The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-30
Henry Of Nahant.

Our esteemed contemporary. the Memphis
Appcal-Aralunche. ia grieved and moved be-
cause there Is almost n clean-shaved GER
tainty that the Hon. HENRY CABOT LODGE
will be elected Senator in Congress from
Massachusetts, by the Republicans in the
next Legislature Of that State. Mr.. LODGE.
in the opinion of his Tennessee censor. has
shown himself to be false to his race. his
country. and his COP by becoming the au-
thor, or nominal author. of the Force bill:
I'VE tend that Mr.. LODGE hn. placed himself be-
You'd the pale OF honorable recognition. He has shown
hts Willingness sacrifice hs country to his party lie
willing to be berayer Of the liberties Of the peo
ple Yet. despite his shameful course. he is now can
didate for United States Senator from the State Of
Massachusetts We trust that that proud old Common.
wealth will be spared such misfortune. Massachu.
sstts and Virginia side by side In repeng the
British tyrant. The old Bay State has won honor.
able name American history literature and art and
It that It would be unspsakably melan.
choly her history when she shall be represented
In tho United States Senate by iuch man as LODGE"
We are as strongly opposed as anybody
can be to the LODGE Force bill. more
strongly opposed. perhaps. than the Mem
phis journal which has FILTERED away some
part Of it's capacity for honest indignation
in Mysteries about economics. more cum
ming, iniquitous. and dangerous measure
than the Force bill has not been urged in
Congress. and to have rendered impossible
that bill is the chief glory and the most
substantial and far-reaching benefit Of the
Democratic victory won last fall. But it
isn't necessary to regard every man who
supported that bill as reprobate in whom
no good Is. Honest men may and frequent
ly do hold honestly the most pernicious
opinions. and among the honest supporters
OF the Force bill were hundreds OF thou
sands Of Republicans.
The leader in the attempt to make the
Republican party self-perpetuating des-
potism was the chief active intellectual
force In that party to-day. the Hon. THOMAS
BRACKET REED. 1t is the misfortune Of
this big-browed old Elizabethan nasal vocal
ist that he is too logical. too ID logi-
CAL" as the scoffer said after hearing an
Edwardsian sermon on the beauties OF in
FAINT damnaton. But who that values men.
tai power and parliamentary experience and
dcxterity and wit would want to see ION
REED excluded from Congress? He Is a
| perpetual reservoir Of delight. as the man
| said about the fountain pen. And HENRY
CABOT LODGE. while he has not shown
VIC great SlucuI parliamentary QUALITIES Oh
Tom REED. is next to him. perhaps.
the best equipped and tho ripest
man in contemporary Republican poll
tics. and a good organizing politician
in the bargain. Why. then. should any
Democrat object to the election OF Mr..
LODGE? II the Massachusetts, Democrats
could elect Il Senator. the case would be en-
tirely different But since the successor OF
Mr.. DAWES will be a Republican. why
shouldn't that successor be man like Mr..
LODGE and not pale straw like CRAPo or
smile like LONG; and LONG and CRAPo
are the men held by the Mugwumps as
proper to take the place for which Mr..
LODGE is. in their opinion. too active. too
Republican. For our part we like Demo-
cratic Democrats and Republican Republi-
cans. II Mr.. LODGE had contented himself
with writing essays and biographies and
had never gone into politics mani fashion
and not like an Intellectual baby bowling for
the moon. he would have been adored by
the Mugwumps We detest most OF his
political principles. but We respect him be-
cause he is man and not cheese-mite.