Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-02
SENATORS
FACING PRIMARY
Butler and Cameron Have No
Opposition-Stiff Fight for
Moses, Lenroot and 0ddie.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
Five primary contests affecting the
fates of as many prominent Repubn'
can United States Senators and in
cid, ltally Coolidge administration
prestige will be held next Tuesday,
September I. The men and the
States in question are:
Irvine L. Lenroot. Wisconsin;
George IT. Moses, New Hampshire;
Tasker l.. eddie, Nevada; William M.
Butler, Massachusetts; Ralph n.
Cameron, Arizona.
Senator Butler, Coolidge intimate
and chairman of the Republican ma
tional committee, is unopposed for re-
nomination in Massachusetts. His
troubles are scheduled for later
date, when he must meet at the elec-
ton poles on November 2 the Bay
States champion vote-getter, David
Ignatius Walsh, who again aspires to
enter the United States Senate. Sen
ator Cameron, another stanch adj
ministrationist, likewise will be re-
nominated without a contest. But
his fate, too, will hang in the balance
until election day, when he will be
opposed either by Representative
Carl Hayden, AriZona's single mem
Der in the lower House of Congress-
or Charles Fl. Rutherford, a Phoenix
lawyer, both Democrats. who are
fighting for the senatorial nomination
on their ticket.
LenrOOt Gains Support.
Senator Lenroot has completed a
WhirlWind campaign in Wisconsin as
an outspoken Coolidge hacker and
World Court supporter, and has made
unexpected inroads into the supposed
ly invulnerable La Toilette Blaine
progressive strength. At present the
Milwaukee betting odds are running
from to to to 10 against Len
root, but impartial observers inform
this correspondent that by election
day the odds will be nearly even.
Whether Lenroot or Gov. Blaine wins
the senatorial nomination, the vote
is certain to be exceedingly close.
Wisconsin's 1926 primary campaign
has been the most complicated in
the States history. The La Toilette
organization, hitherto unbeatable, has
for the past six years. To drive him
from public life was one of the late
Senator La Follette's gnawing am
billions. Fighting Bob's" two bril-
liant young sons, the present Sen
ator Bob" and Young Phil" have
campaigned up and down the State
| for Blaine all Summer and done what
they could to keep the Badger COM
monwealth safe for La Folletteism.
But the dynastic senatorial candidate.
| Gov. John ]. Blaine, has been sub
iected to a whitening fire by Lenroot
| The governors refusal to debate the
World Court issue with Lenroot has
hurt Blaine. Lenroot has made
strong capital out Of the governors
lodging tactics on that issue. with
the result that the La Toilette people
| have not been able to make as deadly
use of Lenroot's World Court sup
port as they at one time hoped to do:
Blaine is also being raked fore and
| aft by Fred r. Zimmerman. the Wis
consin secretary Of State, who is
opposing Attorney General Herman l..
Ekern, a La Folletteite, for the guber-
Material nomination. While the La
toilette camp is leading revolt
against "Coolidgeism," the thinner
man camp is conducting, a revolt
against "Blaineism." charging that
| the Madison ring" of La roulette
lieutenants, captained by Blaine and
| Ekern, has set up pontlcal au'
tocracy" in the State and IS exploiting
it for selfish purposes. zimmerman
| has not campaigned for Lenroot' pu.
he is attacking Blaine mercllessly, ana
the inference is that he wants his
friends to vote against the governor
senatorial ambitions. The stalwart, or
Lenroot Republicans, put up color.
less candidate for governor named
| Charles B. Perry, but are not accord
ing Perry very aggressive support:
The situation has all the earmarks OF
an understanding between Lenroot
and Zimmerman, and it is belng de-
nounced by the La Follette-Blalne
OrGa MIA ton.
Last Six Weeks Brought Change.
Had the Wisconsin primary been
held six weeks ago, Blaine's nomlna-
ZION would have been fairly certain,
Int Lenroot's chances have material
" improved. The Senator hlmseir pc
lieves he's going to win. HE Will
carry Milwaukee and the otner large
cities of the State. But the Sena-
tor whom President Coolidge eulogiz-
ed at the Ericsson celebration IN
wa shington in May, and thereby de-
! monstrably Endorsed. will have to cut
heavily into BlaineS rural vote to be
victorious. Lenroots campaign dur
ing the final days Of the contest was
| centered on the farm regions. Whlcn
we're always the backbone of the old
La Toilette strength.
George Higgins Moses is engaged
in a titanic duel for his political lie
In New Hampshire. His principal OPP
nosition is that of former Gov. Robert
Perkins Bass. who has campalgned
under the Coolidge administration Ia
bel and assailed Moses as a Coolidge
disloyalist. Senator Moses. an eX-
perienced and astute politician, mas
made a vigorous canvass or the Wnole
State. But he is a poor man without
any reservoir of capital for the sfnews
of political war. Such campaign
funds as he has had. and they We're
modest, We're contributed by his
| friends. Moses declined to employ
hired workers and claims not TO have
q single one in his employ. His an
tagonist. Bass, is not only rich in his
own right. but is the son-in-law OF
Charles Sumner Bird. one of the
wealthiest men in Massachusetts.
DESPITE the prominence given in
the New Hampshire fight to the
! PENNSYLVANIA and Illinois slush fund
scandals. Moses friends accuse Bass
of spending "A lot of money. especially
on hired workers throughout the
State. The Bass campaign, f1rst
built up around the argument that
Moses misrepresented New Hamp-
shire in voting against American
entry into the League of Nations and
! the World Court, has switched to
other issues because of current events
| in Europe. Then the attack on Moses
turned on his vote against all of the