The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
CAMPAIGN OPENED
 BY SENATOR LODGE
Makes Talk on RepubIicani8m
 and Reciprocity
SAYS TIT BELIEVE IN II
Local Attempts to ends of the Ad- -1n In a False Light.

Boston, August 8.-senator Henry Cabot Lodge opened the presidential campaign in the east at Point Shirley Winthrop this afternoon when he spoke to the North Dorchester republican club. Sen ator Lodges address was his first public utterance ip the campaign, and he devoted his time principally to defending the at titude of the republican party on the question of reciprocity with Canada. He said in part:
 'The republican national convention at Chicago declared as follows:
 We believe in commercial reciprocity reciprocal arrangements can be effected consistent with the principles of protec- ton and without injury to American ag- riculture. American labor, or any Amer ican industry
 'erhe President of the United States m his reply to the committee on notification spoke as follows;
 We believe in reciprocity with for eign nations whenever the terms outlined in President McEinley's last speech which urged the extension of our foreign mar kets by reciprocal agreements whenever they could be made without injury to American industry and labor
 "The petition which Is being circulated in this state by well-paid canvassers, and which L understand has been signed by many republicans. as well as by many democrats, who l fancy have no intention to adhering too strictly to the first prop osition, which demands vote for Roose- welt and Fairbanks, says:
 ' That the establishment of reciprocal trade relations with other countries, ana especially with Canada and Newfound- land, our nearest neighbors, Is of vital importance to the commercial welfare ot the United States, and especial that of i Massachusetts,
 With that proposition, except the ex- aggerated adjective vital, l am in full agreement The question now naturally arises, why spend so much money and take so much pains to induce repubt- cans to sign statement in favor of policy to which they already all agree. The answer is in the second paragraph of the petition, which Invites the signers to attend the caucuses, also to urge re- publican voters not to nominate any per- sons as a candidate for the state or na- tional legislature who Is unwilling to commit himself clearly in favor Of such seeiprocal trade relations
 There we discover the real purpose to Dc served by the circulation Of this pe- tition There lies the reason which should cause any republican who intends to sup port Roosevelt and Fairbanks to withhold hls signature. The movement is intend- ed to create divisions in the republican party upon a question whereto dissen- sions exist and raise a wholly false is- sue. The republican party Is not op- posed to reciprocity. On the contrary we, who in the last eight years have given the largest extension ever known to our foreign markets, heartily favor 1t. What we one and all of us, who are responsible for the representation of Massachusetts in Washington object to, Is that attempt to separate the senators and representa- tives from the president; to create divis- ions In our causes; endanger our con gressmen and our members of the legis- lature. and then being held up as opposed to republican policy which we all SUD- port"