Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-04
Politics at Large
By G.. Could Lincoln.

AS the time draws nearer for the
primaries in the New England States.
lines are being more tightly drawn
where there are contests and Sentf-
ment Is crystalliZing for various candi-
dates. In New Hampshire. where
former Gov. Bass Is seeking the Re-
publican nomination for the Senate
against Senator George Moses, a
brisk campaign Is under way, but
with the trend setting decidedly in
favor of Senator Moses, according to
Information received here from care
full observers.
Across the State line, in Vermont,
the star of Senator Porter Dale is
in the ascendency. The withdrawal
of former Gov. Stickney from the
race for the senatorial nomination
has left the field practically to Sena-
tor Dale. 1t Is believed that the So
called administration group In the
State has decided to accept Senator
Dale, at least not to fight him ac-
lively. Stickney was heralded as the
particular friend Of President Cool
idge and Attorney General Sargent.
But the administration leaders took
no overt action in favor of the Stick
ney candidacy, and, indeed, the can
didacy of Mr.. Stickney was not re-
garded with any too friendly eyes in
Republican National Committee head
quarters. Senator Butler of Massachu-
sets, chairman of that committee, it
is understood, has not at any time
been active in the effort to get the
political scalp of Senator Dale.
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In some quarters the votes of Sem
ator Dale against the President on
the soldier bonus bill and the bill in
creaSing the pay of postal employees,
both in the last Congress, were held
to be treason. But Senator Dale has
been as regular as a clock on all
other questions in which the admin.
istration has been interested. Incl
dentally, Senator Dale has much
strength among the voters of the
Green Mountain State, and it was
realized that he might win handily,
no matter what the opposition. A de-
feat for Mr.. Stickney would have
been heralded as a defeat for the
President, in some quarters, largely
because of the impression, rightly or
wrongly, that the administration was
out to shelve Mr.. Dale, who had
gained ground.
So far as Senator Butler himself is
concerned in the Massachusetts, sena-
torial race, he is entirely sure of the
nomination, and his chances for cleo
ton appear to be Frightening all the
time. He has a strong organization
back of him, while there is some divi-
sion among the Democrats, whose can
didate in all probability will be for
mer Senator David l. Walsh. Further
more, Gov. Richie Of Maryland and
former Senator Stanley of Kentucky,
in making addresses in Massachusetts
for Mr.. Walsh, let their enthusiasm
against President Coolidge run away
with their political judgment. They
urged the voters to defeat Butler be-
cause his defeat would be a blow at
President Coolidge, whose campaign
manager Senator Butler had been in
1924. 1t has become all too evident
that Mr.. Walsh has to defeat not only
Coolidge, in a State where the Presi-
dent is idolized. 1t is another case of
a candidates friends having said what
had better been left unSaid. The
Democrats have raised the Coolidge is
sue in Massachusetts, and not Senator
Butler or his friends. Nothing could
have fallen out better for the sitting
Senator.
To return for a moment to the
senatorial primary in New Hampshire.
Mr.. Bass has raised the issue of
party loyalty, of loyalty to President
Coolidge, as against the loyalty of
Senator Moses. He has referred to
the vote OF Senator Moses against
American adherence to the World
Court. His friends have sought to
capitalize the attitude of Senator
Moses two years ago. when he
insisted that if he were to be a
delegate at large at the Republican
national convention he would not go
instructed for President Coolidge, but
uninstructed. Senator Moses failed to
be chosen delegate,
The Moses forces have replied by
calling attention to the record of Mr..
Bass, who was Bull MooSer in 1912,
deserving the Republican party. They
insist that it was because of Mr.. Bass
that the State went Democratic in
the election of United States Sena-
tor, former Senator Hollis, when no
Democrat had been elected senator for
half a century. They point TO the
fact that Senator Moses has voted the
straight Republican ticket since he has
been in politics. and that he has given
strong support to many adnlinistra-
ton measures put forward by Presi-
dent Coolidge, even though he was op-
posed to the World Court.
The contest for the Republican nom-
ination for Governor of New Hamp-
shire is complicated somewhat with
the senatorial race. Mr.. Bass and
Gov. Winant are declared to be work
ing together, though both deny this
openly. Huntley N. Spaulding is the
candidate against Gov. Winant and
has the support of Senator Moses,
though Spaulding has not declared
openly for any senatorial candidate
He is known to prefer Moses to Bass,
however.
Representatives WATSON and Hale
have no opposition for the Republican
nominations for the House in New
Hampshire.
If the friends of Representative
Ware of Pennsylvania and of Col.
Frank l.. Smith of Illinois. both of
whom have been nominated for the
Senate, are hoping to stall off possible
rejection by the Senate itself of these
candidates, provided. of course, they
are elected next November, on the
ground that 1t requires a two-thirds
vote to GUST Senator. they are
walking on very thin ice. 1t is true
that the Constitution provides Sen.
ator may be expelled. after he has be-
come a Senator, by a two-thirds vote
of the Senate and not by a majority
vote, But the question of a Senator's
right to a seat, il the charge of cor
ruption or other irregularity in his
nomination and the election is raised
against him, has always been settled
by a majority vote of the Senate. The