New-York tribune., 1910-06-27
AMES ATTACKS LODGE
Bay State Congressman An
nounceS Senate Candidacy.
A LITERARY CURIOSITY
Sacrifice on Altar Of Public Duty
to Fight BOSS and His
Political Machine.
fFrom The Tribune Bureau. ]

! From The Tribune Bureau.l
Washington June 26.-Representative
Butler Ames, of Massachusetts, has issued
| an announcement of his candidacy for the
Senate, 70 succeed Henry Cabot Lodge,
| which is such an entertaining contribution
| TO political literature, such an exquisite
literary gem. that 1t is here presented for
| the deiectation CT readers of The Tribune
/ precisely as IL comes from the pen of the
| Massachusetts, statesman, without the dot
| ting Of an or the crossing OF {. To
gain a really adequate appreciation Of the
! rnonstrosity of the political conditions
| whicfr have moved Mr.. Ames to this out
burst OF perfervid Indignation it may be
| well in advance to,recail the incidents con-
nected with the Republican rump conven-
| ton In Florida which nominated delegates
! instructed to vote for Senator Foraker
| which delegates We're rejected by the ma
| tional committee and replaced by the duly
elected delegates, who had been instructed
| to vote for Mr.. Taft When the case was
taken up by the national committee in
Chicago ii was found that those who had
! voted for the Foraker delegates had gained
| access to the convention hall by the use of
| forged tickets. and J. \. Stripping, Of
| the Foraker delegates to the national con-
vention, testified that the forged tickets
were delivered to him by Representative
| Ames, was related az the time in The
| Tribune of June I, 1908. But, of course,
that was in Florida and Mr.. Ames doubt
| less feared that great enemy Of the peo-
pie, William Howard Taft, might be nomi-
mated and duly elected.
Mr.. Aues's Statement.
| Mr.. Ames's highly interesting and i'm
| aginative statement is as follows:
MIR Ames now makes the official an
nouncement of his candidacy for the United
States Senate, having tried in vain TO IN
duce some one else to lead the fight against
Boss Lodge and his political machine.
This machine, backed by all the largo
corporations and by all the state and fed
ersl patronage at his command, has served
for many years as ready and efficient tool
to crush all political ambitions, endeavors
or opinions not sanctioned by Mr.. Lodge.
| His orders have gone out to crush not
only to suit his own political ends, but also
to advance the selfish financial schemes OF
the large railruada, banking and nanufact-
uring interests he serves in the halls of
! Congress as well as in the Massa ohusetts
Legislature.
His machine controlling for so maDv
years the pol teal destinies of the state, has
| been connected with has been a party 10
and has grown UP with the lobby that plies
| its trade at the state House.
THE well recognized leader of the lobby
has been a member of the State Central
Committee for more than Il decade. In
| that committee he has been d leader and
| his word was Law, for was and is he not
one of Mr.. Lodges closest political friends
and advisers?
| This man was driven from the Repub
/ Iican State Central Committee last fall by
outraged public sentiment, and though still
the head OF the lobby has been kept away
| from the State House this year for appear
ances sake and has done his work through
| IieUtenants. His attendance at the State
House during past years was so regular
| that his absence this year has been the
I cause of almost daily comment.
"It is of interest to know that in the
midst of the successful campaign 8aged in
| Haverhfii last fall against the Siamesins
OF the state political machine and the lobby
Mr.. Lodge was entertained at this mans
| home III that city. -e.-s-o
| THAT member of the State Central
Republican Committee, recognized as one
of the mouthpieces of Mr. Lodge and hav-
! ing at his back the party machine, made
| his livelihood by lobbying in the Massa-
chusetts LegisIa ature for the large corpora
tions, and at the same time carrying. out
/ the mandates of the machine, is COM
mentary on the machine and the ideals in
politics of Mr.. Lodge.
! For some unfortunate, born to poverty
and without pride of race or tradition Of
family, and who without education in
| ,.fx- faI-a t-ia +oIyn
his own purposes that which does not be-
long to him-for such a person we can
have only sympathy and sorrow.
! Born to Wealth and Family Pride"
But one born to wealth and family
! pride. surrounded by standards OF educa-
tion and high ideals. who takes or tries to
| take for a political ally or friend that
which belongs. to his country deserves no
| honor or consideration from the people he
| has tried to dispossess.
And for Mr.. Lodge, the chosen repre-
sentative of Massachusetts in the Senate
OF the United States, to try by craftily
worded amendment and later by attempt
ed influence on the Secretary of the Navy
TO secure the purchase of two Golfers not
then needed or asked for by the navy, at
! a price away in excess of that at which
! more deSlrapie boats were bought, In Or
der to render cringing service to some
Boston capitalists SO that they might
| : :and by him with their wealth and power
and political influence at a time like this,
was TO take what belonged to the country
for his political allies, and reflects honor
neither upon himself nor on the state.
! While he is conscious of his own short
| comings, no one recognizes more quickly
| than does Mr.. Ames the talents possessed
| by Mr.. Lodge-a scholar, historian, an
author OF wide and varied experience, and
whose very length of service ought, under
| ordinary circumstances, to be a bar to his
| removal
To a stranger to the state and to one
not conversant with its political affairs and
| unfamiliar with his faflings, it might be
| hard TO understand the public state of mind
which has long since been tired OF and has
been outraged by his political manipula-
! tions.
| with all his gifts and opportunities, he
| has made such use of them that his con-
tinuance in public life depends. not upon
his service TO the people of his state but TO
| a political machine. This machine is used
as club for the individual Of independent
! thought and action, while it serves as a
| willing tool TO those of wealth. OF influence
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