The Detroit times., 1909-01-07
LODGE MAY GO To
ENGLAND AS j. s.
AMBASSADOR
ne, is NOT PLEASANTLY SUR
ROUNDED IN THE SENATE
uNFRiENosHIP OF ALoRIcH
ADDED TO MAINE SENATORS.
BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.

| WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.-The town
has emerged from the holidays In
sprightiy mood. and shows as did the
Walrus and the carpenter Of Lewis
Carroll. an inclination TO talk ON
many things" Among other matters,
believed. or disbelieved. the story that
Nr Lodge. self-centred. icy. has trav-
eled the long southern way TO Georgia,
and engaged in a debauch of 'possum
hunting at the trips end. and all for
no reason beyond a desire TO keep
Postmastsr-General Meyer in the cab
met goes into the discard. Mr.. Lodge
wants General Meyer m the cabinet
bur not so bad as that Also--and thix
to correct mere placer miners OF
news--even In Washington. he doesn't
ask that General Meyer be retained
in his present position. II 10 the
naval portfolio he Is after.
However, in this case IL wasn't Cen
eral Meyer, whether for the navy Or
the postofnce. Providence never In
tended Mr.. Lodge to SO a. far - Geor'
ala for q friend. When he journeys .
thousand miles, and especially when
he winds up his migratory lahors with
hunt after an offensive possum. you
may be sure be has none save him.
Eself on his mind. Thus say the sly
ones. knowing their man
In this connection II Is recalled that
Mr. Lodge once harbored soukitch
to represent US ~ ST. James. This
was q dozen years ago. Mr.. Lodge at
that time would not have been averse
of donning knee breeches. pulling on
silk stockings and exhibiting those
calves, erst the JOY of football fields, In
kingly courts. Moreover, albeit the
same may not be generally known
Mr.. Lodge feels exceedingly literary.
He has written books. The names OF
thosetomes are printed in Mr.. Lodges
photographed sketch published In
the congressional directory. I would
give them here and now, but unfor'
tunately ] mislaid my congressional
directory
His Old Ambition.
II may be that, feeling literary and
remembering Bayard Taylor at Berlin
and James Russell Lowell In London.
Mr.. Lodges old ambition begins again
to sit up and erect an anticipatory
crest. II II be so I make speed to say
that Mr.. Lodge wouldn't make q MALT
bad ambassador Ambassadors and
ministers have nothing on this green.
round, tumbling earth to do, and lit
erary people, as much as men OF
other tribes and trades. are equal TO
the duties OF such posts.
In supplanting Mr.. Reid, HIS pos
sum hunting In but so much strategy
! II Is a move TO win the Haitian heart.
Just now Mr.. Taft Is sedulous TO copy
Mr.. Roosevelt Wherefore he hunts
! 'possums. For he knows that were
Mr.. Roosevelt In Georgia at this time
he would be foremost in chase OF that
tumultuous mammal. Mr.. Lodge hunts
'possum as creating a bond between
himself and Mr.. Taft.
There are grounds plausible for
this guess Of Mr.. Lodge as ambassa'
dor to st. James Mr.. Lodge Is net
pleasantly surrounded in the senate.
He was the friend of the late Speaker
Reed. In 1895 he supported the Cas-
co Bay cynic for the st. Louis nomina-
ton.
This put him In feud with senators
FRYE and Hale. There had always
been war between Mr.. Reed and Mr..
Blaine. The Maine senators were
cubs OF the Blaine lion. Not until
after the death of Mr.. Blaine did Mr..
Frye and Mr. Hale make Mr.. Reeds
acquaintance. Nota bene. They walked
all the way from the senate TO the
house end Of the capital TO make II.
This visit. however, was but a mask.
a hypocrisy; the two Pine Tree Sena-
tors hated Mr.. Reed to the last.
Iodoe In "tn Bad"
Per incident they had, and still
have but little friendly use for his
confdant, Mr.. Lodge. Nor has the
latter's friendship for Mr.. Roosevelt
amended matters. Indeed, as say our
mountain people, 1t 'worsened' them
to the extent Of adding the unfriend-
ship Of the formidable Mr.. Aldricn 70
that OF the senators from Maine.
Practically speaking, Mr.. Lodge
has been out on senate limb Tor the
seven years last past, unable 70 gst
back TO the tree. afraid 70 drop TO
the ground. It might easily be. there
fore. that he would welcome trans
fer 10 King Edwards court In the
puddle OF st. James ne would De
quite a toad. AZ 1t is, when not scrub
Jing tie Aldrich doorstep he is made
to tend the hatrAck n the Frye-Haie
hall.
But how about ambassador Reid,
whom Mr.. Lodge would thrust asidef
They say that he is TO walk the plank
He has become IN Anglo-maniac or
sort 80 sxcruciadng that he actually
gets on the English nerves. HIS nat