opinion on President Hardings world
court issue may be given its first
actual test in the laboratory of the
Granite state. New Hampshire Is
among the earliest of the states to
hold its presidential primary, and the
political lineup existing there today
is sharply drawn on the subject.
The states senior senators- George
H. Moses is against the world court
rlan. but the junior senator. Henry
w Keyes is for il. There is still an
other faction in the party that favors
entering the league of nations. 1t is
hea ded by the Spalding brothers, of
Rochester. Both are rich manufac-
turers.
Huntley y Spalding is president of
the state BOARD of education. HIS
brother. ROLAND H. Spalding, is an
ex-governor of the state and was
Senator Keyes' immediate predecessor
in that office. 1t is pretty generally
brothers will shy his hat into the
senatorial ring before long. and If
he does 1t will be as league or ma
tions republican against Senator
Keyes who will soon be waging a
campaign for denomination for sec
ond term in the senate.
Looking Ahead to 1924.
The open secret in New Hampshire
is that Senator Moses wants per-
next republican national convention.
He and his friends are saying that
New Hampshire should go to the next
nominating convention with an in
structed delegation . To show which
way the wind is blowing 1t is only
necessary to recite one salient fact.
At the behest of Senator Moses.
Senator Borah went to Manchester,
the largest city in the state. not long
ago anu made a speech in which he
repeated his vigorous views on the
world court and declared that the
republican party must solve several
important domestic questions. such
as railroads. coal. oil and others, or
go down to defeat in the coming
campaign. Now 1t is announced that
Senator La Toilette Is coming to New
Hampshire to make one or more ad-
dresses on domestic issues. New
Hampshire politicians see the hand of
their senior senator in the coming
of Borah and La Toilette and the in
diCationS are that this state Will be
one of the most important battle
grounds in the coming republican
presidential denomination campaign.
While there has not been an. open
breach between the New Hampshire
senator's. it is well known that of
late there is no love lost between
them. This is because Keyes elects
to follow President Harding rather
than take orders from his colleague.
Moses never has enthused over his
colleague, who is more of a business
man than a politician. Anyhow.
Senator Moses never did relish the
idea Of New Hampshire republicans
taking up rebellious democrats and
them.
Prefers Straight Republican.
He must prefers a dyed lin -the-wool
ism dates back only to the Bryan
days, as in the case with Senator
Keyes. Senator Keyes was a demo-
crat up to the time that the boy
teen-to-one slogan. In addition Sen
ator Keyes' father was a Vermont
democrat, and his enemies say
that the senator is the only living
descendant of Vermont democrat
who ever went astray.
It is the New Hampshire situation.
as much as anything, that brought
Chairman John T. Adams of the re-
publican nation committee to Bos-
ton this week to confer with the
New England members of the COM
mittee. The New England commit
teeman spoke out in meeting for the
benefit of their chairman. He was
told that the Republicans would en-
counter serious difficulties in Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island and New
Hampshire, where, at this writing,
it is admitted the democrats have a
good chance of winning in 1924.
Democrats now occupy the guber-
Material chairs in Rhode Island and
New Hampshire.
Mr. Adams was also informed that
New England would expect and de-
mand more help from the republican
national committee in conducting the
next presidential campaign. Little
was done last year by the national
organization to save Senator Lodge
from defeat in the senatorial cam
paigr, and if republican hopes next
year are to have at least an even
break, the national committee will
have to stop, look, listen and act
when New England yells for help.
Copyright, 1921 .--