The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-30

IS one of the cleverest men in public
 life today. But he is all for Lodge.
 and he throws his best friends down
 when 1t comes to choice between
 serving them and his own interests. l The climax came last winter when l MT. Lodge potned with other Republi-
 cans in defeating the arbitration
 treaties. MT. Roosevelt never forgave ] ham for that. The President might ! have looked upon Lodges course in
 that matter with more complacency if
 the Senator had not explained his atti- l tude toward the treaties as being pecu- l liarly dedicate on account of his close personal relations with the President. | To fiaunt his friendship with the occu-
 pant of the White House and then go directly contrary to the Presidents wishes. at the same time giving it out | how virtuous he was, proved to be the | last straw. Mir. Roosevelt does not believe in that sort of friendship The sort of friendship he does believe | in was shown when he stood by Paul Morton at great risk to himself and his own reputation for fearlessness and im- partiality. It Is just beginning to dawn on some people that with all his other fine qualities, the present Presi- dent of the United States is a thorough bred when 1t comes to any action in volving manliness.
 am not sure that Senatof Lodge is aware of 1t. but President Roosevelt has no further use for him. When the Massachusetts Senator goes to the White House. if he ever does again, he will be treated with politeness. The dog will not be set on him. But that l is all. He has lost his status as one of the charmed circle. Probably this ynytI h-. For years considerable part of the capital of the Massachusetts boss-for
 1t may surprise great many people to learn that while posing as the scholar | in politics, MT. Lodge Is about as fine a specimen of the political boss as they | make-has been his influence with The | odore Roosevelt. He has not enjoyed
 as much real influence as he thought he had or as other people thought he wielded, but it was considerable. The end to 1t has come. He Is now an out slider. What effect this may nave on Mir Lodges fortunes as the leader of l his party in Massachusetts is problem atical. No one would be surprised if during the next few years he were to | lost his grip and MT. Moody were to come to the front as the strong man in that State.
 Other Senators besides MT Lodge lost favor at the White House because of their opposition to the arbitration trea-
 ties. The President took the defeat of those treaties much to heart He re-
 alizes that a part of the opposition was
 based on principle, and another and perhaps larger part on the desire of Senators to teach him a lesson and show him how to keep his place" There
 are eminent Republican Senators who
 will not hear the last of this for years
 to come or as long as Mir Roosevelt re-
 mains in the White House.
 Now that a demand for reciprocity
 and tarif reform by some method Is
 springing up in the country, 1t Is in
 structive to take stock of another req
 son for the downfall of Senator Lodge.
 It was he more than any other Sena-
 tor who led the way in Lurking" the Newfoundland treaty. MT. Lodge put in the fatal amendments, and when the
 door was once opened other Senators
 rushed in, like the conspirators who
 surrounded Caesar, and in a few mo-
 ments 1t was all over MT. Lodge was
 impelled to kill the Newfoundland
 treaty in order to curry favor with the
 Gloucester fishermen and fishpackers
 because his son in law. MT Gardner, Is
 the Congressman from that district, and eager to retain his seat. This sort
 of thing completely disgusted President
 Roosevelt. When the arbitration treaty
 business closely followed. MT. Lodges name was wiped off the slate as one of the White House coterie.
 In case the reciprocity movement
 amounts to anything practical which
 is up to this time quite doubtful, it would be well for ambitious statesmen to bear in mind MT. Lodges fate. MT. Roosevelt expects to be President for more than three years yet. and he Is not going to be candidate for reelection. While in the White House he proposes to have a great deal or sport, and his own way just as often a he can get it. The minute that Lodge went down
 Taft came up MT. Roosevelt Is so con stituted that he likes to have two or three strong men to lean upon. One at least He IS self-reliant enough. but he loves to have a confidant with whom
 he can talk over everything he thinks and proposes to do. Lodge was once in that relation. Then 1t was Taft Now 1t Is to be Root and Taft, It is safe to say that these two men will have far more influence at the White House than all the other members of the Cabinet
 put together during the next three years. Taft is not ambitious. Shaw Is. The Secretary of the Treasury Is crazy to be President. The President likes
 Taft and doesn't care much any more for Shaw. It is only a question of time when Mir Shaw retires to nurse his presidential ambition in Iowa.