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Show NEW ENGLAND poyifiiNS Mark Sullivan Reviews Effect Of Moses ?nd Brandegee On Campaign lb M wiv ! I M . National Political Correspondent 'f the Vev York Evening Poet. NF.W YORK Oct. t$ Taking the New Kngland sitat.-, .is .x group, the situation as it stands todav Is about as follows; Maine and Vermont, arc oi court Republican, in Massachusetts the, Democratic organisation is in vcr poor etiaPC A large part of the official! offi-cial! of it. as well as a lirge par; of the rank and file of the Democratic Pa.rty In the stat-.-. are moved by eon-'i' eon-'i' rations of strong hostility of the league of nations. The Democratic! Senator I "avid Walsh, who Is more or less the head of the Democratic or-; ganliatlon has been not far from open d( faction tnd has not leon making am speeehes. A good many Jokes are cur-! rent about the "throat trouble" which' h wa- aTfllcted with after Co visited Wilson and otherwise endor::eil th league of nations. I IS H RHODE IMAM. Rhode Island ilso his a population' ': which ...r Rti per enl share either the objections from an Irish point of, view to the league of nations of the objection from the point of view of Italians who srere deeplj augend i , President Wilson's i.osltlor. on J dm, j This leaves New Hampshire an-J CV.n in ; icnt Some national leaders of the Hemoeratlc party occasionally speak of Nem Hampshire and Connect lent a "doubtful statea" but they realize that New Hampshire and Connecticut arc not seriously doubtful as between Harding Har-ding and Cox Whatever doubtfulness doubtful-ness there may be In these states concerns con-cerns much more the fate of the Re-UUgllcan Re-UUgllcan senators who ar seeking re- :' Ion M'V..ln New Hampshire ami I'.iandegee In Connecticut. The Dekno- rats are give these iw.i senators U decidedly hard fight; and thev have i real chance to defeat Brandegec at least Moses m uraxdegee Incidentally. i have frequently won-:- win commentators on the h.ii ding position on the league of nations, who put all the cause for that position posi-tion on senutors Johnson and Borah, have never thought for the part that the position of Moses ano randegee 1 may have had in It large part of the campaign disbussleh for the pas: three wnks ha rested on the theorv that Johnson ha inlimidateU Harding into taklnc h position that loans awav Ironi the league I think that so f.i as Harding may have been Influenced ; bv other renalor.s at all, Johnson has prob.ibl) had leea to do with it than consideration of the difficultier. of Md'Ses iuid Brandegec. What Hub has Johnson to swing! ir Harding? If Harding should tjk-a tjk-a position on the league of nations plainly offensive to Johnson, whit could Johnson do about it? Johnson could bolt, aside frm the efficacy of, such in act on Johnson's personal pd-J Htlcal fertuiies, Just how would that! help him as regards his interrst Inj defeating the league of nations, and' how could he be iT, the position of ad-, vising his followers, who are enemies! of the league, to vote for Cox .' To be sure It may be answered that! Johnson could have done what Sena-' tor Reed has done stay out of the J fight entirely and confine himself as' Reed to supporting an independent! candidate for the senate, la Follctte's. man. Thompson, In Wisconsin. But for. Reed lo do this is one thing and lor JohnpOl) to do It Is another. Reed knows he has no political fu-' ture. Already for a year he has been practically out ol the Democratic part) In Missouri. Johnson on the other hapd, has not only his position as a Republican leader in California to maintain hut also Johnson has reali ambitions for the Republican nomination nomina-tion for the presidency in the future. WOTHKR ( ISE But consider the relation ol Harding to the cases of Moses of New Hampshire Hamp-shire and Brandegec of Connecticut. Roth these men are bitter-enders, running run-ning for re-election If Harding should take on the league of nations.! a position leaning toward, let us say the Lodge reservations or seeming to d I rill rn v.. rV.t !.IM..r , m,. I such an act on his part would amount to suggesting that the Republicans in New Hampshire und Connecticut should oppose Motes and Rrandegee. and this is about the last thing Harding Har-ding would be willing to do. It can be freely assumed that Harding Har-ding places the desirability of having a Republican sepati above an;, other Issue In this camp.ugn Harding must know how incomplete victory it WOUld be if he should win and Hot have a Republican senate. He knows what Kind of a hear den he would be In If lo should be president and thej Democrats control the senate Ji,. must know this because lie knows what It ht, been with the situations reverted during the past two years. It can be1 ken for granted that Harding laj probably much less concerned with; Johnson than he Is with the re-election of Moses in New Hampshire and Brandegec In Connecticut The New England states have among them -H of tho country's all erectoral votes. u would be much surer to bet that Cox will not get on.--of these 14 tliun to bet hc will get five lhL. however. Is not as bad for Cox as It SOUUds, In 1.016. W ilson got onlv fOur electoral votes in New England and yet won. In fact, in 1916 Wilson carried only Lwo of the northern states east of the Missbsippi, ohio and .New Hampshire nn |